Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 May 1909 — DE MOTTE. [ARTICLE]

DE MOTTE.

Jasper county is dry at present by local option. Mrs. E. Vanduzer and children, of Englewood, spent vacation week here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Terpning. . Hester Halleck, who has been visiting relatives here for several days, returned home to Rensselaer Monday. Jay Spencer went Sunday to fire on the Hack dredge near Virgie. The patrons of the town school, with well filled baskets, surprised the teachers and scholars at noon Friday. The tables fairly groaned with the good things. Everyone had a plenty, but Luther and Jay could have eaten more pie. After the sumptous repast they were entertained with a fine program given by the scholars. Bert Lewellyn closed his school Friday, and departed for his home at Royal Center Monday evening. John Ketner, a nephew of Mrs. Troxell and Mrs. Asa Tyler, and once a resident of DeMotte, died at Marion April 3rd of paralysis of the brain. Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Shook and children were Mrs. Troxell’s guests Sunday. William Wells and Miss Catharine Todd were married in Chicago April 10th. That was the important business he claimed to have in the city about that time, and that he kept secret about two weeks. His bride came Saturday, and they are at present stopping at his parents’ home. Ernest Tonn and Miss Milly Gall were married in the German Lutheran church at Kniman at - two o’clock Tuesday, April 27th. A large reception was given them at the home of the brides’ parents at Pleasant Valley that evening. They have taken up their residence with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Tonn, south of DeMotte. The commissioners made a business trip to our end of the county Monday. Superintendent Story is kept busy putting in temporary bridges along the route of the dredge. The superintendent of the Winamac bridge company was here Monday looking after the steel bridges that will have to be put in over the ditch. It is time to make arrangements for Memorial day.

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A farewell party was given Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Harrington before they left for Dakota. Dan Waymire, of Rensselaer, spent Sunday at DeMotte. Mrs. James Coberly and Mrs. Luther Frame were shopping in Wheatfleld Monday. Ran Halleck has surely broken the record for dredge work, having gone % of a mile in five days, after getting through the railroad. The railroad company are now putting in a switch for the kraut factory. Ward Yeagley and family and Clyde Yeagley started for Mitchell, S. Dak., Monday. Miss Estella Ford, the elocutionist, gave a recital at the M. E. church Saturday evening, which was the best of the kind ever given here. Carson Vanduzen has. quit the section here and gone to South Bend to work for his brother, Ben, foreman on the Jersey line. Bart Sigler has his mother with him again. Airs. Bert Struble spent most of the time at Shelby last week with her mother, who was brought back from the hospital without being operated on. f Lena Lokotzki attended the wedding reception at Mr. Gall’s Tuesday evening. Ed Gilbert and Caleb Cheever have made some kind of a deal, as Ed has the automobile and Caleb seems to be in possession of Ed's team. Nelson Fairchild is working on tbe dredge near Virgie.