Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1920 — Page 3

SATURDAY, JULY 17, 1920.

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NEWS from the COUNTY

MILROY Mrs. Elsie Clark moved to Monon last week. A number from this vicinity spent the 4th in Monon. W. B. Fisher came home Saturday night for a short visit Hazel Griest spent the first of the week near Logansport. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Saltwell ate Wednesday dinner with Frank May’s. Marie Fisher visited her sister, Mrs. Harry Dibell, at Middletown this week. Charles, Orland and Ernest Beaver and families 'spent Sunday with True Culp’s.

FARMS FOR SALE Call or send for list of 50 farms for sale, ten of which are described below:

No. 3. —40 acres. This farm is all clean, level black land, in cultivation,, and is tiled and has good outlet. There is a five-room bungalow, fair barn and good well; buildings are nearly new. It lies on main road, one-fourth mile from the Jackson highway, station with store, school, church and elevator. Can sell on terms. Price $135 per acre. No. 4. —60 acres. This farm lies on pike road, 40 rods from school and has telephone and R. F. D. It is all in cultivation and well tiled and is all good grain land. There is a six-room house, good barn and other buildings. A good well and nice bearing orchard. It is fenced and cross-fenced with woven wire. Price $l3O. per acre. No. 10. —160 acres. This farm lies in our best grain belt and is all good tjdain land and all in cultivation except six acres in timber, hog lot. It is well tilled and fenced and crossfenced, with woven wire. There is a six-room house, large new barn, large double /Crib, garage and outsida cellar, good well, wind mill with water piped to cement tank in barn lot. Can make good terms on this farm. A bargain at $l7O per acre. No. 13. —160 acres. This farm lies on the Jackson Highway and in splendid neighborhood. It is all in cultivation, all good grain land and has good drainage. There is a sixroom house, good barn, double cribs, windmill and good well. Can be bought on favorable terms at the low price of $125 per acre. No. 18. —160 acres. This farm lies on the Jackson Highway near school and two miles from station, church and elevator. There are four other churches within three and one-half miles of this farm. The farm is mostly black, level land all tillable except 10 acres in timber. There is a 10-inch tile In the farm for outlet. There is a good five-room house, roomy barn, garden, fenced with cedar posts and woven wire, just put In. It is fenced and cross-fenced with barb wire and three acres fenced for hogs. There is a good, new well and some fruit. If too large owner would sell 120 acres with buildings. Can sell on favorable terms. Price SBS per acre. No. 35. —360 acres. This farm lie, on main road on R. F. D. and one mile from stone road and 1% miles from the Jackson Highway and 2 miles from station with stores, grain market and three churches. The farm is level dark productive soil except 10 acres of ridge, 120 acres is woodland pasture and 230 acres is in cultivation. There is lots of tile with good outlet Into dredge ditch 20 rods from the farm. It

George F. Meyers RENSSELAER) INDIANA

Mrs. W. B. Fisher and children and Mrs. Mary May ate dinner Friday with Mrs. George Foulks. Mrs. Mary May and daughter Ruth and Mrs. Maggie Foulks spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. Roy Culp. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Banes and Earl Foulks and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. George Foulks. Mrs. Thomas McAleer returned from her visit to her physician, but being in poor health will return again this week. W. B. Fisher, Arthur Woodward and Charles Bird of Lapel spent Thursday afternoon with the former’s family here. Mrs. Roy Culp spent Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Theodore Czarzy, who Is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brock. The Aid will meet with Mrs. Geo. Foulks Wednesday, July 14, and will probably elect officers, so let each member try to be present. The Fisher family, Minor Sears and John May and family celebrated Mrs. Fisher’s birthday anniversary Sunday with Frank May’s.

Is fenced with barbed wire with two miles of woven wire. The improvements are a comfortable sixroom house with cellar, summer kitchen, well house, fair old barn and a large new barn for horses, cows, grain and large mow, all on solid stone and cement foundation, chicken house, hog house, large bearing orchard, two wells and two windmills. Owner of this farm has poor health and offers this place at the low price of $75 per acre. He would consider clear rental property not to exceed one-half of the priee of the farm. Wants $5,000 in cash in a trade or sale and give time on remainder. No use to offer anything in trade unless the property is in good condition, clear of debt and not too far away. No. 44.—90 acres. This farm Iles on the Francesville prairie, 4% miles from Francesville and on pike road, In good enighborhood. It is all good level land, all in cultivation and all good strong grain land. It is well tiled into good outlet. There is a five-room house, fair barn and several other outbuildings, good well and bearing orchard. Price $165 per acre. This is a choice tract of land and a bargain and can be bought on terms. No. 47. —97 acres. This farm lies on gravel road three miles from good small town with high school and two churches and elevator. It has large ditch that runs on the line that gives a good outlet for drainage. There Is a new five-room bungalow, fair barn, silo and other buildings. The farm is all In cultivation except 10 acres of timber pasture. Price $125 per acre. Owner will trade for" property, preferably U Chicago oh the South side or in the Calumet region In Indiana. .No. 48. —160 acres. This farm lies on public road one mile from the Jackson Highway on R. F. D. and is all in cultivation and all good black grain land except 20 acres of sandy soil, but productive. It borders on a dredge ditch that gives good outlet for drainage. There is a five-room house, fair barn and other outbuildings, good well. This farm Is well located and a good grain farm. Owner Is a non-resi-dent and will sell this farm at the low price of SBS per acre. Terms, one-third down and remainder 10 years if desired. No. 50. —76 acres, on stone road joining station with elevator, stores, churches and high school. It is all in cultivation and good productive soil. There is a good eight-room house, fair barn, silo, crib, garage, and other outbuildings. Two good wells and orchard. Price $l4O.

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[ WALKER CENTER Mrs. F. M. Lilly called on Alice Meyers Friday. Tom Inkley was a Walker Center caller Tuesday. Elizabeth Hurley was helping Mrs. Linton Friday. Mr. Hetzel and faiptly visited C. M. Dewey’s Sunday. Garry Williams and Billy Wenrlck were Rensselaer callers Friday. Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Huntington were Francesville callers Wednesday. Wesley Hurley was home ove« Sunday from Greenfield, where he is working. Mrs. Clarence Bridgeman and Albert Owens were Kniman callers Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Will Clinton visited her parents, Mr. Lecrosse’s, at Roselawn Sunday. F. M. Lilly was quite sick with an attack of gastritis Saturday, but is better now. Mrs. John Pettet, Mildred and Junior, called on Mrs. Paul Hershman Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Lilly and Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Huntington called on M. Zufall’s Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Pettet attended the funeral of Mrs. Carlin near Parr on Tuesday of last week. Mrs. J. J. Tomlinson took her grandson, Clarence Weaver, to his home in Earl Park Saturday. Gail Michael and family of Kniman and Firman Pettet and wife of Virgie called at Paul Hershman’s Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Jennings visited their son Robert at the hospital in Hammond Sunday and report him some better. Will Tomlinson stuck a barb-wire prong in one of his fingers, causing blood poisoning. The doctor dressed it and it is better at present. Miss Alice Meyers, F. M. Lilly and family, Will Tomlinson and Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Huntington took dinner with Clarence Bridgeman’s Sunday. The Victory club met with Mrs. J. J. Tomlinson and a fine time was had. An excellent lunch was served. The next meeting will be July 21, with Mrs. M. Zufall. H. C. Meyers was thrown out of his buggy Friday evening when his horse became frightened by an auto, and his right hand and one finger were hurt and sprained quite severely.

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northern jasper Miss Kathryn Cullen is working for Mrs. A. Jensen. All the disagreeable people do not live on cross streets. One’s tongue will behave if he has trained his temper to. Martin Lyons and wife are visiting at the Martin Sands home. Wm. Wills and wife spent several days this week in Indianapolis. A grin can be worked mechanically; a smile is more difficult. Henry Gross and family of Lacross visited at Chris Nelson’s Sunday- . -J Mrs. Charles Fanslow came Saturday for a visit with relatives at Tefft. Mrs. John Wills returned to her home at Whiting Tuesday evening after a two weeks’ visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. James Lackey of Medaryville and Wm. Stalbaum and family spent Sunday afternoon at John DeArmond’s. Mr. and Mrs. Dan Jefferies returned to their home at Terre Haute last Thursday after a week’s pleasant visit with relatives near Tefft.

FAIR OAKS \ Health is generally quite good in our village at present. Tom Mallatt of Virgie was seen on our streets one day last week. Several from here attended the meeting at Virgie Sunday afternoon. Mr. Campbell’s family will go to New Albany this week to visit relatives until school opens. Mr. Plank and Dr. Karr of Lafayette were guests for dinner at the Abe Bringle home Sunday. It is rumored that Jake Spitzer and wife will discontinue keeping boarders in the near future. Enos Moffitt went over to the Gaff ranch Sunday with his tractor to cut rye for Earl Williams. Mike Gundy, who has been working on a farm near Foresman since last spring, came home Saturday. W. S. McConnell has a gang of men up on the Kankakee marsh doing the hay-making stunt nowadays. The watermelon and pickle farmers of this vicinity are feeling very much elated x over their prospects at prGSGUt. We were favored Tuesday evening with a much-needed, soaking rain, which put new life into everything growing. Ralph Yeoman, who has been visiting relatives in Rensselaer and in this vicinity the past week, went to his home at Hanna Tuesday evening. Amy Bringle and friend, Miss Ruby Whdtlatch of Lafayette, came up evening and visited the former’s parents until Sunday evening. Charles Mandervllle has been thinning out some of the shade trees about his house which gave a little too much shade for the good of the buUdlng. The contractors finished the new abuttment at the county line bridge

near Pembroke Wednesday. This is where the abuttment was washed out last spring by the high waters.' Muck fires have been burning on a farm about five miles northwest oi here the past 10 days and the heavy rains of Tuesday afternoon and night failed to extinguish them. Ike Kight made a business trip to Detroit. Mich., the first of the week. Miss Beulah Shein of Monon helped her Grandmother Kight in the store while her grandpa was gone. Mrs. J. C. Thompson opened up her restaurant a few days ago. She has purchaseci a part of a lot back of thd Kight store and will in the near future move her building thereon. There was a meeting of the trustee and several automobile agents at the Colfax township school house Saturday to offer bids to furnish, auto school hacks for hauling the school children. Mr. and Mrs. Levi Chupp visited between trains at Abe Bringle’s! Tuesday afternoon. They were on their way from South Bend, where they to visit her brother who was very serioulsy ill from a paralytic stroke.

MOROCCO (From the Courier) Glen Hodshire of Monticello spent Wednesday at the home of his aunt, Mrs. William Sallee. Mrs. Anna Hardesty of Danville, 111., spent Monday here with Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Martin. Mrs. John Kay went to Grand Rapids, Mich., Friday to visit relatives there for some time. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Johnson and daughter of Garret were guests this week of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Travis. Mrs. J. W. Garrard of Delphi came the latter part of the week to spend several days here with relatives and friends. . x , A. J. Long went to Woodstock, 111., the first of the week where he is employed on a steam dredge. He expects to be there for several months. Misses Anna and Lulu Moore left Wednesday for Horicon, Wls., to join their brothers. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Moore expect to go there some time this fall. - Miss Ida Walker of Ft. Worth, Tex., came Saturday and will spend a month here with Mr. and Mrs. William Spradling and Mr. and Mrs. Luther Kessler. \ Mrs. Myron Hope and son left Wednesday for her home at Racine, Wls, after spending two weeks here with relatives. She was accompanied by Misses Emma Robinson and Ruby Murphey, who will spend some time at Racine. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Sallee had as their guests Monday Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gillespie and Mr. and Mrs. Daniels and daughter of Pittwood, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Winslow and “children of Donovan, Mrs. George Bone and family and Harry May of Remington and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Hltchlngs and son of Morocco. During the celebration here Monday a 1919 model Ford touring car belonging to Arthur B. Cooper of near Brook was stolen. The car was left standing on the street and when members of the family went for It they found it gone. Mr. Cooper’s son had driven the machine In and upon leaving It had lo<!ked the switch and put the switch key in his pocket. The thief was evidently a professional and had no difficulty in unlocking the switch, probably being supplied with duplicate keys. A new Essex touring car belonging to R. B. Anderson of 402 W. Randolph street, Chicago, turned over at the H. H. Harris corner in Colfax township Monday and fire originating at the gasoline tank com pletely destroyed the car. Mr. Anderson was enroute to Springfield, 0., and didn’t see the corner until he was upon it, and in attempting Jhe turn he ran into the ditch and the car turned over. He escaped wlthout injury and stated had he carried a fire extinguisher he could have saved the car. He carried insurance and his loss will not be heavyMiss Frances Jessen, a well-known resident of Washington township, passed away at 10 o’clock Tuesday night. For several months she had been afflicted with cancer of the stomach and for the past five weeks had been bedfast. Miss Jessen was the daughter of James and Mary Jessen, both deceased, and was born In Washington township 52 years ago. She attended the public schools in this county and for 22 years served as a school teacher. Deceased leaves besides many relatives and a host of friends, three brothers and two sisters, James A. and Millie Jessen, who resided with her; John Jessen of Texas, Rufus A. Jessen i and Mrs. Elsie Clarkson of Willington, C °W J Webb, wife and son of Hoopeston, 111., met with a serious accident Monday forenoon while enroute to Morocco to spend the daywith relatives, the Shaffer family. A short distance this side the Roberts bridge they were crowded off the road by a large touring car and their car turned completely over into the ditch, catching the occupants beneath it. Mrs. Webb managed to get out In some manner and also released their son. She then ran to the home of Pearson Pendergrass, who went with her and helped to release Mr Webb. All were more or less severely bruised and scratched, but Mr. Webb was most seriously injured, suffering a bad cyt on his leg just above the knee.

; MT. AYR (From the Tribune) J. R. Sigler and wife, were Goodland visitors Saturday. Mrs. Jennie Ashby was a Rensselaer visitor Wednesday. W. W. Wilson is here from Summerset, Ky., for a visit with his daughter, Mrs. Dungan. Fred Young and family went to Winamac Sunday where they attended a family reunion. James Price and wife of north of Rensselaer spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Hurshel Blaze. Miss Ruby Standish went to In-

Michigan Stock and Grain; Farm For Sale One of tlia Most Productive Farms In Berrien County. Located 1% miles irom town, % m^e rom stone trunk-line highway, %mile from school. Farm consists of 160 acres slightly rolling, about 15 acres of sugar maple and other timber, balance all plop land. Three pieces of splendid alfalfa. An abundance of apple, pear, plum, cherry trees and other small fruit. Splendid 9-room house, large cellar; basement barn with room for 20 cows, 8 horses, 50 tons of hay and other crops. Two large silos, tool shed, corn crib, granary, hog house, concrete milk house, chickpn house, etc. Water piped from windmill to barn, milk house and hog house. Three never-failing springs. This farm has always been a money-maker and is the best buy in the state at $l4O an acre. If you want a farm that will make you rich, buy this one. Address the owner, G. S. EASTON, Buchanan, Mich.

dlanapolis Saturday. Her sister and husband of Rensselaer drove through, she accompanying them. Miss Jane Makeever is home from Chicago for a two weeks’ visit with home folks. Miss Makeever is a nurse at the Wesleyn hospital. Will Donaldson, wife and daughter Mary left Wednesday for Maysville, Ky., to visit his relatives. They expect to be gone about three weeks. Mrs. John Barber was down from Fair Oaks Saturday and reported the arrival of a new girl in the home of her daughter, Mrs. Ray Haste, July 2. Miss Hines, Mrs. Cantland, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Powers, Mrs. Dilllgan and son, all of Chicago, spent the week-end with the Barton’s, Clark’s and Makeever’s. Ed Boyd returned from Terre Haute Saturday where he was called by a message saying his mother was dangerously 111. She died soon after he reached there. Dave Warrick and family drove down from White Pigeon, Mich., Saturday and spent Sunday and Monday with relatives and friends here and at Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Ponsler and Mr. and Mrs. James Shindler went to Mentone Sunday where they visited the former’s sister, Mrs. Vose Carter, returning home Monday evening. The Inventory of the Harris elevator to the Farmers’ Co-operative company was made Thursday. Mr. Roe, the manager, and son arrived from Tuscola and have taken over the management. Rev. F. A. Sheets tendered his resignation last Sunday, to take effect at once, as pastor of the U. B. or rather the recently united church forces here. The resignation came as a surprise to most people of the community, the cause being the discouraging conditions existing here together with the disposition of the Alx church not to help\ In the financial matters. Rev. Sheets has accepted a call to fill the pulpit of the Christian church at Remington.

LEE Raymond Gilmore spent Sunday with Robert Jordan. The Home Guards met Wednesday afternoon at Mrs. Cora Rlshllng's.

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The Home Missionary ladles met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Joseph Stewart. The band concerts on Thursday evening have been postponed Indefinitely. W. L. Stiers and family of Gary were week-end guests of his mother and brother at this place. Harold Erb, Lawrence Snedeker, Chase Rishllng and Dean Jordan spent Sunday with Lloyd Overton. Frank Overton’s family attended the funeral and burial of Cora Grace Overton at Mpnon Wednesday afternoon. * Mr. and Mrs. Raymond Warren, Gerry Snedeker and Miss Cora Noland were at Maple Grove Sunday afternoon. J. H. Culp and wife and O. A. Jacks and wife visited Sunday with George Hoult and family, northeast of Francesville. J. L. Osborne and wife and Earl Webb and wife attended the funeral of Mrs. Susan Graves at Monon Tuesday afternoon. Charley Smith and wife, Mrs. Mary Parker and daughter Blanch of Francesville and Mrs. Jessie Timmons and daughter of Jackson, Tenn., took Sunday dinner with Harry Rishllng and family.

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