Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1920 — NEWS from the COUNTY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWS from the COUNTY

VIRGIE Robert Mortell went to Illinois Saturday. Esther Wiseman went to Remington Monday. There will be church services here Sunday. Everybody come. Mrs. Thomas Mallatt visited Mrs. Charles Harrington Thursday. Mrs. John Zellers and Elsie Zeller., visited Mrs. Ancil Potts Thursday. Alonzo Wiseman was operated on the county hospital for appendicitis Monday. Miss Patience Florence, who had been visiting her sister at Remington, returned to Virgie Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Potts went to Morocco to see the latter’s brother-in-law, who was seriously ill with paralysis. LEE Orval Holeman and family of near Wolcott visited "his mother Sunday. Mrs. J. H. Culp is under the doctor’s care this week with erysipelas. Miss Zura Snedeker and Miss Chloa Overton are working in Monon. Mrs. Frank Eldridge’s mother and sister Hazel of Chicago spent Sunday .with the former and family. Miss Chloa Overton and Raymond Warren visited Mr. and Mrs. Paul Merrill in Rensselaer Sunday. Lowell Morton and family of Rensselaer were week-end guests or her parents, O. A. Jacks, and wife. John Clark of Pennsylvania, who had been here for some time helping care Tor his brother Clyde, returned home this week. Monon township Sunday school convention will be held here at the

M. E. church Sunday, May 2, at 2:30 p. m There will be special music on the program. Mrs. Wm. Tilton of Lafayette and her mother, Mrs. Oglesby, of Knox spent Sunday at S. M. Jacks’s and visited the Osborne cemetery where Mr. Oglesby is buried; also called on some of their old friends, returning to Lafayette in the evening. J. H. Culp and wife went to Monticello Sunday afternoon to see Mrs. Estella Holeman, who had another attack of appendicitis. She was taken to the Methodist hospital at Indianapolis Monday and was operated on Tuesday morning. The appendix and several gallstones were removed. She came out of the operation allright, is all we have heard at this writing.

FAIR OAKS Miss Amy Bringle came up from Lafayette and visited home folkj over Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Ray Brquhard moved last week to Goodland where he is foreman on a section. Florence McKay, teacher in the Hammond schools, spent the last week-end here with home folks. It is reported that John Miller’s wife in Colfax township has a case of smallpox, but it is very mild. Milt McKay, who had been laid up with rheumatism for some days, returned to his work at Gary the latter part of the wqek. Amos Yoder’s family will move to White Pigeon, Mich., in a few days. Mr. Yoder went there about a month ago to work in the paper mills. Elmer Barber of Fair Oaks and Miss Georgia Bott were married last Sunday. They will work for Walter Davisson on the Tolen ranch this summer. The sad news qame Tuesday evening of the death of William Porter’s baby, but the cause of its death we did not learn. They have our heartfelt sympathy. Mrs. Lillie Brouhard Porter ot Kankakee came Monday to visit home folks, and Charley came Wednesday to attend his brother William’s baby’s funeral. Born, Tuesday, to Mr. and Mrs.

Meri Miller, at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jake Trump, a 10-pound girl. Dr. Martin of Mt. Ayr was the attending physician. Mr. Oarlock, who lives on and owns the Eggleston farm, lost all his horses but one, so now he has purchased a Ford car with drive wheels attached and will use it to do his farm work with. Mr. Cook, the pickle man from Chicago, was in these parts last week. F. M. Goff accompanied him around over the country taking pickle contracts. It is thought this will be a banner year for pickles. Will Potts and Clarence Geary broke sod Monday for their new garage. They have employed Joe Norman to assist with the cement work. We feel this is the right step in the right way, as the community is very much in need of an enterprise of this kind. Rain, rain, rain and then some more rain. Quite a good many oats have been badly damaged by the numerous cold rains and some farhyers are sowing over, but the wheat and rye is coming out nicely, except for a field now and then which was frozen out and some spots where the sand was blow away from them. Pastures are coming along fine.