Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 June 1920 — NEWS from the COUNTY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWS from the COUNTY

MT. AYR " (From the Tribune) A gentle shower fell here Monday evening. Archie Blankenbaker returned Saturday from his trip to the west. Mt. Ayr and Parr played ball Sunday, the result being 13 to 12 for Parr. Miss Pearl McMillan of Morocco Is here visiting her aunt, Mrs. Geo. Lambert. Ira Huntington is home from Bloomington, his scnool having been completed. Rev. Horton moved from the Mrs. Donaldson property to the parsonage this week. Mrs. Lou Guthrie went to Knlman Saturday for a few days’, visit with her daughter. Mr. and Mrs. Tom Brown of near McCoysburg visited their daughter, Mrs. Gilbert Stucker, Sunday. Sherman Thornton was over from Rensselaer Sunday to attend the Memorial services of the lodges. The Curtis Creek Threshing Co. has traded its threshing outfit in on a new Rumely Oilpull and separator. Orval Fisher and family and Marmon Long and family of Wheatfield and Walter Blankenbaker’s were Sunday dinner guests in the Menno Miller home.

The Geesa family, the Alex Elijah family and the family of Earl Friel of Chicago, together with Miss Mattie Geesa’s friend of Valparaiso and George Francis, report a delightful day Sunday picnicking at Water Valley on the Kankakee river. Rev. and Mrs. Sheets were pleasantly surprised by a visit from Montreal friends Wednesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Cratley are oldtime friends of Mrs. Sheets. Mr. Cratley holds a government appointment as bridge Inspector for the Dominion of Canada, and owing to business in Hamilton they were obliged to leave Mt. Ayr the next day. Rev. and Mrs. Sheets accompanied them to Chicago in their car.

COUNTY EDUCATIONAL NOTES (By Co. Supt Sterrett) The board of education met in regular session last Monday forenoon and transacted the regular business of the day. For the benefit of the many teachers who are readers' of the county educational notes and who are continuously asking for the addresses of the various trustees the same will be given. They are aS follows: i Grant Davisson, Parr, R-l, trustee of Barkley township. Burdette Porter, Remington, trustee of Carpenter township. . B. F. LeFevre, Medaryville, trustee of Gillam township. W. E. Poole, McCoysburg, trustee Hanging Grove township. After July 1 the trustee of Hanging Grove township will be George Parker, McCoysburg. Julius G. Huff, Rensselaer, R-4, Jordan township. Clifford E. Fairchild, Demotte, * Keener township. | Alfred Duggleby, Tefft, Kankakee

township. Charles W. Postill, Rensselaer, Marion township. Charles Wood, Monon, R-R, Milroy township. John Rush, Rensselaer, R-3, New ton township. Walter Harrington, Rensselaer, R-2, Union township. John Pettit, Fair Oaks, R-2, Walker township. John Bowie, Wheatfield, trustee Wheatfield township. Teachers who have occasion to write these men should preserve their addresses for future reference. All of the above trustees were present at the board meeting except Charles Wood of Milroy township. Dwight Mahorter, Jasper county’s agricultural agent, was unable to attend this meeting since he was spending his first honeymoon in parts unknown. Warren Poole of Hanging Grove tendered hte resignation as trustee to the board of commissioners who appointed George Parker to fill the unexpired term. Mr. Poole’s resignation will take effect on July 1. The trustees arranged for their various commencements. The only definite dates that were set and speakers arranged for were as follows: Hanging Grove-Milroy, June 19, at Milroy church; Barkley, June 26, at Barkley church; Gillam, July 10, at Independence church. Other dates were picked by Jordan and Walker, but the speakers are not engaged to fill the dates picked by Mr. Huff and Mr. Pettit.

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