Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 October 1920 — NEWS from the COUNTY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWS from the COUNTY

ROSELAWN Some fine weather we are having tor October. T. Kight’s ‘health is somewhat better at this writing. Roy Sheldon and wife are spending their vacation near Pickford, Michigan. Jack Lewark and wife and the two Friedle boys spent Sunday with Ed Harsha and family. Earl Haniford and family spent Sunday with home folks near Gifford. Fred Call and wife attended Chas. David’s dance Saturday night and report a fine' time. Oscar Atwood and wife and Clarence McDonald and family took Sunday dinner with Thomas Parks and family. _ „ Mr. and Mrs. Elvy Call and Mrs. Fred Call and children took supper with the former’s mother, Mrs. Frank Goff, Tuesday. Wayne Call and Cecil Griggs and families of Steger, 111., Elvy and Fred Call and wives and three cousins took Sunday dinner at the river, north of Lake Village. FOUR CORNERS The new house on the Barnard ranch in Kankakee township is nearing completion. Mrs. M. S. Davis Is and has been for some time under the doctor’s care and with but slight improvement. O. M. Turner of near Tefft, it is reported, has purchased a new corn shredder. Allright, Oliver, we bate a job for you. F. W. Fisher and wife, Henry Hunsicker and Frank Neier and wife attended the fuiieral of Mrs. Henry Shoppell Thursday near Greencastle.

I Mrs. Shoppell formerly was a neighbor and close friend. The weather is ideal for putting in small grain, and while the acreage of wheat will fall short that of rye will gain all the loss. Don’t forget that the north and has a real farmer for commissioner in the person of William Fitzgerald. He not only does the bossing but puts his hands to . the plow and things do move. Word was received at Wheatfield Wednesday of the death _of Mrs. Henry Shoppell ot near Greencastle. Mrs. Shoppell was well known in the northern part of Jasper county, where she lived for many years before ipoving to her late home near Greencastle. She leaves,one daughter, Mrq. Bessie Zerrlng, who with husband and son and many other relatives and friends mourn her departure.