Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Dave McConnehay attended the old settlers meeting at Monticello (Saturday. j George Wilson of Chioago, a college chum of Ted Eger’s visited the latter here a few days this wees. * _ *5 Earl Saidla left Tuesday for North Dakota, Montana and Washington. He expects to spend the winter in the latter statq. Mrs. Alfred Thompson is said to be getting along as well as could be expected from the injuries reoeived from the fall last week. • The 3-year-old daughter of Wm. Ballinger of Kniman, is very siok with spinal meningitis. Very lithopes are entertained of her recovery. Ex-Congressman Hatch of Kentland, is prospecting in the south with the intention of locating either in Oklahoma, Texas or California. ' Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hardy and little daughter left Monday for their home in Alva, Okla,, after a few weeks visit with relatives here and at Remington. v 4Miss Gail Daugherty, who has been spending the summer with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. G. P. Daugherty, left Tuesday for her home in Wyoming.

The mercury still gets down uncomfortably close to the frost point every night, reaching below 50 ° . A heavy frost now would ruin every field of corn in the county. Mrs. Samuel Parker and Conrad Maxwell of Hanging Grove tp., were called to Blackwell, Okla., Tuesdayby theserious conditionof their futher, E. W. Maxwell, who is suffering from appendicitis. m Mrs. John Eger, Misses Mary and Carrie Eger and Mesdames C A. Roberts, I. A. Glazebrook. Van Grant, B. K. Zimmerman and Will Porter went to Lowell Thursday to spend the day with Mrs. Frank Maloy. Burglars have been getting in their work at Lowell. Frank Maloy’s house was among those entered, but Frank, like the printer man, don’t have his dollars lying about loose to tempt dishonest people, and they left bare-handed. Ex-county superintendent L, H. Hamilton, who recently formed a partnership with W. H. Parkison in the practice of law, has decided to give up the law business and has bought an interest in A. L. Branch’s coal, wood and feed business. U. M. Baughman did not get away last week after all, but was in Rensselaer Monday of this week looking after some business matters, returning to Monon in the afternoon and leaving therewith his famiipfor Oklohoma City Tuesday on the early morning train.

Manager Ellis deserves great credit in having succeeded in securing the magnificent production of “Toyland” in its entirety. It is filled with up-to-date music, something that is dazzling and catchy. There is no imitation—everything is original and new. At the opera bouse tonight: • G. A. Strickfaden was ITfcre the first of the week and assisted his family in packing up and moving to Noblesville, where he is now located in the saloon business. Mrs. F. J. Bears has rented and will move into their residence here and B. F. Fendig, the newly married druggist, will occupy the Warren property, vacated by Mrs. Sears. - y George Brooker tried a kind of grain this summer that is not much grown here. It is spelt. He got the seed from North Dakota, and though the crop had not a good chanoe be saya he has 82 bushels from 8 aores. He is so well pleased with it that he will next spring sow all he can find room for.—Pulaski County Democrat. • Wolcott Enterprise: Last week W. F. Crethers purchased the interest of T. H. Robertson in the livery business and has leased the Grimes’ feed barn which he will manage in the future,. While Robertson has disposed of his interest in the livery business, it is his intention to remain in Wolcott and conduot a sale and exchange business at his own barn the same as heretofore. The long-pending case of the trustee of A. .McCoy & Co., the bankrupt bankers, vs. Delos Thompson—-the old Rensselaer Stock Farm matter in which there was an overdraft of some 128,000 and some $24,000 in notes, a total of over $50,000 with interest, etc. — has been set for trial in the Lake cirouit court Oct. 1. W. H. Parkison of Rensselaer and E, B. Sellers of Monticello have charge of the case for the trustee.