Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1909 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Rensselaer Horse Show, October 14, 15, 16. Comev- . Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Stucker spent yesterday in Chicago. -Miss Clara Coen of Bloomington, 111., is visiting relatives here. F. P. Morton of Goodland was in town on business yesterday. E. L. Hollingsworth was a business visitor in Chicago yesterday. Warren Robinson left Monday to visit his brother Frank at lola, Kah. A. F. Long and J. F. Hardman spent yesterday on the Kankakee, fishing. Mrs. Wm. Porter ot Francesville spent Monday here with relatives and friends. W. A. Brown of west of Mt. Ayr, took the train here yesterday for Lafayette on business. Mrs. Floyd Robinson went to Chicago yesterday to spend a week with her sister, Mrs. Woods. John Duvall went to Chicago yesterday to visit his sister, Mrs. Frank Burch, for the day. George Gilcrist, an attorney of Benton, low a, came yesterday to visit with W. H. Ritchey and other relatives. Miss Ella Mahanna of Delphi, who has been spending the past two weeks with Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Stucker, returned home yesterday. Miss Blanche Ponsler of lola, Kans., who has been here for the past month the guest of Mr. and Mrs. Lucius Strofig, returned home Monday. - Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Wagner left Monday for Larimore, N. D., to visit with their son Jacob, who is seriously ill in a hospital with appendicitis. \C. J. Dean was called to Pratt ootinty, Kans., Monday by the news that his father, E. B. Dean, was dying, and he left Monday afternoon for that place. Miss Emma Hirschy of Lincoln, Neb., who has been spending the summer with her-sister, Mrs. Oscar Hapter, of southeast of town, returned home Monday. Farmers are urged to. bring in their show stock for the Horse Show. Remember free accommodations are provided for such exhibits and that no entry fee is charged. Mrs. George Minnicus and grandfather, Peter Minnicus, Heights, who have been here visiting with the family of John Kohler for a few days, returned home Monday. The clover crop is a complete failure in this section of the country this year- Last year thousands of dollars were realized by the farmers about Rensselaer from their clover crop. ! Mrs. C. A. Cox, a matron in the Lafayette Soldiers’ Home, who has been spending a few days here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. T. Halstead, returned to Lafayette Monday. The Wolcott band has been secured for playing here during the Horse Show. This is one of the best bands in northern Indiana, and the committee was fortunate in securing it. Alfred Holladay, an old gentleman of Monticello, was run over and killed by. a Monon train about ten o’cock last Thursday night a short distance south of the depot at that place. Jkjohn Shelhart returned home from Geddes, S. D., Monday, where he has been on a three weeks prospecting trip. He rented a 480 acre farm and with his family will move out there in December” W. W. Pfrimmer, former county superintendent of Newton county, and known as the “Kankakee Poet,” has moved from Kentland to Anderson, where he has a position as bookkeeper in the Rider-Lewis automobile works. Here is some graveyard poetry recently discovered on a tombstone In Ohio: “Here lies Samantha Proctor, who ketched a cold and would not doctor. She could not stay, she had to go, praise God from whom all blessings flow” Mrs. A. J. Bellows and daughter, Mrs. C. L. Murphy, went to Berwyn, 111,, Monday, where the former will visit with her daughter for a few weeks. Mrs. Murphy has been here visiting her parents for the past week. Mr. Bellows will leave In a few days to make a two weeks visit with them. X A rumor comes from Crown Point flat the democrats are talking of George E. Hershman, formerly of Rensselaer, As a likely candidate for city clerk and treasurer of that town. George would make a very capable officer and his many friends here would like to nee him nominated and elected. ' ;