Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1919 — NEWS from the COUNTY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWS from the COUNTY

WALKER (’ENTER Eva Salrin spent Xmas at home. Malcolm Garrett has been on the sick list this week. Miss Alice Meyers called on Mrs. F. M. Lilly Friday. A. P. Huntington was a Rensselaer caller Saturday. Mrs. Woolbrandt spent the day at Wm. Wenrick’s Friday. Amelia and Bertha Schultz called on Mrs. F. M. Garrett Friday. Henry Meyers and family took Xmas dinner with Joe Salrln’s. Mrs. Roscoe Poole and wife took Xmas dinner with Lee Jennings's. Mrs. A- P. (Huntington spent the day with Mrs. Clarence Bridgeman Friday. MrS. C. B. Scott and daughter Doris took dinner with F. M. Garrett’s Xmas evening. Dan Williams’s father-in-law, wife and grandchild of Thayer are visiting him and his wife. Paul Hershman and wife and Ernest Tomilson and family took dinner with John Pettit’s Xmas. A. P. Huntington has been having a slight paralysis of the face and is on the sick list at present. Charley Tomilson and family of Wheatfield took Xmas dinner with Mrs. J. J. Tomilson and son Will. Miss Bertha Hersaman, who teaches Hershman sdhool, had a Xmas program and treated her children. Buckhorn school had a fine program Wednesday and a good treat was given. Miss Alice Meyers Is teacher. Bernice Meyers of Walker Center school had a Xmas program and treated her children. The room was nicely decorated. Walker Center Sunday school at 10 o’clock; preaching service at 11 o’clock. Next Sunday is election of Sunday sdhool officers. Clarence Bridgeman, wife and son Donald, Mrs. J. J. Tomilson and son Will, Louis, Elizabeth and Pauline Hurley took dinner with F. M. Lilly and family Sunday. A good program was rendered at Walker Center school house Wednesday evening. A Xmas tree and Santa Glaus were there and everyone received a treat. Mr. Bridgeman furnished the tree. Several hunters from Chicago

spent Sunday at Daniel Bartsch’s. One of the party, a woman, got lost and on trying to find her way to Bartsch’s went east a couple of miles. Quite a hunt was made but she was found aboijt 8 o’clock.