Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Peter Parks of Valparaiso, enroute to visit relatives in Remington, spent Thusday night in Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. R. H. Bowen of Putnamville, Putnam county, are visitthe latter’s cousins, Lee and I. A. Glazebrook. The Ladies’ Thlrty-Cent Bryan Club had an enthusiastic meeting Saturday and will meet again this afternoon at Chairman Littlefield’s office. Jesse A. Snyder returned from Indianapolis Wednesday where he had been operated on for appendicitis. Although still weak he will be himself again shortly. Will Donnelly, who has been visiting his wife and family here for the past two months, left Thursday to resume his work as tarveling lumber salesman, and will work down into Texas soon. 'MW. H. Parkinson went to the Columbia Hospital, Chicago, Saturday to take treatment for a kidney complaint. He is improving somewhat at this writing and will be able to leave the hospital soon. An ice cream social will be held at the James school house, south of town, on the gravel road tonight for the benefit of the Sunday School. The public is cordially invited to come out. Of late years the city schools have dismissed their pupils a day or two each year to allow the teachers to visit other schools and get pointers toward more efficient service. The city schools will be_ closed Nov. 5 and 6 for this purpose. XMr. and Mrs. Wallace Murray, who have been spending the summer with their daughter, Mrs. Frank Donnelly, left Thursday for Oklahoma, where they will spend the winter with their daughter at Stokes, Okla. Their son Charles accompanied them. A. B. Lowman lately of Whiting, will open a market room now occupied by the postoffice as?soon as vacated, selling everything to eat, including fresh meats and poultry. Mr. Lowman is well known to our people and will need no introduction to them in his new venture. AThe “burned district” at Roselawn is being rebuilt, and it is expected to have. the Kight saloon building ready for occupancy in a couple of weeks. This was the only remainsaloon in Roselawn, and since it burned up the drouth there has been something terrible to contemplate. ' C. P. Wright went to Forest, Ind., in company with E. V. Rarisford Wednesday to get ready for the big sale of general merchandise to take place there Oct. 17 to Nov. 1. Mr. Wright went from there to Hartford City where he has a big deal on. He will be absent a week. Mrs. Emerson Mathena, living north of town, was delivered of a still born-child Thursday night and for a time her life was despaired of, but yesterday morning she was better and her recovery seems assured. Mrs. Mathena is a daughter of James and Mrs. Donnelly of this city. 'jßlck Yates and wife will visit friends and relatives at Lafayette, Ind-, Hoopeston, Rossville and Danville* Ill;, for an indefinite period with the hope that Mrs. Yates will be benefitted thereby. Her health has not been good for some time and especially since the unfortunate death of their only son 'a few months ago.