Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn, 48c; oats 40c. —— Mrs. Verb Hopkins is visiting relatives in Wabash. Mrs. India Gray, aged 51 yeafrs, died at her home in Lee Wednesday. and Mrs. J. A. Larsh and children were visiting in Kokomo this week. Mrs. Hale Warner was called to Denver, Ind., Saturday by the death of a cousin. Gustavus Lowe, an old and business man of Monticello, died Saturday. | (Walter Lutz and mother have gone to Colorado Springs, Colo., to spend the summer. Frank Leek, the mail clerk, has a new Bruick auto, a two-sehted machine and a good looker. Miss Con Adams is home from Cincinnati, phio, where she has been employed in a millinery store. Mrs. Nathan Eldridge of Barklev tp., was called to Wabash Thursday by the sickness of a relative'.

Warren Griggs „of Chicago Heights, visited bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L »Griggs, here Tuesday and Wednesday. Richard Beck went tq Fowler Monday to act as best man in the marriage of William Windier and Miss Blanche Gress. Geo. Meyers has rented the former Grooms property on North Weston street, to R. P. Benjamin, who has moved into same. W. R. Lee has moved into Fred Tyler’s new house on North Weston street. Folks thought that he was going to-rbut he is not, evidently. —< w Postmaster Van Alstine of Monticello has grown tired of his job and sent in bis resignation. Several “patriots” are""noxious to succeed him. k , « . _ - Elias Hammerton, carrier on mail route 2, is taking a vacation and visiting his son and daughter at East Lynn, 111. Tom Cain is “subbing” for him, /\Frank Hill has moved his famlily here from Madison to the former McCoy farm in Jordan tp., which hia father bought after the bank failure, The battery of artillery that stopped over Sunday here a few weeks ago, will camp here again Monday night, it is expected, on its way from Indianapolis back to Ft. Sheridan. Mrs. W. H. Beam is laid up with a broken limb. She was Sweeping her back porch Monday morning when she slipped and fell, fracturing her left limb between the knee and ankle. Geo. Strickfaden has disposed of his interests in the furniture and lease of the hotel he was conducting at Muncie, and with his .family hasjeturned to Rensselaer. They will’remain here until he decides on a location.

The farmers have been kept out of their fields about all week by wet weather, and yesterday morning it was raining again. There is probably over 100,000 acres of corn yet to be planted in this county, and the outlook is not encouraging to farmers. Lyman Zea spent Sunday at his home here. He now has a posi-' tion as one of the two nightwatchmen at the Monon shops in Lafayette, and tells us it is the best and most desirable job he has ever had, both in point of salary and duties connected therewith.. In the annual readjustment of postmasters’ salaries, Rensselaer remains the same as last year, lacking about |IOO in receipts of enough to entitle it to a raise. Morocco and Oxford are each reduced tlOOf while Brook is raised SIOO. -Other neighboring towns remain same as year. Next Sunday is Children’s Day at Trinity M. E. Church. In the morning the pastor will speak on the subject: „ “The Meaning of Children’s Day.” In the evening the Bunday school will render an exercise entitled “The Girdle es Youjh.” The public cordially inAnd in the meantime the whetting of knives for machine candidates will go on. The political weather indications for Jasper county is an unsettled barometer and Squalls from unexpected quarters. Raincoats will not avail against the elements in the weather that is to come.