Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

rpßlanche, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Ott of Barkley tp., got the front finger on the right hand caught Tuesday in the pump, while the windmill was* in motion, and so crushed It that it had to be amputated at the second Joint, Thursday. The wound is doing well at this writing. Miss Flossie and Master Everett Winters who have been spending the summer with their grandparents, A. F. Griswold’s, near Wolcott, finished their visit by spending the last two days with their uncle, Chas. Phegley, and returned to their home in Chicago Saturday. (They were accompanied home by their aunt, Miss Ara Belle Griswold, who will enter a musical conservatory. Uncle Joe Gaines went to Clarksburg, w. Va., Thursday evening for a visit of * a few weeks. He left there 53 years ago last August, and when he came away he had five brothers and five sisters, but in the more than half century Intervening they have all died. He had intended going to Minnesota, but on Wednesday he received a letter from his childhood home and determined to visit it once more.

Joseph A. Sharp came down Thursday morning for the first time since June 4, having been confined to the house, and not even being able to be on his feet until last week. Mr. Sharp has been troubled with a bunion, or something of that nature, on his foot for many years, which has many times laid him up for days at a time, but on the present occasion he has had a much worse attack that usual. . Mark Yeoman of Kingman, Kan., paid us a call yesterday morning. He will go to Hutchinson, Kan., Monday to attend the State Fair and see Uncle Felix French. We have delegated him to shake hands with Uncle Felix for us and holler hurrah for Bryan a few times. Mr. Yeoman now has over 900 acres of land, and has fed 114 cattle on the place, turning off 72 August 1, and having 42 that will be ready to go in a few days. The present hot weather covers a very wide territory, and is especially severe in the south. In Texas the thermoneter has registered as high as 112 degrees, which is unusually hot for that country even in the summertime, especially on the highlands back from the gulf influences. In the northwest and west the same complaint is heard, the weather is Very hot for this time of year, and it all came after one day of old Indian summer.

Some of the farmers east of town are complaining about town boys coming out that way hunting, and shooting about promiscously. Chickens, turkeys and ducks have been killed almost without number, we are told, and unless this is stopped an example will be made of some of these lawless youngsters in the way of a vigorous prosecution. The Democrat is requested to publish this warning, and it is hoped that it will have the effect of putting a stop to the trouble. The dredge men and the drillers still have their troubles. Wednesday afternoon the dredge encountered a ledge of rock that it could not budge, and the drill had to be set going again so the stone could be loosened with dynamite. In front of the dredge the old holes that were not blasted deep enough were pumped out and re-shot. It will be' several days yet before the creamery bridge will be replaced if no more progress is made in the next two weeks than there has been in the last two. The organization of a Bryan and Kern Club was completed Thursday evening at the office of N. Littlefield, with W. R. Nowels. President; L. E. Glazebrook, John C. Carmichael. Barney Melnbrook and John Eger, Vice-Presidents; Arthur Tuteur, Secretary; Eli Gerber, Treasurer. The next meeting will be held at Mr. Littlefield’s office Tuesday evening, at which time arrangements will be made for a hall and other matters pertaining to the organization. Every democrat and every other voter that expects to assist in bringing about the reforms so badly needed is invited to attend.

Allen Louks writes us from Cambridge. lowa, in renewing his subscription and also that of his son, M. F. Louks. and says democratic prospects are looking well in his« locality, and he thinks Bryan is sure to win. Corn, he says, is nearly out of the way of frost and dealers are offering to engage the new crop at 50 Cents. Old corn is 74 cents on the market, 85 cents at retail. Crops all good except oats which on % to 2-3 an average yield. He is well pleased with his new home and says he cannot speak highly enough of that country. An old corn raiser says that the corn in this vicinity is in a very peculiar condition just now. In the same hill—and of course it would follow that the stalks were all planted’ at the same time—will be found stalks in all the stages of the different processes through which corn goes in ripening. One stalk will be in the silk, on the next one the ear will be in the milk, and yet another will be hard and out of the way of the frost. This wlll.no doubt cause a condition very akin to that of last year, and if so the corn crop will not be very remunerative again thia time.