Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 June 1920 — Page 4

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NEWS from the COUNTY

GOODLAND (From the Herald) Mrs. J. W. Baer of Logansport visited last week with the Dr. M. L. Humston family. Miss Isabelle Rockwood of Frankfort is here the guest of her sister, Mrs. Fanny Fox and family. Mrs. Rutherford returned Tuesday evening from Rensselaer, where she visited her daughter, Mrs. Earl Easterday, and family. Steve Bringham and family motored down from near Winamac the latter part of last week and spent Sunday here with relatives. Charles Babcock was home over Saturday and Sunday from Wabash college. He will have another week before the college closes for the summer. Mi. and Mrs. George Griffin of Remington spent Tuesday here the Mrs Charles Griffin. Mr. ’•joyed his 87th birthday Thursday Mr. and Mrs. L. R. Cole and H. T. Covington, son and family, motored here from Chicago last Friday and visited until Sunday with the E. J. I •Cady family on south Newton street. M. P. Hobbs, who has been staying with a son at Greensburg, Ind., returned to Goodland last Friday and will make his home with his daughter, Mrs. N. V. McClellan, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Eli Hester and four children of Benkelman, Neb., arrived last week via auto, driving through for a visit with Mrs. Hester’s sister, Mrs. Ben P. Davidson, and family. A. C. Constable and family left last Friday morning via automobile for Rushmore, Minn. With favorable conditions they will have reached their destination in a few days. They expect to be gone four or five weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Shingleton and Miss Julia Mattson of Cincinnati, 0., are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hazen. They motored through in their large touring car. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hazen entertained fourteen for Sunday dinner. Mrs. Harry F. Little left the first of the week for Des Moines, lowa, where on Wednesday she attended the biennial convention of the Federation of Woman’s Clubs. Mrs. Little was a delegate from the Tenth Indiana District. • Jesse and Clarence Diller of Bluffton, Ohio, spent Tuesday night here the guests of Arthur Bertsche. They are headed for the jellowstone National Park and tJ the Western coast for the summer. They expect to stop off enroute and help in the harvest fields. Wednesday afternoon a severe electrical and wind storm blew two large barns down north of Fowler. One was on the Martin Hardiman farm killing two horses and the other was on the M. F. Caliill farm.

Public Sale of Town Property A nice five-room cottage and good improvements nicely located in the town of Wheatfield, Ind., will be sold at public auction at two o’clock p. m., on SATURDAY, JURE 26, ’2O Terms. Cash or easy terms on acceptable security. A discount of 5 per cent will be given oa a strictly cash sale, r Harry E. Rem ley Horace M. Clark, Auct.

The telephone lines were blown down for a distance of a mile north of the Bates farm. Mr. and Mrs. Wilse Lemaster and little granddaughter were coming home from Fowler and had just passed by the Bates farm when the lines were blown down.

BROOK (From the Reporter) Fred Longwell and family were over from 0 Monon the last of the week visiting friends. Mrs. John O’Rielly and son Frank went to Thornton, 111., to visit relatives over Sunday. Miss Erma Ellis of Chicago visited with the family of Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Sell over the week-end. Frank Davis returned from Peru Tuesday, where he has been visiting Frank Welshaar and others. Forry Stonehill went to Flint, Mich., the first of the week to see about a job in one of the big factories. Miss Grace Thompson of Valparaiso came on Wendnesday for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Chas. Denham. The Misses Charlotte Borkert and Jennie Gaines left on Tuesday to attend the State W. C. T. U. Institute at Fort Wayne. Alva Herriman and family and Howard Griggs and family visited Sunday with Harry Herriman and family near Logansport. J. W. Gull, a former resident of this vicinity but now of Spokane, Wash., is visiting his cousin, Ml’S. Frank Herath, and familv. Mr. Wilson of Ade, who had his foot amputated, is getting along nicely. Miss Carpenter, our Red Cross nurse, cares for him daily. Mr. and Mrs. Abe Deweese and daughter, Mrs. Chas. Bell, motored to Converse, Ind., and spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Florman Potter On Saturday, Dr. Tinder drove to Martinsville and remained over Sunday with the Brook colony. With him werfe his wife, Mrs. John Lyons, and Mrs. LaVerne Wilson. Mrs. Rowan of Columbus, Ohio, is a guest of Miss Eunice Park. As lifelong friends and schoolmates, they are enjoying a very pleasant visit, covering the past and present. A pretty wedding occurred at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Park on Wednesday afternoon at 4:40 when their daughter, Miss Cecile Olena, was united in marriage to Mr. Walter Aiken Wright of Chicago. Harry Warr has purchased the old Philip Stonehill residence now occupied by L. A. Sunderland and will become a resident of Brook some time the coming winter. Owing to ill health, Mr. and Mrs. Warr are obliged to leave the farm. We are informed that Don Burley has purchased the Temple Theatre of which he at one time was a half owner, from Allen Robertson. Don knows the picture game thoroughly and the plant was very successful under his management. He will arrive Sunday and take over the show on next Monday. Harrison White, who has been local manager since Burley left, will leave for Attica and engage in his old work at the National Car Coupler Works. A young son of Clyde Herath shot and killed a boy playmate at Peoria, one day last week. The youngsters engaged in a quarrel over a rat captured by them.' The other lad attacked Herath with a potato masher and beat him severely. When he could escape young Herath got a revolver and shot the other lad as he was again approaching him with the masher. Both boys are mere lads and the occurrence is very regretable. Clyde Herath was a son of Henry Herath, at one time a resident of Goodland, Brook and Foresman.

MOROCCO (From the Courier) Mrs. Sherman Bell and children went to Goodrich, 111., Saturday to visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Wilson Shaffer of Rensselaer were in Morocco Monday to consult Dr. Triplett. Miss Jessie Robertson came down from Chicago Friday to spend some time with relatives here. Irvin Moody of Wacuanda, 111., came Friday to visit his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Irvin. May Lynge of Rensselaer took the train here Tuesday for Momence to spend a few days with friends. Mr. and Mr®. George Coake and son Lloyd of Rossville, 111., were guests over Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Graves.

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Mrs. E. M. Levi of Columbus, 0., J is here visiting her parents, Mr. and and yrs. V. P. Hope, and other rei atives and friends. Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Thompson went to Flora Monday to spend a few days with their son, A. F. Thompson, and Mrs. Henry Tusn and children of Georgetown were here last week to attend the funeral of her uncle, Taylor Williams. They returned home Saturday. Rev. and Mrs. A. B. McKain and । daughter Esther of Dayton, 0., came j Thursday evening to visit some time I with Mrs. McKain’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Agate. Mrs. T. E. Puett went to Lafayette Monday to attend the commencement exercises at the Home hospital. Her daughter, Fern Travis, is a member of the graduating class. E. E. Stucker, who came here several weeks ago and took a position tn Parrish & Brunton’s barber shop, left Sunday and will return to New York, where he was engaged in farming. , John Robertson, who recently purchased a half Interest in the Rumely hotel barber shop at Laporte, was here Monday and moved his household goods to that place, he and Mrs. Robertson following by train. ; The body of Miss Mary Carroll, 1 who resided in Jackson township many years ago, arrived here yesterday for burial in the North Star cemetery beside the grave of her father, Wm. Carroll. She was 48 years old and died at Crawfordsville Tuesday. Wm. Wilson of Aae, aged 76 years and a veteran of the civil war, died Tuesday. He had lived at Ade for about four years. He is survived | by his wife, five sons and one daughter. Funeral services were held at the Ade church yesterday and bur- ■ ial made at the North cemetery at 1 Morocco. Miss Opal Padgett was at Kent-1 land Tuesday as a bridesmaid at the; wedding of Miss Cecil Burton ana Rev. Douglass La Tell Rights. The bride is a daughter of Henry Bur-1 ton, formerly of Lake township and has many friends in Morocco who, unite in wishing the happy couple I many years of success and prosper-' ity. Ernest Harwood, who had been quite serious from rheumatism for nearly a month, was taken to the Wabash Valley sanitarium at Lafay-1 ette Friday, and reports from there say that he is improving nicely. One | day last week a number of Mr. Har- , wood’s neighbors came in with, teams and plowed his corn, which is indeed a most commendable act, and Mr. and Mrs. Harwood have asked us to publicly express their, appreciation of the deed.

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We got a nice shower Sunday evening that did a world of good to growing crops and pastures. There was also considerable lightning ana the barn on the U. K. Miller farm south of Morocco was burned to the ground. The farm is occupied by his son, Otha Miller. The barn was struck early in the evening and at the time it was thought the fire had all been extinguished, but It broke out again shortly before midnight and was beyond control when discovered. There was one horse in the barn that was burned, also a quantity of hay, feed and harness. The barn was a new one, having been erected only a few years ago and there was no Insurance, which will make the loss a severe one. WOLCOTT (From the Enterprise) Russell Dye, who is attending college at Champaign, 111., came home Saturday for the summer vacation. Emerick Sigman, who is working at Rensselaer, spent a few days this week with his parents, Mr. anew Mrs. Milroy Sigman. Mr. and Mrs. Ben Hofer, Miss Nora Nausbaum and John Trache* went to Fairbury, 111., Monday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Magdelena Scharlach. Mrs. Robert Nordyke went to Indianapolis Tuesday where she met her sister, Miss Jeanette Dobbins, and together they visited their sister, Mrs. Grace Badorf. Miss Viola lumgerich* of Champaign, 111., came last Saturday and is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Guy Parsons. Miss Viola and Mrs. Parsons were college friends at Jacksonville, 111. A. B. Wooden, accompanied by his son Theron, and his brother A. D. Wooden and sons of Remington, left early Sunday morning in Mr. Wooden’s automobile for Mount Vernon, 111., to visit his mother. Mr. and Mrs. James Blake returned Saturday from a two weeks’ auto trip through Michigan. After visits ing their son Alden and wife at Detroit, they visited Toledo, Ohio, and several other points on their return trip. ,Mr. and Mrs. Ed Blume and children, Harold, Bobby and Mary Elizabeth, autoed to Cissna Park, Sunday to visit Mrs. Blume’s mother, Mrs. John Bremer. Mr. Blume returned Sunday evening, Mrs. Blume and children remaining for a few days visit Mr. and Mrs. A. W. Haskell of Chicago were the guests from Friday ufitil Sunday of Mr. and Mrs. S. P. Haskell at the Wolcott House. Mr. and Mrs. Haskell were in this neighborhood to attend the funeral of Isaac N. Best, and took occasion to visit his brother.

Claude and Wilbert Raven of Detroit, came Thursday to visit their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry St. Pierre, and their uncle, Ed St. Pierre, and family. The boys both hold good jobs in Detroit, Wilbert being a tool maker and Claude is in the city fire department. The community will regret to learn that Prof. Robert Lambert has resigned as superintendent of the schools. Mr. Lambert Is a B. A. man -out of Indiana university and is entering Columbia university, New York city, this fall. Mr. and Mrs. Lambert have made a great number of friends in the community, who regret to see them go, yet wish Mr. Lambert success in his further university work. This morning at 8 o’clock was solemnized the marriage of Miss Fleta Delzell and Walter Girdley, by Rev. Leßoy Myers, pastor of the Wheatland avenue church, at the parsonage on Barron street, Logansport. They were attended by thp bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Delzell, former residents here. A significant coincidence of the wedding is the fact that it occurred on the 25th wedding anniversary of the bride’s parents. The groom is employed on the Logansport division of the Pennsylvania. After a short wedding trip to Chicago they will be at home to their friends a; 424 W. Market street, Logansport.

VIRGIE Ancll Potts and family went to Rensselaer Saturday. Walter Harrington visited C. A. Harrington last Sunday. W. W. Zellers and son Dean went to Rensselaer on business Friday. Mrs. James Wiseman and daughter Esther called on Mrs. T. J. Mallatt Sunday. . Thomas Florence and family visited their daughter near Remington Sunday. The W. C. Babcock elevator men are completing the elevator here. Watch Virgie grow. Misses Elsie and Jessie Zellers went to Terre Haute Sunday, where they will take the teachers’ course. Walter Harrington and family and C. A. Harrington and family went to Hebron Sunday to visit the former’s daughter, Mrs. Lesta Loaming. Don’t fqrget, ye ice cream and pie fiends, that next , Saturday night, June 26, the Virgie church will give another social. All who remember the former good times at the other socials will be there. The Virgie youthful hurlers of the sphere went to Fair Oaks Sunday and there played the Parr team. The game resulted in a score of 14 to 7 in favor of the former. This is the local boys’ first team. The lineup consisted of Gasaway, H.

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 23,

Zellers, D. Zellers, Hill, Williams. R. Reed, C. Reed, H. R. Potts and H. C. Potts. DEMOTTE ’ Bert Robins unloaded another carof stone to be put on the road under his supervision. Al. Konovsky has his sawmill running in full blast at the west end of Demiotte. Peter White of Mt. Ayr was over here to see his father, John White* and his little sister. John H. Greve shipped out a car of pickles this week, and is kicking the railroad company for not giving him more cars. Robert H. Mannan and his wife and the two twins were over from Wheatfield Sunday, and called on their father and mother, J. H. anu Mrs. Greve. ( Arthur Lagerveen, wife and babe ihoved into their newly purchased property in north Demotte, which Mr. Lagerveen bought of Mr. Beaman of Chicago. Rev. Downey held services here in the M. E. church in place of the minister in charge, who went to Oklahoma to be present at his brother’s wedding. F. M. Hart had a fine well drilled, and now has a good flow of watei. Allis Redinbo did the work. He has completed a number of good wells In and around Demotte. “Judge” Greve went to Wheatfield Saturday with two wheelbarows, supposedly tor the twin boys of Mr. and Mrs. Mannan. He thinks there are no boys like the two twins. Jack frost showed himself in many cornfields on the -mornings of June 18 and 19, although not much dam age was done, but it is hoped that he will not repeat his visits again until about Jan. 1, 1921. St the nomination for president had been put up at auction, we would bet our old hat that the Hons. Mr. Lowden or Wood would have been nominated, as it was they lost out even if they did spend $400,000 or $500,000 each.

COMMUNITY SALES REGULARLY At Roselawn (4 th Saturday) and Demotte (Ist Saturday) of each month, respectively. Parties having stock, tools or anything else they wish to dispose of are invited to bring same In and sell It at these sales. Stuff will be sold on reasonable sale terms. —BERT HANAWAY, Auctioneer; H. C. DeKock, Clerk. Why nqt buy a home In Rensselaer? See Cf. W. Duvall, who has a number of good homes for sale, priced to meet any sized pocketbook. Phone 147. s-10 ,