Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1909 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

F. M. Welsh says that practically all the farmers in Jordan township will finish up planting corn this week, and some finished up the first of the week. Geo. F. Meyer is advertising in this issue of The Democrat a public sale of dairy cows, to take place here Saturday, May 29. Read the ad on another page. *

X T he Rensselaer Lumber Co., has sold the residence property on North Van Rensselaer street, recently occupied by Dr. Miller, to Ed Randle, who will occupy same.

yjVfrs. Len Leffler came up from Lafayette Thursday afternoon and will remain until after commencement, her sister, Miss Ethel Jacks, being one of the graduates.

Miss Francis Wilson of Muncie, came Thursday to spend a few days with her uncle, H. W. Kipllnger. She will go to Chicago from here to take a course in dramatic art.

Everett McCleary of Barkley township and Wm. Price of Parr returned Thursday evening from Indiapolis where they represented the Gifford and Farr I. O. O. F. lodges, respectively, at grand lodge.

Mrs. Charles Hammond of Big Rapids, Mich., came Thursday to visit relatives and attend the high school commencement exercises, her son, Ralph Hammond, being a member of the graduating class.

Starke County Democrat: The total number of automobiles in Starke county at the present time is 48. Nearly half of this number or 22, are owned by Knox people. The Buick leads in point of numbers, there being 16 cars of that make in the county.

The funeral of Henry H. Rogers, the Standard Oil magnate who died suddenly from appoplexy at his home in New York a few days ago, was held yesterday at 10 a. m., and the entire machinery of the Standard Oil Company throughout the country was stopped during the funeral ceremonies.

J. M. Knapp returned Tuesday night from a couple of weeks visit in his old home at Panama, N. Y. The east doesn’t look good to John any more, and he says if they were to give him a quit-claim deed for all of Chautauqua county, New York, with the proviso that he must live there, he wouldn’t accept the gift?

The piano factory people whom a committee recently went to Chicago to investigate with a view to securing the factory for Rensselaer, have notified President Robinson of the Commercial Club that they will come down Monday or Tuesday next to look over the ground here and submit a propostion to our people if pleased with the outlook.

John Resh and Charles Bowers have contracted 65 acres of pickles for the salting station which is in prospect, 25 acres of the land belonging to the Hartsell estate, 10 acres of Will Murray and 3 acres each from Harry McGee, Will Simmons and Bert Welsh, and many other smaller growers will devote a few acres to the new industry.

White & Hickman, accompanied by Charlie Simpson and Ed Hopkins, went to Indianapolis Wednesday to attend the I. O. O. F. grand lodge meeting. They expected to make the entire trip via auto, but at or near Delphi both of the rear tires blew out to their machine and they had so leave it there and go on by rail. New tires were secured in Indianapolis and they came back to Delphi Thursday afternoon and put on the tires and got home about midnight that night.

The Rensselaer bankers who attended the bankers’ meeting at Hammond Tuesday, report having had a very enjoyable time. Sixteen autos were used to convey the visiting bankers all over the Calumet region, and at the big steel plant at Gary they were carried all through the extensive plant by rail, the steel company having some 150 miles of trackage in their plant, and the party was conveyed to the different departments on flat cars, pulled by a big engine, also out on the pier running out into Lake Michigan.

The time for filing a remonstrance on the proposed extension of the Iroquois ditch expires next Friday, but so far as we are able to learn no remonstrances are being clr-'. culated at all, and it is not likely there will be. Most people seem to realize that the improvement must come and those furthest away who fought it hardest before in the belief that their assessments would be quite heavy, have now found that such assessments will be so light that it will not pay them to try to defeat the improvement again, as such defeat would be but temporary at most. have had excellent weather all week for planting, and most of the corn is now in the ground. We are told by parttea who have been up through the north part of Jasper this week, that they never saw that section look so well