Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 18, Number 7, DeMotte, Jasper County, 9 January 1948 — Wheatfield [ARTICLE]

Wheatfield

Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Duggelby and Frank Neier will leave Tuesday for Hot Springs where they will spend the winter. Mrs. Neier will also go if her mother’s condition* will permit. Frank is bothered with arthritis and has not been able to work since September. He has sold his livestock and poultry and will have nothing to worry about while away. Walter Myers is home from the hospital following an operation Ttnd he is now much improved. The Sew-Club will have their next meeting, January 16th and be entertained at 1.0.0. F. Hall by Elsie East. ' The merchants report a steady holiday trade. We have good stores which make Wheatfield a good place to trade. There are three groceries and markets, a hardware store, five garages, five restaurants, two dry goods stores, two implement places, an elevator, a barber shop, lumber and coal yard, beauty shop, drug store, shoe repair ship, American Reed factory. Also three churches and one under construction, and a commissioned high school. The town is incorporated and has a good Board of Trustees, ClerkTreasurer and police officer. There is a town hall with fire-fighting equipment. A bank would be a great convenience. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Grube entertained Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Middelkamp and Mr. and Mrs. William Bodner Christmas day. > Mrs. Frank Krug is much im-

proved after a long period of illness. | Pete Grube is a hospital patient for- medical treatment. *—•— ; Robert Kerns and family recently made a trip to Pensacola, Florida and not California, as previously stated. The Smith and Blue families have received baskets of grape fruit and oranges from Art and Lanta, Cortez, Florida. There were 29 present Sunday , before Christmas at invitation of Mr, and Mrs. John Blue.