Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1905 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL*; Brief Items of interest to City and Country Readers. Corn, 51c; oats 25c. Get in on that Piano contest of The Democrat's. Miss Cinda Mecklenburg visited in Morocco this week. J. H. S.'Ellis is visiting northwest Canada for a few weeks. Charles Clark of Cedar Point* Kan., is visiting relatives here. D. B. Nowles of Lamar, Colo., visited relatives here this week. Frank P. Meyer of Danville, 111., was visiting relatives here this week. ? Everybody’s going to Cedar Lake to-morrow on the Monon excursion. 1-0. K. Ritchey was in Chicago business a few days the first of the week. H. Healy and family of Washington. D. C , are visiting relatives here. Parchment paper for wrapping butter may be purchased at The Democrat office. VMr. and Mrs. Marion Freeland onNewton tp., are visiting in Indianapolis this week. _VMr. and Mrs. James Flynn Sunday with their daughter,’ Mrs. Cal Nichols, at Lowell. Mr. E. Rapp of Washington, 111., was here this week looking after his farm south of town. Carroll county old settlers will hold their annual meeting at Delphi next Saturday, August 12. \'Mrs. Coons of Bucklen, Kan , is, here for an extended visit with her daughter, Mrs. J. W. Pierce. YMr. and Mrs E. E. Malone of Monticello, spent Sunday with the latter’s mother, Mrs. E. H. Shields. Furnished rooms for rent one block east of Court House, on Western St. Inquire of J. H. Carson. ~VMies Mary Yates left Thursday to spend a few weeks with. Mrs. Hettie Reynolds at Saratoga, N. Y. Ringling’s circus will exhibit at Lafayette Wednesday, August 16, and at Kankakee, Thursday, August 17.

• The Great Clearance Sale will continue with greater reductions to August 12th, at the Chicago Bargain Store. Several Rensselaer young people spent Sunday and Sunday evening at Cedar Lake. Especially the evening. Morocco Courier: Earl Bruner of Rensselaer is now working on the Dixon and Jessen telephone lines at this place. SsMre. Iva Robinson and baby of Auburn. Ind., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Washbarn for a few weeks. Mrs P. A. Rusk and two daughters left Saturday for a three weeks visit with relatives and friends in Rantoul, 111. "V-Mrs. N. Krull of Kentland returned home Saturday after a few weeks visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ramp. Rev. Harper, the F. W. Baptist minister, went to Belle Vernon, Pa., Monday where he is holding meetings for a couple of weeks. Miss Emma Hagenkotter of Chicago, is visiting the Misses Louise and Bessie Peters southeast of town, for a couple of weeks.

Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Jacks and daughter Ethel and Mr. and Mrs. True Woodworth attended the reunion of the Jacks family at Lee Sunday. -ACharlie Schletnan on the ChariejMalcbow farm, west of town, threshed forty acres of oats Wednesday that yielded 51 bushels per acre, machine measure. \Jhe best yield of oats in this ■Affinity that we have yet heard of is a six acre field of Ancel Woodworth’s just east of town, which tamed out 64 bushels per acre, machine measure. Earl Park Gazette: The hum of the threshing machine is heard in all directions these days and an extra fine Quality x>f oats are being threshed and are yielding from 50 to 70 bushels per acre. Lake County Star: The McCoy bank failure at Rensselaer is still in the courts and furnishes a regular grist for the newspapers there each week, but with all the courting the depositors are failing to get any dividends.