Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 August 1920 — LOCAL NEWS [ARTICLE]

LOCAL NEWS

Mrs. Larkin Potts expects to reenter the soldiers home at Lafayette about Sept. 1. * Mre. George M. Myers of this city and Mrs. John Kelley of Remington were Chicago goers Thursday. x A light shower, just enough to barely lay the dust, fell in Rensselaer about 4 o’clock yesterday morning. Mr. and Mrs. John Flynn of Earl Park were In Rensselaer Thursday looking after the former’s real estate interests in Newton township. Misses Opal Lakin and Bettie Lash returned to their v homes at Danville, 111., Thursday after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Lowman at Parr. local s grain prices: Corn, $1.40; oats, 65c; wheat, $2.45; rye, SI.BO. The prices one year ago were: Corn, $1.85; oats, 67c; wheat, $2.11; rye, $1:35.

Mr. and Mrs. George E. CoDins and son Alfred went to Cedar Lake Thursday to remain until tomorrow, the guests of William Holdress and family of Chicago. Mrs. Thomas Hoyes and son and daughter went to Lafayette Thursday for a visit with her sister, Mrs. E. W. Hickman, and . family. Mr. Hoyes will join her there Sunday. Thursday was the ' 77th birthday anniversary of Mrs. Abraham Leopold, and her daughters, Mrs. Leo Wolf of Hammond and Mrs. Julia Haas of Tipton, were here. Mrs. Charles Davison, daughter Marjorie and granddaughter, Virginia DaVison, returned to her home at Marshall, 111., Thursday after a visit here with the Mrs. E. S. Rhoads family. - ’ Mrs. S. P. Folsom left Thursday for Tiffin, 0., for a Visit with relatives. She was accompanied as far as Chicago by her husband, who is superintendent of this section of the state highway system. The Knights of Columbus of Rensselaer, Kentland and Fowler will hold an all-day picnic at George Ade’s place near Brook Thursday, Aug. 26. There will be dancing In the evening, and a general good time is assured all who attend.

G. W. Newman, who for the past year has been the manager for the Standard Oli Co. in this district, has been transferred to Elkhart, and will go tb that city about Aug. 20. He will be succeeded here by Elliott Beech, who will come here from Elkhart. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas and baby of Fort Snelling, Minn., are visiting Mrs. Thomas’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. %aßeck. Mr. Thomas, who was instructor in a college at Ft. Snelling for some time, has been placed on the retired list with threefourths pay. Mrs. Mary E. Rockhold of Los Angeles, Calif., who had been visiting here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Scheurlch, of northwest of town, left Thursday for Kilbourne, Wis., for a Visit with relatives, but Will return here before leaving for her home in California. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Nuropalls of Niton, Alberta, Canada, came Tuesday for a visit with relatives, including the latter’s grandmother, Mrs. E. H. Shields. Mr. Nuropalis left yesterday for Baltimore, Md., where he will be employed, but his wife will remain for a longer visit here.

Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Cornwell and children attended a reunion of the Crabb family, held at Fountain park last Sunday. There were 56 persons present, including relatives of the family, from Remington, Rensselaer, Monticello, Fowler, Wabash, Ind., Highmore, S. D., Grand Forks, N. D., and Pontiac, 111. Mrs. H. E. Parkison went to Lafayette Thursday for a visit with her son, Attorney W. H. Parkison. Today Mrs. Parkison will attend a reunion at Stockwell, 12 . lilies out from Lafayette, of former students of Stockwell Collegiate institute. Mrs. Parkison graduated from this institution many years ago. Edward, Nell and Alice Ryan of Gillam township and their guest, Miss Grace Coughlan, of Lagro, were In Rensselaer Thursday. Miss Nell continued to Farmers, Ind., to attend a house party. Miss Nell Ryan did not accompany the Robinsons to Michigan, as stated she would in The Democrat last Saturday. She had Intended to go, but later gave it up. ,

Mrs. Ike Wiltshire returned Thun, day afternoon from a couple of months’ visit with her aged mother and other relatives at Town Creek, Ala. She left her mother consider-1 ably fetter than when she first went there. Mrs. Wiltshire expected to ‘ go to Kentland last evening, her aunt residing there, Mrs. E. R. Gedzelman, having suffered a stroke of paralysis and being in a- very critical condition, so she ~ was informed over the telephone yesterday.