Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1906 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mias Clara A. Peters, a graduate optician, is here making arrangements to open an office. Miss Peters is a sister of Dr. W. H. Peters of Lafayette. VMI C. McFarland and sister Miss Heleh McFarland of Camden, Carroll county, are visiting their uncles, James T., and Nelson Randle, and cousin, Mrs. J. N. Leatherman, here this week. The M. P. conference held at Greenfield closed Monday. Rev. J. L. Barclay of Frankfort was elected president. Rev. F. M. DeMumbrun, who served Dunkirk station, was assigned to the Rensselaer circuit. B. O. Gardner of Los Angeles, Cali., was here a few days this< week, shaking hands with friends. Mrs. Gardner is visiting friends in Illinois at present, where Mr. Gardner has joined her, but both will return here in a few days. The widow of Richard Herron, of Monticello, has instituted suits against John H Randall and John Vaughn, two saloon-keepers of Monticello, and their bondsmen, for $2,000 in each case, alleging that defendants sold her husband liquor which caused bis death last week from alcoholism, Goodland Plaindealer: Mrs. Thurlow is visiting with Mr. John Beecher of northeast of town. Her little son who had a leg nearly amputated a year ago by a mowing machine has fully recovered the use of the injured limb, and walks without a noticeable limp. This is a clear victory for clean intelligent surgery. An exchange says if you are superstitious about the number 13 you had better give us your quarter dollars, for on one are 13 stars, 13 letters in the scroll of the eagle’s beak, 13 leaves on the olive branch, 13 arrow heads and 13 letters in the words “quarter dollar.” Now, it’s not safe to keep, them, so just bring them in and get credit on your subscription for the full amount. and Benjamin Welsh of Jordan township, were called to Chicago last week by the dangerous condition of their brother Jesse, a mail carrier in Chicago, who had undergone an operation for an aggravated case of appendicitis on Tuesday, August 14. Gangrene bad already set in when the operation was performed, but at latest reports he was getting along nicely and is expected to fully recover.

A dispatch from Kentland says; The Chicago, Indiana & Southern railroad has caused an increase in activities at the stone quarries, two miles east of this city. A branch of the road will be built to the quarries; extensive improvements will be made there, and the Siuarries will furnish crushed stone or ballast, and blocks for the steel mills at Indiana Harbor and Gary. The quarries cover one hundred acres, and five hundred men will .be erpployed in developing them. \Brof. W. O. Schanlaub } of Morocco, who has been attending the Valparaiso University this summer, spent a few days with his {mrents, Mr. and Mrs. John Schanaub, here this week, returning to Morocco to-day. He will attend the Newton county teachers’ institute next week, and the Monday following will again take up his duties as superintendent of the Morocco schools, a position he has held for the past three years. This will make his ninth year in the Morocco schools. Squire Joel F. Spriggs of Walker tp., was in the city Thursday. Mr. Spriggs is the oldest settler in his vicinity' and has lived almost continuously in Walker since coming to Jasper oounty with his parents, on April 14,1859, and is the only survivor of the election held at the home of Jacob Keener, in what is now the town of Virgie, in October, 1859, to vote among other things on a division of the county and the organization of Keener township. There were just 13 votes cast at that election, which perhaps accounts for Keener being so strongly republican. The Souvenir Albums of Rensselaer, now in press, are printed on heavy calendared paper with handsome deckle edge cover and tied with heavy silk cord. Only a few hundred of these are being printed and they will be quickly taken up. If you wish to secure a copy it behooves you to get in your order early. They will be sold here for 50 cents each, or will be sent postpaid to any address in the United States or Canada for five cents extra—ss cents, > Leave or send Jour order to John A. Sharp, lensselaer, Ind., at once to secure a copy of this handsome and historical souvenir of Rensselaer.