Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The muslin underwear sale continues at Murray Co’s.

Attend Rowles & Parker’s semiannual discount shoe sale Feb. 15 to March 2d, inclusive. It means a big saving to you.

See and hear Miss Phoebe Mae Roberts, the “Gibson Girl” beauty and reader, at the regular Library Lecture Course entertainment, at the Christian church, on Tuesday night, Feb. 26.

Harry Kurrie accompanied his brother and wife on their return to their home in Philadelphia, from attending funeral of Mrs. Kurrie, and will tak&\a much needed rest for several days.

We notice that our old friend and true-blue democrat, B. F. Funk, formerly of Wheatfield but now of Toto, Ind., is preparing to join the trust magnates and is one of a committee calling a meeting to be held at Knox to organize an onion growers’ association. Now watch the price of onions soar. A very shy Wheatfield youth sat on the sofa with his lady love. Too diffident to pop the question, he gradually slipped his arm around her waist and after a long silence blurted out, despairingly, “I don’t seem to be making much progress.’’ “Perhaps not,” replied the young lady, “but anyhow you are holding your own.”

Tuesday, Feb. 19th, at the K P. room, the ladies of the M.E. church will serve a chicken-pie dinner, beginning at 11:30 and serve until all are served; also in the evening, at 5:30, a supper of cream chicken, salad, fruit and cake will be served, to which the public is cordially invited. Price of meals, 25 cents. Remember the useful articles that will be on sale also.

VG. O. Pumphrey of Rensselaer purchased three head of hogs at the J. A. Teter pure bred Duroc Jersey brood sow sale at Remington Monday, paying a little over SIOO for one of them. The sale was well attended, buyers from several different states being present, and the average price was about s6l per head. One hog sold for $350. The entire sale aggregated $2,400.

/The weather here the first of tke week was rather warm and balmy, more like April than February, and by Wednesday considerable frost had gone out the top of the ground. Wednesday night a little mantle of snow fall and the ground froze. The snow about all disappeared Thursday al--though the mercury was not high enough for it to thaw any except in places exposed to the sun.

The three-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Short (or Reed, as hejs usually called), mention of whose probably fatal sickness with scarlet fever was made last week, died at about 9p. m , Monday. The funeral wes private and burial was made in Weston cemetery Tuesday afternoon. The father, who was also stricken, z ls now convalescent. A younger child also has the disease but is getting along nicely. No other cases are reported.