Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. M. E. Troxell of Demotte is visiting Rensselaer relatives. Miss Judith Woodward of Chicago go is visiting Mrs. S. C. Irwin. The late John Yates carried sl,000 life insurance in the Union Central! Jesse Snyder, the carpenter, is sick with what is thought to be appendicitis. The Remington and Rensselaer K. of P. lodges will play ball at Remington on Thursday, the 13th. Rain is badly needed in this vicinity, and farmers are saying that the dry weather is cutting down the corn crop thousands of bushels every day. Poland R. Jessen was in a railroad wreck at Broadripple last Friday on his way to Franklin, but nothing more serious than an hour’s delay resulted. A, L. Branch is back from Stockston, Cali., for a few days visit with his little girls. He is engaged in, the bycicle and automobile business with his brother M. F. Branch, and thinks there is no place like California. E. R. Pugh, one of the popular grocery clerks in the Chicago Bargain Store, has resigned his position there, taking effect tonight, and will return to his old place in Jones’ grocery at. Wolcott, from which he came here about two years ago.

Herman; Hordeman’s thresher threshed out 1,329 bushels of oats Tuesday afternoon at Walter Porter’s farm In Jordan tp., the best half-day’s threshing record we have heard of this season. The yield was only about 13 bushels to the acre. In the item noting the death of Martin Van Buren Warner in Wed-f nesday’s issue, the statement was made that 81mon Phillips was a brother of Mr. Warner’s mother, Mrs. Fits W. Bedford, deceased. This should have read Harvey Phillips instead of Simon. A. D. Washburn and family of Kentland came over In their big automobile Wednesday. Mr. Washburn was here on business, and Mra. Washburn and children to renew acquaintances for a few hours. The rain Tuesday night did not cover the teritory between here and Kentland. '