Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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.