Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1920 — NEWS from the COUNTY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWS from the COUNTY

FRANCESVILLE (From the Tribune) Miss Lillian Leis is in Indianap Olis attending the grand chapter meeting of the Royal Neighbors. Ercell Ent of Camp Grant, 111., spent several days here the guest of his parents, William Ent and wife. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Pike went to Hoopeston, 111., Saturday to attend the funeral of Miss Dorothy Congram. Darcey Wilson and children of Winamac spent Sunday ‘with Mrs. Clara Wilson and Mrs. Mary Comstock. Miss Lucy Ames of Danville, 111., spent Sunday here visiting her mother. Mrs. Emma Ames, and sister, Miss Clara. Otis Culp of Convoy, 0., was here over Sunday the guest of relatives. His section of Ohio has produced excellent crops this year, he says. E. L. Detamore is spending a few days at Crookston, Minn., where he owns a section of real estate, ard is looking after some improvements. James Conklin of Washington, Kas., is here for an extended visit with friendsandwith W. R. Jones, with whom he made his home for mor® than 30 years. Mr. and Mrs. Lem Thompson of Havre, Mont., and Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Brown of Logansport were week-end guests of Mr. and Mrs. Robert Koster of ' Mr. and Mrs. Rudolph Tetzloff haye gone to Hammond, where be has taken employment in the car shops. He may return here next spring and go on a farm. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Martin of Columbus, 0., are spending a week with Mr. and Mrs. Robert Koster of

Beaver, having just returned from a western trip through Mexico, California. ard Arizona. John Reprogle of Michigan City has been here this week the guest of his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John Coey. John has been spending the summer in the west, mostly in Seattle, where he was the guest of his uncle, Will Coey. Ray Daseke of Hastings, Neb., is here this week for a visit with the home folks. He has been gone from here about 12 years and of,course there have been so many changes during that time that many of the old friends are missing. Rev. E. W. Ritcl}, pastor of the Christian church, has resigned his place here to take the pastorate of a church in Ohio. The resignation was announced during th® morning service last Sunday. The church board has not yet chosen his successor. Death came to Noah Bair very suddenly last Friday morning at his home in Jefferson township. The cause ' of his death was heart failure, the result of declining health of many months from goiter. He had gone out to the barn to get a team ready for field work and expired suddenly. Mr. Bair was about 40 years of age and leaves a family. He was well known on this side of the’ county, especially in town here, where he was employed many years ago. ■ The funeral was held at the Pleasant Ridge church in Jefferson Sunday afternoon. Burial was made in the cemetery near tjiere. " , Mrs. Jacob I* Malcb.ow died at their home in White Post township last Monday morning. The cause of her ddath was heart failure. While she had not been in good health for some time, her passing away so suddenly was a shock to relatives and friends. Members of the family say that her health started to decline after the announcement of the death of their son Herman, who was killed in France during the war. Mrs. Malchow was 51 years of age. She was born in Brookston, this state. She was the daughter of Joachim Wendt of this place, and is survived by the husband and eight children. The funeral was held at the White Post Evangelical church yesterday afternoon. Rev. Weiss officiating. Burial was made in the Bowman cemetery.

VIRGIE “ (Too late for Saturday’s Issue) Hazel Potts is on the sick list. Denver Potts visited home folks over Sunday. * Dora Florence is visiting her sister at Remington. Lonnie Wiseman visited his sister, Mrs. O. G. Baker, Sunday. Bethel Aylesworth is undergoing a severe case of the mumps. Earl Wiseman went to Chicago Saturday to see his best girl. Walter McMahan is visiting at Walter Harrington’s this week. Mrs. L. R. Zellers is visiting her

sister, Mrs. 'Firman Pettet, of nearhere. Mrs. t Ansel Potts and Mrs. Casto visited the latter’s mother at Aix Monday. % Fred Thews went to lowa last week where he will be employed on a dredge. B. F. Zellers and family were down from Hammond Sunday visiting the John Zellers family. It is rumored that John Reed and family of Rensselaer are going to move back to Virgie. The pickle factory is now closed because the frost last Sunday night killed all the pickle vines. The Ice cream social was a success and was attended by a very large crowd of young people. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Todd and daughter Helen visited with the Thomas Florence family over Sunday. One of our oldest citizens. Mart Reed, is going to have a sale and move to Hobart next month, where he expects to be employed in the steel mills near that place. Harold Zellers and Robert Cover missed the “Jerkem and Yankem” special Monday night and had to “hoof” it home most of the way. Pretty slow bird that can’t catch that snail, say we.

MOROCCO (From the Courier) A son was born Saturday, Oct. 2, to Mr. and Mrs. Jack Manchester. T. P. Clarkson, left Monday for a visit at Indianapolis and North Vernon. Mr. and Mrs. P. D. Wells drove to Frankfort on business the first of the week. ‘ Miss Dorothy Erzinger went to Pine Village Monday to spend a few days with friends. Mrs. Horace Irvin went to Goodland Wednesday to visit her daughter, Mrs. Fred Don. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Poole went to North Vernon Wednesday to spend a couple of weeks with relatives. Mrs. L. G. Gordinier of Momence came Tuesday to visit a few days with her niece, Mrs. John Hunter. Mrs. Jira Skinner left Tuesday for her home at Orlando, Fla., after an extended visit with relatives here. Mrs. Mollie Clark has sold her property at Thayer and expects to return to Morocco within the next week. Mrs. Bert Brunton and child of Alberta, Can., came Monday for a visit with Mr. Mrs. Nancy Brunton. The editor and family moved Wedr nesday into P. D. Wells’s recently remodeled tenant house, just west of J. J. Clark’s. Mrs. Wm. Jones of Jackson, Tenn., left for her home Saturday after a visit here with Mrs. Blanch Shuey and other relatives. James, L. Johnson left Monday for Knox, near which place he has rented a 400-acre farm and where he and his family expect to reside. Miss Evangeline Smith, who is

teaching at Darlington, Ind., spent the week-end at home, returning to her school Sunday evening. Miss Elnora Baird left Monday for Ft. Wayne where she will take up a business course. She was accompanied by her father, Frank Baird. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Hagen drove |to Benton Harbor, Mich., Saturday and returned Monday. Mrs. Ed Clark and daughter accompanied them home. Miss Fern Major, who has been । here for several days, left Wednes- ' day for her home at Wynona, Okla. She was accompanied by her brother, I Melvin Martin. 1 Mrs. M. U. Huff, who had been here visiting her daughters, Mrs. -E. [C. Christenson, Mrs. P. J. Fox and ' Miss Faye Huff, left Saturday for her home at Salem. I Mrs. G. I. Richmire of Charleston. W. V., and Mr. and Mrs. R. R. Richmire of St. Louis, Mo., departed I for their homes Monday after a visit here with Mr. and Mrs. Fred Richmire. *= Ben Jessen went to Niles, Mich., Monday to receive further treatment l of his eyes from a specialist. Mr. I Jessen expects to leave soon for California, where he has some interests, and will probably spend the . winter there. | Mr. and Mrs. John Hunter returned home Friday with their little I daughter Enid Ellen, whom they had ' taken to Chicago for treatment- by । a specialist. There seems to be i nothing that canj be done for the patient and there is little or no hope for her recovery. Mrs. Ruth Gorman, who had been ' here visiting her parents, Mr. and 1 Mrs. C. M. Martin, returned to her I home at Laporte Wednesday. She | was accompanied by Mrs. Martin, who will visit at Laporte and also at South Bend with her .other daughters, Mrs. , Opal Higer and Miss i Georgia Martin. I Dr. M. L. Humston of Goodland

visited here . from Thursday until Monday with his cousins, Dr. "C. E. Triplett and Mrs. Will Kessler. Dr. Humston lived in Morocco for about 23 years, coming here in 1862, and moving to Goodland in 1885. For 16 years he was associated with the late Dr. Triplett in the practice of medicine, and continued in the same profession after going to Goodland. Rev. A. L. Brandenburg, who has been pastor of the M. E. church here for the past two years, was assigned to the River Park church at South Bend at the annual conference at Lebanon, which adjourned Monday.. Rev. W. L. Hargrave, who has been pastor at Plainfield, was assigned to the Morocco church, and expects to be here next Sunday. He will preach at Morocco Sunday morning and evening and at Russell Chapel at 2:30 Sunday afternoon. Miss Georgia Smith, daughter of Rev. and Mrs. George T. Smith, and Mr. Harold O. Martin were united in marriage at 10:30 a. m. last Frida/ at the Christian church at Paxton, 111., the bride’s father performing the ceremony. Those present beside the Immediate families were Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Stephens and Rev. and Mrs. Wischer. Following the ceremony the party returned to Morocco and that evening the bridal couple left for Chicago for a few days’ honeymoon. They returned here Monday and have gone to housekeeping in C. R. Williamson’s residence.

GOODLAND (From the Herald) On Sunday, Sept. 26, Grandma Kitt celebrated her 96th birthday anniversary. Owen French visited this week with his brother Leonard at Chatsworth, 111. Mrs. Wm. Thomas of Chicago is here the guest of her mother, Mrs. Marion James. Owen French has been laid up with blood poisoning in his hand for the past week or more. Mrs. T. J. Gray has returned to her home in Geneva, N. Y. Mrs. Hugh Murray returned home with her for a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Brewister Hornbeck of Elgin, IIL, visited here this week with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Burgess. Warren 1 Unger and family and A. J. Bullis and family and Miss Hanley of York, Neb., were visitors at the Chapin home last Friday. John —Poulson, —who has —suffered some time with ear trouble, was taken to the St. Vincent’s hospital in Indianapolis for treatment. At this time Mr. Griggs is showing improvement and if he continues as in the past few days there are hopes being entertained for his recovery. Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Colburn of Charlotte, Mich., visited with Goodland friends this week. They expect to go to Monrovia, Calif., for the winter. Joseph Stewart, who has made his home in Lafayette for the past two

years, has returned to Goodland and will make his home with his sister, Mrs. Chas. Griffin. N. V. McClellan, Max Harner, Hugh C. Constable, C. M. Melln, Harvey Keen and Garret Mead attended grand lodge of Knights of Pythias the first of the-week. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Ramsay left Wednesday morning for Hammond where they will make arrangements for a house, after which they will move their household goods there. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Cristy of Howard, Kas., who visited here three weeks with the former’s brother Andrew and family, left Tuesday morning for Bourbon and Ft. Wayne for a visit with relatives. Dr. E. J. Martin of Watseka, 111., is erecting a fine 24x28 two : story brick and stucco house on his farm west of Goodland. John Hanson resides on the place and when the house is completed will have a home. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Welshaar visited last week with the former’s sister, Mrs. Louis Yochem, and husband In Indianapolis. The Yochems returned home with them the latter part of the week and spent Sunday here. The Yochems are now located in their new home in Indianapolis.