Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

10 Per Cent Discount On my Regular Prices Until July 20th ONLY C. I. PETERS Optician

LOCAL AND PERSONAL,. Brief Items of Interest to City and ' Country Renders. On top—Home Grocery. To-day’s markets: Corn, 55c; oats, 45c; wheat, 70c. Enough rain fell here again Thursday night to lay the dust nicely. The Rensselaer ball team was d£ seated at Monticello Thursday by the team at that place, score 14 to 2. Mrs. Cornell of Grand Rapids, Mich., is visiting this week with her brother, C. W. Duvall, and sister, Mrs. W. H. Eger. Mr. and Mrs. Warner and little daughter of Sheldon, 111., came Wednesday for a visit with her mother, Mrs. J. T. Randle. - E. V. Ransford and C. P. Wright Wednesday from a few days absence down in the gas belt on a trading expedition. A. P. Long and J. F. Hardman caught 19 goggle eyes and two channel cats at the Kankakee river in four hohrs. Thursday. The Louisville Courier-Journal is on sale at the News stand. It arrives at 3:26 p. m., and is democratic all over. Two cents daily, five cents The Presbyterian Sunday school and morning service will again be held in tie F. W. Baptist church. The subject of the morning sermon will be “Cross Bearing.” blackberries are coming to in goodly quantities, and they are not only of good quality but are cheap, 6% cents per quart, and this means much to most people this year. 'KLen Lefler of Crawfordsvllle has peen spending the week here, visiting relatives and friends. He is looking well and says his business at Crawfordsvllle Is coming on nicely, better than he had expected even. Michael Bernlcken of Wheatfield has sold his residence property at that place to Horace Marble, consideration SBOO. It is reported that Mr.' Bernecken, who is a former saloonist of Wheatfield, will move away. Mre. Willlß J. Imes left Wednesday morning for New York and Brooklyn where she will spend » month visiting her brother and sister, and will look after some business matters also during her absence. Ralph Jones of Chicago stopped off here Wednesday, and with his father Bill N. Jones, went on the afterhoon train to Columbus to spend a week with relatives. Bill N. was born and raised in Bartholomew county. • Mrs. D. A. Stoner of Wichita, Kan., and daughter, Mrs. Louie Windsor of Crawford, Kan., came Titeeday for a few weeks visit with the former’s mother, Mrs. J. T. Randle and other relatives and old friends in this vicinity. s L s Mi B s Mary Rhode of Vincennes Is here for a visit with Mrs. C. B. {Steward. She is a daughter of Rev. j. e. Rhode, a former pastor of the First Baptist church of Rensselaer, who is now located at Vincennes, where his congregation is now engaged in building a fine new church. And now comes an Illinois farmer with an invention for producing any kind of weather that one may desire, by means of electric currents projected into the atmosphere from a screen of wires at the top of a mast 150 feet high. And only think, the inventor is a native of Indiana, too. The Remington and Rensselaer K. of P’s. will cross bats here next Tuesday, and the local fans are practicing up for the occasion. Work in the second degree will be done Tuesday night and a number of. the Hebron K. of P’s. will be here to participate, after which refreshments will be served.