Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1908 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

jT-Mrs. I. M. Stackhouse, who has Been visiting Mrs. Mary D. Eger, was called to Noblesville Monday morning by the critical illness of her daughter, Mrs. W. H. BBrown, who had been stung on the lip by a spider." Mrs. .Brown died about noon, before her mother reached there. . Yesterday the Cincinnati Enquirer, which is anti-Bryan and makes no claim to being a democratic paper, predicted editorially that the Democrats would carry Ohio on the state ticket by an immense majority, and that there were many reasons why the national tlcjket would sweep the state also. Mrs. Joe Adams of south of town was quite badly scalded about the limbs Sunday morning by falling with a bucket of boiling wates- with which she was about to scald a chicken preparatory to picking the feathers from it. A doctor was called to dress her injuries which will lay her up for several days. Harrison Wasson harvested more than 55 bushels of clover seed off of 20 acres last week and received $6 per bushel for .lt. And this was after he had cut a crop of hay off the same field. The duty on clover seed under the Dingley bill is 30 per cent advalorem, and at $6 per bushel would amount to SI.BO per blishel. Was it the tariff that made clover seed worth $13.50 last spring or was it scarcity of the seed? (

Last Friday Geo. Pumphrey and wife took Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Gowdy over to Mr. Gowdy’s old home place in Newton tp., now owned by H. O. Harris, and they all ate dinner under an old apple tree in the yard. They also visited the Strong cemetery in that township where Mr. Gowdy’s father is buried. Im company with Mr. Pumphrey Mr. Gowdy paid The Democrat a pleasant visit Saturday before their departure for their home in Rushville, and expressed himself as having had a ijiost enjoyable time while here. {iJmerson Coen, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Coen of Rensselaer, who recently went to Chicago and from there to New York City, writes home that he has enlisted in the U. S. , navy for a term of four years Taylor McCoy, son of the convicted banker, T. J, McCoy, has also enlisted in the navy recently. Taylor completed his sentence in the Chicago bridewell recently and then hiked out for the west and word now comes that he has enlisted in the . navy. Taylor was sent up several months ago for getting goods under false pretences.