Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1920 — NEWS from the COUNTY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWS from the COUNTY

FAIR OAKS Health is generally quite good in our village. Sam Kettering has just about completed a new garage. The primary election passed off here very nicely with a good turn out. Sam Karr went to Lafayette Saturday, near which place he will be employed at a sawmill. James Clifton and son “Pud” have the large barn on the Hufficker ranch almost completed. The fence gang on the C. & E. I. are stationed here now overhauling the fences on their right-of-way. Mike Jungles of Walker township shipped a carload of fat hogs and cattle from here Tuesday evening. The weather has been very good the past few days and the farmers are going right after their work. Roy Marshall and family visited with his uncle. Will Piatt, ot near Roselawn Saturday night and Sunday. Bert Warne has gotten several hundreds cords of wood ricked up on the siding, waiting for cars to ship it. Ernest Nust, who is working on the gravel road, moved over from Newland last week and occupies one of Abe Bringle’s properties. William Martin of the Kinser farm moved to town Monday to work on the gravel road. He occupies the Schwanke property on Front street. Herb Bozell and family and his father from Edinburg and Abe Bringle and wife took Sunday dinner with C. A. Bringle and wlfd at Remington. John Thorn and wife —the latter had been helping her father, Charles Halleck, in his store the past eight or nine months —returned to their home at Hammond last week.

The large cement abuttment which supported the iron bridge on the county line road at Pembroke was undermined with the flow of water during the recent heavy rains and collapsed Saturday night, entailing quite a heavy loss to the counties, as it was a very expense piece ot structure. Several teams are now at work building a grade for the new gravel road which begins at the northeast corner of the Gourley farm and runs west through Fair Oaks. The gravel has been ordered and no doubt will be here soon. We hope that if will have some packing quality in it so it will pack soon, as the gravel which was put on other roads in this vicinity last fall is no more packed now than it was when it was put on, with about six months’ travel over it, too. There is more Catarrh in this section of the country than all other diseases put together, and for years it was supposed to be incurable. Doctors prescribed local remedies, and by constantly failing to cure with local treatment, pronounced it incurable. Catarrh is a local disease, greatly influenced by constitutional conditions and therefore requires constitutional treatment. Hall’s Catarrh Medicine, manufactured by F. J. Cheney & Co., Toledo, Ohio, is a constitutional remedy, is fhken internally and acts through the Blood on the Mucous Surfaces of the System- One Hundred Dollars reward is offered for any case that Hall’s Catarrh Medicine fails to cure. Send for circulars and testimonials. F. J. CHENEY & CO , Toledo, Ohio. Sold by Druggists, 75c. Hall’s Family Pills for constipation. —Advt. MILROY John Johnson has been entertaining the mumps. * Howard Stewart helped on the sawmill Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Kimball entertained company Sunday. Earl Foulks and family spent Sunday with J. English and family. Jaunita and Clyde Fisher visited relatives in Lapel the last of the week. T. A. Johnson and family spent Sunday with Mrs. Anna Chapman and family. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lear spent

Sunday with Mrs. Lillie Mitchell and family. Mr. and Mrs. George Foulks called on the Chapman family Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Howard Stewart called on Mr. and Mrs. George Foulks Sunday evening. Sunday school was organized last Sunday, and all are invited to be present tomorrow at 10 a. m. The Aid will meet Wednesday, May 12, at 2 p. m., with Mrs. Charles Beaver. All are urged to be present. Mr. and Mrs. True Culp and little daughter attended Sunday school Sunday and spent the remainder of the day with Charles Beaver’s. fiE J. W. Mellender and family ate Sunday dinner at G. A. Jacks’s. Mrs. C. A. Lefler has been sick during the past week with quinsy. Frank Eldridge has been putting in tile on the farm of J. H. Culp. Miss Garrett, a trained nurse from Lafayette, is here now caring for Clyde Clark. Elmer Gilmore and family visifed Sunday in Monticello at the home of Sam Griffith. Miss Nellie Overton of Monon spent Sunday here at the home of her uncle, Frank Overton. Mrs. G. A. Jacks and Mrs. Vernon Jacks visited Tuesday at Mrs. Thurston Otterberg’s, north of Rensselaer. The Monon township eighth grade commencement was held at the M. E. church in Monon Thursday evening. The graduates from here are Fay Nelson and Chase Rishling. The Monon township Sunday school convention, which was held here Sunday afternoon, was very largely attended and a very interesting program was given, which was enjoyed by all. There were almost 100 in attendance here for Sunday school last Sunday morning. It was the day for the annual election of Sunday school officers and the same officers and teachers were put in again for this year. We want to make it a better school this year than ever, with the help of the entire community.

EAST WALKER John Salrin lost a fine hog Friday. William Salrin and family spent Sunday with his sister at Boone Grove. Louie Warren, Felix Fritz and Louie Zick spent Sunday evening in North Judson. Chris Deerberg’s and Mrs. William Warren attended church at San Pierre Sunday night. John Burger, who was hurt in a runaway a few weeks ago. Is getting along nicely and is now able to work. William Warren, Louie Zick, Felix Fritz, Mrs. L. Warren and Mrs. Chris Deerberg were in Rensselaer Tuesday on business. Miss Emnia Burger returned home from Chicago last week where she had been for the past month taking instructions in sewing. GIFFORD Mr. and Mrs. Edgar Brown were Rensselaer goers Friday. Owen Williams and Jess Nuss were Wheatfield goers Tuesday. G. H. Comer and family were shopping in Rensselaer Saturday. Miss Geneva Markin spent Sunday afternoon with Miss Opal Hankins. D. D. Zook and Thomas Lambert were Rensselaer goers Wednesday. Lionel Cavinder of Hammond spent Saturday night and Sunday with the Walker family. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Nuss moved to Fair Oaks where he work on the stone road. T. M. Hanlford and daughter Elsie spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Haniford at Roselawn. James Britt and son Frank of Niles, Mich., spent Sunday and Monday with his sons, Charles and James Britt. James Elliott has moved to Chicago Heights, 111. Edward Timmons and family have moved onto John Eger’s farm where Elliott lived, and Jake Myers has moved from the McClannahan farm to >Edward Timmons’s place.

GANT CORNER Lewis Hill called on home folks Sunday. Miss Sylvia Elliott is on the sick list this week. We certainly are having fine weather nowadays. Miss Marie Garriott called on home folks Sunday evening. Miss Carmen Wood called on Opal Garriott Saturday afternoon. James HUI, Jr., is building fence for Harvey Davisson nowadays. James Hill, Jr., is serving his turn with the mumps at this writing. Harry Hibbs and James Hill, Sr., were in Rensselaer on business Monday. Misses Maude and Ethel Hill are working in Rensselaer for Mrs. Barnes. James Hill, Jr., called on a friend at McCoysburg Saturday night and Sunday. Miss Lola Hill cdlled on Misses Sylvia and Myrtle Elliott Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. James Crownover and children called on home folks Saturday night. Miss Fay Williams and Mrs, Harry Hibbs and children called on the Hill family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Taylor Wood of Parr spent Sunday with his brother, Mel Wood, and family. Several from this vicinity attended the surprise dance at Duggins’s Sat' urday night. All report a nice time. Miss Marie Garriott, who has been working in town for the past two weeks, returned home Monday evening. Mrs. May Keller and children of

Michigan spent Saturday and Sunday with home folks, Mr. and Mrs. Peter Wolfe. ' MT. AYR (From the Tribune) Mr. and Mrs. Lemmie Hickman and sons were up from Goodland to spend Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Philander Hickman. Mrs. Elmer Standish was called to Fowler Thursday by the death of her little niece, Olive Butler. The funeral was held Friday. Robert and Romona Hufty went to Stone Bluff Saturday where they visited friends over Sunday. They returned home Monday morning. Wm. Burrell is home from the hospital in Indianapolis. He with his wife and one son were over Saturday and we were happy to note a decided improvement in his condition. Will Jacks and family of Monticello were calling on Harry Hufty's Sunday. Mr. Jacks is in the meat business at Monticello and it was for him that Mr. Hufty worked while in that town. Cecil Lee spent Sunday with his father. Cecil is locating at Knox in the produce business. He has been connected with Iris uncle in this business at Onargo, 111., and recently sold out to his partner. School closed here Friday. Thursday they had their field meet and games, together with the usual big dinner. The past term has been quite a successful one, with perfect harmony between the teachers and patrons. The high school play, the first of its* kind to be put on here, wes given Friday evening at the school auditorium and was very creditably rendered. With the fourth year work now added, by another season we may expect to hear of all the junior and senior receptions, dances, etc., indulged in by other high schools.