Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1909 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

. Hezelden Cigars at Larsh’s drug store Perry Horton is home from Indianapolis to spend Sunday with his parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Horton. jr-John F. Bruner of Bartlesville, Qkla., came Friday to estimate the damage to his telephone plant which was wrecked in Saturdy night's storm.

Miss Alice Jones of Remington is the guest of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bellows this week, Miss Jones is a daughter of former county commisioner Dexter R. Jones.

The Hammond basket ball team will tour the state. Beginning Friday night they will play Rensselaer, and from there they go south and play such teams as Lebanon and Crawfordsville.

The excessive use of cigarettes was the direct cause of Frank Thorpe of Shelbyville, being found in an unconscious condition Saturday afternoon. He regained consciousness Sunday.

Miss Olle Hendricks of Asheville, N. C., formerly of Remington, visited here a few days with old friends She left Thursday morning for Chicago to spend a short time before returning home. Joseph Harrison, mayor of Columbia City, Indiana, major of the third battalion Indiana National Guard and prospective Adjutant General of the State, was in town on business Wednesday. Bas Dewey of Idaho, who has been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. A. Dewey of south of town for several weeks, will leave today for lowa for a visit with relatives and from there return home. S. B. Thornton writes us from Spokane, Wash., that they are about to move to their homestead near Beverly, Douglas county, Wash., and to change the address of their Democrat to that place. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Osborne of South Bend, came Wednesday to spend a few days with J. D. Allman and family. They will go from here to Los Angeles, Call., where they have purchased a home.

Harrison Warren of Peru came Thursday to close the deal for his ten acre, tract of land and house north of town, which he recently sold to W. O. Schanlaub, superintendent of the Newton county schools.

Mrs. L. N. Wells of Demotte returned home Thursday. She has been staying with her sister, Mrs. Halleck, who has improved so rapidly the past few days that her condition is no longer considered dangerous. , Mrs. Ed Mills of Chicago came* down Thursday to visit with relatives and be present at the wedding of her husband’s brother, Mr. Emory Mills, and Miss Doris Porter, which will take place tomorrow afternoon. jsjhe John A. Williams sale in lordan tp., Wednesday was better than anticipated in the way of the prices property sold for, cows selling for $55 to S6O and horses, too, going very high. The sale totalled $2,600. \The snowfall Tuesday made the iefet sleighing W’ednesday we have Had this winter. Thursday’s warm sun and an all night rain Thursday night took most of it off, however, and the prospects are that all of it will be gone today. Geronimo, the noted Apache chieftain who kept the white settlers along the Mexican border in terror for so many years, died Tuesday at Ft. Sill, Okla., where he has been confined for several years as a government prisoner. Wattles Rhode of the Princess theatre, left Friday for Fowler and from there he expects to go to New Orleans and Florida to spend the remainder of the winter with his parents. His partner and Harry Eger will have charge of the show. Y Mrs. Joe Nagle went to Lafayette /Thursday to consult the surgeon of St. Elizabeth’s hospital where she was operated on recently. She is getting along nicely but the surgeon in charge deemed it advisable for her to return for an examination. The Kentland Enterprise says that while reports from all the neighboring towns-give heavy damage to telephone and electric light systems, none seem tp be quite so bad as the wreck of the telephone system there, which the Enterprise says is almost a total wreck.

The Modern Woodmen initiated 3 candidates Wednesday night The local Camp of Woodmen Is growing rapidly, two or three and four new members being taken in each meeting night. It is certainly an excellent fraternal order, and the Rensselaer Camp ought to have a membership of several hundred. .Sunday at 2:30 p. m., at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Porter, will occur the marriage of their daughter, Ella Doris, to Emory S. Mills, a former Rensselaer boy but now employed at Muncie as general manager of the Muncie Wheel and Jobbing Co., manufacturers of automobile parts, etc.