Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Reeders. Corn, 48c; oats 38c. Excursion to Chicago to-morrow; 5i.25 for the the round trip, The Makeever House is resplendent in a new coat of paint. Miss Ura Sanders of Bloomington, Ind., is visiting friends here. The Rensselaer schools will begin the first Monday in September. x Verne Shook left Monday for Spokane, Wash., on a prospecting trip. The Farmers Bank of Morocco has absorbed the Citizens Bank of . Hi at place. ’*’wJohn Ramp is visiting his sister, Mrs. Nicholas Krull, at Kentland this week. Gladys Henderson of Hot Springs, Ark-, is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Geo. Goff. Goodland Herald: A girl was born to Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Simonin last Wednesday. Advertised Letters: Miss Marie Weston, Loren Foster, Mrs. Gertrude Hall, Ernest Meloner. Mrs. Arthur Barnes of Rockford, 111., visited her sister, Mrs. J. J. Montgomery here several days last week. Mrs. W. B. Austin and daughter, Mrs. Roy Shayne of Chicago visited relatives and friends here this week. E. A. Bartoo and daughter Gertrude of Remington were Rensselaer visitors Tuesday, coming over in their auto. Mrs. Bessie Parker returned Saturday from an extended visit with relatives in Kansas and Indian Territory.

Mrs. D. H. Patton of Woodward, Okla,, visited tbe families of N. S. Bates and A. J. Bellows a few days last week. Thomas Driver of Barkley tp., went to Chicago Tuesday to spend a few days visiting bis children who reside there. W. A. Rinehart of Queen City, Mo., was here last Friday as an on-looker at the sheriff’s site of his wife’s McCoysburg land. New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Devil’s Lake, No. Dak,, 1; Geneva, Ind., 1; Rensselaer, R-R-l, 1. Christte Vick moved Monday from the Spitler tenant bouse on Weston street,into John Bislosky’s property on South River street. Misses Alice Bates and Mary Porter left Monday for a two weeks’ vacation at “The Shades,” a summer resort near Crawfordsville.

Wonder if those “Bogue Island” outlaws have not broken loose again in Newton county and are running off fine horses as in days of yore? Mr. and Mrs. Deleoust of Miama, Fla., are here for their annual summex visit with the latter’s father, Patrick Hal lagan, northeast of town. feSJMr. and Mrs. John Macy and iMittle daughter of Indianapolis, t visited here with the former’s ’ mother, Mrs. John Makeever, several days this week. A few farmers have been cutting their oats this week, but most of them have* been busy getting their haying done and will •begin on oats next week. One of the young lady clerks in a Rensselaer store is said to have been wearing a diamond ring the past few days, and her friends infer that she will Bail(er) away on the matrimonial sea ere long. 3 Leonard Rhoades was awarded >ninth place in his Prisoo lantern 'display which he recently had in the Rhoades hardware display window, and received a 125 check as a prize. Mr. and Mrs. A- K. Sayler and daughter of Newton tp., left Saturday on a prospecting trip to Big Rapids, Mich., and if pleased with the country will pVobably buy _Ad locate near there later. E. P. Honan and son Edward went to Chicago last Saturday where they will visit a couple of weeks and then go to St. Paul, Minn., with Mr. Honan where he gaffill attend the C. O. F. convention. .’. H. B. Murray, carrier on rural route No. 4, has just bought a fine new up-to-date carrier wagon. It is one of the lightest mail wagons built and is very conveniently arranged for the handling of maif and supplies.