Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1920 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

MILROY Mrs. Elsie Clark moved to Monon this week. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Culp were in Lee Monday evening. Carl Beaver spent Sunday after* noon with the McAleer boys. Several from this vicinity attended hand concert at Lee Thursday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Floyd ate dinner Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Earl Foulks. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Wineland of Gary visited Mr. and Mrs. Charles Wood last week. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Culp and

Elmer Gilfnore and family spent Sunday with Roy Culp's. Charles and Orland Beaver, True Culp and Charles Clark and families ate Sunday dinner with George Foulks’s. Mrs. Charles Marchand and children, Mrs. Earl Foulks and children and Mrs. George Foulks spent Thursday afternoon with E. C. Marchand’s.

MT. AYR (From the Tribune) Miss Effie Delong of Roselawn is here visiting Miss Romona Hufty. Oscar Schanlaub and family of Nauvoo, 111., visited here Saturday. Prof. Tranbarger, wife and babe motored to Forrest Friday to visit their relatives. C. L. Sterner and family took an auto trip up to the vicinity of South Bend last Sunday. C. E. Shellenbarger entertained a houseful of company from Hammond and other points Sunday. Mrs. John Barber, accompanied by little Elizabeth Corns, of Fair Oaks were visitors here Friday. Walter Blankenbaker’s new bunga. low is now under way and has the appearance of to be a beauty. Clair Vestol, Jim Wolfe and Virgil Coovert attended the Modern Woodmen meeting at Monticello Thursday evening. Mrs. Robinson and her daughter, Miss Alice, are here from Joliet, 111., visiting her daughter, Mrs. J. T. Martin. George Coovert and Lucy Redinbo of Francesville came Friday and visited the Stuckers and Cooverts until Tuesday. T. G. Brown and wife were up from McCoysburg to visit the new granddaughter at the Gilbert Stucker home Wednesday. Dan Stutzman • spent a few days here with old friends this week. He returned to his home at White Pigeon, Mich., Thursday. Miss Mollie Johnson returned here from Baroda, Mich., where she has been staying with her sister Mary. She is now with Mrs. Oscar Stucker. J. W. Meharry and family returnee Tuesday from Logansport where they

had gone the Saturday prior to visit Clarence, the son who Is at Long cliff. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Frauenhoff were up from Brook Sunday and report the arrival of a brand-new grandson, who has been named Otto Dale Hood. Miss Blanche Merry was here from Rensselaer awhile Thursday. She reports her mother not quite so well, having suffered something like a slight paralytic stroke. George Arnold and family, at one time a clerk in the Sigler store here bpt for a number of years living near Hobart, motored to Mt. Ayr Sunday and visited in the Sigler home. Miss Emma Rich of Chicago, Miss Velma Carpenter of Brook, Newton county nurse, and Miss Alice Triplett of Morocco, all cousins of Mrs. C. H. Stucker, called on Mrs. Stucker Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Huntington and Mrs. Huntington’s parents, Mr and Mrs. F. M. Lilly, all of near Wheatfield, were down and spent the day Tuesday with Mrs. Ella Huntington and family. Hamblin Smith sold his farm this week to Elba, who owns a farm a short distance west w of the Smith place. We are told the consideration was SIOO per acre and possession will be given in the spring. Miss Dorothy Sigler, accompanied her grandmother, Mrs. Jennie Sigler, to Chicago Thursday. Mrs. Sigler will remain there with her daughter the rest of the summer, but Dorothy will return here In a few days. Mrs. Rebecca Denman of Mt. Gilead, 0., Mrs. Liddie Davis of Ann Arbor, Mich., Mrs. Elizabeth Williams and daughter of Hammond. Milt Witham and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Peter White of Rensselaer were Sunday guests in the J. B. Ashby home. Mr. and Mrs. David Nay entertained the following guests Sunday: Mr. and Mrs. Peter Miller and' son of Brook, Mrs. Liddle Canine of Michigan, Mrs. Fritzpatrick of Ohio, Mrs; Bruno of Chicago, TJ J. Joffes of Sheridan, Eld. Ragen of Indianapolis and J. B. Smith and family of Momence, Ill.* Mrs. Ada Hile, our genial postmistress, consummated a deal with Dr. Martin Monday for the purchase of the former Pat Miller property, now occupied as a barber shop below and club room above. We understand Mrs. Hile expects to move into it, occupying the lower part with the postoffice and the rooms above as a residence. Little Everett Ringhiesen, while playing on a shed at the Ringhiesen home, fell, breaking his arm just above the elbow. A doctor was called and reduced the fracture and the little sufferer is doing as well as could be expected. This is the third of the series of such accidents, and those who are superstitious will now feet sure they are over. Let us hope so.