Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 October 1920 — NEWS from the COUNTY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWS from the COUNTY

GIFFORD Homer Meyers and wife autoed to Wheatfield Tuesday. George Lambert returned to his work at Mishawaka Tuesday. Canda Witt of Arrowsmith, 111., Is visiting with the W. T. Hankins family. W. T. Hankins and wife took supper Sunday evening with Charles Britt and family. Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Caldwell and Mrs. Pearl Sanders were Medaryville goers Monday. Mra. Frank Antrim and friend of Monon visited Robert Steel and family Monday and Tuesday. David Pammel was called to Logansport Saturday by the death of his brother. He returned home Sunday evening. James Britt and wife autoed to Niles, Mich., Saturday, returning home Sunday night. They found his father and family all O. K. Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Nuss have moved back to our town and Mr. Nuss is working on the dredge, which is running two crews now. Mr. and Mrs. William Obenchain and Mr. and Mrs. Ancil Hilton autoed to Michigan Sunday morning on a pleasure trip. They expect to see the greater part of that state before Returning. Sf Onion buyers are coming In now. ?One from Chicago was here Tuesday and prod, aed to return again Friday. The onions are certainly fine, and anyone wishing to see onion fields should come to Gifford. FAIR OAKS The tile ditch which is being put In on the Washburn land was finished Tuesday. Bert Warne, with his men, put in a couple of days this week buzzing wood here in town. The W. C. Babcock Grain Co. has had several men here this week repairing the elevator. •The tent meetings being held in the park closed Wednesday evening without any accessions.

Paul Barker, whc has been working in Chicago, severed his connections with the company there and came home Saturday. Mrs. Carl Trump has been very much under the weather for the past week and is now at home with her parents until she fully recovers. Rev. Todd preached his last sermon before conference Sunday evening, and what the outcome for another year at this place will be is yet to be determined. Bryant Pritchett and family returned Monday from Buchanan, Mich., after a couple of days visit with his parents. They brought back With them several bushels of peaches. It seems to be harder to get cans to put up the fruit than it is to get the peaches. The large dairy barn on section 30 on the Otis ranch was destroyed by fire Tuesday forenoon, together with a barn full of feed, three silos, two of which were full and the third one almost full. The barn would house over 100 cows. The fire started from a spark from the engine used in cutting silage. VIRGIE Joe Faj’ sowed timothy for Jack Wells Monday. Ancil Potts and family visited his son Ray at Kniman Sunday. W. W. Zellers and T. J. Mallatt were Rensselaer goers Tuesday. Mrs. Gladys Harrington visited Mrs. John Zellers and Mrs. L. E. Harrington Monday. Pete Hill has traded his flivver for a Ford roadster with red wheels, of which he is very proud. Canning fruit is the order of the day in this neck of the woods. A scarcity of cans has put a check on it, however. Mason Conn, three sons and George Ginder of Winamac drove over Sunday and visited with the John Zellers family. C. A. Harrington and family and Walter Harrington and family went to Shelby Sunday to attend the big basket dinner and church services at that place. The writer is now inspired to put forth all his efforts in a little poem: It was midnight on the ocean, Not a street car was in sight, When around a sudden corner Came an airplane through the night. Not a man stirred in the steamboat, Not q dog but held his voice, For ’twas midnight on the ocean And they couldn’t but rejoice.

LEE The Sunday school will give an Ice cream social here Saturday evening. Mre. H. C. Anderson has finished up having an extensive job of dental work * done. Walter Jordan and Clarence Garrison went to Michigan Wednesday to get peaches. r Mrs. G. A. Jacks was helping her daughter, Mrs. Otterberg, cook for silo men the first of the week. Helen and Chase Rlshling visited a few days this week with their uncle, Ralph Sprague, and wife in Rensselaer. Estel Osborne and family drove last Friday to visit Will Whittaker ahd family in Michigan, returning home Sunday. Elxie Webb ana son Clayton and a neighbor of Dekalb county came Saturday and brought Mr. Webb’s mother-in-law, Mrs. C. A. Holeman, home. Thursday J. H. Culp and wife and Mrs. Estella Holeman and Rosemary of Monticello drove to Dekalb county to visit with realtlves for a few days. Mr James Watts, who had been sick for a long time, died last Friday, and the funeral was held Sunday at 11:30 at the church. Interment in Osborne cemetery. Elmer Gilmore and family, Orval Holeman and family, J. H. Culp and wife and Mrs. C. A. Holeman visited Sunday with Mrs. Estella Holeman and children at Monticello.

REMINGTON • (From the Press)

Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Robert Butcher Sept. 22, a son. Holly McClain of Peru spent Sunday at the Carpenter home in Remington. J. B. Irwin returned Tuesday evening from a visit with his daughter at Noblesville. John Grenard has a well-poisoned face this week, the result of getting too close to some pawpaws. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Penn of Streator, 111., are visiting at the home of Fred Pampel this week. Mrs. Kate Ochs returned to her home at Bloomington, 111., Saturday after a 10-day visit with her son, Jacob dchs, Jr. Born, Saturday morning, to Mr. and Mrs. John Stockment, a daughter. John Phelps is now a granddaddy. All doing well at last reports. Mr. and Mrs. Fern Ford and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Hamilton drove to South Berni this week to visit friends, this being Fern’s annual vacation time. Mr. and Mrs. George Valance of Minnesota, who have been visiting at the home of their brother-in-law, John Nichols, started for their home Tuesday morning. Mr. and Mrs. M. O. Stokes went to Gaston Monday to attend the funeral of Jacob Hazeioaker, with whom Mr. Stokes lived many years, and who died rather suddenly. Everett Walker, formerly editor of the Wolcott Enterprise for many years, has been visiting his uncle, H. H. Walker, the past week. He is now engaged in the fruit-raising business at Moscow, Idaho. August Bernhardt reports the sale of the Dr. Besser property next to the Christian church, the old Kuster home, to Alvin R. Clark of Logansport, who expects to move into thesame after some repairing is done. Mrs. Harvey Zinzer and Misses Dollle Lewis and Ida Knochel very pleasantly entertained the Just-for-Fun club at the home of Mr. and Mrs. George Wood Tuesday evening. A jolly crowd of young people enjoyed the games, music and delicious refreshments. Florence Isabel Stockment, daugh-

ter of Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Stockment, and Ernest K. Johnston, son of Mr. and Mrs. Will Johnston, both of this place, were quietly married Wednesday afternoon, Sept. 29, at 1 o’clock at the Presbyterian parsonage, Rev. J. G. Rhind officiating. John, W. Taylor and daughter, Miss Stella, attended the funeral at Chalmers Friday of little John Paul Carr, grandson of the well-known John P. Carr, for many years editor of a Benton county paper.- The lad was only 4% years old and was a very bright and attractive youngster. Miss Dorothy Spencer left this Thursday morning for Brooline, N. H„ where she will visit relatives. She will visit Mrs. Walter Steinbruch, formerly Miss Marie Fournier of this place, at Philadelphia, Pa., and also visit in New York city and Boston before her return. She will be away about a month. John W. Stokes of the Marion Soldiers’ home has comp to make his home with his sons here for the present. The Marion home, he tells us, has been dismantled and the soldiers transferred to other national soldiers’ homes *at various points, and the Marlon institution is being remodeled and reconstructed to form a sanitarium for disabled overseas soldiers and sailors. Mrs. Wm. Mullen, formerly Miss Adda Hawn, who has been visiting her relatives here for the past eight weeks, returned to her home at Flagler, Colo., Saturday, accompanied by her sister, Mrs. Geo. Hascall, who will spend a few weeks in Colorado with her sisters, Mrs. Williams and Mrs. Mullen. In the meantime, Big Sip Is getting along right well and, being a, cook, has no trouble with keeping the house going. I A miscellaneous shower was given Friday afternoon, Sept. 24, by Miss I Jeqsle Stockment In honor of .Miss Florence Stockment, a bride-to-be. The afternoon was spent in a pleasant manner, a large number of relatives and friends being present and everyone had a most enjoyable time. The bride-to-be received many beautiful and useful gifts, including cut glass and silverware. Light refreshments wete served by the hostess. Fred Shuster, one of the old settlers in this . vicinity,; died Tuesday afternoon, at the home’ place, 2% miles northwest of Remington, after

an illness of long duration. He had been confined to his bed almost five years at the time of his death. His age as 81 years. His wife died some 12 years ago, since which time he had made his home with his only son, Bert Shuster, on the home place. He leaves besides his son Bert, one daughter, at home, and two married daughters, Mrs. John Farrell and Mrs. Will Austin, the latter of South Whitley, Ind. The funeral was held this Thursday morning at Sacred Heart chufch and burial made in the Catholic cemetery, west of town.

MT. AYR (From the Tribune) C. J. Lamborn of Remington was here Sunday. Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Watt Saturday, Sept. 25, a nine-pound daughter. Mrs. Isabelle Price of Parr is here for a week’s visit with her niece, Mrs. Jas. Whited. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Phares made a trip to Crown Point, Hammond and Kankakee, 111., Sunday. The Hopkins families spent the day Sunday with George Hopkins’s sister, Mrs. Etta Robinson, at Monon. Mrs. Crisler of Rensselaer spent a few days here this week visiting her brother, Geo. Hopkins, and other rel&Ci V6S« Miss Orphia Barton left last week for Indianapolis, where she has a position with the . Star Wholesale Millinery company. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Coovert went to Morocco Monday and will spend this week visiting relatives and friends about there. Billy Shaw and family attended a reunion of the Thorntons at Hebron Sunday. There were some 26 present and Mr. Shaw reports a fine time. - Mr. and Mrs. Lowell Snorf of Chicago and Mr. and Mrs. Rex Warner of Rensselaer were Sunday afternoon callers at the M. W. Bicknell home. G. L. Crane and family of Veedersburg and Mrs. F. A. Crane of Stone Bluff came via auto Saturday after noon and visited un,til Sundav evening with A. J. Hufty and family. Mrs. Pearl Romine Mitchell arrived here from Norwalk, Conn., Friday for a few weeks’ visit with relatives. Mrs. Mitchell’s husband will come in about a week for a visit also. Frank Burns and family motored to Wolcott Sunday to a reunion held at the home of Mrs. Burns’s brother, Wilbur A. Hoshaw. There were 25 young and old there to enjoy the bounteous spread. Plenty of watermelons and muskmelons furnished for the afternoon were filler-ups.

Guy Young and family, accompanied by his uncle, Coit — Young, wore here from Hammond to visit Fred Young’s over Sunday. Ed Young and family of Goodlahd, Mrs. Utterbach, a sister of- Mrs. Fred Young, and Dr. and Mrs. Larrabee of Winamac were visitors also- in the Young homfe Bunday. Patrons are being added to the electric light company so rapidly that it begins to look as if there is going to be some question as to the little generator answering the needs of the town even long enough for the bigger one to arrive. Already the plant has been overloaded a few "nights when all were using the current Henry Brandt’s little boy had the misfortune to get a broken leg Sat urday. His father’s team, hitched to the wagon, was standing in the lot and fastened on beihnd the wagon was a farm roller, which Mr. Brandt was just preparing to return to a neighbor. The little fellojv was climbing on the wagon when the team started up, throwing him to the ground. The roller passed across his leg, breaking the large bone about halfway between the knee and the hip. The break was a very painful one and will take sev eral weeks to heal, but the little fellow is standing the ordeal man fully, doing as well as could be ex oected.