Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 November 1909 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Miss Irene Trenberth went to Chicago yesterday to spend a few days. Leqnard Elder, who Is attending Franklin college, came yesterday to spend a few days with his parents here. *> Chas. Payne returned yesterday from Hammond where he spent Thanksgiving with his parents, Mrand Mrs. J. H. Payne. His wife retyred to-day. ‘Mrs. James Darrow And daughter of _Des Moines, lawa, and Misses Madge and Janice Robinson of Montlcello. returned to their home yesterday after spending a few days with Harvey Wood, Jr., and family, of south of town. IVlrs. John Smith went to Urbana yesterday to spend the winter with her parents, Mr. ’and Mrs. Thomas Day. Mr. Smith will leave in a day or two for Silver City, New Mexico, to spend the winter in hopes of improving his health. >1 Dr. J. H. Hansson made a busin£bs trip to Chicago yesterday. He is looking as fat and saucy as ever, and hopes (o soon remove the bandage from his eye, which was badly cut thereabouts when he attempted to tear up all the wire fence dut at the College farm with his auto one day last week. Quite a few' of the college students were home to put their feet under “dad’s” table and eat turkey Thursday: Miss Madalene Ramp, DePauw; Janies Jordan, Omar Osborne, Paul Glazebrook, Walter English and friend, Mr. Nelson, Lillo Hauter, - Walter Lutz, Walter Seegrist, Cora Dexter and friend, Purdue; Ray Parks, Delos Dean and Ivan Brenner of the State University; Hurley Beam from Indianapolis.

The entertainment at the MT E. Church Tuesday night to raise funds and provisions for Rensselaer’s pbor families for a Thanksgiving diner, brought in $31.29 in cash and a large amount of provisions suph as vegetables, canned fruit, 4 etc- The money was used to purchase chickens and other edibles, and 30 baskets, each containing a chicken, peck of potatoes, two cans of fruit, jellies, etc., were distributed to as many families. .£■ Squire A. H. Dickinson and daughter Alberta of Carpenter tp., returned Wednesday from a few days visit in Chicago with his daughters, Metha and Georgia, and sister, Miss Georgia Dickinson. Miss Metha is attending school in Chicago, and Georgia is employed in a manufacturing * establishment. Mr. Dickinson’s sister is the proprietor of a store, ter is (he proprietor of a candy store. They all had a very pleasant visit together. ” v

County Superintendent W. O. Schanlaub came over from Kentland ad spent Thanksgiving with his parents, Mr. ad Mrs. John Schanlaub, going from here to Chicago yesterday to take further treatment for his ulcerated eye. The eye is getting along all right, he thinks, but improvement is necessarilly slow. The ulceration was caused by a bug lodging in the eye one time when .Mr. Schanlaub was out auto riding. This is supposed to have poisoned it and started the ulcers on the ball of the eye. ykPerry Horton, son of Dr. J. W. fiortbn, the dentist, started in on his freak endurance contest yesterday morning at 9 o’clock at the Ellis opera house. He is to try to break the world's record for continuous piano playing, which is said to be some 36 hours. Whether or not hourly bulletins will be issued showing the physical condition of the player, we are not informed and the general public has little interest in knowing. In fact, there seems to be very little interest taken in the matter here. Percy JLongfello* will do the honors of diamberffiaid. If*da-4iot Jfikely that any of our readers will enjoy a ride over that new electric railroad for a few months at least. The high waters up In the Kankakee district will undoubtedly delay the work of building grade and laying tracks there for awhile, but there is now nothing to prevent their laying tracks through the corporation of Rensselaer. Now get busy, gentlemen, and let’s see some dirt thrown. We have seen enough wind wasted in Jasper bounty in the past dozen years to tiuitd a score of railroads, and nqne have materialized yet. The Indianapolis News has at last discovered that in its support of the republican candidate for mayor of Indianapolis it was buncoed good and hard. Shank has not only repudiated his promisee made to the people In the way of appointments, but the«grand jury is investigating the reports that he promised various jobs to party workers for theil- support, and if these reports are found to be true he may be disbarred from taking his seat January first, the supreme court having recently decided that such promises were sufficient to disbar an official from holding an office to which he had been elected. Indictment by the grand Jury is said to be very probable as a result of the Investigation now going on, and should