Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 June 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Meet your friends at the G. E. Murray Store on the 4t^. Mrs. A. J. Miller is visiting her parents near Rushville this week. Mrs. Frank Ross returned Monday evening from her southern rip. - ' Mies Etfiel Perkins expects to leave July sth for ad extended visit with relatives at Lake George, N. Y. ; Miss Anna Hermanson of Gillam tp , left last week for an expended visit with relatives in New York oity. Jay W. Williams attended a meeting of the Retail Furniture Dealers’ Association at Indianapolis this week. , „ Quite a number of Rensselaer young people spent Sunday at Cedar Lake and “tripped the light fantastic.” A big excursion was out from Chioago. Frank Kresler, Ed. Pugh and Will Zatd spent Sunday at Water Valley and brought home a nice string of fish among which was a 5-pound channel cat. Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Yeoman of Newton tp , celebrated their 20th weddinc anniversary Sundav, June 15, about forty relatives and friends of the neighborhood being present.

N. Littlefield has traded some town properly which he owned in Matthews, I nd., last week for 660 acres of cut over lands in Clare county, Mich. He also got in the deah a fine new Cable-Nelson piano. A few oases of mumps are still heard of in town, although it would seem that almost everyone has bad them by this time. Horatio Ropp is one of the latest Bevere cases, having had about a four weeks’ Beige with them. The Deßaugh Twentieth Century Band of Chicago, which is to be the leading musical attraction here the 4th, will reach Rensselaer on the 4:41 a. m., train the morning of the 4th, and will not return to the city until the morning of the sth. U Mr. and Mrs. Alva Potts and children left Monday for Hutchinson, Kan., where they will visit their brother-in*law, Bert Blue and family indefinitely, and if Mr. Potts’ health is benefitted, will likely move their household goods and looate thqre permanently. Joe O’Connor, who has been working for several weeks with a Railroad construction gang near Forsyth, Mont., returned home Monday. None of the others of the Rensselaer party returned with him. Joe says it is quite a wild, woplyajgf desolate country where tljjijiiilTliworking. Remonstrances against the sale of intoxicating liquors in Winamac have been circulated the past week and it is expected to secure enough signers to pot Pulaski county’s capital city on the water wagon. One thousannd dollars has been raised by the anti-saloon people for the purpose. Hon. and Mrs. Jesse E. Wilson and two ohildren of Washington, D. C., are expected here to-mor-row. Mrs. Wilson and children will remain for a couple of months’ visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wasson, but Mr. Wilson will return in a few days to his duties as assistant Secretary of the Interior. “The Rensselaer Jockey Club” have issued bills for racing at the Rensselaer Stock Farm track, just least of town, for the 4th. 1 These races will be entirely independent of the celebration given In town and have no connection whatever. An admission of 25 cents will be charged to see the races, which promise to be good. If patrons of rural routes where a number of boxes are looated at one place would prooure a wagon wheel and arrange it so that it could be turned, with the mail boxes on top, it would be a great convenience to the carriers. At one point ip Fulton county, where are a half dozen or more boxes, a wheel from an old hay rake is used, so when the carrier stops he oan deliver the mail in all the boxes without changing the location of his wagon.—Ex. Wolcott Enterprise: Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grow came over from Cincinnati Saturday to visit the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mro. W. V. Spencer, and their nuboerous other relatives. A reunion of the Spencer family was held, all of the ohildren and grandchildren being present but Miss Lida Spencer who is employed as stenographer with a large business firm in Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Grow were ealled to Rensselaer by the serious illness of the former’s mother.