Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 84, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1920 — NEWS from the COUNTY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWS from the COUNTY

MT. AYR (From the Tribune) Geo. LynCh was a Lafayette itor Tuesday. Mrs. John Wildrick of Brook was a Sunday visitor in the J. B. Ashby home. Mrs. Ida Sperry and son As'hel returned to their home in Pekin, 111., Monday. Ben Yoder leaves this week for his new home in the vicinity of Middlebury. Alvin Yoder has just returned from a visit with his parents at Whjte Cloud, Mich. A bouncing baby boy was born Friday, Jan. 9, to Mr. and Mrs.

Dan and Levi Stutzman and Phenias Miller were attending court in Kentland Monday. Benj Miller is here from Middlebury visiting his brother, David J., and other friends. Barbara Chupp and sister Mary and Katie and Lizzie Harshbarger are visiting at Davy Miller’s. Abner Miller is spending some time with his parents, Ben B. Miller and wife, iat Nappanee. Mrs. E. E. Rice and little son of Goodland spent most of the week with her mother, Mrs. Ella Huntington. Harley Smalley returned this week from a two weeks’ stay in Chicago. He was called there to attend the funeral of his mother. Mr. and Mrs. Pete White were over from Rensselaer and spent Sunday with her father, J. H. Ashby Carl Moline on the'north Borkland farm. This is their first Child. Mrs. W. R. Lee did not returh with 'her husband last week from the eastern part of the state, where they went on business. Finding her sister in the hospital, she remained awaiting developments.

It is a pleasure to hear that devastated Belgium is getting on its feet. Saved from virtual extinction in the dark hour by American and British aid, it will be helped to full restoration by the pluck and industry of its people, the enlightened policy of its king, and the indemnities to be paid by Germany. Though he said half in jest that the average man ought to be chloroformed at forty as no longer of much account, the late Sir William Osler, the famous physician, lived to prove that a man may continue to be highly useful and in the possession of almost all of his best powers until seventy. A man will ask that, when he is dead, the pastor hold a whole service just for him. Yet the same man while he is still alive will ignore several thousand perfectly good services that others would be glad to share with him.