Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1920 — NEWS from the COUNTY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWS from the COUNTY

WALKER TOWNSHIP A. P. Huntington called on Floyd Garrett Monday. Mr. Barrett has been working on his farm this week. Mr. and Mrp. Paul Hershman spent Sunday at John Pettet’s. A. P. Huntington called on Wee

Williams Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bridgeman called at F. M. Lilly’s Monday. Mrs. F. M. Garrett called on Mrs. C. B. Scott Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Bridgeman called on Mr. Zu wall’s Saturady. Misses Alice and Lena Meyers were Medaryville callers Saturday. Mrs. Frank Hershman is visdtlng her daughter Dollie near St Louis, Mo. Mrs. Ellen Cooper is visiting at Knlman and Fair Oaks for a few weeks. Misses Alice and Lena Meyers took dinner with Charley Walker’s Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Lilly and son Lester took Sunday dinner with Joe Salrin’s.

Misses Alice and Lena Meyers called on Mrs. F. M. Lilly Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. August Woolbrandt attended a funeral at San Pierre Saturday. Mrs. F. M. Lilly attended institute at Wheatfield Saturday and enjoyed the good eats. Elsie Williams, the oldest daughter cl Owen Williams, is quite sick with smallpox. Mre. Charley Pettet of Kersey visited her sister-dn-law, Mrs. Joe Salrln, Saturday. Dan Williams of north of Wheats field spent Sunday with his father, Wes Williams. Charley Tomlinson and family of Barkley spent Sunday with Mrs. J. J. Tomlinson and eon Will. Miss Gladys Tomlinson, Miss Rhaub and Fleet Rhaub called at A. P. Huntington’s Sunday afternoon. Miss Rhaub of Fair Oaks spent the week-end visiting her brother Fleet, who works at Will Tomlinson’s. Miss Alice Meyers’s school was closed Thursday on account of the smallpox, and Mrs. Paul Hershman, who. was teaching the rest of the term for Bertha Stalbaum, finished her school Friday. Misses Bertha Hershman of Hershman school and Miss Bernice Meyers of Walker Center school finished their schools with a pticnic on Saturday.

FAIR OAKS Yes, we still get a taste of March weather once in awhile. The sick of our town are making very satisfactory gains now. A stillborn babe was born to Mr. and Mrs. Will Wendal Tuesday. Trustee Harrington was in these parts Monday and Tuesday, taking the enumeration. There will be a musical entertainment Thursday night to which the admission is free. Mrs. Dr. Lockwood came down from Chicago the first of the week to visit at Ike Kight’s. Born, Saturday, to Mr. and Mrs. Roy Marshall, a 3%-pound baby gin. All concerned are getting along fine. The commencement exercises for Union township will be held next Wednesday night in the high school room. It is reported that Mr. Dove ot the Lawler ranch can’t get men enough to skin their cattle as fast as they die. Roy Brouhard and wife, who had been visiting her parents in the south part of the state, returned home Saturday. Art Hall came in town Monday and rented two houses and intends to move in Saturday. There is nothing like having plenty of room. We only have about another week of school here. Rev. Todd will deliver the baccalaureate address in the high school auditorium Sunday evening, the 18th, and we are expecting a large attendance. Our people were very much shocked Saturday to learn of the sudden death of Mrs. Ben Kellar, which occurred on a dredge In lowa, where she was cook on one ot the Sternberg dredges. The body was shipped here, arriving Wednesday on No. 5, and the funeral was from the M. E. church the same day at 2 p. m., conducted by a minister from Kankakee, Ill; Interment in the Fair Oaks cemetery. Miss Amy Bringle came home from Lafayette Saturday evening to help her mother work up a birthday surprise on her father Sunday. Those present to help along were: Arvel Bringle and wife of Remington; W. D. Bringle and wife of Rensselaer and Otto Cedarwall and family of east of town. All took a hand in loading up *the table with gooc things to eat and also enjoyed the pleasure of relieving the groaning table of Its burdeh. This was Mr. Bringle’s 59th milestone, and he is feeling pretty good, notwithstanding the fact.

NORTHERN JASPER Brains without energy are nonproductive. Miss Verna White did shopping in Valparaiso Saturday. R. E. Davis and Ed Sands were county seat goers Monday. Martin Hahner and family took Sunday dinner with relatives at Kersey. With the possible exception of vanity, a woman may outlive all her faults. The winter weather we have been having is rather discouraging to the farmers. The average politician is as tough as India rubber and his conscience is more elastic. Mr. and Mrs. Morris McCullough of Dunn’s Bridge were Wheatfielu visitors Saturday. The box supper at Tefft last Friday night was well attended, the school clearing about $55. Ed Sands’s new tractor arrived

Tuesday, Jaspereon Bros, bringing it I from Rensselaer on their truck. Ed Spurgeon and family of near Virgie and Rev. Abel spent Sunday With Mr. and Mrs. George Heil. Mrs. Andy Mlsch and children visited last week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Theis, at Cedar Lake. Relatives of Mr. and Mrs. Walter French from Chicago came Sunday for a several days’ visit with them. M. Anderson has sold his residence and property in Tefft to Rasmussen Broe., and he thinks he will go back to Chicago. Halleck Minor, who has been in poor health for some time, was taken to the Valparaiso hospital the latter part of last week where h« will receive medical attention. Joseph Hickam, who had had poor health for about a year, died Sunday morning at 8 o’clock at his home in Wheatfield. Short funeral services were held Monday morning by Rev. Abel and the remains were sent to Spencer, Ind., for burial, that place being his old home. He leaves a wife and one son. The institute in Wheatfield Saturday was the last one to be held this term, the teachers deciding to have something extra in the way of an elegant dinner, in which the neighboring teachers helped to partake, and all declared It to be the best ever. The pupils of the Tefft school played quite an Interesting part in the afternoon session.

FOUR CORNERS William Meyers of near Wheatfield has. been quite sick this week, but is some better at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. John Biggs accompanied relatives of the late Joseph Hickam to Spencer, Ind., where the body was laid to rest. We received a letter from Liv-, ingston, Mont., which states that weather there is ideal. Easter was all one could wish for and the new Easter wearing apparel was much in evidence; farmers ready for spring work and garden-making iu full swing. Sunday night a cold rain set in which lasted long enough to make a blue Monday and again put oats sowing back a day or two, and will, unless conditions change soon, cut the acreage of oats short in the north part of the county. Rather discouraging with the h. c. 1. meeting us at ever corner. George Williams, the new benedict of Wheatfield, continues to pose as a single man. No, George, if you

don’t want to or don’t have the cash handy or can’t borrow of your father-in-law, we will try to buy our own cigars for awhile yet, but sooner or later the true state of affairs will be made public. Horse buyers are scouring the country buying up all the gooa horses and mules and are paying a fair price for them, too, from |125 to |250 per head. Raise lese scrubs and more good horses should be the farmers’ motto. The fallacy of the tractor taking the place of the faithful horse has proven a false alarm. We see that R. A. Mannan continues to receive some of that skim mdlk from the county seat, road viewer and a few minor jobs. If Bob should lose this nourishment, in addition to the fostering love of Bro. John of the Review, he sure would perish. Bob and Ferguson are fed on their political gruel but it holds them just the same—easy. The new society of Wheatfield, called the “Mock Modesty club,’’

composed mostly of married men, refuse utterly to recognize the shimmy dance as a public dance, but are not amiss to selecting two good shimmy dancers and after, the dance and having viewed with a critical eye, pronounced them the best ever. No, we will not tell your wife. Sunday forenoon our old friend, Joseph Hickam, of Wheatfield was called to rest. He had been for some time unable to leave the house and unable to He down, and suffered continually. He was a life-long Democrat and was well liked by all who came in contact with him. He leaves a wife and one son Russel, who saw much service in the late war. The body was taken to Spencer, Ind., for burial. Duplicate order books, Fairbanks scale books, etc., carried In stock in The Democrat’s Fancy Stationery and Office Supply department

REMINGTON (From the Press)

Misses Grace and Helen Cain were business visitors in Logansport Tuesday. Miss Katie O’Brien of Rensselaer was a business caller in Remington Monday. Mrs. Harriet Yeoman has Deen very low the past week or more

with heart trouble and is in a very serious condition. Born, Wednesday, April 14, to Mr. and Mrs. George Eck of northwest oi town, a daughter. Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Walker will celebrate their 53d wedding anniversary this Friday. Mrs. W. F. Thurner went to Chatsworth Wednesday morning to visit her daughter, who Is in school there. Mrs. Trevor Eger and son of Rensselaer spent from Friday until Tuesday with her parents, the editor and wife, here. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Gray of near Salem came Tuesday and will live on the Jim Woods farm on the Goodland road. Mrs. H. H. McClain of Morocco spent the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Carpenter, returning home Tuesday morning. Mrs. Grace Barretta went to Chicago Wednesday evening for a visit with * relatives while her brother of Denver, Colo., is at home. Mrs. Louis Koehl and daughter Louise of Fairbury came Monday

everting to attend the funeral of their cousin, Samuel Waibei. Harvey Williams went to Columbus, 0., Monday evening on a short business trip. He will also visit his brother-in-law, J, E. Gibb, while there. Emmet O’Connor of Indianapolis and Marlon O’Connor of Lafayette came Tuesday for a few days’ visit with their mother, Mrs. Ellen O’Connor, and other relatives. Mrs. George Bartee drove to Monticello Wednesday, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Ross Groves, and grand-daughter Enid, who had been visiting here. The little lass has recently had her tonsils removed. Word has been received from Newcastle announcing the death of Ansel Hoppe of Wolcott, who died at the colony for epileptics in that city. Hoppe was taken to the epileptic village recently by Sheriff Price of White county and was in normal health at that time. We hear that Miss Nettie Lambert has resigned her position in the schools here owing to her mother’s continued ill health. Mrs. Hascall, who has been teaching for her during her absence, will finish this week but does not care to teach longer. It is expected to have a regular teacher next week.