Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. To-day’s markets: Corn, 48c; oats, 46c. Advertised letters: Oscar Cherry, John Welch. Xj>. D. Wells of Barkley tp., is attending law school at Indianapolis. W. J. Wright and Bert Brenner were Chicago visitors Saturday. < Mrs. John Eger spent Thursday kith Mrs. Peter Hordeman in Union tp. It Hiram Day has resumed work at Gary where he has considerable plastering to do. Miss Cora Everett, deputy postmistress, was visiting this week with her parents in Medaryville. "k Vern Shook and family left Tuesday afternoon for Pasadena, Cali., where they expect to make their home. Howard Burr* of Goodland and Frank Corbin of Brook were in the city Thursday on tax-paying business. M. H. Hemphill, who has been confined to the house for a couple of weeks with stomach trouble, Is now able to be out again. The fruit prospects were never better than this spring and if fifty per cent of the bloom ripens into fruit there will be an enormous crop. Grandma Weathers who has been living with her grand-daughter Mrs. Mary Fox at Otterbein, Is here for an extended visit with her daughter, Mrs. Mary Peyton. Mrs. Alice Triplett, wife of Dr. C. E. Triplett of Morocco, died at her home in that place last week, aged 68 years. She leaves a husband and three children. A. Gangloff returned recently from a trip through Kansas, and was so much taken up with the country that they will probabljr sell their lands here and remove' there. X. N. Littlefield has been on the hick list with grip during the week, and while he is improving some and is at the office a part of the time, has not fully recovered his usual good health. . \f Mrs. Lorlnda McGlynn, widow of pie late John MeGlynn of Wheatfield, moved here this week and occupies the David Nowels tenant house south of Tom Grant’s store, on Main street. n > Y Marion Cooper directs us to send ms Democrat to Well, So. Dak., instead of Mitchell. Bays he has got land there and will make it his home. “A part of this country looks good to me,” he says. A. F. Shesler went to Chicago Sunday to bring home his stater-in-law, Mrs. Seward, who recently underwent a surgical operation in a hospital there for rupture of the veins of one of her limbs. Joseph Adams, south of town, has gone into the Catalpa tree growing quite extensively, having set out 4.000 young trees this spring. In three or four years he will have post timber "to burn.”

The Lake-Newton democratic representative convention will be held at Gary to-day. W. W. Reeves is, making some extensive improvements to his residence on South street. Calvin Cain has moved from one of the E. D. Rhoades tenant houses on Front street, into the Mrs. Laughridge property on Cornelia street. - The Indianapolis Star’s going busted and being placed in the hands of a receiver and just before the republican national convention, too, is unfortunate. The St. Joseph's college ball team won the first game of ball of the season here Saturday, in a game with the Logansport high school team. Score 7 to 1. yFrank Meyer of Danville, 111., spent Sunday and Monday with relatives here. Frank says that the large retail shoe store in Dannvllle in which he is a partner, is doing a fine business, in fact the business of the city. yMr. and Mrs. A. E. Wallace of Eaglewood, HL, came down Saturday for a short visit with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Irwn. Mr. Wallace returned Monday but his wife remained for a longer visit. Frank Critzer is working southwest of Lowell this spring. He concluded to rent the farm rather than go to the expense of buying machinery to work it. He and Mrs. Critzer expect to spend next winter in Virginia, from whence her people came.

We publish this week a synopsis of previous chapters of the very interesting story now being published in The. Democrat, so that new subscribers may take up the story at this stage and have an intelligent idea of that part already published. ’xThe great storm of the year passed over the southern states last Saturday and arrived in Rensselaer at one a. m. Saturday morning. While there was a terrlffic wind for some time there was no hail in this vicinity, and the damage done consisted in blowing over several fruit trees. Ike Fisher, the barber, who has his shop in the former hose-cart house north of Snedeker & Nichols’ meat market, near the depot, which has recently been remodeled for his use, moved his family here this week from Wheatfield and occupies the Wheeler property on East Vine street official calls for the democratic senatorial, representative and judicial conventions appear elsewhere in this paper. The two former will be held in Monon on Wednesday, May 6, and the latter in Mt. Ayr on Wednesday, May 13. Delegates to each of said conventions have heretofore been selected in this county. New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Parr, 2; Mt. Ayr, 1; Francesville, R. 5, 1) Goodland, R. X 1J Remington, 17; Remington, R. 2,2; Remington, R. 3,1; Remington, R. 4,2; Fowler, R. 1,1; Rensselaer, R. 4,3; Monte Vista, Colo., 1; Craig, Colo., 1; Rensselaer, 6; Monon, R. 18, 1; Harvard, Mich., 1; Forssman, 1; Lee, 2; McCoysburg, 11; Britton, So. Dak., 1.