Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1906 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

/Snfr. and Mrs. C. E. Hershman afxVaiparaiso are visiting here This week. Mrs. Ott Clark went to Iron River, Wis., Wednesday to visit her son Ernest. far. and Mrs. P. W. Clarke Sunday with relatives and friends in Lowell. fFrank Biggs and Geo. Putts left Wednesday for northwestern lowa tb work in the harvest fields. Mrs. Frank Foltz and her mother, who have been visiting in Omaha, Neb., returned home last Eriday. J Charlie Beaver of Milroy tp., nrtiyered the first home grown watermelons of the season in town Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Clifton of Chicago are visiting the former’s mother, Mrs. T. F. Warne 4t Parr this weelpt , \D: H. Hopkins and Glen Baker wUSrkley tp., will leave Monday Surrey, No. Dak., to work in the harvest fields. Mrs. G. H. Clarke and children are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Morris Jones, at Richmond, Ind., for a few weeks. Elliott Burr and daughter' Cynthia of Lynchburg, Va., are visiting relatives and old friends' in Jasper county for a few days. Glen Bates left Wednesday for Portland, Oregon, after - a few weeks’ visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Bates of this city. Lightning killed a cow for* John Schatzley of near Kersey Sunday and two cows for J. B. Tyler of the same neighborhood Monday. -_ Jkrthrflge and Mrs. Hammond of Lafayette, and Mrs. W. B. Austin, of Chicago, Were in the city Wednesday, to attend the funeral of J. E. Spitler. '\Miss Katie Shields is visiting Niagara Falls this week, in company with her sister and husband, Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Malone, of Monticello. The rain here Thursday evening was heavy and was accomfianied by considerable wind and ightning. At Parr, it is said, very little rain fell. John Sharp is busily engaged in the work of securing views and having fine half-tone cuts made for bis souvenir album of Rensselaer, which will be in press next week. Regular services at Trinity M. E. church on next Sabbath. The pastor will preach at the morning hour and Rev. A. G. Work of South Chicago, will preach at the union service in the evening. James Shafer of Brook has traded an 80 acre farm in Jordan township, formerly owned by Robt. Michael, for 219 acres of the Doc Nichols farm in Barkley tp. The Jordan land is figured at $7,115 and the Barkley land at $lB,615. “The Manager of the B. & A.” is a story full of absorbing interesting from start to finish. If you are not already a subscriber to The Democrat you should become one at once and get every chapter of this interesting railroad story which alone is worth a full year’s , subscription. Mrs. G. F. Meyers and Mrs. F. E. Babcock returned Sunday from a week’s stay at West Baden. The former was not feeling well when she left here, and became so much worse that their stay was cut short a few days. Since her return Mrs. Meyers has been under the doctor’s care. ■X.Bro. E. J. Stienbach ,of the ff£entland Democrat, will be married August 18 to Miss Lillian Stewart of Chicago. We had come to believe that Ed was a confirmed bachelor and safe from the wiles of the gentle sex, but it seems we were mistaken, and we join in extending hearty congratulations. The Monon will ran another excursion to Chicago Sunday, Aug. 19, on same schedule as former excursions, passing Rensselaer going at 8:48 a. m., and returning willleave Chicago at IJL :30 p. m. The fare for round trip from Monon to Rensselaer, inclusive, is $1.25; Surrey and Parr, $1.15; Fair Oaks, sl.lO. ybooney Kellner’s supply of ice pfit up last winter is about exhausted and he is making arrangements to ship in artificial ice from Lafayette and Indianapolis, whioh he asserts, he will be obliged to charge 45 cents per hundred instead of 30 centß as formerly. He was in Indianapolis Thursday on business connected with this matter.