Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1908 — Page 8

Jasper County Gleanings NEWS PROM ALL OVER THE COUNTV. BV OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

AIX. John Comer worked for Allle Francis last week. Mrs. Frank Vest was <a Rensselaer goer Saturday afternoon. Miss Stella Marlon Is working for Frank Payne’s this week. Mrs. Frank Vest spent Wednesday with her mother, Mrs. Francis. Mrs. Bowman Switzer called on Mrs. Clarence Hurley Saturday evening. The Holiness people held meeting at Aix school house Sunday evening. Mrs. Henkle called on her daughter, Mrs. Clarence Hurley, Wednesday afternoon. May and Eliza Hurley spent Wednesday afternoon with Mary and Pauline Comer. Uncle James Knight, who has been In poor health all spring, is better at this writing. Clifford, Jasper and Emma Hurley spent Sunday with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. James Knight.

EAST CARPENTER. Hay making is the order of the day. John O’Brien is still on the sick list. George Fulks mowed the roads Monday. Willie Dickinson called on home folkß Sunday. A line rain fell In this vicinity Bunday afternoon. Miss A. NVfSigman has been visiting her sister at Brookston. Lura Lucas is working for Mrs. Grant Culp at this writing. Frank Bartoo and son Elora were Remington goers Saturday afternoon. Miss Ida Bartoo has been working for Mrs. Horace Hoover the past few weeks. Mr. and Mrs. Hurley and family took dinner with their Bon Abe, last Sunday. Mrs. Abe Hurley and Laura Hurley called on Harmon Dickinson’s Monday evening. Elmer Bartoo and Ell Zehr attended the ball game at Barney Stien’s Sunday afternoon. Several loads of gravel have been hauled for the new gravel road, beginning on the Sigman corner.

PAIR OAKS. C. L. Eggleston’s new house is nearing completion. Mrs. C. L. Eggleston went to Chicago Monday on business. Pete Wood threshed his rye Tuesday. O. E. Eller did the work. Mrs. P. L. Yeoman of Hibbard, Ind., visited relatives in these parts this week. Weather is fine,everybody busy and news scarce. Health is generally good. Miss Ella Hickman of near Roselawn visited at Emery Cox’s here a few days this week. Mrs. Doss Norman of Rensselaer was in these parts the first of the week gathering huckleberries. A 1 Blake moved his family out on the Hampden ranch last week and will remain until after haying. J. L. Babcock of Parr, republican nominee for trustee, was looking around his political fences in these parts Monday. Uncle Dave Winslow and Lora Brouhard left here for Lisbon, No. Dak., the first of the week to take an active part in the wheat harvest. Mrs. McCulla who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Dodge, has been having a serious time the past few days with tonsllltis, but 1b improving at this writing.

Frank Cox and Chas. Manderville are on the sick list this week. It is thought that Frank has an attack of pneumonia, contracted while working in the elevator. Dewey Dewitt and Dora Cottingham put in a few daya the first of the week on the banks of the beautiful Kankakee looking after the finny tribe, of which there seems to be a good many caught.

LEE. Born, July 13, a son to Mr. and Mrß. Frank Overton. T. P. Jacks’ horse, which has been sick, is getting better/ Mrs. Qla Randle is pasturing a few of her sheep in her lots in Lee. Sunday morning Morris Jacks went to Thayer, returning home in the evening. Several from here attended Mr. Clark’s funeral last Sunday at the Milroy church. Mrs. Frank Eldridge’s two sisters and brother of Mt. Ayr came last Saturday evening to make her a several days visit.

Mr. and Mrs. Will Rishllng and Miss Lural Anderson went to Michigan City Wednesday on the Sunday schoole^cursion. Last Monday Uncle George McCoy was out in his hay field where men were putting up hay and took a bad spell and fell, and they had to carry him to the house and send for Dr. Clayton. D. E. Noland and wife and Sam Jacks and wife and son Oscar attended quarterly meeting at Barkley last Saturday. This'll tho-dast quarterly meeting for this conference year, and also Dr. Wood’s 'last time for being Elder. He has served his full time faithfully. Tuesday morning Mr. and Mrs. Matthews of Brookston came to visit their daughter and heif family, Mrs. D. E. Noland. They returned home Wednesday evening. Sunday morning Misses Iva and Leona Pearson of Lafayette came to visit friends for a few days. Last Saturday Mr. Bush and family of Brookston came to his uncle’s A. B. Lewis’ and visited with them and his cousins, Mrs. May and Dora Jacks. They returned home Sunday afternoon. They drove through. Sunday Will Jacks and family visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. P. Jacks.

EGYPT. (From another correspondent.) Master Willie Eish visited Emery Blake Sunday. Nick Besse started to cut oats Thursday morning. The R. A. club will meet at Will Pruett’s this week. Miss Katie Michaels was a Rensselaer goer Monday. Mrs. Stella Besse has been putting up dewberries all week. Miss Lucy Blake took dinner with the Welsh girls Sunday. > Chas. Antcliff and wife were Rensselaer goers Tuesday afternoon. Miss Iva Blake is visiting Misses Mary and Pearl Eisele this week. Miss Florence Antcliff called on the Welsh girls Tuesday afternoon. Wm. Michaelß and Dan Blake are helping put up hay at Gailey’s this week. Maurice Besse and Mack Steel helped Abb Dewey put up hay last week. Miss May Sampson who has been visiting at Antcliff’s, returned home Sunday. The R. A. club will hold a picnic at the Egypt school house Sunday, July 19. Miss Florence Antcliff and brother Gilbert took dinner at George Antcliff’s Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. D. V. Blake took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. W. M. Michaels Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Eisele and family, Mrs. Gracon and Mrs. Dixie and two grandsons took dinner with Mr. and Mrs. Galley Sunday.

MT AYR. (From the Pilot.) Miss Opal Penwright of Kankakee, 111., is here visiting with her friends and relatives. Miss Bessie Adamson of Culver, Ind., came Tuesday for a visit with Spencer Greenlee and family. Frank Osborne, republican nominee for surveyor of Jasper county, with his family Visited in town Tuesday. Edgar Steward had a rye shock destroyed by lightning just a few feet from his binder Sunday evening. Miss Dessie Fleming of Goodland came Friday and visited until Monday with sister, Mrs. Harris Martin. Miss Frances Kosta, who has been spending the summer with , relatives at Watseka, 111., came Saturday and visited with her parents northeast of here. She returned Monday. Ed Denniston of Foresman has come to Mt. Ayr and will work in the tile mill at this place. Besides being a fine follow Ed is a good ball player, and will be a valuable addition to our team. Mrs. Joe Jenkinson and son John were driving east of town last Monday when they met Frank Leek and his automobile, but their horse passed without scaring but they had went but a short distance when there occurred an accident which very luckily did not terminate fatally to anyone. A. J. Keeney was following and when he met the automobile his horses scared. Mr. Leek got out to help hold them but one of the bits broke and they ran away. They soon broke loose from the buggy and upon reaching the Jenkinson buggy they parted and one went on each side. The lines caught the buggy top and broke it Bquare off aihd pulled it down on top of its occupants. No one was hurt but they were badly frightened and had considerable difficulty in controlling the horse, whose bridle had been

torn off. ? Mr. Keeney’s horse* ran home, totally destroying the harness and injuring one of them severely. verely.

PINE GROVE. Gusta McCleary spent Sunday with Rosa Snow. The shov&r Sunday evening helped the corn and grain to grow. Mrs. Sarah McCleary spent Sunday with Mrs. Clarence Hurley. Roy Torbet and Everett Parker were callers at Wheatfleld Sunday. Mrs. Theodore Snow and family spent Sunday with Mrs. George Bnow. Bertha Cooper, Fairy and Ray Renicker were the guests of John and Chloae Torbet Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John William Hurley and Newton Jenkins spent Sunday’with Mr. and Mrs. George Cooper and, family. Mrs. Martha Donnelly returned to her home in Rensselaer Sunday after several weeks visit with her daughter, Mrs. Andy Ropp. Mrs. Chas. Jenkins and family and father of Wheatfleld took dinner with James Torbet and family Saturday and spent Saturday night with relatives here. The wedding of Mr. Walter Daniels and Miss Eelva Gilmore took place at the home of the latter’s aunt, Mrs. Chas. Walker, Sunday, where a number of relatives attended. The ceremony was performed by Rev. ilnndy.

MILROY. Geo. Castor’s spent Sunday afternoon with/John Tow’s. Mrs. Ennis called on Mrs. Chas. McCashen Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Geo. Wood and Mrs. Willard Johnson were in Monon Wednesday. Ira Williamson and Miss Parker attended church here Sunday evening. Alva McCashen and wife ate dinner Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank May. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Chapman took their little daughter to Monon to consult a physician Sunday. James Stevens .and family visited Mr. Stevens’ sister, Mrs. Wm. Culp and family Saturday and Sunday. Wm. Rishling and wife and Mr. and Mrs. Carrothers and Mr. Herman's family called on Geo. Foulks’ Sunday evening. Urset® Smith, daughter of Jas. Smith, who had the misfortune to stab her knee with the scissors, is getting better now.

Jas. Osborne of Lebajion, Mo., came to attend the funeral services of his brother-in-law, D. S. Calrk, also to visit relatives. Chas. McCashen and wife spent Sunday last week with the latter’s grand-parents, Thos. Smith of Rensselaer. Mrs. Smith is very feeble. Daniel S. Clark, son of Enoch and Eliza Clark, was born in Shelby, county, Ohio, Dec. 24, 1861, where he lived until his parents moved to Jasper county, Ind., in 1864. Here he grew to manhood, received his education and became a citizen of good standing, with friends and associates on every hand. For some months he has been sorely afflicted, and Bied July 10, 1908, aged 46 years, 6 months and 16 dayß, leaving two brothers and two sisters besides a host of relatives and friends to mourn his departure. He was a good neighbor, of a cheerful disposition, patient in his suffering and loved by all who knew him.

CARD OF THANKS. We desire to express our thanks to our many friends and neighbors for their assistance through the illness and death of our beloved brother.—Mrs. Jas. Osborne, brothers and sisters. We don’t waht to jar you, but want to sell you your*frlut jars— Home Grocery.

We have purchased this year'' for the harvest season a special grade of machine oil which we can absolutely guarantee. EGER BROS. Read The Democrat for news.

ATALK ON FLOUR Do you ever have trouble making good bread? Are the loaves sometimes soggy or do they “fall down?” We never hear of such complaints from Ferndell Flour. Always light and flaky. It costs no more than other good flours. $1.55 per sack. We have another brand at $1 .40 which we guarantee as good as any other ■ftt the price. , f • THE RELIABLE GROCERS McTARUND & SON.

NEWS FACTS IN OUTLINE

In the Grand Opera Room at Vincennes, Ind., Samuel W. William* wm notified of his nomination as candidate for vice president by the Populists. Twenty-five persona were drowned when a pleasure launch going to Corregidor island from Manila foundered with seventy-five on board. China has asked Japan to consent to the restriction of the importation into China of morphine as well as the instruments used for the injection of the drug. John W. Riddle, the United States ambassador to Russia, has left St. Petersburg for Kislovodsk, a water Jng place situnted in the Caucasus, to recuperate from bis recent illness. Pilgrims to Rome, 200 Roman Catholic clergy and laymen, have sailed from New York on the steamer Carpathia. The funds so far received at the national treasury from national depository banks, under the secretary’s call of July 20, amount t 0,525,709,421. Secretary Cortelyou and family have left Washington for Huntington, Long Island, where they will spend the warm season. Jay and Myron Smith, brothers, aged twenty and fourteen years, respectively. were drowned w-hile battling In tho Sandusky river at Fremont, O. The London Daily Express states that Great Britain will purchase the three Brazilian battleships now under construction In England, - Eight care of time freight of a southbound Chicago Great Western train went off a bridge over North Skunk river, between Melbourne and Baxter, lowa, and were wrecked in the river bed.

NINE BLOWN TO ETERNITY

Two Victim* of a Powder Magazine Blast Are a Mother and Her Babe. Cleelum, Wash., July. 17.—An explosion in the powder magazine of the Northwestern Improvement company, near here, killed nine persons and seriously injured a number of others. The killed are: George Mead, manager of the Northwestern Improvement company store; Gilfqrd McDonells and Andry Grill, clerks; Mrs. Perry Moffatt, wife of a brickmaker; infant child of Mrs. Moffatt; Joe Rossi, and Joe Pogrlappi, miners; two miners, names unknown. Shortly before 5 p. m. Manager Mead and the clerks from the store went to the powder house to assist in unloading a carload of powder. llow the accident happened is not known. Mrs. Peter Moffatt, wife of a brickmaker, was living in a tent near the magazine with her two children. The tent was blown to pieces and Mrs. Moffatt’s body hag not yet been found. Fragments of bodies were scattered for half a mile from the magazine.

Murdered by Moros.

Washington, July 17.—General Weston In a cablegram from Manila, reports that Albert L. Burleigh, company C, Eighteenth Infantry, was murdered by Moros on June 30.

THE MARKETS

Chicago Grain. Chicago, July 16. Following we» the quotations on the Chicago Board of Trade today: Wheat — Open. High. Low. Close. July ...» .90 » .91% $ .89% $ .91 Sept 90% .91% .89% .91% Dec. (oi .92% .93% .91% .93% May .j)G% .97% .90 .97% Corn — -' ■ July ... .74% .75%. .74% .75% Sept 74% .75% .74 .75% Dec 61% .62% .61% .62% May ... .61% .61% .60% .61% Oats — July (o) .50% .50% .48% .50% July (n) .50 .50 .48% .49% Sept ... .42% .43% .42% .43% May ... .44% .45% .44 .45% Pork— July ...15.95 16.05 15.95 16.05 Sept ..15.95 16.22% 15.95 16.20 Oct ...16.00 16.25 15.97% 16.25 Lard — July ... 9.32% 9.42%, 9.32% 9.42% Sept ... 9.42% 9.52% 9.42% 9.52% Oct ... 9.52 9.60 9.52 9.60 Chicago Live Stock. Hogs—-Receipts 25,000. Sales ranged at |[email protected] for choice heavy shipping, [email protected] butchers, [email protected] light mixed, [email protected] choice light $6.25®6.70 mixed packing, [email protected] heavy packing, $5.25<§6.25 good to choice pigs, [email protected] common to fair Pigs. Cattlg—Receipts 4,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for prime fat steers, $7.00® 7.50 good to choice steers, [email protected] medium to good steers, [email protected] good to choice cows, [email protected] prime heifers, [email protected] good to choice calves, [email protected] selected feeders, [email protected] fair to good Stockers. Sheep—Receipts 12,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for good to choice wethers, [email protected] fair to good wethers, good to choice yearlings. [email protected] choice heavy ewes, $3. 50 @4.10 fair to good ewes, SG.OO@ 6.90 spring lambs, [email protected] western grass yearlings. Bast Buffalo Live Stock. East Buffalo, N. Y., Jnly 16. Dnnning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle—Receipts 5 cars; market slow. Hogs— Receipts 15 cars; market lower; beavy and Yorkers, $7.70; pigs, $6.75. Sheep and Lambe—Receipts 2 cars; market Steady; best lambs, [email protected]; y< uv lings, [email protected]; wethers, $4.25®- 30? ewes, [email protected], OMreo—Best, $7.50 @7.75.

; ; Automobile LvVery j; Cars for hire at all hours of day dr night. Relij > able cars and competent drivers. We will make a J | specialty of carrying to and frotff parties and dances. Give us a call. Rafas reasonable. i, i: 'Rensselaer Garage.

BANK STATEMENT. REPORT OF THE CONDITION OF THE FIRST NATIONAL BANK Of Rensselaer, Ind., February 14, 1008. in

RESOURCES LIABILITIES Loans 1258,070.79 Capital Stock $60,000.00 U. 8. & Co. Bonds. 27,600.00 Surplus and Profit*.. 12.814.47 Real Estate 9,460.00 Circulating Notes.... 15,000.00 Ca*h .191,368.66 Deposit* 998,866.97 $486,880.44 $486,380.44 DIRECTORS. lOHN M. WASSON, JAMES T. RANDLE E. L. HOLLINGSWORTH. rtwsldent Caahltr. GEORGE E. MURRAY EDWARD P. HONAN

The Anvil Chorus “Order is Heaven’s first law,” DeArmond f s work’s without flaw; “Instinct builds a nest that’s true,” DeArmond shapes the horseshoe. W. S. DeARMOND, Tern, - Indiana.

mTHE NEW snip Manufactured by THE SUN TYPEWmTER CO. 317 Broadway. Naw York C>9y PRICE S4O.

1 LUriBER 1 £\ We have never before been so entirely prepared to inuyii* ad departments of the building trade as we are this year. The n? prospect of Increased building thii year has caused us to lay in 9 w) a larger line than at any previous period and we have the larg- \P (• est stock In the conntry. More than 25 cars received before §) •) April Ist. M g CEMENT, LIME, PLASTER, BRICK g S SEWER PIPE, RUBBER ROOFING, « 2 LADDERS. 2 •) S (• ESTIMATES ON ALL BILLS LARGE OR •) 2 SMALL CHEERFULLY FURNISHED. 2 Believing that we can sell yon your bill for either new or re- Vv (P pair work, we confidently ask that you call In and get prices. WJ §THE RENSSELAER LUMBER 00.1 Across from Depot Te.opoone No. 4.

- Buggies and Carriages

Wagons and Manure Spreaders

BUGGIES ! Come and look them over. Dandies—Every one of them. Studebaker’s, Page Bros.’, Zimmerman’s, Binkley. All so good, so serviceable. You may have some trouble selecting oneMy thirty years of experience is at your service in assisting you, and the prices and terms are right, too. Had you noticed that more f|rmers about Rensselaer use Studebaker Wagons than all others put together? There is a reason. Customers like them and will have no other. ncGormick Harvesting flachlnes on sale. Also repairs for all machihes. The Grain King Shoveling Boards, positively the best, are always on sale. With Success Manure Spreader you don’t have to guess." It regulates the number of loads to the acre. Spreads man-, ure farther than others; that is why they are so popular. All at ROBERTS’, “ffissr

Shoveling Boards

Harvesting Hachinery