Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1909 — Page 8

Country Correspondence BY OUR REGULAR CORPS OF NEWS-GATHERERS.

SOUTH NEWTON. Blackberry picking is the order of the day. Hough's men helped Ben Wooley thresh Monday. Earl Leek took a load of corn to Rensselaer Monday. Leona Weiss finished up a term of music lessons Last week. Philip Paulus hauled his threshing coal from Mt. Ayr Tuesday. Corn never looked finer in this locality than it does at present. J. E. Reed and family broke bread with the Paulus family Sunday. Fred Waling and family called on Arthur Powell’s Sunday evening. Mrs. Mary Powell and daughter Alice, spent Sunday at Arthur Powell’s. Chas. Grant and wife called on Bert Yeoman and wife Sunday alternoon „ Philip Paulus made a business trip over in Newton county Thursday of last week. Mr. and Mrs. Earl Leek attended the ball game at Mt. Ayr Sunday afternoon. Ades of the’Hazelden farm made a flying thip through this vicinity Tuesday evening. Ade’s men of Brook put lightning rods on their barn at Harry Dewey's one day last week. W- E. Leek and daughter Della, visited one day last week with the former’s son Earl. Mr. Speck and two children of near Foresman, visited with Mrs. Mary Powell last Friday. ■Sidney Holmes lost a good horse Monday by having one of its legs cut off with a mowing machine. “George M.” thought that he would wait so late that the scribes wouldn’t see him. The saw him just the same. Mrs. Sidney Holmes had her hand quite severely burned last week by having some boiling syrup run over on it. Mrs. Philip Paulus and daughter Bessie spent Monday night and Tuesday with J. E. Reed of near Surrey. Mr. and Mrs. Nate Eldridge of McCoysburg spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Sidney Holmes. Wm. Anderson and family of near eKntland and Warner Hough and Joe Charles spent Sunday with Wm. Hough and wife. Mrs. Harry Dewey took Sunday dinner the Paulus family. Mr. Dewey was at Al Peters’ and M- A. Dewey’s on business. Harvey Waling and wife of near Brook took Sunday dinner with the former’s sister and husband, Mr- and Mrs. Arthur Mayhew. Mrs. Chas. Waling and daughter Carrie of Brook, came Wednesday for a few days’ visit with the former's daughter, Mrs. Arthur Mayhew. Miss Sadie Paulus returned home Monday afternoon after an extended visit with her uncle, Henry Paulus and family and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Prouty. Mr- and Mrs. Alva Rowley and son of brook, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Nelse Hough Sunday. They spent the evening with Wm. Hough and wife.

TAKE NOTICE. All persons are recommended to take Foley’s Kidney Remedy for backache, rheumatism, and kidney and bladder trouble. It will quickly correct urinary irregularities, which If neglected, may develop into a serious illness. It will restore health and strength. Do not neglect signs of kidney or bladder trouble and risk Bright’s disease or diabetes. A. F. Long.

NEWLAND. Ed Oliver was in Newland Saturday. Ed Oliver put a new sewer in Saturday. Win. Martin bought a horse Saturday. John Snider was in Newland Wednesday. Mrs. Etta Blackman caled on Mrs. Bress Sunday. Miss Lola Oliver called on Mrs. Bress Sunday. Wm. Martin bought a team of mules Tuesday. Say. Floyd, wear your new suit of clothes Sunday. Dan Snider and sons are putting up hay this week. They have a telephone in the ticket office at Newland. Mrs. John Snider called on Mrs. Geo. Beady Tuesday. Alva Blackman began picking his pickles Monday morning. Mr- and Mrs. James Snider went to Wheatfield Wednesday. The rain Wednesday put a stop to hay making for awhile. W. A. Martin called on Alva Blackman and family Sunday. They have the kraut factory nearly hauled away from Newland. Miss Mattie Anderson and Wm Steel were in Newland Sunday. John Bohan is repairing wells and pumps for B. J. Gifford this week. The rain we had Wednesday helped the crops and pickles very much. Mrs. Wm. Martin bought and canned fourteen quarts of blackberries Tuesday. Mrs. Chas. Anderson and daughters and Miss Chloe Martin went berrying Tuesday. News is scarce this week as everybody Is busy picking berries and working in the fields. Mr, and Mrs. Wm. Martin visited

Mr. and Mrs. Cora Eldridge near the old oil fields Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Snider and family spent Sunday with his parents, Mr and Mrs. Dan Snider. Come to Mr- Bress’ at .Newland to buy the cheapest and best goods. He has them and sells them. Call and see. ,

Quite a few men and boys were in Newland Sunday looking after their games. Some were enjoying themselves, some were not. Mr. and Mrs. Bness have been confined to their store most of the time. They took a buggy ride Sunday afternoon to get the fresh air. Those that spent Sunday with Mrand Mrs. John Bohan were: Mr. and Mrs. John Kopka and Mr. and Mrs. George Swadger and little son Willie. Those that called on Mrs. Bress Sunday evening were: Mrs. T- M. Callahan and children, Mrs. Wm. Rees and baby and Miss Letha Rees.

McCOYSBURG. Threshing commenced this week in this vicinity. Miss Edna Lefler spent Sunday with Bertha Cook. Miss Laura Phillips spent Sunday with Miss Mary Peregrine. R. B. Porter and Grandpa Howe were in Rensselaer Tuesday. R. V. Johns made a trip to Wolcott Wednesday in his new "joy wagon.” Sam Cavinder and son Recie were in Rensselaer on business Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. A. Armstrong of Michigan City, are visiting with their son, C. A. Armstrong. Mrs. Cecil Rishling spent Saturday night and Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Willet. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Porter and Mrs. Ella Robinson called on Miss Mary Peregrine Sunday afternoon. Opal and Ruth Robinson, who have been visiting with their aunt, Mrs. J. R. Phillips, left Sunday for a visit with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wells of Barkley.

FARMERS’ RETREAT. Amiel Schrader was an Asphaltum goer Tuesday. Mrs. Pulaski called on Mrs. W. Hershman Friday. Miss Marie Wilmington spent Sunday afternoon with irlends at Dunnvllle. Mrs. Lackey of Medaryville is at her daughter’s bedside at present writing. John Wenrick and daughter, Miss Katie, returned home after a two weeks visit with relatives in Ohio. Harvey Gravelie of Kankakee spent Sunday with his wife, who is visiting with the Misses Callaghan. Quite a number were present at the social given at Frank Hershman’s for the benefit of the Asphaltum Christian church.

Thomas Callaghan and daughters Bessie and Mary, and guest Geneveive Gravelie spent Wednesday forenoon shopping in Medaryville. Tuesday, while returning home from Medaryville, Mrs. Julia Stalbaum’s horse took fright at Dr. Hackley’s auto, and the horse ran upon the sidewalk, overturning the buggy and throwing Mrs. Stalbaum and son Paul out into the street, and scratching Paul’s face.

PINE GROVE. The rain Wednesday did a great deal of good. Miss Chloe Torbet spent Sunday with Miss Bessie Ropp. Miss Gusta McCleary is working for Mrs. Harry Gifford. Everett Parker spent Tuesday night with Roy Torbet. Miss Bertha Cooper was a guest of Miss Stella Nuss Sunday. Willie Miller and John Torbet spent Sunday with John Daniels. Miss Stella Marion was the guest of Miss Gusta McCleary Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Beady visited Mr. and Mrs. Harry Gifford and family Sunday. Mrs. Chas. Shroyer and Mrs. Rebecca Hurley were guests of Mrs. Lizzie Cooper Sunday. Mrs. Andy Ropp and mother, Mrs. Martha Donnelly, called on Mrs. J. M. Torbet Sunday morning. Charley Torbet returned home . aturday after a five weeks visit with his two sisters at Indianapolis. Mr and Mrs. Owen Barker and P ent Sunda y evening Mr. and Mrs. Art Snow and son. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Walker and

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family spent Sunday with the former's sister, Mrs. Bell Daniels of Gifford. Mrs. James Britt, Myrtle Parker and Simon Cooper called on Mrs. Chas. Shroyer and family Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Openchain and family of near Gifford. Mr. and Mrs. Owen Barker and Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Nuss, Jr., were guests of their parents, Mr- and Mrs. Wm. Nues, Sr., and family Sunday.

BURNSTOWN. Threshing is the order of the day. Jim Stanley visited with Elmer and Walter Brown Sunday. John Williams visited with his grandmother, Mrs. Price, Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Reed called on Mr. and Mrs. John Marlatt Thursday evening. Philip Durant and Emmet Pullins commenced threshing Monday noon in the ring. Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Sullenberger and children called on Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ropp Sunday evening. Miss Laura Bengard of Chicago is visiting with Misses Agnes and Maggie Hurley for a week or two. Mrs. S. Holmes and daughter, Bertha were in Rensselaer Saturday for the first time since the former’s sickness. . Misses Lucy and Katie Morgenegg and Bertha and Ethel Holmes called on Misses Agnes and Maggie Hurley Sunday afternoon. Mrs. Chris Morgenegg, Jr., and children returned home to Illinois Sunday after spending a few weeks here with friends and relatives. C. A. Reed is in the lead for the largest yield of oats per acre . His crop averaged 63 bushels and Emmet Pullins wheat crop averaged 37 bushels to the acre. [Please furnish affidavits with this statement. Ed.] Herman Anderson started to Dakota Monday, where he will remain through threshing season and then he will go home to New Mexico, where his mother lives. Wonder why Jim didn’t report Sunday evening how the ball game went between Possom Run and Pleasant Ridge? The Possum Run boys don’t seem to want to enter into a conversation in any form. The ball game score between Possom Run and Pleasant Ridge was 17 to 6in favor of the latter. The Possom Run boys say if they can’t do better than that next time they are going to give their ball suits away and come home through the corn fields. Lester ShTelner came down from Chicago Thursday where he had been at the bedside of his aged father. He had only been here a little while when he received the sad news that he had passed away. Mrs. George McElfresh returned with Lester Saturday morning to attend the funeral.

LEE. Isaac Parcels spent a few days here this week. J. H. Culp and family spent Sunday at Mrs. Holeman’s. Mrs. Myrtle Lewis spent Saturday night and Sunday with her mother. Mrs. Overton and children spent Wednesday with uer mother, Mrs Holeman. Alvin Clark and son Harley have gone to work with a threshing machine near Brook. Elmer Gilmore and Earl Foulks went over near Morocco last Friday to visit Clyde Clark and wife, returning Sunday. Will Jacks, wife and daughter Mary of near Rensselaer, attended church here Sunday and took dinner with S. M. Jacks.’ Mrs. Van Wood and children of Rensselaer came Saturday evening to visit till Monday morning with Will Rishling and wife. There was a large crowd out to League Sunday evening and they had an interesting program and good music by the orchestra. J- H. Culp is doing some carpenter work for the township in the way of repairing school houses, the Duvall, Diamond and Lee schools. Mrs. Nan Stiers and grand-daugh-ter, Agnes Stiers, went to Kankakee, Hl., Saturday morning to visit the former’s daughters. They returned Monday evening. k Orville Holeman, who has been working near Monticello, came home on a visit the last of the week, and C^® ie v , and Flossie Holeman came with him. They returned Sunday evening. J The orchestra did practice work at J. H. Culp’s Saturday evening. The teacher, Mr. Young, and wife were with them. They will play this, Saturday evening, at Alvin Clarks. Tuesday afternoon there was a severe wind and na.n storm here that blew down outhouses and trees and the top off a box car standing on the side track. It also blew the corn down badly. Mrs. Wash Denton died at her home in Monon Wednesday evening She moved from her old home place to Monqn last winter. She has been in very poor health for a long time We do not know at this writing where she will be burled. Mr. Shultz, the blacksmith that moved here last spring from Medaryville. is loading up to move back at this writing, Thursday. There is a good opening here for a good smith and we would like to see one come to our village. Thursday evening of last week Michael Hoback and wife and daughter, Mrs. Sabra Bish of Tipton county, came to visit his sister, Grandmother Mellender, who lives with her daughter, Mrs. John csborne of near Rensselaer. Saturday evening they and Grandmother came here on the milk train to visit Mrs. Kate Holeman. Monday morning Mr. Hoback and family returned home, but the latter will remain for an extended visit.

PARR. Miss Mae Warren is spending the week with home folks. Miss Anna Marion spent Tuesday with Miss Chris and Mae Warren. Sherman Renicker says he is going to leave Parr and go to Colorado. Mr. and Mrs. Piatt spent Sunday with the latter’s mother, Mrs. Isabel Price. Mr. and Mrs. Otis Sheffer spent Sunday afternoon with Mr. and Mrs. Burr Sheffer. Misses Deva and Clara Hurley are spending the week with relatives near Blackford. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Warren spent Wednesday afternoon with his father, George Warren. There will be a moving picture show at Mr. Wood’s hall Saturday night. Everybody invited. Mr. and Mrs. James Snider spent Saturday night and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hurley. Mrs. Dennis Brooks and children spent Sunday with her sister and family, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Hurley. Mr. and Mrs. Will Piatt and Mr. and Mrs. Will Myers spent Wednesday evening with Mrs. Isabel Price. Dick Caldwell came home from Pleasant Ridge, where he has been working the last two weeks, Wednesday. The little folks had a picnic Sunday in the school yard. A nice dinner was served and all reported a good time. Buck McCurtain has been working with the threshing machine lately, but thinks he will quit soon and go to buying fur again. Mr. and Mrs. Dick Caldwell came home Wednesday from Pleasant Ridge where they have been visiting the latter’s sister, Mrs. John Reed. There was a large picnic held in Stephenson’s grove Sunday by the young folks and a fine dinner was served. After which the afternoon was spent in playing games. They also had their pictures taken. All reported a good time.

BIRTH ANNOUNCEMENTS. August 3, to Mr. and Mrs. John Walters, a daughter.

[Under this head notices will be pubIshed for 1-cent-a-word for the first nsertion, %-cent per word for each additional insertion. Figure five words to the line, and to save book-keeping cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than 25 cents, but short notices coining wltnin the above rate will be published two or more times, as the case may be for 25 cents.) For Sale—Oklahoma Real Estate First Mortgages in amounts of SSOO to $50,000, three to ten year term, bearing six to eight per cent, semiannual, or annual Interest. Security worth three to ten times the amount of the mortgage. Write us for particulars, stating amount desiring to invest. A. -C. FARMER & CO., 132% West Main St., Oklahoma City, Okla. For Rent— Eight room house and two lots centrally located. A. H. HOPKINS. For Sale— An up-to-date restaurant, fixtures and stock. Have good business in town of 1500. Will trade for real estate or good residence property. Address A. B. C., care of Democrat, Rensselae-. Steers For Sale— l 3 head of good 2-year-old steers for sale. Geo. Davisson, Parr, Ind., R-l, ’phone 531-A. Sheep For Sale— 4o .head ewes and lambs, Shropshires. Reasonable prices. Arthur Mayhew, Rensselaer, Ind., R-3, or ’phone 29-H, Mt. Ayr. For Sale— 2 sows and eight pigs, 1 Jersey cow, fresh, giving about 3 gallons milk a day, 1 large black mule, 10 years old, wt. about 1400. Inquire at this office for particulars. Pure Bred! White Wyandotte Cockerels, this year’s stock. These cockerels are from winners that took six prizes at the last poultry show. Buy now and save half. ARTHUR MAYHEW, Phone Mt. Ayr Exchange, 29-H. R-R-3—Rensselaer, Ind. Wanted— Parties who contemplate buying farms in the northwest, either for occupancy or investment, to address F. D. G., care Democrat, Rensselaer, Ind. Fann For Sale— Bo acres 2 miles east and 4 % miles north of Remington. A. B. C. care Democrat, Rensselaer, Ind. For Sale— s acres just outside the corporation of this city, gravel road. R. F. D., good house, surrounded by fine shade; good barn and several outbuildings; good deep well, cistern, good orchard of apples, peaches, plums; some grapes and other fruit. Will sell this place at $1,500 on favorable terms or will take live stock as first payment. G. F. MEYERS.

PAIN Fain in the heed—pein anywhere. has it* causa Fein is congestion. pain is blood pressure—nothing else usually. At least, so says Dr. Shoop, and to prove it he has created a little pink tablet. That tablet—called Dr. Shoop’s Headache Tablet—coaxes blood pressure away from pain centers. Its effect ischanning. pleasingly delightful. Gently though safely, it surely equalizes the blood circaIf you have a headache, it’s blood pressure. If ft's painful periods with women, same cause. If you are sleepless, restless, nerrcus, it's blood congestion—blood pressure. That surely is a certainty, for Dr. Shoop's Headache Tablets stop it in 20 minutes, and the tablets simply distribute the unnatural blood pressure. Braise your finger, and doesn't it get red, and swell, and pain yous Of course it does. It's con* restion, blood pressure. You’ll find it where pain fa always. It’s simply Common Sense. He mu at 25 cents, and cheerfully recommend Dr. Shoop’s Headache “ALL DEALERS”

SLAIN BY ARMED POSSE AFTER ROBBING A BANK

Ex-Convict Flees With $565 Kills One of His Pursuers. White Bear, Minn., Aug. 6.—ln a pitched battle with rifles and revolvers following a bold robbery of the First State bank of White Bear, Henry Pohl, said to be an ex-convict, and Edward Larken. chief at the Five Forks, a Bald Eagle Lake cottage, were killed. Several others were wounded, William Butler, a White Bear fisherman, perhaps fatally. As the robber dashed out of the bank with $565 the cashier raised the alarm, and citizens pursued the man to the lumber yards, where he hid. Larken entered the yards and was shot through the heart. The robber then ran to a pile of lumber a short distance beyond the yard, and hid under it. A desperate battle with the self-con-stituted posse, during which at least 500 shots werqjjfexchanged, followed. John Brach vogel, one of the posse, who was armed with a repeating rifle, finally winged the robber in the arm. The man dropped his weapon, but picked it up again, and as he turned to fire, Brachvogel shot him dead Fifteen bullet wounds were found in the man’s body.

Buildings Rocked by Earthquake.

Brest. France. Aug B.—Two sharp earthquake shocks have been felt in Brest and the surrounding country, but although buildings were rocked and crockery broken in many of the houses no serious damage resulted.

The Weather.

Illinois and Indiana —Unsettled today and tomorrow. Lower Michigan—Partly cloudy today and tomorrow. Wisconsin —Unsettled, with showers tonight; showers probable tomorrow. lowa—Local showers today; cloudy tomorrow.

THE MARKETS Cash Grain Market. Chicago, Aug. 5. Winter wheat by sample: No. 2 red, [email protected]%; No. 3 red, [email protected]%; No. 2 hard, [email protected]; No. 3 hard, 89c @51.03%. Spring wheat by sample: No. 1 northern, $1.28. Corn by sample: No. 2. 66%@67c; No. 2 white, 71%c; No. 2 yellow, 68%@68%c; No. 3 yellow, 68c; No. 4, 62%@67c. Oats by sample: No. 3 white. 39%@44c; No. 4 white. 39@43c; standard. 39%@40c. Chicago Live Stock. Hogs—Receipts 13,000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for choice heavy, [email protected] butchers, [email protected] light mixed. [email protected] choice light, $7.40@ 7.75 heavy packing, [email protected] good to choice pigs. Cattle —Receipts 3.000. Quotations ranged at [email protected] for choice to prime steers, [email protected] good to choice steers. $4.25 @5.50 good to choice beef cows, [email protected] good to choice heifers, $7.75 @B.OO good to choice calves. [email protected] selected feeders, [email protected] fair to good feeders, [email protected] good to choice stockers. ranged at [email protected] for good to choice lambs. [email protected] fair to good spring lambs. [email protected] good to choice wethers, [email protected] good to choice yearlings, [email protected] good to choice ewes. Potatoes. Choice to fancy, 68@70c; fair to good 65 @ 67c. East Buffalo Live Stock. East Buffalo, N. Y., Aug. 5. Dunning & Stevens, Live Stock Commission Merchants, East Buffalo, N. Y., quote as follows: Cattle —Receipts 2 cars; market steady. Hogs— Receipts 15 cars; market steady; heavy. [email protected]; Yorkers, $8.20@ 8.30; pigs, $8.25. Sheep and Lambs— Receipts 5 cars; market steady; best lambs, $7.75; yearlings, [email protected]; wethers, [email protected]; ewes, [email protected]. Calves—Best, [email protected]. Elgin Butter Market. Elgin, Aug. 5. Creamery, extras, 25c; prints, 28c; extra firsts. 24%c; firsts, 23c; dairies, extras 23%c; firsts, 21%c; packing stock, 19c. MILLIONS FOR FREIGHT CARS . i Contracts For New Equipment Awarded by Pennsylvania Road. Pittsburg, Aug. 3.—Contracts have been awarded by the Pennsylvania railroad for freight cars to cost between $8,000,000 and $9,000,000. The cars will replace old equipment on the lines east of Pittsburg and Erie.

SWOONS AS HER SON DROWNS Boy Falls In Lake While Watching Search For Body. Crown Point, Ind., Aug. 3.—Within a quarter of an hour apart two Chicago boys met death by drowning in Cedar lake. William Littlejohn came to the lake tor a Baptist church picnic and fell from a boat which was tipped over by the waves from a steamboat. Mrs. May Delue and her nine-year-old son Max were standing on the Cedar Point pier watching the sheriff drag the water for Littlejohn’s body when the boy fell from the pier into fifteen feet of water and was drowned almost within reach of the frantic mother. She could have saved him had she not swooned and fallen upon the pier in a faint. Both bodies were recovered.

Ellis Theater.... fIONDAY, AUGUST 9 W. F. MAN PRESENTS B. C. ANDERSON IN THE ARIZONA COWBOY PLAY The Cow Puncher 3d Successful Season Complete Scenic Production Five Big Specialty Acts Cowboy Quartette The Champion Lariat Spinner will give Free Exhibitions on the street. Watch for the man with the rope. PRICES, 35, 35, 50 and 75 Cent*.

Automobile UIVERYIB We have just purchased another touring car and will place both cars at the public’s service. We drive our own cars and guarantee satisfaction. When in need of a car we will be glad to serve you. Our prices are right and our cars reliable. Phone 262 - 141 * or call at our shop ■Will

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