Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1905 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Brief items of interest to City and Country Readers. Corn. 51c; oats 25c. 'V-M4ss Maggie Halligan is visiting relatives in Dayton, Ohio. Miss Julia Leopold .is visiting Miss Donna Harmon at Pontiac, Hl. S—Mies Grace Worland is visiting her uncle Joe Worland at Hammond. Additional local news will be found on another page of The Democrat. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hefner visited over Sunday with relatives at Brookston. Edward Honan is visiting his uncle Jim Hmphill at Danville, 111. Henry W. Long and son Grant of Monon were in the city on business Tuesday. Christens Hildebrand returned Tuesday from a visit with Lafayette relatives. V Mrs. M. I. Adams and daughter /Mary went to Chicago Thursday for a few days visit. y Mrs. H. O. Harris and .granddaughter Marcelence Roberts, visited in Morocco this week. 4-Miss Lena Tuteur has returned from a month’s visit with the family of I. Tuteur in Chicago. John Stuber, who is now working in the office of the Hammond Tribune, spent Sunday with his mother here. Mrs. W. J. lines and mother, Mrs. Berry Paris, left Wednesday for a few weeks viait in New York and Brooklyn. Remember the Monon’s excursion to Cedar Lake Sunday, Aug. 6. Only 50 cents for the round trip from Rensselaer. SC®- P. Honan went to Indianapolis yesterday to make an address at a banquet of the C. O. F., in that city last night. Mr. and Mrs. T. F. McChesney of Charleston, Va., who have been visiting F. M. Parker and family, returned home Thursday, Mrs. Hettie Reynolds left Sunday for a few weeks visit in New York City and Saratoga. Her son Joe of Delphi, accompanied her. Joseph Behles has been appointed carrier for the new rural route soon to start out of Tefft, with Annie Behles substitute carrier. and Mrs. Robert Mannan of Wheatfield were guests of Recorder Tilton and family Tuesday. Mrs. Mannan is a sister of Mrs. Tilton. Messers Elmore Barce, Dr. Neighbor, Mr. Barnes and Mr. Crose of Fowler were Rensselaer visitors Wednesday, making the trip via team. aud Mrs. J. C. Porter are at Winona where the former is in attendance at a meeting of the Indiana agents of the Ohio Farmers Insurance Company.

/Peter Hordeman’s first job with his big new threshing outfit was out to Andrew Gangloff’s, east of town. It is said to be a very fine outfit and works splendidly. Edward Brooks, teacher of mathematics in the Rensselaer schools, has resigned for the com* ing year. At this writing a successor has not been engaged. A couple of gentlemen from Elwood were here the first of the week ane bought 400 acres of pasture land in Walker tp., which they expect to improve this fall. The 14-year-old. son of Alfred Lowman of near Pleasant Ridge fell from a bay derrick last Friday, a distance of over twenty feet, and was rendered unconscious for some time.

The work for fitting up the room in the I. 0. O. F. building for Rowlee & Parker’s clothing and shoe department is now being done. They expect to open up this department about August 15. -<Mr. and Mrs. E. P. .Honan and Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Strickfaden will leave to-morrow for Boston, Mass., to attend the national convention of the Catholic Order of Foresters, which meets there next week.

While cutting a wire in two with a hatchet to mend a harness, Tuesday afternoon, Geo. Slaughter, son of M. Y. Slaughter of Sharon, was struck in the eye by a piece of the wire and the optic so badly injured that he may lose the sight entirely.