Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Miss Clara Steinmetz. of Terte Haute, is visiting Miss Edna Donnelly, north of town. Eight criminal assaults or attempted assaults, have occurred in Lake county in the past six weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wright and son, of Salem, Ohio, visited his uncle, Geo. B. Davidson, here this week. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Davidson, of near Goodland, visited Gso. B. Davidson and wife here Monday and Tuesday.

Newton and Benton counties report an oats yield running from 15 lo 25 bushels to the acre, no better at least than here.

Miss Hazel Lamson attended the Lake county teachers’ institute at Crown PUnt this week. She will teach in East Chicago.

Another big rain came Thursday night, patting a stop to threshing and rock banting. This season has certainly been a freak one.

Will Woodworth returned to Belle Fourche, So. Dak., Tuesday to look after the land claim he took up there some months ago.

Howard Stephens,wife and baby of Chicago, returned home Thursday after a few days visit with his sister, Mrs. Roy Donnelly, north of town.

Home grown watermelons are now quite plenty in the local market, but the price still keeps up to 30 to 35 cents each for the best ones. Muskmellons thus far are few and of poor quality.

A new steel smoke stack was placed in position at the River Queen mill Monday to replace the old one which was blown down by the wind and broken to pieces a couple of weeks ago. It cost about SIOO to repair tfle damage.

The greatest cantilever bridge in the wdHd, under construction across the St. Lawrence river between Montreal and Quebec, collapsed Thursday afternoon and carried ninety workmen, mostly Americans, to their death below..

Mr. Hiram W. Davis, of Parr, and Miss Johanna Elizabeth Hurley, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Alex Hurley, of Barkley Tp., were united in marriage at the St. Augustine’s Catholic church Tuesday morning, Rev. Father Meyer officiating.

E. E, Gur.yon and family of Cyclone, Clinton County, visited his folks northeast of town several days this week. Threshing was all finished up down there last week. ' Oats are just a trifle better yield there than here and corn is a little farther advanced.^ Miss Ada Merritt of Miami, Fla., visited the family of her nephew, John Merritt, a few days this week, after which she went to East Chicago to visit her niece, Mrs. Walter Forbes. From thdre she will go to Cincinnati, 0., and thence back to her home. "A. J. Harmon bad the misfortune to lose his show her<f*Poland China boar Tuesday. It got under the floor of its pen and was so exhausted in its efforts to get out that it soon died after being rescued. It was very fat and in fine show condition, and S2OO would not have bought it. The arrest of a couple of alleged horsethieves recently does not appear to put a stop to-horse stealing. W. J. Riley of Momence, 111., had a horse and boggy stolen last week, and Levi Kuboski,. of Carpenter Tp., this county had a six-year-old bay mare taken from his pasture on Tuesday night of last week.

Mr. and Mrs. E. R.. Hight and two children and Miss Grace Hjlliard of Kankakee tp., came down last Friday and spent a a few days with Mr. and Mrs. G. D. Gregory, returning home Sunday. Mr. Gregory accompanied them to Wheattield to look after some business matters, returning by rail Monday. The Democrat has just added a “Boston” staple binder to its job department, one of the latest and best staple binders made and one that is ahead of any staple binder in any print shop in the county. Reasonable prices will be made for stapling catalogues and pamphlets to neighboring offices that are not supplied with stapling machines. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Funk of Starke county stopped off here a few hours Monday and visited Mr. and Mrs. David Nowels. They were on their way home from a visit in central and southern Indiana. Mr. Funk has out some 15 acres of onions this year and 40 acres of potatoes, which he says are looking fine and give promise of a good yield.