Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1920 — MT. AYR [ARTICLE]

MT. AYR

(From the Tribune) Charles Parks of Surrey was a business visitor here Saturday. • A. J. Hufty was called to Chicago so appear as a witness in the J. C. Roe case Monday. Dr. Martin hHpss the report that Will Johnson of Dongvan, 111., lost a fine fresh pow Monday. Mrs. George Sigler went to Chicago this week where she will remain with her daughters through the winter. Dave Book and family were over Ponsler.

Mrs Lloyd Hopkins has as her guests her mother, Mrs. Spangler, and T Mrs. Lewella Jones both of Rensselaer. ’ A fine boy arrived at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Manno Miller Thursday, November 18 This is their second child, both being boys. Jack floyea and Frank Alter and their wives were over from Rensselaer Sunday to call on Uncle John Barker who continues Ki frail health. Joe Witcher and family have recovered from the attack of what the doctor termed dyphtherla. and there is very little .sickness throughout the neighborhood. \ Uncle Daniel Helmuth received word of the death of a nephew, Emanuel Helmuth, on Friday. The deceased resided at Canton. *O., and was the son of a brother. Kinder Kennedy and family have moved from Chicago to Brook and will live with the English family until spring, when they expect to mdve into a house by themselves. Jay and Nell Makeever spent Sunday with Mary Jane Phillips at Martinton, 111., where she is staying with an uncle. They report her* as convalescing nicely from her recent Illness. Uncle Jake Stutzman left last week for his new home at Whitq Pigeon, Mich. Henry Yoder has moved into the Stutzman property, while John Miller took Henry’s place with Oscar, Stucker. John Tunis moved to the l Frank Elijah farm vacated by Mr. i Miller. John Carr arrived here from Ridge-1 land, Miss., this week and will make his home here tor the coming year. I Mr. Carr comes from the cotton belt of the south and says that last year he got sixty cents for his crop of cotton, while this year sixteen cents was the best price he was able to secure. Our high school basketball team was again victorious at Goodland last Friday night. This is the second game that we have been victorious in over Goodland and our boys begin to feel that they are real basketball players. We were unable to be present, but reports have it that it was a very good game, the score being 12 to 10. The grades game, Svhich was a curtain-raiser for the big game, resulted In a victory for the Goodlanders by a score of 36 to 2. , J. C. Roe, manager of the Farmers' Grain company here, had an experience about four years ago while residing at Tuscola, 111., which rendered him slightly a cripple for all the balance of his life. It happened when he was returning from Chi cago to his home In Tuscola on the Chicago and Eastern Illinois railroad. When near home the conductor aroused him saying that they were at their destination. Mr. Roe walked off the train and down an embankment of some twenty feet, sustaining an injury to one of his limbs which causes him to walk with a limp continually. He brought suit against the railroad company at the time, but has never been able to get a final hearing with them until now. The case was set for hearing Monday of this week, but we were unable to learn the outcome in time fbr this issue.