Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. To-day’s markets: Corn, 55c; oats, 45c. Miss Madaline Ramp is visiting her sister, Mrs. N. Krull, in Kentland. James Willis has moved into . I True Woodworth’s house on Cherry street. C. G. Harrington of Keener tp. was a business visitor in this city Wednesday. Mrs. J. H. Tilton and two little sons are visiting relatives in Wheatfield this week. Walter Ponsler of Mt. Ayr was in the city a few hours Thursday afternoon on business. *-Mrs. W. H. Eger and daughter, kiss Bessie Grant, go to Chicago yesterday for a few days visit. Mrs. Joseph Leach and children of Geddes, So. Dak., who have been visiting relatives here for some weeks, returned home Tuesday. Charles Ramp is sick from an attack of pleurisy, but not of such severity to confine him to the house. The attack dates from last Sunday. Misses Grace Richmond and Fayne Nelson spent Sunday at Cedar Lake, returning by the way of Monon, arriving home Monday morning. The morning subject at the Presbyterian* church will be “The Personal Question.” Evening subject, “A Shot at a Venture.” Everybody welcome. Stewart Moore, who has held the position of messenger boy at the local Western Union office, has quit the job, and Forest Morlan has taken his place. There has been no action taken toward th& employment of teachers in the city schools for the coming school year. This has been deferred to the next meeting in July. George Cooper of Barkley township was in town Wednesday. He is suffering with rheumatism in hlB left shoulder, which while very painful does not confine him to the house.

Benjamin Harris, with some fifty years of experience in farming, made the prediction that there are at present no indications of a big crop in any of those now planted and growing. j. a. McFarland, who has con-| ducted a grocery here for many years, has taken in his son Gaylord as a partner, and the firm name and style will be hereafter J, A. McFarland & Son. county Supt. W. O. Schanlaub of Kentland visited his parents Mr. and Mrs. John Schanlaub, here Tuesday afternoon and night, leaving Wednesday morning for Indianapolis to attend the state meeting of county superintendents. Ed S. Rhoades has new potatoes nearly large enough to eat, and they have not seen the sunlight or the ground this year either. These potatoes were put in the cellar last fall and the young ones have formed on them as large as quail’s eggs. Not very much local interest was manifested here in the republican natldsftf convention, not more than a half dozen people from Rensselaer attending, notwithstanding our close proximity to Chicago, the cheap railroad rates prevailing and the fact that It was comparatively easy to get into the convention hall.