Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1908 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Notice the crowds at the big clearing sale. Chicago Bargain Store. Mrs. A. jL Havens and~three sons of Ladoga came Priday for a few days visit with the family of N. S. Bates. M. L. Spitler returned Friay from a few weeks visit with her aughter, Mrs. P. B. Learning of Goshen. Eli Gerber went to the farm a week ago and did not return until Monday night and was not at the council meeting. Macy and wife are paying ajvisit to Mr. Macy’s mother, Mrs. John Makeever, for a few days. Mr. Macy and family live at Indianapolis. Come in and get one of The Democrat’s Wall Charts before they are all gone. A whole library -of useful information for a very small sum. j White county let the contract Saturday for a new gravel road on the boundary line between Carroll and White counties to L. T. Kent for |20,505.

Ross has returned from Annapolis, Md., having failed to pass the physical examination required to admit him to the Naval Academy. His eyesight proved defective. Everett Merrill, who was arrested at Wheatfleld some time ago on the charge of being implicated in the abduction of little Lillian Wulff of Chicago last fall, was tried in Chicago last week and was acquitted. The ball game Sunday afternoon at the college grounds between Mt. Ayr and Rensselaer, was called off after six innings on account of the rain. The score was 2to lin favor of Rensselaer. In Friday’s game with Wolcott the score was 8 to 7 in favor of Wolcott.

T-sJUrs. C. D. Royse and daughter Maty and Miss Coffin, Mrs. Royce’s Bister, stopped off here yesterday while on their way to their home in Rapid City, So. Dak., for a short visit with Dr. and Mrs. H. L. Brown. They will resume their homeward journey to-day. Jensen, a farmer living outh of Roselawn, was out at the barn milking the cows last Sunday evening, in fact he had just finished the job, and was coming out of the barn, when an explosion of lightning knocked him down. For a time it was thought he was seriously hurt, but he seems to be coming out of it all right. •

The north stone crusher crew quit Saturday afternoon because of the excessive heat and piled up their tools and went home. Contractor Smith decided to give them a good rest and laid them off for two weeks, because of their leaving their .work without notice, and because of the difficulty in getting the rock out at this crusher. It will be started up again as soon as the dredge passes through. Lieut. Colonel Erastus Peacock of the Uniform Rank, K. of P., has received notification that a special train will be run to the Supreme Lodge meeting at Boston on August 1, to be known as the “Indiana Brigade Special.” It will go over the Big Four from Lafayette to Indianapolis and the fare for the round trip from Lafayette is to be 328.35. The route will be over the New York Central, L. E. & W., L. S. & M. S., West Shore and Boston & Albany. Side trips, stopovers, etc., are allowed. 1 Walter Ponsler of near Mount Ayr was in town Monday for a short time. He is just back from his recently purchased farm near Columbia City and reports everything in his newly acquired home is all right. The crops are all good, and in his opinion he has made a change that will prove to be satisfactory from every view point. He denies that he is going to buy an auto, but adds that the roads in that county are in the very best shape possible for auto uses, and this fact might prove to be his undoing*

' A little sulphur came near causng one of the worst fires this town las ever seen Monday evening. Mrs. Rosenbaum had been burning sulphur in the room where the hotel canned goods and other eatables were stored, and It seems this fire had been left to do its work, as most people, anticipating a small amount of the fumes of this substance at no distant time, stay as far away from it when it is burning as possible. In this case some of the things in the room got on fire and R was under good headway when discovered. Two hand grenades were used in putting it out, and Mr. Rosenbaum was so overcome by the fumes that he had to be dragged out of the room. The damage will not be much and will consist of a little burned floor and a part of the contents of the. room.