Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mr. R. B. Haligus, agent for the J. R. Watkins Medical Co., has moved his headquarters to the Knapp livery office, wh ere those desiring suppliers can be accommodated, 3t Fred, the 9-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Thomas, got his foot cut so badly on an old bottle or tin can Thursday, while fishing for minows in the river, as to require the services of a doctor to dress the wound. Mrs. C. F. Wren of Monon and son Ernest of Medaria, Cali, were guests of N. 8. Bates and family Thursday. Her husband was a former Monon agent here. Emmet is now in the railway mail service in California. Mrs. F. E. Babcock and Miss Ethel Sharp expect to take in the Wabash railroad’s excursion to Niagara Falls next Wednesday, starting from Lafayette. They will visit points in Canada and elsewhere before returning. Gaylord McFarland, who has a position as time-keeper for the Dodge Mfg., Co., of Mishawaka, was home to spend Sunday with his parents. He will continue with the Dodge company instead of teaching school again this year.

J. R. Gray and Ray Adams left Monday, the former for Forsyth, Mont., to work with a railroad construction gang, several of whom are from Rensselaer, and the latter to join his brother-in-law, Bert Goff, at Belle Fourche, So. Dak. T. M. Callahan, mayor of Newland, purchased another general store Monday, making four genera] stores | that he now owns. His latest purchase is the Harry Gifford stjore at Gifford, and His brother Oyven will manage it for him. ' Seventy-two tickets were sold here Sunday for the Chicago excursion. Quite a number of Rensselaer people also spent Sunday at Cedar Lake and Water Valley. The Monon’s total receipts for tickets sold at this station Sunday was 1236. Mr. and Mrs. Leo Wolf of Hammond who have been visiting relatives in Europe, are expected home next week. They sailed for New York Thursday. Mrs. Wolf was formerly Mrs. Ray Mossier of Rensselaer, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. Leopold. Splendid weather—except for a shower about noon Wednesday that put a stop to farm work for a few hours—has been the record for the past week. The days have been pleasant and rather cool, while the nights have been delightfully cool and agreeable.

Miss Manda Hoyes, formerly of Rensselaer, who has held a position as cashier in a Monticello department store for several years, has resigned her position there to take a situation as book-keeper and office manager with the King Lumber Co., of Logansport, Frank Brinley, a former resident of Rensselaer, died Sunday at the home of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Brinley, near Bristol, Ind., of tubercular trouble with which he has been afflicted for a year or more. He was aged 28 years and until recently was employed as a telephone lineman at Goshen. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Duvall returned Saturday evening from their visit to Grand Rapids, Mich. Earl’s brother John who has been working at tailoring in Grand Rapids for the past few years, will be down next month for a visit with his parents and will likely then take a position with a Chicago merchant tailoring concern. F. B. Meyer, who had contemplated building a store at Gary V>d moving his Kentland drug stock there, has given up the idea. He could not buy the site for the store and could bnly lease it for four months at a tiipe, and therefore decided that he did not care to erect a building on ground that he was sure of only for so short a .time. ■ The Monticello Journal states that Mrs. E. E. Malone (formerly Mrs. Lucy Malohow of Rensselaer) returned home last Thursday from an Indianapolis hospital where she had undergone an operation for appendicitis only two weeks before, and that she stood the teip nicely and did not have to lie down even until her regular bedtime. Sam Guy, who has been partially paralyzed for a year or more, was taken to the poor asylum Tuesday. He has been living with hie mother in the east part of town who has supported him since his affliction, and who is now worn out physically in caring for him and is not financially able to take care of him longer. They came here from Remington.