Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1908 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

local and personalBrief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. J Haying will be In full blast next week. To-day’s markets: Corn, 55c; oats, 45c. fl. B. Moffitt of Fair Oaks was In *the city Monday on business. Dean, has gone to Winona Lake to attend the summer school thpre. /X Mrs. Delos Thompson and daughters are visiting her sister at Saginaw, Mich. The family of Geo. K. Hollingsworth of Chicago Is here to spend the summer. On account of the 4th being a legal holiday there will be no rural mall delivery Saturday. D. J. Warner came down from Chicago Heights Monday and will stay until after the 4th. Mrs. A. E. Alter of Forest, Ind., is visiting here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Nowels.

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. B. Davidson are visiting relatives In Ohio and Pennsylvania for a few weeks. Charles Harmon and wife of “Chicago came down ,to visit their little daughter and other relatives over Sunday. Prof. B. D. Richardson and wife of Sharon, Wis., are here for a few days visit with his father T. J. Richardson. Advertised letters: Miss Lydia Pence, James C. Johnson, Mrs. Belle Ford, Miss Hardemore (?), Miss Zelma Fedhne. Mrs. A. G. Catt, who was operated on in a Chicago hospital last week for tumor, is reported as getting along very nicely. Will Guss of Chicago is in town for a few days visit with relatives. He now has a position as advance agent for a circus. C.. C. Starr and daughter, Mrs. W. H. Barkley, were called to Lafayette Saturday by the death of the former’s sister, Mrs. Stair. The Misses Kennedy of Morocco, nieces of Mrs. H. O. Harris, spent Sunday in Rensselaer with relatives, returning home Monday morning. Mrs. T. A. Crockett fell from the stairs at her home Saturday morning while sweeping them, and was quite painfully bruised although no bones were broken.

- Dr. Horton, the dentist, has a large revolving fan suspended over his operating chair which makes it very pleasant for patients having teeth treated these sultry days. Oats are beginning to head out but they are very short and only under the most favorable weather conditions will they make anywhere near a crop.—Brook Reporter. Peters came to visit his parents, Mr. .and Mrs. Al Peters, Monday morning for a few days. He is employed on the D. H. Yeoman dredge in the vicinity of Royal Center. The opening chapters .of The Democrat’s new serial, “The Real Agatha,” will appear in our next issue. Don’t miss reading this story. It is out of the ordinary but is very interesting and amusing; John Zoborosky and wife, living east of Morocco, were in town Monday to do some trading. Rensselaer merchants get considerable trade from Newton county, but not nearly as much, as they did twenty years ago.

Misses Blanche Cook, Carrie Pierce, Fern Parker, Cora Dexter, Tillie Malchow, Ethel Perkins, Emma Rayher, Pearl Wasson and Grace Peyton left Sunday for Terre Haute to take a six weeks course at the ■State Normal. E. D. Rhoades returned Friday from Cincinnati, where she has been for the past two months with her daughter Mrs. C. A. Radcliffe. The latter and baby accompanied her home, and will -remain tor some time. j Isaac Saldlai of just northeast of town was in Saturday, and was ’ boasting that he had had new potatoes and string beans from his garden that day for dinner. He thinks he has the best garden in the county, and we’re not going to dispute it. Sherman Rehlcker handed us a copy of the Minot (No. Dak.) Independent of last Thursday, giving an account of a cyclone which visited that locality the Sunday morning previous, tearing farm houses, out buildings, wind mills, etc., to pieces, but fortunately without fatally injuring any people, although several were somewhat Injured.