Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1906 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn, 41c; oats 30c. ySimon Leopold has started a clothing store at Wheatfield. Eggs are now worth 22 cents per dozen in tbe Rensselaer market. ” John Randle left for Mitchell, So. Dak., Tuesday on a prospecting trip. _________ pCjlncle Isaac Thompson,of Bluffton, is visiting his brother, Judge Thompson. '/Mrs. W. G. Slagle and baby, of Frankfort, were guests of Mrs. J. A. Larsh Sunday. >yMr. and Mrs. John Mecklenburg spent Sunday with their son Charles at Wolcott. Monticello is trying to land a Chicago thread factory employing a number of hands. ..i-Ike Toben, from Melvin, 111., spent the first of the week with Peter May and family. '4-Mrs, Ross Grant,of Minneapolis, Minn., is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Alter. ''■4-Mrs. W. C. Babcock left Tuesday for an extended visit with relatives in Portland, Oregon. V Mrs. W. R. Brown and little granddaughter, Ruth McKinzie, are visiting at Tuscola, 111. L-J. M. Knapp, the liverhman, is gping about on crutches, the result of a kick from a horse. Earl Sayler and family left on Tuesday for Elbow Lake, Minn., near which place he has bought a farm. Mr. and Mrs. George Bell were called to Danville, HL, Wednesday by the death of a nephew of the latter. Miss Pearl Graf, of Des Moines, lowa, is the guest of her grandmother, Mrs. Goetz, of Newton township. New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: East Chicago, Ind., 1 ; Lake Village, Ind., 1; Monon, 1. Harry Kresler has resigned his position as railway mail clerk and purchased a half interest in Ray Wood’s barber shop.

X Mr. and Mrs. Calvin Cain have rebently moved to Lake Village, Newton county, where Mr. Cain is conducting a barber shop. ■/Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Gray, of 'Kaposha, Wis., were gueats of the former’s brother, Sylvester Gray, a few days the first of the week. ><W. J.lmes represented the Rensselaer chapter at the meeting of the grand Lodge of Royal Arch Masons at Indianapolis this week. and Mrs. John Eiglesbach to-be —the marriage will take place tomorrow —will dtcupy the D. M. Yeoman property in the east part of town. J. F. Bruner will occupy the room east of the postoffice, vacated by Ernest Frjtts, with a confectionary store, with his son Frank in charge. _ Mrs. S. M. Freelove, of Goodland, who has been visiting her daughter, Mrs. F. B. Babcock, for the past two weeks, returned home V A daughter was born Tuesday t® Mr. and Mrs. Harry Steam of Indianapolis. Mrs. Steam will be remembered as Miss Helen Tuteur, formerly of Rensselaer. Mrs. Walter Whaley, of Washington township, Newton county, was probably fatally burned Monday by her clothing catching fire from a burning trash pile. >\Mrs. A, M. Stockton and Mrs. Hehry Wood attended the district meeting of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of theM.E. Church at Valparaiso this week. Mr. James T. Gray and Miss Agnes H. Franscoviak, both of Carpenter township, Will be married next Wednesday at the Catholic church at Goodland, at 9 a. m. '<4?ave Worland and Martin Leobold, of Newton township, left Tuesday on a prospecting trip to the irrigated district of Kansas, and from there to Rocky Ford, Colo. C. J. Dean, the real estate man, accompanied them a part of the way at least.