Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1908 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. L- A. Harmon and children are visiting in Chatsworth, 111. The dredge started throwing rock out on the Iroquois ditch again Monday. Mrs. W. B. Fisher and daughter of Marlon are visiting here with her mother, Mrs. James T. Randle. Dr. and Mrs. Edward Corcoran and daughter of Chicago spent the 4th here with Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan. • \ Mrs. B. Forsythe, who has been in a Chicago hospital for the past few weeks undergoing an operation, will return home to-day. A three weeks old babe of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Lewis of Mt. Ayr was burled in Weston cemetery yesterday. Come, in and get one of The Democrat’s Wall Charts beford they are all gone. A whole library of useful Information for a very small sum. Mr. and Mrs. Austin Haas of Lafayette spent Sunday with relatives here. He returned home the Sunday evening but Mrs. H. remains for a few days. \ Mrs. J. W. Childers left yesterday Rollo, No. Dak., to visit her husband, who has been there for some time. If suited with the country it is likely the family will locate there. Yes, The Democrat has a few Wall Charts left, and the price remains at 35 cents additional when sold with a year’s subscription to The Democrat, 45 cents if to be mailed. Mrs. Monroe Carr started for Enid, Okla., yesterday morning to visit her son John Carr, who has been living there several years. She was accompanied to Chicago by Mr. Carr. Her stay will be for an indefinite time. During the storm last Friday morning lightning struck the First Baptist church. The explosion blew out the north side of the belfrey, but otherwise did not do a great deal of damage. The damages will probably foot up |25.

Has the Anti-Saloon League of Indiana sold Itself to the republican state machine? If so, and appearances seem to Indicate that presumption, the temperance cause of Indiana has been given a knock-out blow that it will be a long time recovering from. Owing to The Democrat's being printed last Thursday afternoon instead of Friday afternoon, as usual, on account of the 4 th, several batches of correspondence intended for the Saturday issue did not reach us in time for last week, and they appear in this issue. Winamac Democrat: Mrs. Benjamin Oglesby and children left on Tuesday morning for a visit with friends and relatives at Rensselaer. Lafayette and Fowler. .. .Mrs. Olive Davidson (formerly Lefler of Jasper county) and her daughter. Miss Elizabeth, of Omaha, Neb., are visiting with J. R. Dukes and his sisters of this city.

KMrs. M. D. Gwin went to Lafayette Monday morning where she will join a party of which Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Rainier, her parents, and Miss Rainier, a sister, will be members. They will go from there to Winona Lake by auto to spend the week, and will possibly visit other points before Mrs. Gwin returns home. Alfred Hickman and wife of Hammond are visiting his parents, Aaron and Mrs. Hickman. He returned to Hammond yesterday, but Mrs. Hickman will remain until • Monday. Mr. Hickman is employed by a chemical manufacturing company at East Chicago, as steam fitter. He reports work a little slow in his line, as practically no new work is going up, all the building being confined to additions and repairs. Crown Point Star: This season will no doubt put our farmers to raising wheat again, as every acre growing now promises a great yield, and the pieces average from five to sixty acres. When Lake county was new good wheat was regularly raised, and finally It became such an uncertain crop that people gave it up, but the last few years more has been put in each season, and now it is good on all kinds of soil. Nick Schmitter met with an accident Monday evening while driving near the Babcock elevator that will confine her to her rooms for several days. J. M. Thornton was coming along the street with a barrel mounted on a cart, when the horse shied and ran the buggy into the curb, raising one side of the buggy *0 much that Mrs. Schmitter was thrown to the ground and was badly bruised about the hip. The bruise is very painful, but is- not considered of a serious nature.