Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1920 — NEWS from the COUNTY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWS from the COUNTY

VIRGIE The C. F. Clausen pickle factory opened Friday. The elevator is now completed and is ready for business. Ancll Potts and family and Thos. Florence were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Mrs. W. W. Zellers and sons, Dean and Donald, visited Mrs. Sam Eicher Friday. Quite a few from here attended the dance at Duggins’s grove Saturday night. The ice cream and pie social Saturday night was well attended and all the ice cream was sold. This is the fourth successful church social this summer. The Virgie Owls, our youthful baseball team, has won three of the four games they have played. They played the Has-Beens Sunday. The score was 12 to 8 in favor of the Owls. MT. AYR (From the Tribune) Ed Harris and family visited at George Royster’s at Rensselaer Sunday. 'George and Russel Callahan of Kewana were Sunday guests at the Elmer Clark home. Dan Fleming and family of Tay. lorville, 111., are here for a visit with the Phares families. Ed Harris is now driving a Lexington six, and this week sola lilb old Mitchell to Dick Ashby. Miss Marie Harris, who is attending summer normal at Muncie, spent the week-end with home folks. Miss Kathryn Parker of Remington is here for a two weeks’ visit with her sister, Mrs. Jay Miller.

Frank Keller and wife of Hammond were down for a Sunday visit with C. E. Shellenbarger and wife. Mrs. F. T. Ringeisen visited with her folks at McCoyeburg several days last week, returning home Thursday. Mrs. Lillian Guthrie and daughters of Vincennes came Wednesday for a two weeks’ v*isdt with relatives and friends. Mr®. John Meharry returned this week from Longcliff, where she had been to see her son Clarence. She reports him as being no better. Jack Ulyatt and wife went to Knlman the first of the week and from there accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Jack Davis to North Manchester to visit the ladies’ sister, Mrs. Brunton. Mr. and • Mrs. Ed Sternberg of Riverside, 111., Mrs. Fred Hellim and children of Chicago, Mrs. Louis Hellim and son of St. Louis, Mo., came Friday and are visiting in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Smalley. J. R. Sigler and wife spent the; day Sunday with Mrs. in Rensselaer. All of Mrs. Merry’s friends here will be very glad to know that Mrs. Merry’s condition is considerably improved. A. W. Kersey and wife of Ross ville, 111., and J. H. Kersey and son of Cayuga, N. D., left for their homes thi® week after a two weeks’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. Homer Stanley. The elder Kersey is a brother of Mrs. Stanley. Mrs. Alex Ham and daughter arrived here from their home at Des Moines, la., the latter part of the week for a visit with relatives and old friends. Mr. Ham is a brother of Mrs. Alice Hopkins, hence related to others about here. ' Melvin Wootin and wife and two grandchildren came Saturday to pay his cousin Carl and family a short visit. Their home is at Miller, which is only a short way from Gary, and was at one time the rendezvous of a notorious band of horse-thieves. F. A. Standish, the busman, moved this week from the hotel property to his own 'house, and Mrs. Goldie Blankenbaker is .moving into the hotel. Mrs. Blankenbaker purchased the hotel property recently and as soon as she gets in and gets settled will probably conduct it as a hotel. The following ladies from the local camp of Royal Neighbors attended the lodge at Morocco Thursday: Mrs. Hattie Hopkins, Clela Brunton, Maude Elijah, Mrs. Armold and daughter, Delma Lura Shue, Jennie Ashby, Mrs. Ole Bengsten, Mrs. Chas. Summers and Mrs. Effie Brandt. Mrs. Maude Coovert, the genial and obliging clerk at Lee’s Big store, is away this week on her vacation. With her husband and nephew, Harry they will spend some time at Cedar Lake, after which Frank and Perry will return home while Mrs. Coovert wiill visit relatives and friends in Chicago and perhaps visit her daughter at Moline.