Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1909 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mr. and Mrs F. Eldrldge of Monon were town yesterday.

All kinds of fresh fruits at Rowles & Parker’s new grocery. Phone 95.

Jesse Wilcox left yesterday with the Eli and Jane Company as piano player.

Long, son of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Long is another appendicitis sufferer.

Plums, Pears, Peaches and Melons. Rowles & Parker’s new grocery. Phone 95. ' , -

Mrs. F. E. Babcock visited in Remington a few days this week and attended Fountain Park.

Miss Emma Rishling returned yesterday from a few days visit with relatives at Hammond.

Si. Elmer Wilcox was in Lafayette Thursday, seeking a position as telegraph operator on the Monon.

Miss Emma Hirshy of Chicago and niece, Miss Edna Hauter, went to Niagara Falls yesterday to spend a few days.

H. Deam of the Chicago Industrial Association, was in town yesterday, presumably with another factory proposition.

f Wallace Murray, who has been iiaking his home here with his uncle, William Murray, left yesterday for Pueblo, Colo.

Mrs. H. F. Holmes and son Claude returned to their home in Delphi yesterday, after a few days visit with friends here.

j Morgan Sterret, former teacher In the grades here, will succeed Prof. Roy Blue as superintendent of the Wheatfield schools.

Mr. and Mrs. Hale Warner left Sunday to join at St. Paul, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fendig, who are taking a trip through the west.

Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hines of Covington, Ind., returned home yesterday after a two weeks visit with Mrs. Emma Nicholson.

Walter English returned Thursday from Chicago, where he has been working for several weeks. He will enter Purdue University this fall.

A big barn belonging to Fred Kopka of near Francisville was destroyed by lightning Thursday morning, of last week. His loss will reach ? 1 ,500.

The Monon will run an excursion to Chicago Sunday, August 29. The rate for the round trip is $1 from Rensselaer and the train will leave here at 9:15 a. m.

is rumored that Ephriam Gilmore has got the fellows spotted who blew up the houseboat bn his dredge recently, and that there will be something doin’ ere long.

If you did not see the 99c Racket Store’s page ad in last Saturday’s issue of The Democrat, look for it to-day, and bring in the coupon—it will be Avortli while.

—— school board met yesterday 'afternoon to consider the applications to fill the vacancies left in the High School faculty by resignations of Miss Perry and Prof. Tillman-

“Knock ’Em Stiff Baker,” a well known character about town ten years ago, finds the homing instinct strong in him and has again drifted back to find refuge with his old friends.

N/Dr. E. N. Loy went to Chicago >jehterday and accompanied home George W. Andrus, who has been in a Chicago hospital. Mr. Andrus is suffering from numerous cancers in his stomach and bowels and it was decided that an operation in the hope of a cure would be useless.

The first of the Monon’s new passenger engines passed through on the early train Thursday. They are the latest improved passenger engine of the Pacific type, and an effort will be made to reduce the running time of the 6:02 minutes between Indianapolis and Chicago. J- G. Andrus and aunt, Mrs. Lyda Walker, of Hart, Mich., came down Thursday to see his father, George Andrus. Mrs. Walker is a sister of Mr. Andrus, and she had not seen her brother for thirty years. Jerome reports crops very good in his locality, but says just now it is becoming most too dry there. The peach and apple crop will be good and potatoes promise a good yield also.v

Col. S. T. Busey, a native of Greencastle, Ind., and for many years a prominent citizen of Urbana, 111., was drowned in Man Trap Lake, in northwestern Minnesota, last week while out fishing with members of his family, by the capsizing of their boat. He was an old soldier and prominent in G. A. R. circles, and was known as the only man who ever defeated old Joe Cannon for congress, which he did in 1890. Linen finish type-writer paper, ell the popular shades and also In white, with envelopes to match, are carried in stock at all times ;by The Democrat.