Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 60, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1909 — Page 3

The True Style Store Wil mB-Im W* TATE have gained this title because we have deserved it. It is our aim to continue as THE TRUE STYLE STORE of the town, and we will accomplish that end by showing the BEST TAILORED, the BEST FITTING and the MOST STYLISH garments America produces. Adler’s Collegian Clothes are always carefully designed, always perfect fitting. The new Fall styles in Suits and Overcoats are waiting for you. C. Earl Duvall Evclusive Clothier end Furnisher , RENSSELAER, IND.

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. New Mince Meat, 10c, Home Grocery. Miss Edith Shedd spent Saturday in Chicago. Dr. A. G. Catt was in Chicago on business Monday. J. J. Montgomery was in Chicago on business Saturday. George A. Williams was in Chicago on business Saturday. Mesdames Hale and Chas. Warner spent yesterday in Chicago. A. D. Babcock of Goodland was a business visitor in town Monday. Squire Joel F. of Walker tp., was in the city on business last Friday. Hitting the trail —“Girl of Eagle Ranch.” At Ellis Theatre, Saturday night, Nov. 13. Mr. and Mrs. Russell Sluyter spent Sunday with friends and relatives in Monon. Ex-Sheriff O’Connor was down from Kniman Saturday and again Monday on business. Leonard Hayes of Marion, who has been here working for the past two weeks, returned home Saturday. Mrs. Ed Britton went to Demotte Saturday to visit with her daughter, Mrs. Bert Demoss, returning home Monday. 'KMrs. F. E. Babcock returned Sunday from a few days visit with her mother, Mrs. S. M- Freelove, in Goodland. XtJack Warner, Bally Powers and Chas. Pefley of Remington went to the Kankakee Monday to put in the week hunting and fishing. Arthur Jungdahl qf Chicago, who has been spending the past four months.with Osa Ritchey and family, returned home SaturdayAdvertised letters: William Hankins, J. W< Lanone, Fred McCoy, Miss Lora Statey, Miss Lizzie Morgan, Miss Rose Comer, Miss Addle Williams.

J. R- Marlatt was in Chicago on business Monday. > G. E. Murray made a business trip to Peru Monday. Miss Minnie Johns spent Sunday with her parents in Wheatfield. George Long of Wabash College, spent Sunday with home folks. Mrs. E. E. Fritts of Delphi spent Sunday here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Alter. ■Delos Waymire, who is attending agricultural college at Winona, spent Sunday with relatives hereMiss Myra Watson went to Chicago Sunday to take a position as teacher in the city schools there. William ’Platt, son of C. W. Platt of this place, who is taking a- business course at Lafayette, spent Sunday with his parents here. Kentland Democrat: County Superintendent Schanlaub was home from Chicago Sunday and Monday. His afflicted eye is steadily improving. . Mrs. J. W. Childers returned home Saturday from the district W. R. C. convention held at Colfax last week. She also visited a few days with relatives in Delphi. Mrs. Uriah Hardesty of Indiana Harbor, who is has been here spending the past week with her mother, Mrs. Sarah Obenchain, returned home Monday. Ray Yeoman of Valparaiso was a visitor here Saturday evening, going from here to Lafayette where he spent a couple of days and from there returned to Valparaiso. Goodland Herald: Mrs. Sam Lemaster and sister, Mrs. Ralph Johnson, left for Hillsdale, Mich., Tuesday morning to attend the funeral of their grandmother,’ Mrs. Burr.

J. D. Lowe went to Delphi Saturday where he will spend a few days. He also expects to visit Wabash and Fairmount, near which places he formerly resided for a number of years. True Woodworth and wife and son went to Monon Saturday where the two latter spent the day. True went on to Lafayette to attend the football game between Purdue and Wabash.

Mrs. Mary Lowe was in Chicago yesterday. Miss Gertrude Leopold was in Chicago yesterday. W. H. Daugherty was in Delphi on business Monday. * To-day’s markets: Corn, 49c; Oats, 34c; Wheat, 95c. Jasper Guy of Remington was in town on business yesterday. Richard Crowell was in Monticello on business Monday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Ramble of Goodland were business visitors in town Saturday. Mrs. G! N. Hart of Olney, HL, came Monday to visit her daughter, Mrs. W. H. Brenner. Mrs. Frank Bruner went to Inddianapolis Saturday to visit with Mrs. Kenneth Morgan. 11l Saturday’s football game here, the local high school players defeated Morocco high school by a score of 19 to 0. Rev- Harper went to East Chicago Monday to attend the district preachers’ meeting, which was held November 8,9, 10, at that place.

Miss Nell Moody left yesterday for Oxford, Ohio, where she will visit college friends. She was a s.tudent at Oxford for two years. MEarl Barkley, who recently traded f|r the Mt. Ayr lumber yard, has traded lumber for a barn to Elizur Sage of Newton township, for one Mr. Sage’s Stallions. Mrs. Fred Brown and baby daughter of Fa.>go, N. D., came Monday to visit old friends here. Mrs. Brown was formerly Miss Carrie Marshall of Rensselaer. Philip Kitsner of Dunn, Ind., who had been here for a few days, left Monday for Indianapolis where he will spend a few days on business and from there return home. C- D. Hopkins was in Thayer on business yesterday. Mr. Hopkins and wife leave to-day for Lamar, Mo., where the former has a farm, and they will make their home near that place. Eph Hickman has traded his house and lot in the east part of town to W. R. Lee for the Home Grocery’s Ford auto, which the latter recently purchased from John Marlatt. Charles G. Wiltshire, who is now located a Zanesville, Ohio, spent Sunday here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wiltshire. He has a position with a mortgage loan agency at Zanesville. Mrs. Belle Cleaver and Miss Lillie Sutton of Jackson, Tenn., who have been visiting their sisters, Mrs. Harriet Rowen and Mrs. Mary Mathena, for some time, left yesterday for their homes. Mrs. Alice Potts w’ent to Columbia City Monday to visit her brother, William Yeoman. She will bring Mrs. James Powell, her motner, home with her. who has been visiting at that place for some time. Mrs. W. H. Snedeker of Barkley tp., went, to Coshocton, Ohio, Saturday to be with her brother, Jesse Loss, who was operated on a few days ago for tuberculosis- Peritonitis set in and he is in a very serious condition.

A heavy rain fell Sunday evening which continued all night long, put a stop to corn husking for a few days, making the fields too soft to get into. Over about Remington, however, no rain to speak of fell, we are told. 'VMrs. Roy Blue and little daughter (X Elkhart are visiting relatives here. The latter received an injury to her left eye recently, while playing with a spring out of a window shad% which will probably cause her to be blind in that eye. • Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Whitehead of Remington spent Saturday with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Morrow. Mr. and Mrs. Amos Spenard of south of Remington, also spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Morrow. Mrs- Spenard is a sister of Mrs. Morrow. t Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cox of Medaryville, who have been visiting Julius Huff and family of Jordan tp-, for a few days, went to Porter Monday where they will spend a few days with their son, Bert Cox, and from there will return home. Vern P. Kaub, a graduate of the Rensselaer high school of 'O2, was the socialist candidate for city clerk of Elkhart at the recent election. The democrats, however, made almost a clean sweep of all the offices there, electing the mayor by over 500 plurality. ' Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Nowels left Saturday for a week or ten days visit with their children at the following points: At Gary, Mrs. Lawson Meyer; Plymouth, Mrs. Lillian McGimsey; Wabash, Mrs- Ida Cochran; Forest, Mrs. Albert Alter; Flora, Mrs. Floyd Wheeler.

Mr. and Mrs. Lon Colton of Pleasant Ridge went to Chicago yesterday to spend the day. Miss Blanche Tullla went to Compton, 111., yesterday to visit her sister, Mrs. Jesse Potts. Cornhuskers seem to be very scarce about Rensselaer this season, and many farmers are asking for men to help their corn out. Miss Victora Johnson of Francesville, who is working at dressmaking with Miss Mary Yates, spent Sunday with home folks at that place. Mrs. R. M. Sims of Frankfort, Post department president and district inspector of the W. R. C., was here Monday evening to Inspect the local corps. Mrs. M. E- Spitler and daughter, Miss Maud, and the former's granddaughter, Miss Elizabeth Spitler, spent a few days the last of the week with Mr. and Mrs. Albert Coen of Chicago. Mrs. Frank Foltz and Miss Edna Thompson went to Chicago yesterday where Mrs. Foltz will visit visit with her brother, E. W. Kolb, a few days. Miss Thompson spent the day there. A. L. Padgitt w T ent to Hammond yesterday to inspect the D. A. R. lodge at that place and at Indiana Harbor. Her sister, Miss Maud Daugherty, also went to Chicago to attend the play of “Ben Hur.” Gertrude Brown of Brookion and the Misses Kittle and Mary Douglas of Oxford, came Friday to visit Miss Elizabeth Luers, returning home Monday. The Misses Douglas also visited their brother, who is attending college at St. Joseph’s. Medaryville Advertiser: Charles E. Robinson and family have moved to the Mrs. Ben Long property, in order to be better able to care for the latter, who is the mother of Mrs. Robinson. Mr. and Mrs. John T. Faris have moved from Gillam tp., to town and are occupying the Robinson property just vacated by them. A letter received from W. B- Yeoman now of near Columbia City, says that some of the farmers in that vicinity have finished corn husking, and that one of his neighbors had a field that averaged 73 bushels to the acre. Another farer south of him had 40 acres that made 80 bushels to the acre. Wheat

THE 99 CENT BACKET STORE'S GREAT SHOE AND RUBBER SHE TS NOW GOING ON and will continue up to the 20th of this month. Get right “ 7“ I 1?! i ® ave y? L u , rselv . es somc money by getting the best goods manufac-* tured, at the least possible prices. Everything in leather; everything in rubber is bound to go up. Do not take our word for it but read the newspapers and get in touch with the situation. You will not delay buying if you are on. Never have we been better able to look after our trade than we are right now. We bought our goods early and can save you at least 25 to 30 per cent on same. Look at our prices and then come in and examine the goods, we can do business.

■ 1 1,. j J I I 3 j I BUILD BEST A T" TOPS We have a beauty to sell at , ■ this sale, worth 11 75 <llo’l per pair, only vLlu ; A fine'’ Patent Leather Ladles' I Shoe worth >2.00, for A 4 on 1 this sale only vliUO ' ( Boys' High Tops from 91-99 per pair up.

The largest stocks, the largest variety of any store in Northern Indiana. We only have one price. Your neighbors cannot buy a cent cheaper than you can. Your dollar looks just as good to us .as anybody else’s and you will receive the same treatment we give everybody. We are here for business and we mark our goods to do business quick. You do not have to ponder here, a blind man could see the difference m our prices, and the quality of our goods are above reproach. Give us a call and you will be a permanent fixture. Yours for trade, E. V. RANSFORD, Proprietor 99c Racket Store

has been selling in Columbia City, Mr. Yeoman says, at $1.25 per bushel; oats 39 cents; apples 75 cents. • Misses Bertha and Matilda Stocksick and brother Roy accompanied by their sister and husband, Mr. and Louis Becher of near Foresman, went to Chicago Monday to see their mother, Mrs. F. J. Stocksick, who is very low at the Mary Thompson hospital, having been operated on for cancer several days ago. \£H. C. Nevil and one of the Marlin boys drove over to Remington Sunday to get a water tank belonging to the former. , Their team got scared over there at an auto and ran away, throwing Henry out in such a way as to Injure him considerably about the hips. He was able to be out Monday, however, though pretty stiff and sore. Benton Review: Corn husking is well under way and the yield seems to be very satisfactory. Present indications are that the crop will average forty-five bushels In this county, although much of it is better than that. At this writing the largest yield of which we have knowledge was made in a field belonging to Zeph Cyr, which produced sixty bushelsThe old Stahlbom hotel in Lake county was destroyed by fire last week. The hotel was seventy-five years old and was built of oak. It was formerly a tavern and the only habitation in 1834 between Ft. Dearborn and points in Indiana fifty miles away. It was used as a stopping place by traders enroute to Chicago in its early days. The Rensselaer “Mutts” played the St. oseph College football team at the College Sunday afternoon, and the game broke up in a row with 12 to 0 In favor of the college team. The trouble originated by one of the Rensselaer players striking a college player, when there was a general mix-up. The College manager at once called the game off and made his team return to the college. Brook Reporter: George Ade closed down his summer hoitae at this place, Monday, and left for Chicago. Mr. Ade is not certain where he will spend the winter months, and is rather inclined to the opinion that he will sta*y around the city for some time, but later he may join a cruising party who will take in

Our High Top Shoes are the best made. We are selling them like hot cakes. No ivonder when we can save you from >I.OO to >2.00 per pair. Our price is M nn only per pair... iHiJU The best of leather Boots, no split leather, worth >5.00 Per pair,. <O/10 our price Our Hard Hitter Shoe, others get >2-00 pair for same thing. We ought to get $1.25. Our Highbinder Shoe, worth >!.50, for this sale they go for -yg-, only ...>L|3 A fine Patent Leather or Oxblood, Wing Tip Shoe, worth >4.00, for this n nn sale they go for ZiOO Our High Top Hip Boots, ( others get more, As nn our price only A Rubber Boot like cut, the best boot in the U. S., we will not except any. Our price per pair for this sale a j only M. 49 Children's Shoes from 2% to 9, others get 75c to >I.OO pair our price 49c and 59c Pair,. Infants’ Shoes per pair. . .25c

South America from stem to stem. He would like to make the trip but the eighty day cruise appeals to him as being a little too much of the good thing in one dose. Over in Newton county the experts making an examination of the records there have exhausted the 11,000 appropriated for the purpose, and it will be necessary for the county council to "dig up” before the work can be finished. J. G- Andrus returned yesterday to his home in Michigan, having been called here Saturday by the death of his father, George W. Andrus. Jerome had a very good apple and potato crop this season. He sold over S2OO wqrth of apples at 55 cents per bushel, and has some thirty barrels in the cellar for home consumption. Apples were a big crop up there this year, and sold at from 50 to 65 cents per bushel for the best. Mr. Andrus thinks that a great fruit country. Thanksgiving this year falls on November 25, but to the average man it will make little difference when it comes, as the price of foodstuffs of all kinds is so near the sky-line that such a thing as having a real turkey for his festal board is not to be thought of at all. We should be thankful, however, that potatoes are cheap, and if the Giver of all good things will only send a “rabbit snow” along about the 22d or 23d, many a poor man’s table will “groan” beneatE>iie weight of rabbit Instead of the great American bird on Thanksgiving day*. Brazil block ccml for sale by Maines & Hamiltom Phone 273. JUST RECEIVED—A car load of cannal coal. This is a splendid coal for the range, grate or furnace. MAINES & HAMILTON. This week the Home Grocery unloads another car of A. .and K’s. Best Flour. The wheat and flour market is very firm, and you will do well to lay in all you are able to buy at their unloading sale at $1.38 a sack.

FRUIT CAKE FOR THANKSGIVING Me have several orders now in for fruit cakes for Thanksgiving, and request that all others desiring this kind of bakery goods leave their order at an early date, as they should “season” some time before being used. BAKERY.

Men’s Felt Boots complete from $2.25 per pair up. The best Men’s Overshoes on the market for this sale, our price perpair, 0n1y...., ,o®c We have them at all prices at a great saving to our customers