Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Miss Manda Hoyes of Monticello visited her mother here this week, Dr. and Mrs. A. J. Miller returned last Friday from their visit near Rushville and at Lake Winona. Company M was expected to return home last evening from the 1.. N. G. encampment at Indianapolis. Mrs. James Mead and two children of Hammond are visiting her parents here, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. CKrke. \Ray Wood returned Wednesday evening from his several months’ stay in- Tombstone, Arizona. He is looking well. Miss Leah Knox left yesterday morning for a week’s visit at Winona Lake. She was accompanied by her little sister Lucille. ' Mrs. Laidlaw of Cincinnati, 0., is visiting Mrs. E. D. Rhoades and daughter, Mrs. Radcliff, she being a sister-in-law of the latter. Henry Hildebrand was down from Chicago a few days this week to see his father-in-law, John Kellner, who has been sick for the past six months.

Mrs. G. K. Hollingsworth, and Mrs. W. B. Austin of Chicago entertained a large number of lady friends here at the summer home of the former last Friday afternoon. Monticello Journal: Jesse Crowell, who has had charge of the Lowe grocery store, will go to Rensselaer and enter into partnership with his brother Richard in a cigar factory. John Casey of Fair Oaks left at this office a few days ago, a liberal sized sample of potatoes and onions grown in his garden, and they are eertainly the largest and best we have seen this year. A new band of twenty pieces, with new instruments, has been organized at Medaryville, and will be known as the Modern Woodmen Band, and be controlled by the M. W. A. lodge of that place. Hiram Day, who with his gang of plasterers has been working at Gary all season, is now here plastering the Elizer Sage house in Newton tp., and the A. F. Long, D. M. Worland and J. C. Porter residences in town. John Merritt of the grocery department of the Chicago Bargain Store, is taking a two weeks’ vacation. and with his wife is visiting his brother-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Walter Forbes, at East Chicago this week. Next week they will visit his parents in Remington.

Farmers are still having a strenuous time in getting their work done between showers. The continued rains—either every day or every few days since the 4th—and the extreme hot weather is also causing potatoes to start to rotting badly, it is said, to add to this season’s woes of the farmer. Newton County Enterprise: Ed. Armold. whose horse was stolen from the hitchrack in Kentland a week ago Sunday night, has gotten no clew of the lost property and perhaps never will. The organized band of horse thieves now operating in northern Indiana has a faculty of getting successfully away with their plunder. Uncle James Maloy came down from Steeger, 111., Monday for an extended visit and may remain here permanently. He likes it here much bettor than at Steeger and would like to make his home here permanently, but it is difficult for Mrs. Maloy to leave her son Bernie’s children and he does not want to be parted from them by having her bring them down here to live. Dr. Horton has sold a part of his ground fronting on Washington street, just east of Roth Bros.’ butcher shop, to Roth Bros, who expect to build a butcher shop thereon some time in the future. The plat sold is 20x150 and is now covered by the express office, Hollan’s shoe shop, and a portion of the Vick fruit store. The buildings are of little value. The price paid for the ground was |3,750.

. O. A. Powers has just closed a very successful sale here of Colorado horses, Percheron stock, and left Sunday for his home in Panama, N.Y., for a ten days’ visit, when he will return with a carload of milch cows which he -will sell out here. He then expects to go to Colorado and bring in another carload of horses. Mr. Powers was accompanied to New Yorkby J. M. Knapp’s ten-year-old son Lawrence, who will visit there several weeks.