Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1909 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Lamson> who were called to Hutchinson, Kans., on account of the death of Mrs. Lamaon’s brother-in-law, Felix French, returned home Thursday. George Sharp of Indianapolis came yesterday to visit his children for a few days. He is preparing for a long trip through thq south, painting signs for the Thomas Cusack Co. Governor Marshall has appointed. Mrs. John W. Kern, wife of the recent candidate for vice-president, as a member of the board of the Indiana Girl’s school to succeed Isabel Bell of Kokomo. Mrs. J. W. Hitchings of Jordan tp., returned Thursday froip Brookston, where she was called on account of the serious sickness (not death, as stated in the last issue of The Democrat) of her father, Joseph Carrot. She left him considerably improved.

Cards are out for the forthcoming marriage of Mr. Zern Wright, Junior member of the real estate firm of C. P. Wright & Son, and Miss Nellie Gray, a popular young school teacher of Jasper county. The wedding will take place at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Gray, in Rensselaer, on Wednesday evening, April 21. Henry Hayes, formerly of Barkley township, this county, writes us from Burke, South Dakota, and directs us to hold up his Democrat until he notifies us where to send it. He is moving via wagon to his claim in North Dakota, he states, some 300 miles, and doesn’t know what his postofflce address will be until he gets to his new location. “Winter is still lingering in the lap of Spring.” Scarcely had we got our overcoats hung on the peg for the summer, after the introduction of spring given us Monday and. Tuesday? ere we had to take them down again and don them with the collars upturned. Thursday was very raw and the air was full of snowflakes. In the meantime garden-making has suffered a severe backset. John Clouse received a combination attachment from Babson Bros., Chicago this week and has his phonograph equipped with the 1909 model, making it an up-to-date Parlor Grand Phonograh. This attachment plays the standard and Amberoil .four minute records and makes the phohcgraph as good again as it was before. Anyone having the Standard. The Home or The Triumph can get them equipped. Elkhart druggists are signing an agreement not to sell intoxicating liquor at all, in fact, pledging themselves not to take out a government license and to use alcohol or whiskey only in prescriptions prepared by driiggists themselves. The agreement forbids sellidg to doctors for use in prescriptions. One drug firm advertised Friday, a determination to observe fully the law governing the sale of intoxicants since the county voted “dry.”

E. W. Maxwell in renewing his subscription to The Democrat writes: Oklahoma weather is fine. Wheat is In fine condition, nearly high enough to hide a rabbit. Oats all sowed and above ground, lots of corn has been planted with prospects for a fine crop. The peaches are nearly all killed but there are excellent prospects for a banner apple crop. Old corn Is now worth 61 cents per bushel and wheat is strong at $1.07. Land values are soaring high in this, the best state in the union. I would like to come to Indiana and see the old “comrades” wading In the mud. If some of them will come out here they can get out of the mud and make two dollars to one back there and not freeze to death in the winter, either.

Once upon a time a man who was top economical to take the weekly home paper sent his little boy to borrow the copy taken by his neighbor. In his haste the boy ran over a |4 stand of bees and In ten minutes looked like a watery summer squash. His cries reached his father who ran to his assistance and fail-. Ing to see a barbed wire fence ran into .it cutting a handful of flesh from his anatomy and ruining a 14 pair of pants. The cow took advantage of the gap in the fence, got into the corn field and killed herself eating green corn. Hearing the racket, his wife ran upsetting a four gallon churn full of cream into a basket of kittens drowning the whole flock. In her hufry she dropped a |7 set of teeth. The baby left alone, crawled upon the spilled cream, then into the parlor and ruineda I'2o carpet. > During the excitement the oldest girl ran away with the hired man, the calves got out and the dog broke up eleven setting hens. Moral—oubscri be fog the Democrat. Exchange. The new coffee, tea and grocery store is now ready for business. Fresh toasted coffoe and a fine line of teas, groceries and canned goods. Stock all new and fresh. We roast all our own coffee and guarantee It strictly fresh. Our phone number Is 226; we solicit a share of your orders for groceries, oil and gasoline, ■h C. C. STARR & CO. Subscribe tor The Democrat