Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1920 — MT. AYR [ARTICLE]

MT. AYR

(From the Tribune) Mrs. Harris and daughter Lucy returned Sunday from a few days spent in Chicago. Lloyd Hopkins, Lee Dirst and Alfred Coovert are all having their houses treated to a coat of paint. Walter Blankenbaker and family accompanied by Charles Penwright attended the Lulu Carter Goff funeral near Silver Lake Sunday. Mrs. Fred Seward and little daughter of Warsaw visited several days with Mr. and Mrs. David May, returning home Tuesday of this week. Charles Harris arrived home from points in the west Saturday. Charles has been gone several months and has been in several of the western states. The game of base ball between Fair Oaks and Mt. Ayr, played here Sunday was somewhat one sided

affair, the score resulting in 17 to 5 in favor of the home team. D. J. Baxter was here from Bluffton to attend the McCray cattle sale Mrs. W. R. Lee. He came over Tuesday, returning home Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Shindler and family and Mrs. Edith Hardy left Saturday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Lulu Carter Goff near Silver Lake. Mrs. Goff a sister of Mrs. Shindler’s and a cousin to Mrs. Hardy. The community was shocked Friday when the word reached here of the sudden death of Mrs. Lulu Goff, nee Carter, a young lady bofn and raised in this vicinity. Mrs. Golf was a sister to Mrs. Jas. Shindler and related to a number of people about here. Since leaving here Mrs. Goff had resided in the vicinity of Warsaw. She was sick only a few hours having felt as well as usual in the morning, and was a corpse at two o’clock Friday afternoon. The funeral was held at 2:00 o’clock Sunday p. m., and burial made at the Palastine cemetery.