Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1908 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A fine rain fell in Chicago Saturday. > slOim Brenner has entered Purdue University to take a course in pharmacy. Mrs. John Barce was ealled to Chicago Monday by the sickness of her husband. SyMrs. Vernon Hopkins left Monday iot a visit with her parents at Kalamazoo, Mich. J. T. Randle is visiting her son, W. F. Enslen, and daughter Mrs. Sam Fisher, at Ma?lon. s/C. E. Harlacber of Monticello wasi Ur the city a few hours Sunday and took dinner with F. E. Babcock and family. Mrs. Ed. Irwin came over from Wolcott yesterday and took her mother, Mrs. Hagins, home with her for a visit. jVAVarren Robinson was called to lota, Kan., Saturday by the critical condition of his brother Frank who was reported very low with typhoid fever. Frank King is getting along very well with her broken limb, and rested better Monday night than she has at any time since the accident. A beautiful rainbow was visible in the northwest at 6 o’clock yesterday morning, and a light local shower fell here, not enough to lay the dust, however. W. F. Smith’s black stallion that he has beed using for a driver, ran away" yesterday morning about 6 o’clock, while hitched to his bike run-a-bout. Very little if any damage was done to either horse or buggy. Monticello Journal: A. H. Brown and Leonard Turner left today to enter Indiana University. Brown is to complete his law course and Turner, goes with the expectation of taking a course in Journalism if he finds the prospects all right. and Mrs. Chas. Murphy and Daby left Monday for their home in Chicago, where Mr. Murphy holds a position as mail carrier. Mrs. Murphy has been staying here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bellows, for several months, during which time her baby was born. Hon. Samuel W. Small and Judge W. D. Oldham, sometimes called “the cyclone orator of Nebraska,” will speak at Monon to-night in the interests of democracy. Both are among the ,best speakers in the country and it is likely some of our citizens will go over to hear them. C. Borntrager went to Cfflcsgjto Sunday and brought his little two-year-old son home, who has so far recovered as to be able to be moved. One kidney and a tumor as large as a goose egg were removed in the operation which was performed the last week in August. The child is far from strong yet but is improving right along. Fint Churchill returned from St. Elizabeth’s hopital at Lafayette Monday, where he had been to see his brother John who is sick with typhoid fever. He says John has shown some improvement in the last few days, and it is now believed that he will recover. He has had a very narrow escape, and it will be a long time before he will be out, or able to come home. |4.The militia boys came home Saturday night from the state encampment at Indianapolis, coming by way of Lafayette on the traction line and thence home on the Monon. They report a good time but it was awfully hot and dry down there—that is the ground was dry—and they were all glad to get home and shove their feet under dad’s table and get some of mother’s victuals once more. Van Wood and children is yisitlng her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips of Hanging Grove tp , during the absence of her husband, his father Harvey W. Wood and sons Harvey, Jr., who left Friday for a , ten days visit in TennesSCO, at Chickamauga and Lookout Mountain, which battles of the civil war Mr. Wood participated in and was wounded in the leg in the former battle 45 years ago Sunday. Lithograph pictures of the democratic candidates for president and vice-president and of Thomas R. Marshall, candidate for governor, can be had free at the office of the county chairman, N, Littlefield in the K. of P. building, ‘or at The Democrat office. Call and get a set and post them up in your window that the passerby may know your political preferences in this campaign