Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 74, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1919 — NEWS from the COUNTY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWS from the COUNTY

GIFFORD Mrs. W. E. Parker spent Sunday with Mrs. H- E. Reed. Mr. and Mrs. Greeley Comer were Rensselaer goers Monday. V. M. Peer and family spent Sunday with Michael Jungles. John Hill and George Lambert autoed to Rensselaer Monday. Miss Beulah Walker spent Sunday with Miss Elsie Haniford. Ike Knapp and daughter Grace were shopping here Saturday evening. John Hill of Kniman called on his son, John Hill, Jr., Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Glifford Grimm spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Nate ICeen ~ • • Mrs. Burl Blaekman of Kersey spent Monday with her mother, Mrs. T. A. Caldwell. Misses Flota and Geneva Myers

spent Sunday and Monday with Loretta Picknor. Mrs. Elmer Kerns of Wheatfield spent Sunday with Mr. and. Mrs. James Cavinder. s (Hugh Gaffey wA taken seriously ill With heart trouble Sunday morning at 5 o’clock and was taken to the county hospital where Dr. Washburn was culled to his aid. Theoox social at Gifford school Friday evening was well attended. A good program was given by the school after which William Kerns sold’W boxes and proved to the people that he was a real, live aUbtloneer. He surely knows how to 'get their money. A box of candy brought |2l. Total receipts S6O. A good social time was enjoyed by all and we thank you that Gifford was not forgotten, and hope to' meet with you all dgain in 1920.

FAIR OAKS Enos Moffitt was a business caller at the hub Monday. Mrs. Thorn and Mrs. Halleck were Monon goers Monday evening. Abe Bringle autoed over to Virgie Monday evening to get a new spring for his Ford. Sam Karr substituted for Carrier Bringle Wednesday. on account of the illness of Mrs. Bringle. Mervin Dunn moved the first of the week out onto the old Kent ranch, where he will engage in hauling wood this winter. Rev Todd filled his regular appointment at the M. E. church Sunday at 7p. m. There was a large audience out to hear him. Miss Leota Moore and Mr. Raub of Lafayette came up Sunday evening and visited the former’s aunt, Mrs. Bringle, between trains. J. M. Allen, our venerable auto liveryman, who Is past 72 years of age, is now taking his turn with the whooping cough. Some kid, eh? Charles Hall, “Peach” Gundy and Orval Abel, who had been working at Gary, came home last week on account of the mills being shut down. — Cold, yes, we certainly are having it cold a-plenty now. And some people have corn yet to husk, too. There are quite a number of peopl? with colds and cases of sqre throat with us this week. Herbert Bosell and John Wells hauled three big wagonloads of wood Monday for “Aunt” Hannah

Culp, and on Tuesday evening Bert Warne contributed his labor and buzz saw and several others did likewise, and sawed it up ready for her stove. It is said by parties who are presumed to know, that about six or eight weeks ago a couple of fellows came down from Hammond with their guns to hunt, and that they hunted on A. D- Washburn’s land and killed several prairie chicken and quite a good many quail; about two weeks ago the same fellows came down and called game wardens and arrested John Dewitt and a couple of young men who were also from Hammond on the grounds that they were hunting on land without permission from the owner, and took their guns from them, but after the owner, C. T. Otis, would not prosecute them they sent the guns back to Some stunt, eh? NORTHERNJASPER Mrs. “Mac” Collins has been quite sick, but is Improving. The Delehanty girls were North Judson visitors Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Hallet, who had a sale last week, have gone to their

new home at TiptonMr. and Mrs. S. A. Austin left last week for their new home in the central part of the state. The old-fashioned boy who used to have to paddle his own canoe now has a son who owns a motorboat. Mr.' and Mrs. Harley Brown had a sale last Friday and have moved to Wheatfield. He intends to go back to dredging. Mr. and Mrs. George Flores's baby died last Wednesday and was buried in the Wheatfield cemetery Thursday afternoon. When a man’s neighbors are better off than he is, he knows that Opportunity made a mistake In the number of the house. We heard last week that Jerome Nelson had sold hls farm and Intended moving to Mishawaka, but guess he has decided that Jasper county is good enough for him.