Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1908 — Page 8

Jasper County Gleanings . NEWS FROM ALL OVBR THE COUNTY. B(Y OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENTS.

FAIR OAKS. Tame hay making will soon be over again. Weather is still dry and hot and rain is needed very much. Uncle Joe Gains is working for Al Helsel in the harvest field. Rev. Evans filled his regular appointment here in the M. E. church Sunday. . - - Mrs. Ike Kight went vo Rensselaer Saturday to see her niece, Mrs. A. G. Catt, who is quite poorly. Mrs. Will Warren and son Bert and Arthur Goff attended the baptizing at Waseka, 111., last Sunday. Mrs. Abe Bringle suffered a very severe attack of neuralgia Tuesday and is not much better at this writing. The pickle harvest is opening up tn pretty good shape but we will have to have rain or there will be a short crop. Dora Cottingham and Ben Zellers took Monday off and went fishing. They brought home with them a nice lot of fish. The stork made a call at Ed Kesler’s Wednesday evening and left with them a fine bouncing baby boy. All concerned are doing fine. Sherman Renlcke and wife of near Parr visited at Grandma Moffitt’s Tuesday. The latter seems to be a little better at this writing. It is reported that the farm a few miles east of here owhed by Mr. Shuck of Illinois has been sold to another man from Illinois.

War Against Consumption. All nations are endeavoring to check the ravages of consumption, the “white plague” that claims so many victims each year. Foley’s Honey and Tar cures coughs and colds perfectly and you are in no danger of consumption. Do not risk your health by taking some unknown preparation when Foley’s Honey and Tar is safe and certain in results. A. F. LONG.

PINE GROVE. Andy Ropp was in Lafayette Sunday and Monday. Chloae Torbet called on Gusta McCleary Sunday evening. Everett Parker took dinner with Bluford and Roy Torbet Sunday. Andy Ropp is the first to thresh in this vicinity. He threshed Thursday. Stella Nuss and James Campbell attended church at Good Hope Sunday afternoon. Bernice and Lucy Walker spent Sunday with their grandmother, Mrs. Jane Hurley. Everett Parker and Roy Torbet began stacking straw in the south threshing ring Wednesday. Mrs. Andy Ropp, Mrs. Chas. Walker and Mrs. Walter Daniels spent Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Jas. Torbet. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Walker and Mr. and Mrs. Walter Daniels spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lon Daniels of Gifford. Those who took dinner with Mrs. Ropp were Mr. and Mrs. James Donnelly of Rensselaer, Mr. and Mrs. Emerson McTherise and Mr. and Mrs. Roy Donnelly of near Rensselaer.

Rev. I. W. Williams Testifies. Rev. I. W. Williams. Huntlngtop, W. Va., testifies as follows: "This Is to certify that I used Foley’s Kidney Remedy for nervous exhaustion and kidney trouble, and am free to say that Foley’s Kidney Remedy will do all that you claim for it.” A. F. LONG.

LEE. Arthur Parcels has a fine new phonograph. Mrs. Ella Noland’s two nieces are making them a visit. Mrs. Ola Randle visited her sister Mrs. Cora Stiers Wednesday. Mrs. Maggie Hoover of Monon came to H. C. Anderson’s Wednesday. Miss Lora Culp went home with Edna Brock from church last Sunday. E. v H. Wood of Monon was in <>ur vicinity Wednesday looking for berries. John Mellender and family went from Sunday school last Sunday to Mr. Miller’s. Mrs. A. B. Lewis’s sister and husband made her and family a visit last Sunday. - Mrs. Dodd and granddaughter Agnes Stiers went Friday of last week to Monon for a visit of a few days. Mrs. Will Noland’s sister and husband of Zion City, Hl., came Tuesday evening to make her a few days •visit. Mrs. Pearl Donaldson of Monon has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Will Noland a few days this week.

Last Sunday Asa and Orville Holeman took their best girls and went to George Holeman's near Monticello. Will Stiers and wife and son Hamilton and Miss Vena* LaMar took dinner last Sunday at H. C. Anderson’s. Walter Jordan and family and Mr. Gilmore and family and Mrs. Holeman took dinner last Sunday at Ray Holeman’s. William Gray went to Rensselaer last Saturday morning on the milk train and came home on the train in the evening with a new wife. The proprietor of the Y. M. C. A. building at Gibson and wife and daughter made a visit at Lee Noland’s. He and his daughter Susie have been working there. Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Fred Stiers and their daughter Mrs. Grace Osborne and husband of Kankakee, 111., drove overland to Rensselaer to visit relatives and look at the country. ••

Last Saturday evening was the last time our music teacher, Mr. Young, will be here for a while. That was the close of his term. We hope the boys will continue with their music. Last Bunday Mrs.' Jennie Rlsming and daughter Rose and daughter, Mrs. Lillie Sigford and children, Mrs. Will Horner of Monon and Mrs. Frank Rlshllfig and daughter of Indianapolis visited at Will Rishling’s. Mrs. Jennie Rishling and Mrs. Frank Rishling and daughter did not go back to Momence till Tuesday evening.

ROSEBUD VALLEY. Threshing Is a thing of the day. WmJWenrick spent Monday at Medaryville. Dr. Haekley was through this vicinity Friday. > Jim Davis of Gillam drove through these parts Sunday. Mrs. Jufia Stalbaum attended church at Medaryville Sunday. Thomas Callaghan made a business trip to Wheatfield Saturday. Mr. Zlck and Miss Hattie Warren passed through these parts Sunday. William and Charles Jasperson visited Sunday with Amiel Schrader. Paul and Obal Hershman attended Sunday school at Asphaltum Sunday. , Felix Moritz and Ben Rouse spent a couple of days this week at the river fishing. Frank Hershman was a Medaryville goer Friday. Miss Pyrla Moritz spent the latter part of last week with her aunts Bessie and Mary Callaghan. Mrs. Ethel Hershman returned home Tuesday after a week’s visit with her brother Jack Dood r of Bradley. Mr. and Mrs. Eli Waymire and daughters Marie, Satie and Helen spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Pat Daily. Mrs. Shepherd, after she had returned from Joliet where she had attended her daughter’s funeral, was taken violently ill and for some time her life was despaired of. She is some better at this writing.

Mr. and Mrs. William Stalbaum, Miss Mollie Nelson, Miss Celia Hershman and a few others spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Lackey of near Medaryville. While there a violent storm arose, during which a thunder-bolt entered the room through an open window and exploded between Miss Mollie Nelson and Satie Johnson. The occupants of the room were shocked but the two girls nearest it were the most severely shocked.

EGYPT. We are having fine harvest weather. Miss Katie Iliff was in Rensselaer Saturday. Mrs. Morris Besse picked berries Wednesday. Wm. Pruitt called on Morris' Bessie Tuesday. Iva Blake called on Mrs. Jess Dunn Tuesday. Frank Welsh was a Rensselaer goer Saturday. Miss Iva Blake called on Florence Antcliff Monday. ’ # >7**’

Rickets* x Simply the visible sign that baby's tiny bones sure not forming rapidly enough. Q Lade of nourishment is the cause. Q Scott's Emulsion nourishes baby’s entire system. Stimulates and makes bone. Exactly what baby needs. I ALL DRUGGISTS: 50c. AND SI.OO [

Wm. Bringle and son were hauling sand Tuesday. Mrs. D. V. Blake called on Mr*. Joe Gailey Friday. Miss Florence Antcliff called on Iva Blake Wednesday. , Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Antcliff were Brook goers Monday. Abner Dewey helped Morris Bessie put up hay Friday. Mrs. Jess Dunn called on Mrs. Allie McCashen Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Welsh visited at Chas. Antcliff’s Sunday. Morris Besse took a load of hay to Remington Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Fiddler and family were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Mrs. Jasper Pass is very eick with what is feared to be typhoid fever. Miss Lucy Blake is helping Mrs. Frank Gray pick berries this week. Mr. and Mrs. Jessie Dunn and family were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Mr. and Mr. Charles Summers and little son were Rensselaer .goers Saturday. ' ; D. V. Blake and wife and daughter Mabie were Rensselaer goers Wednesday. Miss Florence Antcliff visited the Misses Nellie, Hannah and Kate Welsh Sunday. Mr. and Airs. Sherman Erwin and two little sons called at D. V. Blake’s Sunday. Mrs. Chas. Antcliff and sons Gilbert and Ralph were Rensselaer goers Tuesday. Mrs. Frank Gray and son Charles and little Hilda visited at D. V. Blake’s Sunday.

HANGING GROVE. Reed McCoy and wife went to Rensselaer Wednesday. Miss Maude Jenkins is helping Mrs. Ford through harvest. Orlando Mannan is haulipg coal to the dredge for Mr. Gilmore. The threshing outfit will strat at P. B. Downs’ some time next week. Bill Gray of Lee is married again and still the world goes bn. Great Snakes! W. C. Rose came out to his farm again Monday and is helping put up his tame hay. Carl Remm began threshing Monday morning after finishing his oats cutting on Friday before. Carl Remm hauled his oats to Francesville Monday, and they only tested 21 lbs. Poor yield, also. Misses Lera and Leonia Pierson returned to their home in Lafayette Friday evening, after a visit of two weeks with old acquaintances here. Mr. and Mrs. Reed McCoy went up to John Maxwell’s in Barkley township Sunday afternoon and brought Miss Kate Maxwell home with them. Brook Snedeker went up to his father’s Wednesday morning to begin threshing. The Snedekers are among the pioneer threshermen of this country. Mrs. Josie Downs and Mrs. Geo. Evans spent Monday night with the former’s son James Downs on the Lutz farm, and gathered blackberries Tuesday.

Mrs. A. Warner was taken sick Saturday morning very suddenly with typhiod fever. A doctor from Francesville was called. She is improving at thia writing.

Mrs. R. S. Drake was taken quije sick one day last week. Dr. Clayton was called to see her and pronounced her case as malaria fever. She is quite a bit better now. Mrs. R. L. Bussell visited Mrs. C. A. Armstrong Tuesday and also picked some blackberries. There are plenty of green blackberries yet, that would produce some fine fruit if only the weather man would send us some good rains.

Speaking of Wash Lowman putting up so much hay, it would be in order to mention Mrs. Lowman's fine big tdmatoe patch, which your correspondent is lead to believe, by daily observation, cannot be excelled by anyone in the township. Mrs.- Geo. Evans and babe came up from Indidnapolis Sunday for a week’s visit with P. B. Downs and family. Mrs. Evans’ oldest son Charley came up .several weeks ago and has been enjoying the pure country air and horse-back riding wonderfully. U. S. MAIL NEARLY WRECKED LAST WEEK. An old Plymouth Rook hen got on the track at Geo. Bond’s , box Saturday and Roy Bussell ran over her at als mile clip. After both wheels had passed over her, she was a bird

Fine Set of Crystalized Cut Glass GIVEN AWAY FREE With Every Range Sold Within the Next Thirty Days. We have the finest, best made line of Ranges ever shown in Rensselaer, i — - : __ ; A Few Specials All Lawn Mowers in stock now will be sold at a discount of 16 per cent. I Gasoline Stoves 20 per cent discount. Now is the time to buy them. EmWWMw BmtWA The best $7 Cream J® || ■ jßk Separator on the mark- If r ‘r F et for $5.50. HrrpJji i TCI |F/ Old fashion Wood -r Dash Churn now 90c. Z Fruit Cans, 35 cents ex per dozen. rl * 11 ' REMEMBER That we have the best line of Granite and Tinware Cooking Utensils on the market. We have the agency £or z the fnost durable Woven Wire made, 26 in. high, 6 in. stay, at 25 cents a rod. Don’t forget that we handle the best of everything in Hardware. Cbme in and get our prices before buying elsewhere. We’ll treat you right. Eger Brothers Rensselaer, Ind. Everything in High. Grade Stoves, Ranges and Hardware for the Heine and Farm.

without any tail feathers. Everybody can surely have some hay to feed this winter. Hay is plentiful this season and most of it is being put up in fine shape without any rain to damage it. W. S. Lowman has put up 25 ricks of tame hay on the Thompson ranch all in one meadow. But very few people ever saw as much tame hay in one field. C.\W. Bussell got back from Wisconsin Friday evening, somewhat sooner than he expected. Their crops are good out there and raspberries out there too by. the car load and mosquitoes in like proportion. In fact the little pests are so thick that the berry pickers must gird themselves with mosquito bar and fingerless gloves. • ‘.‘Bully” for the Francesville Tribune! That editor surely has a warm spot in his heart for the rural mail carriers. Last week he had an article in nis paper that every patron should take note of. One important fact was telling the carrier of any visitor or persons receiving mail, that are not recorded on the carrier’s book. Robt. Jordan finished cutting his oats Monday and came very near finishing two of his fingers on his left-hand. Just as he was in the act of throwing the binder out of gear, it ran into a rut, and so over balanced him as to bring his fingers in contact with one of the endless chains, bruising the first and third fingers, and severing the flesh badly on the second finger.

Trustee Cook is handing out notices for cleaning the Poole ditch again. Of course ditches should be cleaned, but this will be an always and forever job so long as* the ledge of rock west of the Moore bridge is left where it is. But presently after a freshet the water backs up over the fields and has to wait till it has time to ripple over the rock ledge, causing sand and trash to accumulate that otherwise would not. Mrs. Wm. E. Jacks living southeast of Rensselaer and who has been in poor health for several months past, has gone to Indianapolis to have a second operation performed, this time for gall stones, having previously had an operation performed at Chicago at the Presbyterian hospital. She had Intended going to Valparaiso where her daughter Mary is attending college preparatory to teaching school the coming winter, but later it was decided she should go .to Indianapolis. Oren Peregrine had his' patented mail crane at McCoysburg Tuesday afternoon. It certainly is a fine piece of work and surely took some tall thinking to make it so complete

that it will do the trick of taking off a sack and hang one at the same time. There can be no question about it, for the fact was fully demonstrated to many on-lookers by the inventor himself. Of course the inventor will necessarily have to put up one large enough to try on the railroad, then if the demonstration is entirely successful, it remains with the postmaster general to accept and adopt it. Then the inventor has a cinch on the financial side of life.

MT. AYR. (From the Pilot.) Simon Yoder, catcher for the Amish team, had his arm broken in the game here last Saturday. Charley Liston, who has been living with John Bicknell just east of town, has moved to Rensselaer. Mrs. Otto Bengston visited a few days last week with her daughter, Mrs. Earl Leek, of southeast of here. James Romine left Monday for his home at Clay City, 111., after visiting friends and relatives here for several weeks. J. J. Garrity, Claude Baldwin, Ed Long and Wm. McCord spent Sunday on the Kankakee river. They reported fishing as being not very good. « Miss Cora Seward and Mrs. Vera Seward, came the latter part of last week for a visit with the former’s sister and the latter’s sisterln\w, Mrs. Harry Elijah.

THE MARKETS.

Chicago Grain. Chicago, July 80. Following were the quotations on the Chicago Board of Trade today: Wheat— Open. High. Low. dose. July .89% $ .91 $ .89% $ .90% Sept ... .90% .91% .89% .91% Dec. (o) .92% .93% .96% .97% Corn— July ... .70% .76% .78 .76% Sept... .74% .74% .73% .74% Dec. ... .61% .62 .61% .61% May .. . .60% ,SI%I .60% .60% Oats— July (o) .53% .54% .68 .54% July (n) .53 .54 .58% .52% Sept ... .44% .45% -44% .44% May ... .45% .46% .45% .46% Pork— * July ...15.65 15.65 15.62%, 15.85 Sept ...15.70 15.57% 15.67% 15.77% Oct ...15.80 15.85 15.72% 15.80 Lard— . Sept ... 9.50 9.52% 9.47% 9.50 Oct .... 9.60 9.60 9.57% 9.57% r Short Ribs— ' 6 ’ July ... 8.87%| 8.90 8.87% 8.90 Sept ... 8.97 9.02% 8.95 9.00 Oct ...8.95 9.07% 8.95 9.07% Sales Winter wheat—By l

sample: No. 2 ted, 91>%@98%c; Na 3 red, 91%@92%c; No. 2 hard, 92%@ Springfwbeat—By sample: No. 1 northern, [email protected]; No. 2 northern, [email protected]. Corn—By sample: No. 2, 77@77%c; No. 2 white, 81@ 81&c; Na 2 yellow. 78%@78?46. Oats —By sample: No. 2, new, 53@54c; Na 3 white, new, 51@52c; Na 4 white, new, 48@51c; standard, new, 52@53c. Live Stock, Poultry and Hay. ' ZL Chicago, July 80. X Hogs—Receipts 12,000. Sales ranged at $6.75 (5’6.90 for choice heavy shipping. 36.60*46.75 choice light, >6.25@ 6.50 heavy packing, [email protected] good to choice pigs. Cattle—Receipts 3,500 i Quotations ranged at $7.50(58.00 for prime fat steers, [email protected] good to choice steers, [email protected] good to choice cows, $5.50(56.25 prime heifers, [email protected]& good to choice calves. Sheep—Receipts 14,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for good to choice wethers, $5.00(55.25 good to choice yearlings, [email protected] choice heavy ewes, [email protected] spring lambs. Live Poultry—Turkeys, per lb, 14c; chickens, fowls, 12c; "springs, 16@17e; roosters, 6%c; geese, |[email protected]; ducks, 9@llc. Hay—Choice timothy, [email protected]; No. L [email protected]. Illinois. Indiana and Wisconisn feeding prairie, $7.00@ ; 8.00; feeding packing, [email protected]. East Buffalo Live Stock. East Buffalo, N. Y., July 30. Dunning & Stevens,* Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Gattie—Receipts 2 cars; market steady. Hogs— Receipts 10 cars; market strong; heavy, 17.05; Yorkers, |[email protected]; pigs, <8.15. Sheep and Lambs—Receipts 2 cars; market steady; best lambs, $6.00; yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, $425Q4.50: ewes, [email protected]> Calves—Best, $4.80 C 7.50.

Good Growth on Skimmilk.

I At the Kansas experiment statton four steers raised on sklmmifk. weighed an average of 724 pounds leach at twelve months. Nine heifers fed on skimmilk averaged 564 pounds at the same age. At the lowa experiment station eight skimmilk calves averaged 548 pounds at eight months. Seven steers averaged 585 pounds ateight months. At the Omaha exposition the best Shorthorn steer on exhibition was raised on skimmilk.

Success In Farming.

Big farming never was a very safe proposition, and it is mon risky now than it ever was. The farmer who runs a small farm, with diversified crops, not forgetting the live stock, has the best chance of success and of happiness too.—Farmers Advocate.

Summer Axle Grease.

A mixture of one part of castor oQ to three parts of tallow, weH blended, will make a good axle grease tor segnmer use.