Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1920 — NEWS from the COUNTY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

NEWS from the COUNTY

REMINGTON ± (From the Press)

Mrs. Yess Villinski and children went to Brook today for a short visit „ „ . Clyde Shand came down from Chicago Tuesday for a few days’ visit with his mother. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Harris of Mon--t&elldl visited their cousin, George H4sjslll, Tuesday, < Mise Maud Walters of Dayton, Ind., came Tuesday evening for a visit at Ed Butcher’s home. Uncle Isaac Luckey has been very poorly of late - and has been confined to his bed for some time. • - The stucco worlc on Mrs. LamvnV'Wl ' ' ' ’ : , T

bert’s new hpuse was put on last week and now presents a most attractive appearance. Chris Roush has started to construct a building on his lot just this side of the bridge on the range line road north of town. Mrs. John Zimmerman has been sick the past two weeks.* with a nervous breakdown, and is not recovering as rapidly as her friends would like. , - ■ • Mr. and Mrs— H. R. Milner and James Cummons drove to Illinois last Sunday and spent a couple of days with Mr. and Mrs. Pete Engel of west of Peoria. Mrs. Marguerite Bates of Louisville, Ky., came the latter part of the week to be with her father, George Cummons, ’who is in a very bad condition just at present. Marion Coover, who was taken with an attack of stomach trouble the lattejr part of last week and was recovering, suffered a relapse this morning and is quite pick again. *Mell Julian of Mishawaka came Monday to stay until after 'election. Mrs. P. O. Blurik of Detroit, Midh., came Sunday evening to be with her mother, Mrs. * Tom Harris, who is very poorly at present 'Mrs. B. F. Tedford and Mrs. W. D. Reed of Idaville came Wednesday to visit their daughter and sister, respectively, Mrs. Frank Peck. The latter returned home the sarnie day,

but the former remained for the week. Uncle John Hart, returned to Remington Tuesday morning after spending a couple of months in Michigan. He states that worlds of peaches are going to waste up there for lack of transportation facilities. Mrs. O. C. McClure and daughter of Hammond 1 came Tuesday and spent a couple of days with her father, Erastus Peaccok, who has been very sick of late, and her sister, Mrs. H. J. Bartoo. The old Jordan blacksmith shop has been wrecked the past week and hauled away. The place where it stood looks real vacant. How about that community building we want to have occupy that space? Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Hollenback and son, who have beep visiting the latter’s mother here for 10 days, and also visiting friends at Wabash, started this Thursday morning ' for their home at Cottonwood Falls, Kas. They are driving through. The remains of the infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Hugo Reider, who died in Chicago, were brought to Remington Friday overland from Rensselaer. The funeral was held at the Methodist church at 2:30 p. m. the same day. Mrs. Reider was formerly Miss Frieda Banes. Mrs. H. R. Hartman and Mrs. Fred Hicks went to Newcastle to attend the synodical meeting of the Presbyterian church, held there this week from Tuesday until Thursday. From there Mrs. Hartman will visit her daughter, Mrs. W. C. Woodward, and family at Richmond for a few days, and Mrs. Hicks will visit her daughter, Miss Doris, who is attending Worcester college at Worcester,

O. The diphtheria cases are all so far as we know getting along nicely. One new case is reported this week in the family of Claude Lambert, his little son, and one the latter part of last week at Charleß Lucterhand’s. In the Lucterhand family only one child, Viola, has had the disease, and she is recovering nicely. The rest of the children were given anti toxin and it is thought will escape the disease. Lightning struck the barn on the Will Rodehafer farm, occupied by King Balcom, Monday about 1 o’clock and the structure was burned with most of its contents. When struck there were seven * good horses in the barn, but by quick work they were all driven out. Some 25 or 30 tons of good hay and a few bushels of old corii went up in "Smoke with the building. Also some harness and such other stuff as usually accumulates around a barn. The building, though an old one, was well preserved and made of good lumber. It was erected by Rodehafer in 1882, 32 years ago. A very, small amount of insurance was carried on the barn and some on its contents. Three young fellows on motorcycles hit town the other day. There was nothing suspicious about them until it was learned that they had offered to sell one of their machines for $125 that they had previously asked $250 for. Then a sort of an investigation was held, but they told a pretty straight story and were allowed to go on. Later Marshal Geier got word from the sheriff of, Tippecanoe county to the effect that! two of the men had been arrested at Lafayette with stolen motorcycles and that the third one of the party was supposed to be some place near Remington with a broken down machine. Mr. Geier searched the roads hereabouts pretty thoroughly, but failed to locate the man in question. They came here from Chicago at which place the machines had been stolen.

FRANCESVILLE (From the Tribune) . Born, to Mr. Mrs. Donald Hi!|f Saturday, a daughter. J Fred Elston and sister, Mb f| Myrtle;* motored to Lafayette Satu^l day. . . .J i| The Francesville high school bi w ketball team was defeated at Mtll daryville last Friday evening. Th rj score was 26 to 9. . 8 Mrs. Hoyt Pierce of Ann Arbor Mich., and Mrs. Charles Rice o Gary spent Monday and Tuesday vis t iting relatives here. 1 Miss Helen Shirtz was the guest 1 of Miss Elizabeth White in Ham | mond Sunday. Monday they spent the day in Chicago. Miss Thelma Beesley went to North Manchester last Saturday where she was the over-Sunday guest of Miss Vivian Judy. Mr. and Mrs. Will Kahler and other relatives motored to Cissna Park Sunday, where they spent a few days with relatives. Mrs. Ersa Low of southeastern Ohio is here the guest of Mr. and Mrs. T. M. She was formerly Miss Ersa Whitaker. Mr. and Mrs. J. F; Beesley and sons, Maurice and Lewis, were the week-end guests of Alva Leckliter and family near Mulberry. Howard Nyart and Garrett Eppley of the Francesville school were the guests of friends and relatives at North Manchester and Wabash last Sunday and Monday. MEDARYVILLE ) (From the Journal) Cora Mahoney and mother and Arthur Moore are visiting at Bluffton. Jones Coburn and wife came down from South Bend lapt Saturday for a short visit. * Mrs. John Hansell went* to Kentucky Wednesday for a visit with her relatives. Mr. and Mrs. William Lawrence are in Demotte for Thursday and Friday of this week. Alfred Whitaker returned to bis home at Niles, Mich., after a week here with his daughter, Mrs. Maude Kessenger. Mrs. Laverne Masek is the mother of a daughter, Bernice Gene, born Sunday, Oct. 17, at the Home hospital, Lafayette. * Mr. and Mrs. GeoTge Paulsen of North Judson and Mr. and Mrs. Ora Sanders and babe motored to Lafayette Sunday and spent the day. « Born, to Chas. Hall and wife, a son, on Wednesday of this week; to. Gilbert Barker and wife, a 10-pound b6y, Monday, named Gilbert J., Jr. Prof. John W. Coons of Logans-

port has been secured to direct the instruction of the American Legion band. Prof. Coons also gives private instruction to music students of the town. Arthur Rowe, wife and boys were here from Hammond the iirst of the week visiting and friends. They went from here to Wihamac Wednesday to visit Mrs. Rowe’s people. The Medaryville band furnished music for the street speaking last night and as it w;as their first appearance in public they made a fine showing and many complimentary remarks were heard. S. A. George and Mrs. Katherine McNicol, father and sister of Mrs. C. E. Linton, both of Leesburg, 0., have been visiting with the Linton family the past week, returning to their home Tuesday. J. R. Linton’s are moving this week into the J. Jones property until their new bungalow next door can be completed. The sale of the Jones property to Theodore Selmer, | as reported last week, has not materialized. Several carloads of North Judson Eastern Stars came over last Monday evening and were guests of the local chapter. Degree work was | given to Merrill and Bernard Guild, after which a buffet lunch was served and a social hour enjoyed. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Malcolm, Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Bremer and Mr. and Mrs. L. L. White motored to Mantoau, Ind., last week to visit the White City Egg farm. Mr. Manwaring, the proprietor, has 10,000 pullets and they say it IS a sight to see them.

BROOK (From the Reporter) Miss Ora Brady of Mishawaka I was here visiting friends and relatives. Roy Maple of Kansas has beep visiting_relaMves here for the" past 10 days. Sam Souders and wife of Lafayette spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McMillen. Mr. and Mrs. Milligan and daughters spent the week-end in Tangier, visiting relatives. Mrs. Cummons of Rockfoifl, 111., is spending the week with her sister, Mrs. C. T. Denham. Mrs. Harry Bruner left Wednesday for Aurora, 111., where she will visit her sister for a few days. Charles Russell was in Indianapolis this week attending the annual meeting of the trustees’ association of Indiana. Miss Margie Long of • Medaryville returned to her home the first of the week after a few days’ visit with her sister, Mrs. W. D. Per re. Ross Merchant and wife of Lockport, N. Y„ were here this week visiting their uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. McMillen, and other relatives. Uncle Ike Sell left the first of the week for Hanover, Pa., where he will visit relatives and then make a tour of the east, coming home in time to vote. Wm. Sunderland went to Chicago and brought his wife home from the hospital Sunday. Mrs. Sunderland is making decided improvement since her operation. Mrs. Wm. Burford, mother of L. C. Lyons, and Mrs. James Teague, both of Marshall, Ind., were guests i

at the Lyons home from Saturday until Monday. Herman Plautz and his daughter, Mrs. Jacob Halderman, and husband and daughter and John Hughes of Goodland visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. L. James. Dr. Craig of Purdue was here last week trying to determine the peculiar hog disease that has developed here in several places, but was unable to determine What the nature of it was. ' Monday the Clark & Son bakery was sold to James Little, who will soon take possession. The deal has be‘en pending for some time and was only consumated Monday. Mr. Little will sell his. truck and team and quit the draying business as Boon as he can make arrangements to do so. Mr. Clark has not yet decided as to what he will do, but wo. suspect that he will again enter the I plumbing game, as he followed that before engaging in the baking business. . I

WOLCOTT (From the Enterprise) Mrs. Isaac Parker went to Remington Thursday to visit her son, • Fred Parker, and family. I Mrs. Mattie Dyer and daughter Junlta went to Rensselaer Thursday to visit her sister and brother. Miss Mary Abbott of Rensselaer was the guest from Friday until Monday of Miss Bertha Miller. Mr. and Mrs. Perman Mattox and son Frank are spending this week at Plymouth, guests of Mr. Mattox’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Mattox. Mrs. Martha E. McCroy and her daughter, Mrs. E. L. Aiken, of Raleigh, Ind., are visiting Mrs. Hughes. Mrs. Effie Pence and granddaughter, Geneve Agnes, of Bunker Hill, came Wednesday evening ta visit her sister, Mrs. R. P. Miller. Mrs. C. K. Fields and son, Charles Kay, Jr., went to Wabash Thursday to visit friends. From there she will go to Marion to visit friends. Mrs. D. J. Pettit, who has been spending several monthß in Kansas since the death of her daughter, Mrs. Jacobs, returned home last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Spencer and son Howard of Monon and C. Taylor and family of near Monon spent Sunday with Perfect Spencer and family. Mrs. Emma Engart of Huntington stopped off here Thursday and Bpenty the day with Mrs. Herman going to Remington that evening to visit with friends. Mrs. D. A. Wagner, Mrs. W. H. Gerberich and Mrs. James B. Owens went to Monon Thursday to attend a two days’ meeting of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary society. Mrs. Robert Henderson, who has been spending a week with her son, George O. Henderson, and wife, south of Wolcott, returned to her home in Goodland Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. George F. Baker autoed to Chicago Saturday and ’Visited their son Homer, returning home Monday evening. While on this trip they visited Camp Sheridan. Mrs. Stewart Hughes and her sister, Mrs. Martha McCroy, and daughter, Mrs. E. L. Aiken, of Raleigh, who are visiting her, spent Monday with Mr. and Mrs. Cecil Hughes of | Logansport. — Mrs. Stanton Spencer and daughter Inez Louise went to Columbus,

0., Monday to visit friends. They will also visit relatives and frienda .in Portsmouth, Wavbrly and other points before their return. Richard Goss this week shipped his household goods to Nokomis, 111., and Tuesday morning, accompanied by his daughters, Ethel and Eleanor, left for that place. Mr. Goss has* steady employment there. Miss Ethel Doney of Rantoul, 111., who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Elizabeth Daggy. and other relatives, returned home Tuesday. She was accompanied by Mrs. Daggy, who will visit relatives there for a time. I Mr. and Mrs! A,. H. Dunn and daughter Catherine of Wolcott and Mr. and Mrs. George Worden ot Remington autoed to Jollht in the* | Dunn auto Sunday and visited rolai tives, returning home Monday evening. Herbert Carr of Oklahoma City; spent from Thursday to Saturday % with his cousin, Mrs. Lavina Irions. I This was the first meeting of tho cousins in 44 years. Mr. Carr was l on his way to Logansport to visit his brother, Wm. Carr, and family. Dr. Bishopp of Los Angeles, Calif... a son-in-law of Dr. S. M. Barnes r Frank Bishopp of Sheldon, 111., and James Smith of El Paso, 111., wer* here Wednesday. While here th» gentlemen, in company with Dr.. Barnes’B agent, W. H. Gereberich. went over the doctor’s farms near here. v