Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1908 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

“EH and Jane” at Ellis opera house Thursday night, August 20. Mrs. William Parkinson and baby of Brook are visiting relatives and friends in Rensselaer and vicinity for a couple of weeks. sGeorge Goff left Monday for Belle' Fourche, So. Dak., to visit his son Bert and family. He expects to be gone a month or six weeks. ■ r- •• ■ Quite a number of the members of the local Camp, M. W. A., went to Mt. Ayr Saturday night to witness degree work. The Morocco team performed the work. Some 35 new Woodmen were taken in, we understand. Andrew Charles, John Nesslus, AYchie Taylor, Timmons, Arb Bullis, John Shide and Charles Dluzak of Jordan and Carpenter tp*., left on the 9:55 a. m., train Monday for Lisbon and other points in North Dakota to work in the harvest fields. T. J. McMurray of Cedar Rapids, lowa, who had been visiting his daughter, Mrs. David Wheeldon, left Monday morning for Rantoul, 111., for a visit before returning home. After the drowning of Mr. Wheeldon he was reached at Rantoul and returned to Rensselaer yesterday on the 10:55 a. m. train. • The wind last Wednesday night did much more damage than it was thought at first it had. Reports from every direction read very much alike. But Aen the good the rain will do must be set off against the damage done by the wind, and there will no doubt be a nice balance on the credit side of the ledger.

Probably more teams and wagons have passed over the old creamery bridge on College Road in the past ten days than have crossed heretofore in the past five years, owing to the Washington street bridge being out for the passage of the dredge. All that vast travel from the south has had to enter town over this bridge during this time, and it is something great, too. Goodland Herald: Mrs. Chas. Crowden went to Rensselaer last Saturday for a short visit with her parents Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Harmon Mrs. Lew Spaulding and Mrs. Net Hamblin left Saturday morning for a week’s visit with relatives in Chicago'. From there they will go to Bangor, Michigan, and spend a week with Mrs. Spaulding’s brother-in-law. Geo. Spaulding. 'xMr. and Mrs. Jeffries came home Thursday evening with as little ado as they had left some days before. We got on to Joe, however, through a marked newspaper copy from Oklahoma City, where he had stopped over night with U. M. Baughman and got two or three feeds thrown in. He must have fed pretty regular while he was gone, as he looks as good as he did before he went away. Mrs. Catharine Davison Linton, aged 64 years, a former resident of Walker tp.. this county, died at her home in Englewood, 111., August 6, and the remains were brought back to Medaryville for burial. Deceased was* born In Jasper county and was married to Samuel Linton of Walker tp., August 25, 1864. To this union ten children were born, six of whom with the husband, fifteen grand-children and one great-grandchild, survive her.

Dr. Bates of Broadripple, a brother of N. S. Bates, came Friday for a few days visit with his-brother. Dr. Bates has been a hard worker and is suffering from a nervous breakdown, complicated with a throat affection, which affects his speech. A good rest and quiet is expected to put him in his usual good health. He left here yesterday for Battle Ground and from thence to Delphi and expected to return home the last of the week. Mr. and Mrs. s 7 B. Thornton left yesterday for their home near Beverly, Wash. They yere called here last March by the serious illness of the latter’s mother, Mrs. Miles Moffitt of Fair Oaks, who died a fewdays ago. Mr. Thornton has a 160 acre claim five miles from Beverly and four miles from the' new extension of the C. M. & St. P. railroad, which is now constructed to Beverly and has trains running that far.- Mr. Thornton’s claim is but 3 % miles of the Columbia River. Mjerry Healy returned from his wfeek’s vacation Sunday evening. He had spent the week at South Haven, Mich., visiting Samuel Overton, a brother-in-law of his brother John Healy. John returned last Wednesday arid Ms family wUI be home the latter part of this week, after having spent the three weeks there. Jerry went swimming every day he was there, and declares he saw many good lookers from Chicago and other places, but whether he swallowed the bait offered him he has not revealed so far.