Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1909 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Miss Clare Jessen entertained at her home Thursday. Oxfords at less than cost all this week, at G. B. Porter’s. Call phone 95—ask for a sack of Acme Flour—if you don’t like it we will call and take it away. ROWLES & PARKER. B. B. Vernon and company played Monte Cristo, Dumas’ difficult drama, to a fair-sized house at Ellis theatre Saturday evening. The company is under the management of Fred G. Conrad and plays with his “label” are a sufficient recommendation in themselves. Davis Donald Sheppard, the 12-year-old son of Rev. and Mrs. H. N. Sheppard, former pastor of the Christian church at this place, was accidently shot and killed near Walkerton, last Thursday night, while examining a revolver his half brother Earle Sheppard was holding. He lived only a few minutes, the bullet finding a vital spot In his breast. Charley Shroyer returned home Tuesday from a ten days visit with relatives in Noble and Lagrange counties. His two sisters, Mrs. Ella Boyd of Wawaka, Ind., Mr. and Mrs. James Hyatt of Merena, Neb., and his brother-in-law, Albert Fought of Topeka accompanied him home for a short visit with relatives and friends. Mr. and former home was in Jasper county, but some years ago they moved to Nebraska, where they now have a nice home.

If you want a sack of good flour, try the Acme, $1.50 sack, every sack warranted. ROWLES & PARKER