Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1907 — Page 5

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn, 56c; oats, 420. The season for football acoi- | dents has arrived. Orlie Clouse spent Sunday with a young lady friend at Lee. Mrs. B. Forsythe is visiting her jpster, at New Philadelphia, Ohio. IrSFrank Morlan of North Dakota ' is visiting relatives here this week.

John Stack, of near Goodland, was a business visitor in town Wednesday. Will Clark went to Mitchell, So. Dak., Thursday on aland pros- . pecting trip. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Brown of Crown Point visited Mrs. Geo. Goff this week. Cbhrlie Rhoades of the Monon News force spent Sunday with Rensselaer relatives. • - John A. Miller and Fred Banes of Carpenter tp., were business visitors in town Monday. The “After Harvest Festival’’ held at Mt. Ayr last week is said _ to have been very successful. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Wright visited the former’ssister, Miss Leathe Wright, in Chicago over Sunday. The last of the saloons at Wolcott went out of business last week and that town is now in the “dry” belt. Bro. E. A. Walker, late editor of the Wolcott Enterprise, is prospecting in the state of Washington. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Cox left Tuesday for a week or ten days’ visit at their old home in Piainfield, Ind.

Durant returned to Grand Rapids, Minn., Monday after three weeks’ visit with relatives here. Eger will leave to-mor-row to resume bis studies at Harvard College. He will graduate year. Mrs. C. Mills of Newpoint, lnd., catfie up last Friday for a visit with her son, Zack Stanley and family. Leland Jessen, wbo has been working as nfght man on the Monon at Brookston, ie home on a vacation, Austin Haas, wife and little son of Lafayette, visited the former’s sisters and brothers here Saturday and Sunday. r > Mrs. John Randle and son Russell of Barkley tp., visited her sister, Mrs. J. G. Tharp, in Chica,.go this week. Spider’s family have moved to Aberdeen, Wash., where » George is following the bill post- > ing business. J New subscribers to the Demoocrat this week by postoffices': Newland, 1; Fair Oaks, 1; Grand Rapids, Minn., 1. Miss Opal Sharp returned this week from a ten days visit with her brother J. A. Sharp and wife ut Chicago Heights. Winifred Pullins purchased a six horse International Gas Engine of Branoh & Hamilton. He will use it in his sorghum mill.

Mrs, Jerome Harmon and two children returned Monday from a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Goldie Crowden, at Goodland. " James Fletcher of Kentland, has been engaged as olerk in the clothing departmentof the Chicago Bargain Store, and will move here. Mr. and Mrs. Hartley Church of Remington came over Saturday afternoon and spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bellows. ' Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Cole of Erbon, Ran,', who have been visiting his uncle, A. J. Freeland of Newton tp., for several weeks, left for their home Monday. John Duvall who has been working at tailoring at Grand Rapids, Mich., for the past two or three years, is here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. 0. W. Duvall. Dr. and Mrs. E. C. English entertained the city school board and teaoheni and the county superintendent at their handsome home on Cullen street Saturday 1 evening. The big dredge has been lying idle for some time riow, while more drilling and blasting is being done, At the rate this rook exoavation has been going on for the past few months it will take several years to oomplete the ditoh.

Joseph Sharp is oonfined to his home thM week with illness. 'Vjames Grow of Loganaport visited his brother, R. H. Grow, here this week. Owing to the cool evenings of late the band concerts have been discontinued for this season. J. C. Gwin is taking treatment for rheumatism and stumaoh trouble at the mineral springs near Attica. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B. Davidson and Mrs. A. F. Shesler attended the state fair Wednesday and Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Allman and son George of Remington were guests of county treasurer Jesse D. Allman Thursday. The Manhattan Co., will appear in repertoire at Ellis’ opera house next Monday, Tuesday and Wednesday nights. Dr. Miller returned the first of the week from his Dakota trip. He did not close np any deal for a farm there but may do so iater. Ten more pupils entered the city schools Monday, 4 in the high school and 6in the grades. The freshman class now uumberß 77. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Eldredge of Barkley tp., left Wednesday for Geddes, So. Dak., to visit their son-in-law, Joseph Leach and ilyDr. Horton is having the old building used by Hemphill Bros, as a blacksmith shop torn down and will erect a cement block shop in its stead. Excursion to Chicago, Sunday, Sept. 22. Special train train schedule same as heretofore, Only $1.25 for the round trip from Rensselaer.

Miss Ellen Casey will teach sohool in Starke county this year. Her sister Mary will work at the millinery bdsineßs for the season at Colfax, Ind. Squire Thornton caught an overflow marriage Monday, the parties being Howard Griffin and Mrs. Matilda Hagel, both giving their residence as Rensselaer. Milroy schools began Monday with the following teachers: No. 1, Grace Worland; No.' 2, Jessie Williamson; No. 3, George E. May. No. 4 has been abandoned. W. R. Shesler and daughter Ina. visited relatives and friends in Iroquois county. 111., last week, returning home John Cheevers, a cousin, returnecT'with them for a week’s visit. A horse and buggy was hired at a livery at Sheldon, 111., last Friday, driven to Monticello and sold to a liveryman there for S7O. The rig was recovered but the thief hiked with the seventy “bones.” Mrs. Kaise Sebert of St. Ann, 111., who has been staying with her sister, Mrs. Dolph Day, was united in marriage to Mr. Alphonse Raymond of Lafayette by Judge Hanley at the latter’s residence Monday. and Mrs. I. M. Washburn, Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Warner, Mr. and Mrs. Delos Thompson, S. E. Sparling and Mrs. F, A. Ross attended a clambake gived by George Ade at his farm home near Brook Saturday. Among those who attended the state fair from Rensselaer were Mrs. G. F. Meyers and daughter Nellie, Fred Phillips, A. L. Branch, R. D. Thompson, Vance Collins, John Mallatt, N. S. Bates, Mrs. James Lefler, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hopkins and Philip Heuson.

“Toyland” Saturday night was one of the best of the many good attractions that have appeared at Ellis’ opera house this season. There were some 20 people in the troupe and the ohorus was the largest and best ever seen here. The show deserves a paoked house wherever it goes. Montioello Journal: Yesterday, for the first time in the history of White county, all the schools commenced on the same day. There are 114 teachers employed in the county, 49 men and 105 women. Of this number eighty-one are employed in distriot schools and sev-enty-three in the graded schools. The oounty has sent oat fifteen teaohers to surrounding counties. Uncle Joe Gaines expects to leave in about a week for a visit to his old home in Clarksburgh, West Virginip, He has not been baok for 52 years. He left five brothers and five sisters there but all are now gone. He has a great many relatives there, hoWever, including descendants of his brothers and sisterß whom he wishes to visit and to also look over the soenes of his early youth.

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Miss Edna Peacock of Dyer is visiting Miss Opal Sharp.

— ■p*E Attorney A. D. Babcock of Goodland, was looking after matters in court here yesterday. Miss Spaulding, the W. U. operator, was called to Greencastle Monday by the sickness of a sister, Carl Duvall of Wolcott spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Duvall, in Rensselaer. I ■ l " , Mr. Bramon of Francesville has rented the James Mathoson property and moved into same this week. Carl Gorbet, son of A. A. Gorbet of Barkley tp., dislocated his elbow Sunday morning by falling from a horse. — 1 Emmet, the 10-year-old son of Bert Dowell, got his collar bone broken at the school yard Monday while playing football. Mrs. Wingate Downing of Little River, Kan., is visiting relatives and friends in this county and Newton, and in Logansport. Mrs. M. V. Burk and daughter Jeanese of Crawfordsville are visiting Misses Ethel and Opal Sharp and other friends here. A packed house greeted “The Missouri Girl” at Ellis opera house Wednesday night and all were pleased with the production. The merry-go-round has been moved back from Mt. Ayr and is again in operation on the Judge Thompson corner south of the Makeover House. Another excursion to Chicago Sunday, Sept. 22, $1.25 for the round trip. Special train passes Rensselaer at usual time, 8:47. This will probably be the last cheap excursion of the season. 4-. Rensselaer will be pretty well represented at Purdue this year. In addition to the return of Cleve Eger and Omar Day, Devere Yeoman, Firman Thompson, George Parkison, Rex Warner and Perry Gwin are attending, Monticello Herald: Mrs. B. B. Baker joined Mrs- S. R, Niohols and Miss Bertha Nichols of Rensselaer this week in a three weeks’ trip including Niagara Falls, New York City, Jamestown, Washington and other eastern points. Wolcott Enterprise: C. L. Duvall of Rensselaer has taken employment at the Leopold store, having begun work Monday. He is an experienced salesman and will be a valuable addition to Mr. Leopold’s sale force, which now numbers six. A. F. Shesler of near Pleasant Ridge returned Tuesday from a week’s visit at his old home near Woodland and Watseka, 111., attending the fair at Watseka while away. Crops in that locality are just about the same as here, and three weeks more are needed to mature the corn. An editor on being asked if he ever saw a bald-headed woman replied in the following vein: “No we never did. Nor did we ever see a woman waltzing around town in her shirt sleeves with a cigar between her teeth and run into every saloon she saw. We have never seen a woman go fishing with a bottle in her pocket, sit on the damp ground all day and go home drunk at night. Nor have we seen a woman yank off her ooat and say she oonld lick any man in town. God bless her, she isn’t bnilt that way.”—Ex.

Mr. and Mrs. Frank Randle of Clark’s Hill visited relatives here a few days last week, going from here to Monon Saturday to spend Sundav with relatives there and thence return home. Geo. A. Williams returned Wednesday from a few days’ visit in Carthage, 111. Mrs. Williams, who had been visiting there for a few weeks, returned with him and also her mother, Mrs. Davidson, who will make her home with them. Edward J. O’Connor, son of a wealthy wholesale grocer of Indianapolis, died suddenly at Water Valley last Friday night after a prolonged debauch in which he is alleged to have consumed great quantities of Water Valley rot-gut whiskey. Frank Prevo of Kewana, 111., a former resident of Rensselaer, is figuring on moving here and baying out oneof the livery barns and Jackson’s buss line and run both lines of business. Mr. Prevo has been engaged in the hardware business, At this writing no deal has been closed up here so far as we can learn. Mrs. J. A. Larsh received announcement a few days ago of the marriage of Miss Carmen Penn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas J. Penn, formerly of Rensselaer, but now of Dunkirk, Ind., to Mr. Benjamin Louis Fiinn, which took place at the home of the bride’s parents on Sunday, Sept. 1. They will reside in Dunkirk.

Dr. Washburn expects to make considerable improvement to the G. E. Marshall residence property on Washington street, * which he recently purchased. The old house on the east he has sold to B. S. Fendig who will move it onto one of his lots on the old Spitler property, south of the Presbyterian church and fit it up for a tenant house.

The Catholio church people are preparing to replace the old brick sidewalk on the west side of their church block with cement. The old walk is about as as no walk at all during wet, rainy, weather, hence the improvement. There are a few other of these old, obsolete brick walks in the city that are in the same condition and ought to be ordered replaced with cement. A brick walk, especially when it gets old and worn, is of little account.

Rain all day Saturday, a part of the afternoon and all night Monday aud part of the time Tuesday rendered oats threshing out of the question for the time being. The continued rains have put farmers behind with threshing and there are still a great number of jobs yet to thresh. Oats seem to have been shocked better than usual this season add have not been damaged so badly, dealers say, by the wet weather as would naturally be expected. Mrs. Albert Moorhead left last Friday for her home in Limon, Colo., after a several week’s visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Nevil of Rensselaer. She had intended to stay until the 15th, when her parents celebrated their silver wedding, but was called home on aocount of her husband being taken down with typhoid fever. A letter received by her parents since she got home states that Albert is quite badly sick. Five Others in the railroad shops where he worked are also down with the disease.

Special Bargains in Improved and unimproved lands within the fruit belt of Michigan. For particulars see or address D. L. Halstead, Rensselaer, Ind., R. F. D. No. B. 3t, Mrs. O. A. Powers of Panama, N. Y., came last Friday to visit her husband and the family of J. W. Knapp. She etarted for home Wednesday, Mr. Powers accompanying her as far as Chicago, from whioh point he went to Lamar, Colo., after another carload of horses. The demonstration on the street of the Racine Combination Fanning Mill, seed corn grader, seed cleaner and sorter, created quite qn interest among the farmers. Five persons gave their order for one each, through Branch & Hamilton, who are agents for the same. They expect to sell a oarload of these machines by spring. Miss Leathe Wright left Chicago Monday for Raton, New Mexico, where she has a desirable position in the city schools. She has been teaching in Marion the past three years, but expected to teach in Chicago this year, in fact, had commenced teaching there when she received notice from an old schoolmate, who is teaching in Ranton, that she had also secured her a position at a handsome salary, and to come on at once. Accordingly she resigned her Chicago position and went, the principal reason for her going being on account of her health, her doctor telling Fer she was threatened with tuberculosis.

W. L. Bringle of Newton tp., returned Wednesday from a four weeks visit with his brother-in-law near Pullman, Oregon, and with relatives near Anatone, Wash. He reports a very pleasant trip and his appearance indicates that it done him good. Heading and threshing of wheat was still in progress in Washington and will keep up until snow flies. A good crop of wheat is being harvested, th 6 heaviest yield in the vicinity where he was being 52 bushels to the acre. The elevators were paying 79 cents per bushel for wheat when he left. Mr. Bringle was very favorably impressed with the country thereabouts and if he was forty years younger Jasper county would probably loose another mighty good citizen.

You run no risk on anything when you trade at the G. E, Murray Co., they oater to quality. We can furnish you good Indiana bran and middlings. Branch & Hamilton. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS. Sept. 8, to Mr, and Mrs. Bert Welsh, a son, Sept. 8, to Mr. and Mrs. Frank Burns, a son. Sept 9, to Mr. and Mrs. James Snedeoker, a daughter, Branoh & Hamilton sold a carload of ground feed in the north end of the county this week. LAND BARGAINS 480 acres, mostly smooth blaok prairie land in meadow or pasture; has large ditch, on main road, near good markets, fenced but no boildings. Fine for cultivation or pasture. Will divide to suit and sell on easy terms at the low price of S3O per acre. G. F. Meyers, Rensselaer, Ind. Oliver gangs, sulky and walking plows, the best in the world. Branch & Hamilton.

El! mu HR non. Tues. and Wed. SEPT. 16 —l7 18 THE FAMOUS Hill HI CO. In Repertoir and EIGHT GREAT VAUDEVILLE ACTS PRIGES--15—25—50 : : :

SUICIDE NEAR BROOK. John Hambridge, a farmer aged 49 years, residing west of Brook, committed suicide last Saturday morning by shooting himself with a target ride. He leaves a wife and three children. Despondency and liquor is alleged to have been the cause for the rash act. STILL MAKING ‘FILLING,” Last Sunday’s Indianapolis Star had a full page illustrated writeup of the passing.of the McCoys. A picture of Tom in his palmy days as dictator of the republican political machine of Jasper county, also his picture taken immediately after the conviction; a picture of “Old Mac” taken many years ago was also given, and Tom’s wrecked house in Rensselaer a view of McCoy avenue (that used to be, but has since the “rail” been changed to Milroy avenue) and two pictures of the interior of Tom’s present residence, the penitentiary at Michigan City. There was nothing new in the write-up but what has heretofore been published in the local papers here.

FORTY-TWOJ ACRE FARM FOR SALE. As I contemplate moving to Michigan I will offer my 42 acre farm in Barkley tp., for sale at a very reasonable figure. Has good six room house, good large barn, cribs and other out-buildings, all well painted and in good repair, well tiled and fenced with 300 rods of hog-tight wire, drilled well, wind-mill, seven miles from. Rensselaer, gravel road all the way, R. F. D., and telephone, fruit of all kinds and a most desirable well located farm. Thomas Driver, R-B-L ■ Rensselaer, Ind. The new Royal Acorn, the perfect base burner, and the best in the world. Samples now here. Chicago Bargain Store. Catalog sample room. Highest prices paid for cordwood, straw, hay, oats and oorn. Branch & Hamilton. Headquarters—Sohool supplies, boys’ and girls’ wearing apparel. Chicago Bargain Store. Tbe New Pure Food and Drug Law. We are pleased to Announce that Foley’s Honey and Tar for Coogbs, cold* and lung troubles la not affected by the National Pure Food and Drug law as It contains no opiates or other harmfutdrugs, and we recommend It aa a safe remedy for children and adults. A. F. Long.