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TERRE HAUTE
Aug. 29.-First Line Favorites: Mr. Elmer Aldrich, Terre Haute, is enrolled in our Journal family for three months, by order of Mrs. Aldrich, who likes to read the Home Town news while caring for baby Letha and Herbert, her lively threeyear old. Mr. Aldrich is employed on the Elston and the family resides in Mrs. Ballard's house, here in town. Thank you. Mrs. M. F. LeFevre dates her Jour nal to February, 1931, address 1028 Ave D., Ft. Madison, Ia. Mrs. LeFevre writes: "Aug. 26.I had expected to get to Terre Haute to see my old friends before this. I was expecting my granddaughter. Pauline Curtis, near LaHarpe, and she was going to take me to Terre Haute, but I was taken quite sick and had to come home, and am not well yet. My dinner today is the first meal I have been able to relish. We have the same good girl that was with us during dear May's illness. I cannot write much this time. With love. Yours ever-M. F. LeFevre." Thank you for the money and especially for the kind letter, dear friend. We had not heard of your recent illness until your letter came. Sincerely hope you are feeling better this morning and can come to see us some glad day. Mrs. Lottie Nettie Elston came home from the Macomb hospital Wednesday and her brother-in-law, Mr. James Berkshire, reported yesterday morning that she stood the 30mile ride to her home very well and seemed to be getting along very well. She was very sick for several days after the removal of the goitre on Aug. 15 and it was hardly expected that she would be able to come home in less than two weeks. Her many friends hope her improvement will be rapid and permanent. Goiter seems to be getting common in this section. Our dictionary gives the spelling "goiter" and describes it as an enlargement of the glands in the neck, a disease prominent in mountainous regions. We have no mountains here, but as modern medicine says goiter is caused by a lack of iodine in the system that may fit the case in this section. Joe Edmunds was greeted on the street yesterday. He said he was better for his treatment at the Hot Springs. He and his mother, Mrs. Mary Edmunds, came home Saturday evening. We greeted Milton Kern in the store yesterday. He looks well and says he gets along all right when he doesn't work too hard. He just has to be a little bit lazy, and that is not natural for Milton. He said his sister Margaret had to stay in bed all the time yet. She has not had any violent attacks of hemorrhage lately and it is hoped that the rest and special diet will cure her lung trouble in the course of time. We certainly do hope that the careful home supervision will have its reward in the restored health of this splendid young woman of the Kern farmstead. Margaret was always so active and full of interest in home, and church affairs that it is hard for her just to wait and rest, but in this quiet line lies duty now and hope for years of future usefulness.- just these quiet times have their own fine lessons in life's perfect school. Mrs. Katie Burkhart just called and brought us a can of pickled beets and read Mrs. LeFevre's letter. She has her big patch of potatoes all dug. It has been hard digging, but the potatoes come out fine and clean. Oh, for a rain, a great big wet rain is the common refrain. Pastures are so dry and the ground so hard and it is time that fall plowing and the sowing of wheat were going on. If we must wait just work while we wait and the time will not seem so long. It is fine for a weed-killing campaign and the need for this is with us yet. It's a fine season for the wild hemp and it is up as high as the roof of the house in some places. Now if this "county soil testing school" will just give us a leader on how to turn that waste into usefulness we will be forging ahead. The county road meeting held here Monday morning was well attended. We counted 13 cars up town and 13 at the town hall-some fine ones too-and there were 27 men in the town hall when we counted them and they were fine ones too. The soil testing school in the afternoon was an interesting demonstration and the attendance was reported good. The Public has been picnic-minded this week. The big one of the Farm Bureau in Monmouth park today will have a crowd and the big Farmer's picnic in Blandinsville yesterday and today always has a crowd. Terre Haute's big day will be the Fish Fry, Thursday, Sept. 11th. The Aid Society sets the date, but it is an annual community affair and we expect our friends, old and new, to meet us there. Prof. Sowers, principal of our high school, is moving in the Bowen house and our H. S. swings out Monday. Prof. Sowers has recently married a wife to share his labors and divide his cares. We'll more about that later. Prof. and Mrs. Wheelock and Joe and Carlene were guests of Miss Juanita Myers from Saturday afternoon until Monday evening. Mrs. Wheelock has contracted to teach in the school at Lima, Ill., with her husband. A nice new house in Lima will be ready for them to move into in October. Until then, they will remain in Payson and drive to their school. Mr. Darrell Thomas and his wife Mrs. Pearle Thomas and three nice little children, Pauline Louise, Dar rell Jr., and Lois Irene, are nicely located here in the cottage on the Last street, where Prof. Wheelock's resided last year. Mr. Thomas is P laboring man and hopes to get a good job of corn husking here. Pauline is thrilled with the thought of starting to school Monday morning and we were glad to assure her that she would just love her first teacher, Mrs. Susie Morgan. We called at Mr. William VanWinkles yesterday forenoon and we believe his wife, Mrs. Gladys VanWinkle, promised us she would vote at our next election. Their daughter Mildred. Hester is anxious for Monday to come so she can start to school. It will be her first day. I suspect her sisters Bernice and Heler will wish they could go too: Bernice Lucile and Helen Blanche will have to wait a few years yet, but during that time they will be learning from the experience of Mildred Hester and we hope school days will be happy days for the whole family. Those who drive or ride,horses to school will need good hitch reins and there are some first class, full length full width ones that just came in yes. terday at Sindle's. Mr. and Mrs. Marion Lovitt and Mr. and Mrs. V. M. Lovitt and Mr. and Mrs. Ray Manifold and their school teacher daughters, Lois and Helen, spent Sunday in Wyanet with Dr. and Mrs. G. C. Nelson. They left here at 6 got up at three and milked ten cows before they started. They arrived at 9 a. m., and with loads of good things to eat they went to the Country Club to spend the day. Verona Lovitt, who had been visiting Dr. and Mrs. Nelson, came home with her parents. Coach Riley and wife and Misses Opal Kimble and Frances Bryar spent Sunday in Vermont, III, and Frances visited at the Hubbs home until vesterday. Opal's school at the Teachers' College closed and she drove to Vermont, Wednesday evening and brought Frances and Mrs. Hubbs and Paul home with her yesterday. AN went to the pienic at Monmouth today. Opal has put in a busy week and must settle down for her first experience in teaching school next week. She teaches five miles east and will board at home with her mother Mrs. Jacques of Burlington is spending the week with her daughter Mrs. Susie Morgan. We called on Mrs. Morgan Tuesday forenoon and had a sweet time. As we were admiring the pretty new house furnishings in this beginners" home, Mrs. Josie Smith came in from her part of the house with a plate of warm fudge. Wasn't that sweet of her? Mr. and Mrs. Chandler and Mr. and Mrs. Harold Morgan and Mrs. Ferdie Neighbors, of Ft. Collins, Colorado, arrived here Tuesday in Chandler's big seven-passenger car. Mrs. Neighbors is with her relatives in Burlington. Mr. and Mrs. Chandler are with his aunt, Mrs. Viola Moore, and Harold Morgan and Lorene are with their home folks, the Mrs. Lu Morgan and S. R. Finch families. Lorene had been in Ft. Collins two years and Harold went there at Christmas time of the same year and they were married and went to house keeping on a farm at Windsor, Colo., 12 miles from Ft. Collins. We have not seen any of them yet, but understand they expect to be here about two weeks, and that will seem very short to their home folks. J. D. and Earnest Morgan threshed for Arthur Bryan Wednesday forenoon. B. H. Edmunds. our one-time auctioneer, moved to Missouri a few years ago, but has moved back to his farm near Disco He was here for the county road meeting Monday. Our semi-weekly from Rolla Stokes Quincy, was written vesterday and says, "Anna's rheumatism is hurting her most all of the time, but she seems a little easier today. She is able to do part of our house work and is getting dinner while I write." Full of nain, yet fired with ambition. this niece, of ours bravely carries on under conditions that would confine some women to bed all the time. We are all full of sympathy, yet proud of the achievement of this courage ous woman and yet be and pray that health to her some bright der and-when it does earth will seem like heaven to her husband Rolla. Miss Irene Marsden is not very well this week and she is in LaHarpe hospital for a few day's eatment. Congratulations, happy returns to Clarence Gittings. He will be 18 on Aug. 31st. Our oldest resident, Mr. Louis Jenkins, is not SO well as usual. He has not been in the harness shop for about ten days and we miss him. Our Editor Brooking in the Journal of Aug. 21st congratulates Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Campbell, who attained their 57th wedding anniversary Thursday, Aug. 14, 1930, and the Editor claims the marathon of matrimonial blessedness for this fine couple of Oquawka and surmises that no other couple in Henderson county have a record of so many years of wedded life. With all due reverence and admiration for the record of achievement credited to Mr. and Mrs. Campbell we must ask them to step aside and congratulate our Terre Haute entry for first place. Louis Benjamine Jenkins and Josephine Hubbard Jenkins, both residents of Henderson county, were married in Oquawka, November 24, 1865, and have resided in Henderson county ever since that great event. They are the parents of ten daughters, all living except the youngest. It died in infancy. Next to this baby were the twins, Edith-now Mrs. McCoy Ethel. The only deaths in their family in all these years are the baby, just mentioned, two sons-in-law and one grandchild. and we believe one or possibly two great-grandchildren. We are not positive as to the last statement. But the date of the marriege, get it straight, Mr. Editor, was Nov. 24, 1865. If all of the people who have been entertained in the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins should come in at once, the town would not hold them. Only the angels have a complete record of the useful lives, and only eternity can show the fruits of the good seen that they. have
Editor's note: We hasten to congratulate you, Mr. and Mrs. Jenkins, in the hope that you may be spared to share many, many more years of wedded life. And we thank our correspondent for this credit which is truly and justly due these two fine people. Mrs. Sophia Kimble and Mr. and Mrs. Priest Bradley attended the Home Coming at Maple Grove Thursday. Amid all the joys of the occa. sion they realized that very few of their playmates of youthful days were there. Mrs. Bradley, as Co. visitor of the S. Schools, was here Sunday morning and she and Mr. Bradley took Mrs. Kimble home with them for dinner. Misses Viola Moore and Mildred Miller went home with Raymond Hubbs Saturday evening and stayed until Sunday evening. Raymond has been in Vermont with his parents several times and has inquired about the H. S. there but has decided he will take his last year with his class in our H. S., and stay with Anna and Maurice: Ingram and work for his board. As they keep from seven to 13 cows to be tapped twice every 24 hours the year round there is plenty to do. "I must not sit down, I am in я hurry" was Mrs. Ada Ingram's reply to the chair offered her in the post office. "Why the rush?" "I am making saccarhine pickles." "What are they?" "Oh just little cucumbers made into sweet pickles and you sweeten the vinegar with saccarhine and it takes just a little just as good as sugar and cheaper." "Is it as healthy for the ordinary diet?" "Saccarhine is recommended for diabetics but is it as reliable as sugar for general use?" Asy your doctor. "Look in your Journal. It gives the date of that picnic," we were reminded the other day. It did. The Hubbs and Owsley and Collins families picniced in Crapo Park, Sunday. Milton Kern was a harness shop customer Monday. He is hauling corn to Drain's today. It has rained enough today to lay the dust and is sprinkling yet at this hour, 2:30 D m.
Our grade school directors, Peasley, Ingram and Sea, cleaned the well and put in new cement platform, and their wives cleaned the school house. Mrs. Edith Miller and daughter Viola were calling on friends here to get recruits for their tour to the Monmouth pottery Tuesday, but everybody seemed to be dated elsewhere for that day. The Bryan clan were entertained at the C. C. Painter farm Sunday. County Supt. Apt and family came from Oquawka for the jubilee and took Mrs. Apt's aunt, Mrs. Luelle Genung, home with them for a three. day visit. Mr. Marion Lovitt and Mr. Sindle made a business trip to LaHarpe Friday afternoon and left this scribble smith in charge of the harness shop one hour. Maurice Ingram was 'our only customer, but we always enjoy Maurice. Carman lost a ball game here Sat. urday. Mrs. Orpha Hart and sons Jesse and Chaunee" went to Washington, Ia., Saturday to visit her aunt, Mrs. Wes Finch. Loy Murphy of Hoppers Mill was here at 8:30 a. m., Monday, selling watermelons. He is going to move to Iowa. If you are house-hunting, see Mrs. Kimble's Terre Haute property. From the LaHarpe Quill of Aug. 26, 1930: "Bank Merger Plans Approved" "At Carthage, Monday, Judge Riley Stevens, of our circuit court, approved and confirmed the proposed merger of the affairs of the defunct LaHarpe State Bank with the First National Bank of LaHarpe. A national Bank Examiner will arrive this week to do his part of the work." An early completion of this longwaited-for "Merger" affair is hoped for. The State Bank suspended payment May 2 and since then not a dollar of the depositor's money has been available. It will be at least six months from this date, Aug. 29, (Continued on other side)
