Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 May 1909 — Page 8

;i Country Correspondence;; ! ; E?Y our regular corps of news-gatherers. ' I

WEST CARPENTER. J. Dennis hauled tile Thursday. Will Cain was a Redsselaer visitor Friday. | John Shellman visited Will Bowdy Sunday. # Mr. and Mrs. Fred Forman visited at J. Dennis’ Sunday. Emil Sommers and Stella Sage visited at J. Hudson's Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. John Waling visited at John Dennis’ Wednesday. Amy Dennis is assisting Stella S>age with her sewing this week. Bible meeting at Zion church was well attended by the young people Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Covington of Wolcott visited at W. T. Cory’s Monday and attended the burial of the former's mother who died in Chicago and was laid to rest in the Goodland cemetery Tuesday. LEE. Lora Culp has a badly sprained ankle. Miss Ethel Lewis is home now from her work. Mr. Mellender’s visited Sunday at Mr. Miller’s, north of Lee. Bert Lewis, went Friday evening to Ash Grove few days. Miss Lurfcl Anderson visited with Miss Verda Lewis last Sunday. Mrs. Ann Rishling went to Monon Monday evening, returning Tuesday morning. Alvin Clark and family and Elmer Gilmore took dinner Sunday at J. H. Culp’s. A car load of tile was unloaded here this week for the Horton & Mosley farm. Mr. and Mrs. Shultz went to Monon Saturday evening and visited his brother till Monday morning. Mrs. George Culp went Sunday morning, to her parents, John Osborne’s of near Rensselaer, and returned in the evening. Friday evening of last week Cassie and Flossie Holeman came to visit their grandmother, Mrs. Holeman, till Sunday afternoon. Sunday was the election of officers at the Sunday School: Superintendent, H. C. Anderson; Secretary, Miss Vena LaMar; Organist, Miss Lora Culp; Treasurer, Tommy Clark.

I PINE GROVE. Chas. Walker was a Rensselaer goer Wednesday. Stella Nuss called on Verna Shroyer Sunday. Bernice Walker was the guest of Nile Britt Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wiles were Pleasant Grove callers Saturday. Mrs. Andy Ropp and Mrs. James Torbet were Rensselaer goers Saturday. * Bertha, Orpha and Myrtle Parker were guests of Bertha Cooper Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Shroyer called on Mr. and Mrs. Bowman Switzer Sunday. Mrs. Lon Daniels and daughter of Gifford called on Mrs. Chas. Walker Monday morning. Lucy, Martha and Seth Walker spent Wednesday afternoon with Chloae and Charley Torbet. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Wiles spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet and family. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hayes of Marion and Mr. and Mrs. James Torbet were guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. Eib Monday.

Mrs. Sarah McCleary and daughter Qusta and Chas. Britt spent SundaY afternoon with Mrs. Lizzie Cooper and family. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hayes 'of Marion and Mrs. Anna Florence of near Parr spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Janies Torbet. Those that spent Saturday evening with J. M, Torbet and family were-: Charley, Fronie and Laura Austin, Harvey, Mainierd and Mary Austin of Wheatfield, Bessie Ropp, Willie, Elnora and Pansy Miller, The evening was spent In playing games, after which they departed at a late hour. • The contract was let Tuesday for the building of the new fence at the Prater cemetery, ft was to be by bids and the lowest bidder secured the work. There being only two bidders there and the Torbet brothers were the lowest. Watson Humes bought the old fence and Andy Ropp got the contract for cleaning off the brush.

Hoarseness, bronchitis and other throat troubles are quickly cured by Foley’s Honey and Tar as it soothes and heals the inflamed throat and bronchial tubes and the most obstinate cough disappears. Insist upon having the genuine Foley’s Honey and Tar. A. F. Long.

EGYPT. Ray Michaels was a Rensselaer goer Saturday. George Kennedy was a Rensselaer

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goer Friday. Jasper Pass hauled fertilizer from Brook Tuesday. • _ Charles Gray called on Lucy Blake Saturday evening. i Miss Hattie Iliff visited Hannah and Kate Welsh Sunday. I Wilbur Bowers attended chuufch at Mt. Hope Sunday evening. Several from this vicinity are having the whooping cough. Eva Michael spent Friday afterJnoon with Florence Antcliff. Mrs. William Morris is quite sick 'with tonsilltis at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Cook took i dinner with Joe ualey’s Sunday. I Miss Florence Antcliff called on | Mrs. Jesse Dunn Tuesday afternoon. I Mr. and Mrs. Marion Bicknell and i family visited at Joe Galey’s Tues- . day. J Mrs. Geo. Karr called on Mrs. I Charles Antcliff Wednesday after’noon. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Antcliff and family visited at Charles. Antcliff’s .Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Williard Pruett called on Jesse Dunn’s Tuesday afternoon. 1 Mrs. Mack Sullivan visited at I Mrs. W. F. Michael’s a few days this week. i Mr. and Mrs. Truman Vinson and • family visited Saturday night and J Sunday at Charles Antcliff’s. I Several from this locality attend|ed the ice cream and May basket j social at the James school house I Saturday night. I The friends and relatives of Mr. and Mrs. William Pruett gave them a pleasant surprise Sunday, it be- ; ing their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. A fine dinner was had and many useful presents given.

NORTHEAST BARKLEY. T. M. Callahan did business in Francesville Wednesday. Ed Oliver made a business to Illinois Monday and Tuesday. Wess Hinkle of near Rensselaer was seen in our parts Sunday. Albert Hurley and George Masters were Newland goers Sunday. Jim Hopkins of Cozy Palace spent Sunday with Ray and Iler Walker. George Gorbet visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Gorbet, Tuesday. , Mrs. Tom Tanner spent Wednesday with her sister, Mrs. James Lewis. Mrs. T. M. Callahan and Letha Reese were Rensselaer goers Wednesday. Mary and Ernest Reese called on Lola Oliver and Floyd Tow Sun.day eve. | Mrs. Ed Oliver and daughter I Lola called on Mr. Kennedy’s Sunday afternoon. Floyd Tow spent Saturday night ■and Sunday with his parents in South America. | Very few of the men in our [parts went out to vote at the county option election Saturday. W. A. Demoss was seen in this vicinity Tuesday evening, riding around like a business man. A. O. Moore was trying to buy Mr. Oliver’s fat cattle Tuesday, but they could not agree on the price. S. U, Dobbins of Francesville was in our neighborhood representing a tombstone company, taking dinner with Ed Walker. Silas Toombs and Jud Zook have moved their sawmill to Adam Flesher’s farm and have begun to saw the lumber for the fine large barn to be erected there this summer. Those that attended the surprise supper Friday night, (it being in honor of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Reese’s nineteenth wedding anniversary) were: Mr. and Mrs. T. M. Callahan, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Oliver and daughter Lola, Mr. and Mrs. Bert Kemp, Zella Bowen, Newt Kupke and Floyd Tow.

PARR. Sherman Renicker has closed his blacksfhith shop. May Warren spent Sunday with Mrs. Charley Warren. Mrs. Cassie Payne spent Monday with Mrs. Lena Myers. Miss Jessie Lakin spent Sunday with Miss Grace Price. . Mrs. Dennis Brooks spent Monday I with Mrs. Flora McCurtain. May "Warren has gone to work .for some people in Rensselaer. I Mildred Hall spent Sunday afternoon with Miss Clara Hurley. | Mrs. Chris Warren spent Sunday ■afternon with Miss Deva Hurley. I Len McCurtain returned home [Saturday evening on the milk train. ; 1 hey had a pleasant surprise ■dinner on Mrs. Logan Wood Sunday. | Vilas Price and Link Jenkins spent Sunday with R. M. Hurley’s. I Miss Marie Grant spent Wednesday evening, with Miss Lula Rowen. I Lena Meyers and daughter Maminll® were Rensselaer goers Wednesday. Rev. Jenkins spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Charley Warren. Alice Hurley from Rensselaer spent Monday with her sister, Flora McCurtain. Mrs. Ottls Sheffer spent Wednesday afternon with her mother, Mrs Isabel Price. .» Mr. and Mrs. John Sholts spent : Sunday evening with Mr. and Mrs. [Charley Warren. i Mr. and Mrs. Ottis Sheffer spent I Saturday evening with her mother, Mrs. Isabel Price.

Misses Ida, Clara and ueva Hurley spent Tuesday evening with Mrs. Chris. Warren. There is only one blacksmith shop in Parr any more, anU It is run by R. M. Hurley. Al McCurtain and wife spent Saturday night and Sunday with her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Snider. Those that were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Clement Fullerton Sunday were: Rex Clifton and wife and Dick and Neva Caldwell.

MT. AYR. (From The Pilot.) The new tennis court east of the bank is almost completed and has been in use for several days. Hiram Ashby and family spent last Saturday and Sunday with friends and at Brook. Mrs. W. A. Shindler was reportedto be quite sick for several days the latter part of last week and the first part of this. Mrs. Lizzie Hilliard of Wheatfield came yesterday for a visit at the home of Mr. Huntington, east of town. Miss Maude Noland of Lee, Ind., came Monday for a short visit with her brother, Rev. D. E. Noland, and family. Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Nay visited with relatives and friends at Indianapolis the latter part of last week and the first of this. J. B. Ashby is having a new well made at his residence in the west part of town. H. H. Watson of Rensselaer is doing the work. Mrs. Geo. Hopkins has been confined for the past week with a serious attack of rheumatism, but this week, was said to be some better. The change in the operators at the central office took place last Saturday; Miss Mary Johnson now being the day girl and Miss Nellie Harris the night girl.

Wilbur Hart, who has been living in Rensselaer for the past several months, has moved to his father’s farm northwest <pf here where he will farm this year. A happy wedding occurred last Sunday afternoon at 2 o’clock at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Jenkinson in the northwest part of town, the contracting parties being Mr. George Jenkinson and Miss Nellie Dilts. The ceremony was performed by Rev. D. E. Noland of the M. E. church, immediately after which was served the wedding dinner. About thirty friends and relatives were present and a very enjoyable time was reported. Music and other .amusements were a feature of the occasion. The Perfection Oil Cooker, the best hot weather oil stove on the market. EGER BROS.

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TAFT’S SWORD IS SEIZED

Weapon With Hilt of Gold In Hands of Treasury Agents. New York, May 7. —A finely wrought sword, with a hilt of solid gold, alleged to have been brought here as a gift for President Taft, was one of several hundred Oriental art objects seized by special treasury agents. The two P.ussians who brought the sword ashore said it was a present from “rpany Russian friends,” and was to have been presented to president by an 6fficlal of the Rut-sirn embassy. ,

FATAL QUARREL OVER DOG

Interference With Animal’s Trlck*s Causes Angry Words and Shooting. Venice, 111., May 7.—Two minutes after his pet dog was shot killed, Alfred F. Johnson was killed by the same revolver in the hands of Henry Price. Price had Interfered when Johnson was putting his dog through some tricks and, after a few words, Price shot the dog and owner.

Lightning Kills Insane Patients.

Oshkosh, Wls., May 7. —Fred Rosseisen and Frank Shelpeter, patients at the Northern State Hospital for the Insane, were instantly killed by being struck by lightnjng.

| New Automobile Agency || I have taken the Agency for the •■<l A. B. C. AUTOMOBILE J’” a neat, durable and comfortable ![;; car at a price in reach of a common man. Call and see me at once if you are thinking of buyj!" ing an Auto, as a sample car will ;;<i be here in a few days with a demonstrator, and I will want to see it. I J. V. COLLINS I RENSSELAER, INDIANA

NOTICE OF LETTINd CONTRACT. No. 9274. Notice Is hereby given that on Monday, June, 7th, 1909, up to 12 o'clock noon, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for the contraction of a steel bridge in Walker Township across the Grover Smith Ditch near half section line between sections 1 and 6, in Township 31 north, range six west. Said bridge to be 40 feet long and 16 foot roauway, and on tubes. Said bridge to be built according to- plans ana specifications now on file in the Auditor’s office. All bids to be accompanied by bond and affidavit as required by law. The Board reserve* the tight to reject any and all bids.

By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County. JAMES N. LEATHERMAN, Auditor Jasper County. NOTICE OF LETTING CONTRACT. Notice Is hereby given that on Monday, June 7th, 1909, up to 12 o'clock nbon, the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, Indiana, will receive sealed proposals for furnishing supplies for use of County Poor Asylum for quarter ending August 31st, 1909. The requisition for said supplies is on file *1 » An blds mLlBt be accompanied by bond and affidavit. By order of the Board of Commissioners of Jasper County, JAMES N. LEATHERMAN. Auditor Jasper County.