Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Item* of Interest to City and Country Reader*. , Corn, 57c; bats, 42c. Dr. Merrill was a Hammond visitor Monday. Remember the excursion to Chicago to-morrow. Marion I. Adame was in Ohica : go Monday on business. K' Mrs. M. D. Gwin visited her parents in Lafayette this week. Jay W. Williams has been confined to the house this week with pleurisy. t Mrs. Jay Lamson was called to Mulberry Monday by the sickness of her sister. New subscribers to the Demoocrat this week by postoffices: Goodland, 2. Philip McElfresh left Monday to visit bis children in Nebraska and Colorado. Miss Mabelte Cain has gone to Chicago" to assist Mrs. Pepperdine with her housework. - /. Frank Krosney of Cleveland, Ohio, visited friends here a few days the first of the week. C. T. Plummer of Chicago, visited bis sister, Mrs. S. C. Irwin, here a few days this week. Ed Leech of east of town was called to Parr Monday by the serious illness of his father. Walter Lutz, who recently returned from Colorado with his mother, is teaching in Barkley tp. Matt Moosemiller spent a few days .of last week with Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Messman of Kent* .land. W* t *XA- J- and L. A. Harmon left Tuesday for South Dakota to look after the threshing on their farm there. ’ Guy Gerber of Rensselaer and James Jordan of Barkley tp., are attending university at Champaign, 111. — Mr. and Mrs. James Parker of Frankfort visited the former’s brothers, Charles and Thomas, here this week. Mrs. W. F. Michael and son Raymond left Tuesday for an extended visit at Wabash, Ft. Wayne and Bluffton, Ind. Bert Johnson of near Foresman has bought a 260 acre farm near White Cloud, Mich., and will move upon same in the spring. N. Littlefield, having in tow trustee Stackhonee, left Tuesday for Murdo and Pierre, So. Dak., on a land prospecting trip.

Mrs. Addie Heacox and daughter. Miss Lillie Heacox of, Morris, 111., are visiting Mrs. Dora Jacks and other relatives here this week. Mrs. George Daniels of Barkley tp., went to Chicago Sunday to enter the Presbyterian hospital to undergo an operation for gallstones. Miss Iva Michael, who has been visiting her uncle W. F. Michael and family for the past six weeki, returned home Saturday to enter college. The Michigan peach crop is only about one-fourth an average yield, and prices will be double that of last year. Apples are also a very short crop. Mrs. Goldie Crowden of Goodland returned home Tuesday after a few days’ visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Harmon of Hanging Grove tp. Dr. A. R. Kresler has bought the Jones farm of 240 acres, five miles northwest of town, paying therefor $75 per acre. Mr. Jones expects to move to St. Louis, Mo. The three-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Ballinger of Kniman, whose serious condition from meningitis was mentioned in these columns recently, died last Friday, - ----- - - - Joseph Blair, who has been working at the Alter Bros, tile factory north of town, is now proprietor of the Parr blacksmith shop, having bought same from W. L. Wood. - - - ■ Goodland Herald: According to report the Newton county poor farm has paid expenses this year. The Jasper county farm’s expenses were $277.43 more than the receipts. * A. J. Harmon did not enter but two of his swine herd at the state fair and got one blue ribbon on Duroc Jersey boar one year old. He sold all his herd but one to breeders in attendance at the fair.