Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 July 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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. v Harry Kipllnger and Landy Magee spent three days at the Kankakee the first of the week, returning home loaded dogrn with 21 pickerel and 60 goggle-eyes and cat, 120 pounds altogether. , Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Babcock expect to go to Indianapolis today to spend Sunday with their son George, who will graduate Monday from the Winona Technical Institute’s linotype department. Almost nine columns of country correspondence in this issue of The Democrat—items from all over the county. Moral: If you want all the news, subscribe for The Democrat. / , J. H. Conway, the local dealer in “tonica,” quit selling this drink immediately on learning of the decision of the Frankfort court, of which he was notified by the brewing company. Pending the decision of the supreme court the sale of tonica and similar beer imitations will be suspended all over the state. The fool killer would liave to work overtime if he got his job finished, but he never does. Several local victims are now ready to be operated on, a street fakir Thursday night getting a bunch of suckers on that old chestnut, the watchchain racket, by which he pocketed a neat sum. As a result there are’ several cheap brass watchchains in town for which the purchasers paid fifty cents each.

Jack Warner met with an accident while cutting sticks for his tomatoes at the beginning of the week, that has left him with a very black eye/ But what made Jack the hottest was the post card that some one sent him, that read “An argument that I couldn’t get around,” with a picture to fit the case. He contends that If he had been fishing, as he should have been, he would have had as good a looking eye as any one. L. H. Myers has been enjoying a family reunion with his children as his guests. Mrs. Flora Immel of Seattle, Wash., a daughter, and her daughter, Mrs. A. C. Jones of Chicago, and his sons, George M. Myers Washington, 111., Charles Myers of Forrest, 111., and Howard Myers of of Brook, have all spent two or three days under the parental roof tree and around the family board. The sons have all returned to their respective homes, and Madams Immel and Jones will go Tuesday. James D. Babcock of BulfTton stopped off Thursday evening on his way home from Chicago where he had been with a car load of cattle. He says that he is out at least 75 cents a hundred pounds on these cattle, as they have gone down that much in the last three weeks. Corn in Wells county is silking out and oats will average about 40 bushels to the acre. Mr. Babcock will visit with his daughter and family, Mrs. Sam Scott, until Monday. He is beginning to show his age, looking much older than he did when he .left this county a few years ago.

jsCarl Worden, youngest son of Jirs. Nora Worden, is suffering from an aggravated case of appendicitis, the trouble becoming acute Monday, and • Tuesday evening a specialist from Chicago came down and an operation was performed, which revealed the fact that the appendix had already ulcerated and discharged the puss into the abdominal cavity. This Is considered a very dangerous condition as the entire contents is liable to be poisoned, in which event there is no hope of saving his life. An effort is now being made to anticipate septic poison and so far it has been successful, but the boy is not out Of danger and will not be for several days yet. ■J. George Mustard, wife and son arrived Tuesday evening from Westphalia, Kan., where he has been most of the time since last November looking after his mother’s farm. He will visit his uncle and aunt George Mußtard and wife, and Mrs. Sylvester Gray for a week, and will make hts home in Indiana hereafter, or at least that Is his present lntention. Vv journey from Kansas was nfitte in the main In daylight, and a chance to see the crops over a large territory was excellent. Corn Is not reported as very promising, aB mnch of it is very small, and in Missouri and Kansas much of R was drowned out in the immense floods of a few weeks ago. Through *lUinois corn is very spotted, and mueh of it is small. Many fields of wheat and oats in Kansas and Missouri can not be cut because of the flods. Kansas, he says, will go for Bryan this fall.