Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

f Bills Jones was over from Remgton a few hours Friday on a business trip. The funeral of John 1+ Smith Tuesday was * largely attended. Burial was made in Weston cemetery. • " NIC _’ 1 C/v.Ki Mrs. Jesse E. Wilson and son Wasson are visiting her sister, Mrs. A. S. Nowels at Columbia City, Ind., this week. 1 HsMrs. John Muster, Louie Muster’s mother, was called to Chicago Friday to take care of one of Louie’s aunts, who is quite sick.

There were about 400 people from Lake and Jasper counties that took in the Purdue excursion Thursday, some 80 tickets being sold here. The condition of Mrs. H. O. Harris, who has been sick in Chicago for several weeks, is reported about the Bame, no improvement being noted. Misses Nannie Reed of Monon, Luclie Shields, Bernice McClurg and Merl Ackerman of Monticello were guests of Miss Myrtle York to a bouse party Tuesday. V 1 Kjoe Jeffries and wife disappeared op his vacation Tuesday, but outside or the fact that they intended to stop in Missouri and Oklahoma no one seems to know their destination. When Joe gets done his visit he will be back at work as usual. E. Maines, while endeavoring to open a door at his place of business Tuesday afternoon, struck a rusty nail with the lower part of his hand and buried the nail three-fourths of an inch Into it. The wound is very painful, but at this time it is thought nothing serious will come of it.

E. L. Hollingsworth and family are spending the week at Williams Bay, Wis., as guests of the Y. M. C. A., of which Mr. H. is a member. They left here Sunday morning in their auto and reached their destination Monday without a hitch, reporting a very nice trip. They will return home next Wednesday. Cook of Hanging Grove tp., 4ent to Forest, Ind., yesterday to spend Sunday with his brother, Martin Cook, whom he had not seen for six or seven years. His daughter Miss Blanche Cook, who had been attending school at Terre Haute, met him at Frankfort and they went on to Forest together.

Frank Welsh reports a good rain at his place in Jordan tp., Tuesday night, but then Frank always was lucky, even te the time he went to bed with the dead porker. Here fortune favored him as usual, and instead of scaring him to death, he was Just scared enough to give him a move that started his blood circulating freely. August 8, 1895, thirteen years ago to-day one of the worst storms that ever visited this county swept over Rensselaer. Many houses and barns were blown down and unroofed and many trees ruined by the wind and hail that afternoon. Washington street was impassable for severe hours, but it being Sunday traffic was not interfered with. Several girls and a number of the mammas of the K. O. K. A. boys who are' in camp near Buffalo, White county. on the Tippecanoe, went over Thursday with baskets of homecooked eatables for the boys. Judge Hanley, E. P. Honan, W. R. Lee and Geo. Healey have been with Rev. Parrett and the boys during the week. They will break camp today, we understand.

B. J. Gifford was in Lowell Tuesday. He and Attorney J. W. Belshaw went to Crown Point and along the line looking over the right-of-way. Mr. Gifford informs us that his steam shovel was working north of Dinwiddle Station and that he expected his dry land dredge to start yesterday. He expects to push the work as rapidly as possible from on.—Lowell Tribune. F. Meyers has sold to OsBrown of west of town, the 65 Jcres of land three miles south of Wheatfleld, advertised in The Democrat, Improved land with good buildings, and Tlr. Brown will move onto same this fall. Price $1,400. Mr. Brown is a tenant and had enough surplus stock, etc., to turn off to pay for this farm, and has shown good judgment in buying a place of his own. If It requires a 40 acre field to hold a flying machine large enough to carry a man, how large a piece of ground would it take to hold one large enough to carry a coach load of people? The answer to this question ought to make plain to anyone the fact that flying machines, aa at present constructed, can never be a success as commercial factors, in fact It seems that they will never get beyond the plaything stage they have now arrived at.