Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

J Simpson and his mother, Mrs. Abraham Simpson, went to Indianapolis Tuesday for a two weeks visit with relatives. Leave! and family are moVlng to Rockfleld, Car roll county, where he will start a bakery. The Democrat joins his friends in wishing him success. Lottie, Lula and Jessie Gray of Carpenter tp., returned home today after a week’s visit with relatives at Pine Village, Williamsport and Attica. Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Bates started Tuesday to Norwich, No. Dak., for a three weeks visit with their daughter, Mrs. Albert Bouk and husband, who moved there some two years ago. a jx.Eli Arnold and wife went to Ijeru Monday to visit his brother-in-law, J. C. Frazee. They returned Thursday. Mr. Arnold says that farmers are as well off with crops here as they are in Miami county.

B. F. Fendig w’as in Chicago Wednesday and Thursday on business. He says he never saw less political discussion than there is going on now in that city. He didn’t hear the subject mentioned while there. John Renicker has purchased an 85 acre farm 3% miles west of North Manchester, and went up there Thursday to rent it so that he will be free to go south this winter. He "’paid about SBO per acre for this land. Uncle Simon Philips went to Fowler to visit his daughters, Mrs. S. A. Barnes and Mrs. Frank Vannatta, Tuesday, and while there will attend the horse show. Horses have a peculiar attraction for Uncle Simon. They are the next thing to a public sale.

Mack Hoyes, son of Jack Hoyes, was token to a 'specialist at Lafayette Wednesday to have a growth removed from his throat and nasal cavity- His hearing has been affected at times. The operation was performed and he returned with his father the same day. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce Porter returned Tuesday from a several weeks visit with their son-in-law and family, Will Clark, near Mitchell, So. Dak. Bruce thinks it is a great country out there, but says owing to the wet, backward spring, crops this year areT'Skly fair. / \ Mrs. Joseph I. Adams or south of town, who has been suffering from a badly scalded limb, is getting along very well at this writing. It was thought that skin-grafting might have to be resorted to, but irv, the last day or twq. it looks as tho gh the wounds will heal themselves. The recent fire loss at McCoyspurg on the J. P. Gwin hardware stock was adjusted Wednesday, by paying the entire >6OO, the amount of the policy. This policy was written by J. C. Porter of thfe city, and Mr. Gwin was well pleased with the treatment he received from Mr. Porter’s company. The insurance on the building has not been adjusted as yet. jNt is very doubtful whether the dredge will get far enough down the river to be out of the way of the winter floods. - This year if it is tied up between the creamery bridge and the cemetery a flood would play havoc with those living near the channel, in fact the impediments now in the way would be much worse than an ice gorge, and a couple of hundred feet now must be blasted before the dredge can get down stream.