Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1909 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Boys’ suits and overcoats about one-half price, to close out the Chicago Bargain Store. i Mrs. W. H. Stephenson left yesterday for Minneapolis, Minn., to visit her daughter, Mrs. O. D. Heffner. A complete stock of new holiday goods at nearly cost to help, close out balance of the Chicago Bargain Store. Mrs. E. Jenson of Wheatfleld returned home yesterday after making a short visit with the families of Jens Jenson and J. P. Hammond.. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Parkison went to Gary yesterday to spend a few days with their daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Rhoades and husband. At a six o’clock dinner party Monday evening given by Mr. and Mrs. Hale Warner, eiguteen covers were laid. Music and cards constituted the other amusements. Mrs. James Knight of west of Alx is confined to her bed with bowel trouble. Mrs. Rachael Price, also of Barkley tp., is confined to her bed with stomach trouble. You cannot pick up good dairy cows except where pains have been taken to accumulate that kin’d. You will find that kind of stock at the sale on Dec. 2 of Newberry & Hopkins, near Virgie. See sale bill elsewhere in this issue for full particulars. The private bank of Seem, Peden & Co., after an existence of forty years., at Spencer, Ind., was closed by the auditor of state Saturday. The deposits are $247,000. The immediate families of the bankers are borrowers of the bank’s funds to the extent of $122,000. A card was received by J. D. Allman yesterday morning from Indianapolis, reporting his brother-in-law, Lawrence Hawkins, as getting along nicely from his recent attack of typhoid fever. Mr. Hawkins has been confined in the hospital at that place for the past eight weeks. ( Earle Reynolds, the fancy skater, a' son of Mrs. S. R. Nichols, has bought the former Tom McCoy residence and grounds on McCoy avenue, and will tear down the dynamitewrecked house and rebuild it. He will rent the property when fixed up, it is said. The consideration is reported to have been $2,400-R'-C. A. Tuteur returned to New Alany yesterday where he is now located in the insurance business. His office is over the bank that was attempted to be held up a few weeks ago by a young desperado who only succeeded in killing one of the officers and dangerously wounding another. One of the shots fired passed through the floor of Arthur's office. Goodland Herald: Lewis Spaulding has arrived at the conclusion that he has located a brother that he has been unable to find any trace of since infancy. He has written and expects some information that will decide in his mind whether or not the Bishop A. J. Spaulding, at Bishop’s House, Peoria, 111., is a brother or of another family of Spauldings. W. J. Wright was called to Roselawn yesterday morning to prepare for burial the remains of a Mrs. Frank Barber, a young woman of some years of age, who died of childbirth. The burial will be at the North Star cemetery near Mt. Ayr, probably to-morrow, although the date for the funeral has not been definitely decided upon at this writing. ~KJ. C. Borntrager lias sold his 146 acre farm in Newton tp., to J. J. Lawler, who has also bought 236 acres of the former Dr. Hartsell land, which with the Monnett lands makes about 1,400 acres all in one body ,/ owned by Mr. Lawler. Mr. Borntrager will remain on the farm the coming year and will work a part of the Hartsell land. The price paid Mr. Borntrager was S6O per acre and $43 for the Hartsell land. John Healy, the shoe-repairer, is doing all in his power to turn out work on short notice. He has built an addition to the rear of his building of about ten feet in length, and will install a finishing machine for trimming and dressing shoes, which is claimed to do the work of twenty men, and also a gasoline engine to run his different machines. He now has a machine which sews soles to the shoes instead of the old way of nailing them on, and claims the new way more comfortable to the foot. “Bill” and Roy Grayson came home Saturday from a few days jamboree at Hammond with their faces looking like they had gon* through a sausage machine. It is understood that with some other Rensselaer young fellows they visited some of West Hammond’s notorious resorts and attempted to make a cleaning out of that locality. The result was as might have been expected, and besides being mulcted for several dollars for surgeons fees in patching them up, the two Graysons were fined sls each in police oourt. This, in effect, is the story fhey tell. \