Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The Wheatfield ball team is scheduled to play here with the Rensselaer team next Wednesday. "kpstH cutting will be in full blast Jext week. A few fields of early oats have already been cut. The general report is that oats will only be a half a crop. Mrs. Charles Porter of Chicago is visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Williams here for a few days while Charlie is away on a fishing trip up in Wisconsin. > s ßev. J. C. Parrett performed the Ceremony Wednesday afternoon which made one Mr. Edward A. DeKoker and Nancy E. Long, a young Hollander couple of Demotte. siMr. and Mrs. Nathan Fendig of this city announce the engagement of their daughter, Miss Belle Fendig, to Mr. Leopold Well of New Orleans. marriage will take place August 19. Mrs. A. G. Catt, who has been in £'Chicago hospital for the past few 'weeks, where she underwent an operation, was brought home yesterday on the 2 p. m., train. Her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Kight, came down yesterday forenoon to be here on her arrival. On account of the rain last Sunday evening, the program of the union vesper service announced for that evehing was postponed until next Sunday. If it should be raining next Sunday this service will be held In the M. E. church at the same hour, six-thirty p. m. The Democrat stated Wednesday that Daddy White had gone to Converse to visit his grand-daughters, and it wasn’t our fault that our statement did not prove to be true. But he »found some work here he thought ought to be done so he staid to attend to it. But he is going to Converse. i Professor I. N. Warren was among e first, if not the first Rensselaer man to place new potatoes on the market this year. The professor has been getting a little healthy exercise since school closed, and these $1.25-a-bushel tubers are the result thereof. They are great big fellows, too, almost full grown. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Pugh and daughter Annetta will leave Monday for a two weeks vacation. They will meet a party of relatives and friends from Bluffton, at Ft. Wayne and all will go to Lake George, Mich., to spend a couple of weeks. Mrs. Pugh and daughter will return via Bluffton and spend a week there before returning home. and Mesdames Geo. Hopkins, W. J. Wright and Bert Brenner went up to the Kankakee Tuesday afternoon to get a few bites, returning Wednesday evening. The fish bites and mosquito bites were about evenly divided, but they brought home a nice string of fish, about 90,- and they assure us that they were not purchased either. Wm. E. Moore went over to see his farm near Colburn, on the Wabash road southwest of Delphi, Wednesday. He reports crops as being about the same as here. Wheat Is the best raised in years, corn looks good, hay fine, and oats not quite bo good as here. This is no doubt owing to the fear harbored, by this crop that Bryan will be successful at the pollß in November.

John Stotts, a state bridge inspector, was in town two or three days this week. From a conversation with him one would conclude that his duties consist chiefly in spending his expense checks and looking wise. These worse than needless offices are one of the first things that will receive attention when Thomas R. Marshall is Inducted into the governor’s office and a genuine reform legislature commences business next January.

JsMrs. Malissa Bemenderfer of Chicsgb, a sister of Mrs. James T. Randle, visited the latter a day or two this week, going to Battle Ground Friday to visit relatives' there. Mrs. Bemenfender is the widow of Isaac Bemenfender, and recently brought her late husband’s body to Morocco for burial. He was one of the charter members, we believe, of the Odd Fellow’s lodge at Morocco, and resided in that town for many years, going to Chicago some 25 years ago. The Rensselaer Republican syndicate have In contemplation the leasing of the Monon News, and have been trying to make a deal with Lesley Miller, editor of the Mt. Ayr Pilot, to go over and take charge of the plant. It is the Intention, we understand, to do practically all of the mechanical work here and milk the Monon people to a finish. Mr. Miller, we are told, has about decided to remain with his own paper, although he was over to Monon Monday with one of the syndicate editors to look the field over.