Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 June 1906 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn, 38c; oats 33c. f Drop in at Hascail Bros, for a dish of ice cream. E |L. Hollingsworth was in Lafayette, Thu rad ay on business. Minnie Hemphill has gone t\Danvil)e, Ind., to attend normal. Two good second-hand binders for sale cheap. Call on L. 8. Renicker. Mr. and Mrs. Harmon of Pontiac, 111., are visiting their sons J?ere this week. A‘. Woodworth is visiting heft daughter, Mrs. Myrtle Sprague, at Brazil. The .Newton county republican county convention will be held at Kentland next Tuesday. -A-nna Warner of Sheldon, Hl, is visiting here this week with her mother, Mrs. J. T. Randle. ' Mrs. Philip Lagen of Joliet, 111., is visiting here with her sister, Mrs. J. N. Leatherman, this week. f Bro. H. A. Strohm, of the Newton County Enterprise, has been reappointed postmaster at Kentland. r» The State Bank of Monon, capital 125,000, was organized Saturday. W. 8. Baugh of Lafayette, is president. Rev. Edward Day of Monon will preach at the First M. P. church to-morrow at 10:30 a. m., Mabel Strickfadep and Eva Hopkins went to Battle Ground Saturday to visit the family of T. T. Clark. Reece Roby of near Medaryville, was in the city on business Tuesday. He says crop prospects are good in his locality. Mrs. Dr. Weil and Mrs. George Spangler of Peoria, 111., are visiting Mrs. Anna Tuteur and Mrs, L. Wildberg here this week. Clara Fendig, who has 4wen down in Georgia for the past two years, teaching, is home tp spend the summer vacation. *-4JMr. and Mrs. J. W. Childers went to Delphi Sunday to attend the celebration of the 56th wedding anniversary of the former’s parents. Rev. A. H, De Long, of IndiaX napolis, will preach at Trinity M. E. church on Sabbath morning and evening. The public cordially invited. The pastor of the Barkley M. E. church, Ray C. Ballard, with wife and baby, will leave Monday for a three weeks vacation to be spent in the central part of the state. Lowell and Chalmers will contest for the SSO baseball purse here the Fourth. Each town has a strong team, it is said, and a good game may be looked for. Misses Leatbe and Flosse Wright who have been teaching school at Marion, visited here a few days this week and will go from here to Chicago to enter Chicago University for the summer term. Geo. E. Harshman returned Monday from a few days recreation with the home folks up in Walker. George says crops are looking fine in northern Jasper and good yields are apparently assured. The ten-year-old son of John Zimmer of Newton tp., on the Madison Makeever farm, has the typhoid fever. This is in the same locality where the Farmer boy and Mrs. Farmer’s cousin are supposed to have contracted their cases. Mr. E. Rapp of Washington, 111., was here a few days the first of the week, looking after his large farm south of town. Mr. Rapp says crops are looking fairly well in his locality in Illinois, but it was too dry early in the season there, same was here. Wanted—Gentleman or lady with good reference, to travel by rail or with rig for a firm of $250,000.00 capital. Salary $1,072 per year and expenses; salary paid weekly and expenses advanced. Address, with stamp, Jos. A. Alexander, Rensselaer, Ind. Grover Norris, a young man who was implicated in a disturbance at the opera house a few weeks ago, but who escaped arrest at the time young Pierre Thompson was arraigned in court by skipping out, was arrested Saturday afternoon and on plea of guilty of disturbing a meeting was fined and costed by Squire Irwin to the tune of $8.55