Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. Josiah Flora of Delphi is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abraham Miller of near Aix. ><3yfr. and Mrs Charles Murphy of Chicago are visiting the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bellows. . Mrs. M. E. Troxell returned to her home in Demotte Saturday after a few days visit with relatives here. Mrs. M. Schneider returned to her home in Cleveland, Ohio, Saturday after a few weeks visit with her father, John Bislosky, west of town. A heavy rain, commencing about three o’clock yesterday "morning and lasting about three hours,*put a atop to threshing for the day, v f\Dr. Horton is preparing to build a new cement block blacksmith shop on the site of the shop now occupied by Hemphill B ros. on Cullen street. Joe Jackson went to Mackinaw, 111., Wednesday for a few days visit with relatives and to accompany home his wife and daughter who are visiting there.

-tMrs. A. E. Coen and son of Berwin, 111., and Mrs. A- S. Nowels and son and daughter of Columbia City are visiting their parents, Mr, and Mrs. J. M. Wasson. YMr.’and Mrs. Frank Hayes of Barkley tp., went to Lafayette Thursday and the latter made arrangements for taking treatment with an oculist there for her eyesight. Wolcott Enterprise: Taylor Boicourt was stricken with a severe attack of rheumatism and was unable to move until Tuesday when he was taken to the sanitarium in Logansport for treatment. . A play which deserves to be well received upon its presentation at the opera house is “A Millionaire Tramp.” The company is said to be giving a general good show Tuesday night, Aug. 20, -* Messrs. And Mesdames A. F, Long, C. C. Warner, C. G. Spitler, Joe Hardman, Henry Purcupile of Rensselaer, and Mr. and Mrs. Frahk Purcupile of New York City, picnicked at William Miller’s near Mt. Ayr Sunday. A wireless telegram was received by Mrs. A. Leopold Monday from her daughter, Mrs. L. Wolf of Hammond, conveying congratulations on her birthday anniversary. The dispatch was sent from '<oo miles out from New York and came via Halifax, N. 8. Mr. and Mrs. Wolf were on their way home from their European trip, and they landed in New York City Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Shindlar of Hegewisch, 111., came down last Friday to look after some business matters, returning home Bunday. Frank is still working in the car shops at Hegewisch but is preparing to have a little home of bis own in Jasper county to come to when tired of factory life or work becomes dull, and to this end has purchased 20 acres of the Mrs. Ida Makeever Robinson land in Union tp.

'/Geo. E. Hershman returned last week from his prospecting trip to Oklahoma and Indian Tlrtitory, He did not decide on any location and does not know whether he will locate there or not. There is lots of business being done there but the professions are over crowded. Besides the climate Is most too hot in the localities visited and did not agree with him. At present be is rather undecided on what he will do. When a town fellow visits a country home and they set him down to a table laden with hickorywood smoked ham as sweet as nectar, fried eggs fresh from the chicken faotory, home-made bread, butter churned before breabfast, milk and cream that never saw ohalk or water, with a score of sweetmeats and pastries and fruits, and then apologize to him for not having something to eat, be can not help but wonder what they do have when they are expecting company.—Exchange. A telegram received last evening announced the death of George Mender at his former home in Maine, where he had gone three weeks ago to visit the scenes of his boyhood. Mr. Meader was seventy-six years of age. He had been a resident of Benton county for nearly forty years. H 6 was a very ingenious man. He is undoubtedly the inventor of the present cornhusker, but for whioh he received a small, if any compensation. His entire life hds bSen consumed in inventions. Many were useful and some were profitable to him. 'A son and two daughters survive.—Fowler Leader.