Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

tMlss Mildred Spitler ia visiting relatives at Goshen. . Mrs. John Kohler is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Fred Chapman, at Cincinnati. JLXko stone crushers are now at near the river, crashing rock for the Marion tp., roads. Winamac Republican: Mrs. Theodora Baker left Tuesday for Remington and Rensselaer on a two weeks’ visit with relatives. >Afr. and Mrs. Elmore Barce of FoWler were guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Barce, north of town, several days this week. Awinamac barbers are at war ovbr prices, and now a haircut costs hut ten cents, while fifteen shaves can be had for one dollar. The report in the Brook paper that Dr. Gwin of this city was preparing to locate at Brook, the doctor tells us is a mistake, as he has no present intention of doing so. No wonder the telephone girls couldn’t tell over the wire where the fire was Wednesday £night, in response to anxious inquiries from ’phone patrons all over town. \/James Yeoman is making quite Extensive improvements to his residence on Front street, including a cellar, kitchen and bath room-and a new porch across the entire front. Earl Park, Benton county, has gone “dry” for another two years, the efforts of the saloonists to break in having failed. Freeland is still the only oasis in the Benton county desert. Coroner Wright was called to Wheatfield Monday to investigate the death of the 14-year-old-son of Walter Wiseman, who accidently shot and killed himself while out bunting the day before, the particulars of which will be found in our Four Corners correspondence. While the death rate in Jasper county is usually very low as compared with other counties in the state, it has been extraordinary high for the past few months, undertaker Wright having had upwards of fifty funerals since the first of the year. And there has been no epidemic to account for this either. J JM. Wasson're turned Wednesday from Winchester, Ind., where be was cal Fed Sunday by the serious condition of his brother Peter who was operated upon for kidney trouble recently. His condition Thursday was thought to be better, but Mr. Wasson received a message at 1 p. m., yesterday that he was dead. No particulars regarding the funeral. Geo. Casey of Union tp., had two steers killed by lightning last week. They were insured /or S4O each in 0. B. Siewart’s agency and Mr. Casey was paid the full amount of same this week. The same stroke followed the wire fence along for about a mile and killed a cow for another farmer whose name we did not learn. Abe Hardy, J. W. Childers, Charles Smith, Joe O’Connor, Claude Sayler, Harvey Thornton and Clarence Lenh am of Rensselaer, and Al Robinson of Monon left Monday for Forsythe. Montana, where the most of the party expect to work on a new railroad being built there, and may remain permanently. It is reported that Bruce Hardy will also follow later. A young Goodland bride was making her first shopping tour in the grocery line recently, and when she asked the price of eggs she was astonished to hear the clerk say "Twenty-five cents a dozen.” “Why that is more than two cents for one egg,” sighed the bride. To which the bright clerk replied: “But, madam, you must remember that one egg is a whole day’s work for a hen.” The fire company was called out at 9:30 p. m., Wednesday night to extinguish a blaze in the Monon’s onthouse at the depot, that started from a spark from a passing locomotive wad which would have destroyed the water tank and other property had it not been checked. The boys made the ran in precisely six minutes from the time the alarm was turned in, and the distance is about a half a mile. G. D. Gregory, who is traveling up in Starke county for the Dr. Baker medicine company, spent Sunday at his home here. He states that a distemper is prevalent among the horses of Starke that terminates fatally in many cases. One man lost six head. The animals have no cough nor discharge from the nostrils until after a gathering in the throat has broken, and frequently this swelling shuts off the air from the lungs and the horse dies. Veterinanes up there call the disease the “strangle.”