Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1908 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Another nice rain /ell here Monday night The Rensselaer ball team defeated the Lafayette Athletics here Sunday afternoon. Score 5 to 4. jLFrank P. Meyer and Miss Frances of Danville, 111., came up Monday for a few days visit with his relatives. Chapman and wife have recently moved back here from Cincinnati and wlh make Rensselaer their home. Fred is still employed as railway mall clerk. Mrs. R. B. Faris of Gillam tp., died Saturday and was buried at Independence cemetery Monday. She was about 65 years of age and leaves a husband and several grown children. * Milt Witham, George Baldwin, Leslie Miller, editor of the Pilot, and Walter Ponsler were in town Saturday afternoon. Mr. MUler has abandoned the Monon project and will devotp all of his time to building up his paper at Mount Ayr, and in this he is wise. TsTalk about large potatoes, Joe southwest of town, sent in a mess to The Democrat man yesterday that put evep Prof. Warren’s In the shade. There were eight of the tubers and they tipped the scales at 4 % pounds. It takes the Dutch to raise potatoes.

There is considerable complaint from .potato raisers that the yield is not as good as the surface indications would lead one to believe it should be. The tops look fine and if the tubers were as good in proportion there would be an immense crop. The newspaper comments on the work of the Denver convention show that all of the trust organs have natttrally lined up for Taft. Nothing is left for the people to do except to line up f6r Bryan. He ought to get the biggest majority in history. Elmer Gwin got home last Wednesday after a three months prospecting trip in Oklahoma. He spent most of his time in Oklahoma City, where there is a numerous colony of Rensselaer people. These Mr. Gwin report to be very well satisfied, but he does not like the country very well himself, and has abandoned all intentions of going there to live. V. Louie Muster received a very bad Wyte Sunday morning as he was preparing to refit a shoe on one of his horses. When he got hold of the foot the horse handed him one on the left eye that required four stitches to close. The wound bled profusely, and he did. not have it treated until after he got home, having been kicked while back of King’s blacksmith shop.

Charles S. King, wife and two daughters, a friend and the chauffeur were instantly killed at Columbia City Saturday while driving in an auto, by the Pennsylvania Limited on the P. Ft. W. & C. Railway. All were from Fort Wayne, and King was the loan broker through which many of the loans made by the ‘Jasper Savings and Trust Co. were secured. A Canadian product, commonly known as the bull-nettle, and a noxious weed, has made its appearance in town. There is one in the street in front of the new school house and by taking a look at it, identification will be an easy matter hereafter. Like the Canada thistle they come from both the seed and the root, and to insure their destruction they should be* carefully dug up and “burned alive.” The blasting on the river rock in Rensselaer is nearly done. There is only a little rock to be talten out down west of the creamery bridge where the blasting is now being done. The rock work only extends some 200 feet west of this bridge, then there is a little in south of the cemetery, and no more until Stott Grant’s -is reached, about a mile west of town and near where the improvement stops. Some 1,200 feet is to be blasted out there, but it is not of very great depth.

There seems to be a prevailing ‘Opinion, especially among the older folks, that the younger set when grown up will have no stories of adventure, sport or exciteifient to relate of their youthful days. Be that as It may, It will not apply to Master Albert Pullin of Barkley tp. Albert, who is 7, and Willie, who is 9, worked faithfully the fore part of last week for their grandfather, Charley Pullin, riding slide horses in the hay field, and well deserved the privilege of going fishing Saturday. Albert was prepared for big game with his hazle-brush pole, lapping twine line and minnow hook, baited with a flshworm. Well, he hooked a four pound black bass and Willie helped him land it And It didn’t spoil before they got It home, either.