Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Lyman Barce, of north of town, is taking treatment at a Martinsville sanitarium for stomach trouble. The insurance companies paid J. J. Eigleabaok $l4O for tbe horse which he recently had killed by lightning. Mrs. E. H. Shields is preparing to move to Brook, where her daughter, Miss Katie Shields, will teaoh in the town schools. “Dad” Gleason, the horse buyer shipped a car load of fine draft horses from here Wednesday night. They went to Cincinnati. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Dluzak of Carpenter tp., and Miss" Lena of Wabash, spent Tuesday with W. F. Michael and family east of town. U. M. Baughman went to Winamao yesterday to see his brother Charles who has been an invalid for the past three years and is now very low. Harry Collins who has been working in Indianapolis, has returned home and will assist his father, Alfred Collins, in the River Queen mill. Mrs. J. M. Knapp left Wednesday for a couple of weeks’ visit with her mother Hnd relatives in Sugar Grove, Pa., and her brothers in New York state. . Y Miss Edna Kean, who had been visitiag for a couple of weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Washbum, returned to her home in Buchanan, Mich., Saturday.

Hon. Alonzo Greene Smith, exattorney general of Indiana and prominent iu democratic politics, died at his home in Indianapolis a few days ago after a short illness. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hollingsworth and two sons left Wednesday in their auto for an extended eastern trip of about four weeks. They will visit New York City and other points of interest. Will Woodworth and Melvin Griffin returned Monday from. Belle Fourche, So. Dak., where they have been for several months with Bert Goff. Both have filed on claims there, they state. Mt. Ayr Pilot: Mrs. Ida O’Meara who has been for the last winter and spring teaching school at Pekin, 111., is visiting with her sister Mrs. Sarah Sigler and other friends and relatives in Mt. Ayr. Mrs. Martha Avis, an inmate of the county asylum from Kankakee tp., is very low with consumption and her death is expected at any moment. She is hut 26 years of age, is married but was deserted by her husband. Wm. Ballinger, the Kniman saloonist charged with running his place on July 4, was fined $lO and costs, S3O in all, on one charge before Squire Comer of Barkley tp., Saturday, and was acquitted on the other two oharges. Simon Leopold has been laid up this week from being thrown out of a rig Monday while driving over from Francesville. A part of the harness broke and frightened the team, and in being thrown out he struck the jrheel and ruptured a blood vessel.

Attorney A. D. Babcock and son of Goodland were Rensselaer visitors Tuesday. A. D. stood fifth in the amount of business done in the Indiana Farm Insurance agency during the month of June, and expects an even better record for July. Albert Book of near Norwich, No. Dak., who was here Monday on a matrimonial mission, tells us that Geo. J. Nichols, also formerly of Walker tp., this county, is prospering finely in hik new western home. He has just got back from a hospital, however, where he had undergone an operation for appendicitis and from which he was recovering nicely. Fowler Leader: Leon Hampton has twenty acres of potatoes ou the ranch in Newton county and it is his intention to put out 160 acres next year. Mr. Hampton has been making the growing of potatoes a study and iB sure that he has the very soil and he has equipped himself with all of the mechanical contrivances for planting, spraying and digging. Miss Rebecca J. Smith, the aged Barkley tp., woman operated on at a Chicago hospital last week for a bowel obstruction and who was. reported to be recovering nicely from the operation, died in the hospital Sunday. Her death is alleged to have been caused from Bright’s disease. The remains were brought home Monday and the funeral held Wednesday from the home of James Newoome and interment made in the Smith oemetery.