Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Reader*. Corn, 56c; oats, 44c. Walter Porter is visiting relatines in Kansas. Clyde Comer was at Winchester, Ind., on business this week. Simon Phillips is visiting his daughters in Fowler .this week. Ora Cain of Billings Mont., is visiting his brother Charles, south of town. EL F. Parker, the photographer, has traded bis gasoline launch for an automobile. Ed Warren and Frank Norman were up at Cadalac, Mich., on business this week. Miss Mary Michaels of Marion, is here for a week’s visit with relatives and friends. Simon Leopold moves Francesville this week, where he is engaged in the clothing business. Mrs. Geo. Terwilleger of east of town went to Illinois Thursday for a visit with relatives and friends. A little more rain fell Wednesday afternoon, “for a change,” and quite a shower came Thursday morning. Misses Edith and Mary Miller of Winona Lake are visiting the family of their brother, Dr. Miller, here this week. Mrs. Turner Merritt and daughter Maude of Remington, visited the family of the former’s son, John Merritt, here Wednesday. S. L. Luce, former trustee of Keener tp., is preparing to move to Whiting, Ind., where he will engage in the undertaking business. “Mr? Clyde M. Burris of Hanging Grove tp., and Miss Dora E. Price of Barkley tp., 'were united in marriage Monday by Squire Irwin; Mr. and Mrs. D. B. Branch, who have been spending the summer here with their son A. L. Branch, left Tuesday for their home in Stockton, Cali. Father George Held man of the Indian school delivered the address at the laying of the corner stone of a new Catholic church at Kakomo last Sunday. Mr. Lemuel Hammerton and Miss Ada Elder, both of this city, will be married tomorrow evening at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Elder. Mr. and Mrs. Harrod of Scott county, and Mrs. Malissa Gudgel of Jefferson county are visiting the family of the former’s son, Wm. Harrod of near Aix, this week. Ernest Stewart, who was employed here at one time in Wood’s jarber shop, died at the home of iis adopted parents in Brookston ast Sunday of consumption, aged 33 years. Miss Anna Sample, a former resident of Rensselaer and for some time an employe of the telephone office here) was married last week at her home in Pueblo, Colo., to Proctor K. Brown, a Pueblo grocer. Miss Emma Clager has gone to Lisbon, No. Dak., to attend thd wedding of Miss Lizzie Brown and Mr. Nelson G. Liane, a young farmer of near that place. She will visit there a couple of weeks before returningGorrell & Son of the Pulaski County Democrat, have added a standard linotype to their printing Slant this week. This is a luxury lat few country papers can afford, and we want to congratulate them on this evidence of their paper’s prosperity. There will be a big meeting of Second District democrats at Bloomfield, Green county, next Wednesday. Hon. W. J. Bryan will be there and address the meeting and there will also by> prominent democrats present from all over the state. Harris & Harmon sold Fritz Zard’s farm of 120 acres north'east of town Monday to Bert Amsler for 112,500, or about 1105 per acre, and Tuesday Mr. Zard and A. J. Harmon left for Mitchell, So. Dak., where he expects to purchase a larger farm. ■ ■! "" Tom Huston was down from Roselawn Thursday. The frost last week did not even kill tomatoes there and the big rain of Tuesday night never touched them. But they got a big rain recently and the Roselawn saloons are running full blast, so there is no dnouth up in that locality.