Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1910 — Page 3

SPECIAL THIS WEEK

The Cash Store Q. B. PORTER

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. To-day’s markets: Corn, 50c; Oats, 37c. Alonzo Healy spent Sunday in Lafayette. Dr. M. D. Gwin was in Chicago Monday. ? Anson Cox spent Saturday in Chicago on business. B. S. Fendig was in Chicago on business yesterday. Dr. and Mrs. E. C. English spent Monday in Chicago. J. H. Ellis made a business trip to Monticello Saturday. Kenneth Rhoades of Gary spent Sunday here with relatives. G. F. Meyers went to Danville, 111., Monday on a short business trip. Oil 10c, gasoline 16c. Let us deliver them to you. The Home Grocery. Miss Irene Simpson is confined to her home with a severe case of measles. Roy Cheesman went to Lafayette Saturday to make a short visit with friends.

Sam Stephenson returned Saturday from a few days business trip at Monticello. John Norman went to Frankfort Sunday to visit his daughter, Mrs. Charles Leavel. Malcom Clark of Wheatfield came Saturday to spend a few days here with friends. Mrs. John Ward spent Saturday in Mbnon with her daughter, Mrs. Charles Jacks. James Overton left yesterday for Winnebago, Minn., where he expects to find employment. Miss Ruby Huffman went to Chicago Heights yesterday to visit her cousin, Leonard Davis. Miss Jennie Myres went to Washington, 111., Mbnday where she will make her home for the present. Omar Osborne of Purdue spent Saturday and Sunday here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Osborne. Edgar Duvall went to Morocco Monday where he is employed with Silas Swaim in the lightning rod business.

/ * Ladies' Washable Dress Goods ♦ In Ten and Twelve-Yard Patterns, in Batiste, Lawns, Organdips, Swiss, all good patterns, going this week at regular First Cost Prices. This is a chance to buy a good Wash Dress at a great deal less than you can buy it from a line of bolt goods, and it is the same quality and patterns as you will pay One- Third More at Other Times.

We pay cash for what you have to sell. Home Grocery. William Huffman went to Chicago Heights Saturday where he has secured employment as a car repairer. George Hurley and son Hugh left Monday for Winnebago, Minn., where they will work at tile ditching. Mt. and Mrs. L. Strong went to Ambia Saturday to visit their daughter, Mrs. D. M. Yeoman, for a few days. Miss Day Jordan went to Valparaiso Monday where she will take up the teachers’ course of study in that school. Miss Pearl Zellers, who is employed at James Walters’ of north of town, spent Sunday in Fair Oaks with relatives. M Paul Glazebrook of Purdue spent Saturday and Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Glazebrook of north of town. Mrs. A. Seibert of Michigan City returned home Saturday after a week’s visit with her daughter, Mrs. Floyd Amsler. Miss Josephine Miller returnto Bloomington Monday where she is attending school, after a week’s visit with Mrs. Marion Freeland. Miss Emily Jensen of Chicago, who had been staying here with her sister, Mrs. W. H. Morrison, went to Chicago Saturday for a few days visit. J. C. Thrawls of Logansport returned home Saturday after having sold his property on Dayton street to Chester Zea. Consideration $1,200. Frank Shide and wife went to Alida, Ind., Saturday where they will work on a dredge the coming year. Thtey have stored their household effects here. Harvey Davisson and family left Saturday for their new home near Hamiltqp, No. Dak. The best wishes of a host of Jasper county friends go with them. Wm. Martin of Mt. Ayr returned home Monday from a week’s stay at the Martinsdale Springs. He reports having been much benefitted from his sojourn there. S. U, Dobbins, formerly of this place, but now of Lafayette, was here Monday putting up two monuments in Weston cemetery over the graves of Otto Best ing and J. R. Spriggs, who were killed in the street car accident at Hammond several months ago.

Jesse Welsh of Chicago spent Sunday here with his brothers Ben and Lewis. Help boom Rensselaer. Leave an order at The Democrat office for a box of those souvenir en-? velopes. A. J. Brenner returned Sunday from a business trip to Jamestown, No. Dak., where he purchased a 160 acre farm. We have the work shoes for men which combine comfort with durability. Every pair guarant teed.— Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block. sLFred Tyler has traded his resi deuce property on North Westoii street to W. D. Sayler of west of town for the latter’s 80 acre farm in southeast Marion. XJDr. and M|rs. E. N. Loy were called to Piqua, Ohio, Sunday night by the very critical conj dition of his father, who has beer} in poor health for some time. '"pSaylord McFarland came up from Marion Saturday to make a short visit with his parents, J. A. McFarland and wife. He is one of the teachers at the Marion Business College. Mrs. H. M. Grant returned Sunday from a several days visit in Chicago with relatives. She was accompanied home by her daughter-in-law, Mrs. I. D. Grant who will make a few days visit here. The high school baseball team crossed bats with the Brook high school team at the latter place Saturday, defeating them by a score of 8 to 5. A return game will be played here one week from Saturday. We have just received a fine line of oxfords for boys and girls. We have the new things for them. Inspect our line before purchasing your children’s shoes. —Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block.

A party by the name of Myers, from South Bend, has rented the Stockton room on Washington street, formerly occupied by the Roth Bros, meat market, and will conduct a merchant tailoring establishment therein. Aaron Hickman went to Hammond Monday to visit his son Alfred and family for a few days. He is thinking some of going the carpenter .trade. Mrs. Hickman spent Monday afternoon and yesterday in Hammond. Marion Cooper and family returned last week from Wall, So. Dak., and have rented property in the east part of town and will reside in Rensselaer. Mir. Cooper sold his 80 acre claim at Wall for sls per acre before leaving there. Wolcott Enterprise: Mr. and Mrs. E. B. Dibell, who have been at a sanitarium in Biloxi, Miss., since January Ist for the benefit of Mr. Dibell’s health, returned home Thursday evening. The sojourn there was of much benefit to Mr. Dibell’s health. V Mrs. Louis Paulson of Wheatmeld came Saturday forenoon, and accompanied by her sister, Mrs. J. Tilton, went to Chicago to spend Sunday with their sister, Mrs. R. A. Mannan of Wheatfield, who was operated on in a Chicago hospital several days ago for tumor. Thos. Reed of Carpenter tp., brought in a couple of hen eggs Saturday that weighed 4 ounces each, and were some two or three times as large as the ordinary egg. Tom thinks if he is going to get this size eggs right along he will have to sell them by weight rather than by the dozen. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Snyder of Keensburgh, 111., came Saturday on a sad errand, bringing their 18-month-old daughter for burial in the Dunkard cemetery in Barkley township, her death having been caused from pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. Snyder moved from Union township to Illinois about a year ago.

Special Flyer for thia Week:— 150 Boys’ Knee Pants Suits, sizes 4 to 16 years, of good all wool materials. The coats are just as good style as any. The pants are straight knee pants, therefore, I wish to close them out. See the price, $1.78 per suit.— Model Clothiers, Simon Leopold, Manager. See our show window. ‘

Mrs. N. Sunderland spent Saturday in Chicago with sick relatives. V'Vern Jacks was up from Lafiyette and spent Sunday here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Jacks t Why pay $1.50 a sack for Kansas flour when you can buy northern wheat flour at the same price of The G. E. Murray Co. We still have some good girls’ shoes, sizps 8 to I, at 85 cents. Ask to see these when in our store.— Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block.

Postmaster Murray, Mose Leopold, Abe Halleck and C. G. Spitler went to Indianapolis Monday afternoon to attend the republican state convention. After all, when you want anything in then’s, young men’s and boys’ clothing, you had best look over the G. E. Murray Co’s, stock. Come in and let us show you. Remember an exclusive shoe store always has those things you want and can’t find elsewhere. Inspect our lines; before you despair.—Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block. Souvenir envelopes of Rensselaer on sale at The Democrat office at 10 cents per package of 25. By the single hundred, with return card printed in the corner, 75c. A proportionate reduction in larger lots. The play “Tony, the Convict,” given at the parochial school hall Monday night by St. Augustine’s Literary Society, was a success in every way, and a little more than $52 was taken in at the door. The play will be repeated at the hall Sunday night.

J. M. Shields has given up going west, and has rented Fred Tyler’s farm in east Marion and will remain in old Jasper. He did not get over into Dakota when prospecting in the northwest, only getting as far as Minnesota, where h? got sick and came home. He did not like Minnesota. Lake County Star: Scores of -htrge jnvkerel black base, butfalo and gar fish are washing ashore at Cedar Lake, some of the pickerel weighing 20 pounds and one buffalo going over 40 pounds. The dead fish are mostly large ones and the cause of the slaughter is unknown. The Lake was kept open by ice harvesters nearly all winter and it is probable they died from want of air.

Mrs. Ella Hughes of Russiaville, returned home Monday after a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Woods of the Alter tile factory, north of town, who is in poor health. She had been visiting another daughter at Aurora, 111., and stopped off here Wednesday while on her way home. Mrs. Hughes boasts of having the oldest husband in Indiana, who is 101 years old, does not use glasses and seldom walks with a cane even. The old gentleman does not use tobacco, but takes a little “bitters” each morning for his stomach’s sake.

TRY A MENZ EASE. You won’t regret it. For all aorta of gn IMf Ama etvecy-day service in all aorta of weather, the beat shoe investment in the S ww © AAI © country. For comfort they can’t be beaten. For service, they hold records fl Mr the past fifteen years that no every-day shoe has ever equaled. fl ||fl _ »We are every-day shoe specialists and make only the Menz “Ease” and its duplicate for fl IVI fl KI IT Q bOys—the American Boy”—always and easily distinguished from imitations by the name -B ** Stamped on sole and on yellowlabel. We never tnake an unbranded shoe, never manufacture fl » a for mail order houses, and OUr entire output is sold through retail stores. Your dealer may ■ • n have the genuine Menz ‘Ease” and "American Boy.’’ If he hnn't, we will supply you direct lllv from our factory at the regular retail prices, and if an examination does not prove all our claims, don't wear the shoes, but return to us express collect and get your money back. Menz ” 1 s 3oo No shoe eaa be made better, stronger or to wmr longer. We use exclusively m upper stock yea can't Mianayetisor shoe made. We call it our special Mens “Base” Process of Tannage, Egg' which we originated and introduced years ego. It is as soft as glove leather, one reason a Why Menz “ Ease” shoes are so comfbstaHe, but its toughness and strength is fl A j |* remarkable. We have thousands of testimonials from outdoor workers J*— M " everywhere (farmers, railroad men, blacksmitha, miners, teamsters) who WX. • Saty their Menz “Ease” havegivea them from onetothreeycars' service, ■ OH EIT 1 B outwearing three to six pain of tape witboat the upper leather showing p—...» yf 9 a sign of a break or losing any of its original softness. / WW®' •-'*'** » I ■ **We will send you a sample of this Wonderful leather and / X unsolicited testimonials to prove every claim we / .e’ A make, also tell you If you can buy the Menz “Ease” and ZTf - “American Boy" in your town if you ask for IJLt JK'_£ V Ift ■ CATALOGf -FAK* // \\ ■-■■■© VI ninstrataap* styles Menz “Ease” andlU duplicate for JfVfl B m a boys-the “American Boy”--in all heights from cttUl [StZ I 0-inch work shoes to 18-inch hunttag boots. /YuiWsJ <r f .xrjx Thofi F - ■«• El taa, Standard Screw can’t buy** .JSF BmCHZICS ' fastened, medium them-of ( \‘A SIIOC fIfIFtBTQ V c W n y Murray Detroit OoßMtaaesdlß. MjdugM* UUI

Every day is bargain day with us.—Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store.

Take a look at the ladies’s, misses’ and children’s lines of Oxfords and strap pumps at The G. E. Murray Co’s. You can’t afford to miss seeing this display.

Perry Marlatt of north of town sold a 7-months-old horse colt Saturday to the Barkley brothers of Barkley township, for S2OO, and Mr. Marlatt says tlfoy got a bargain. The colt weighed 900 pounds, and was from a Belgian horse, (the Sage horse) and a Shire and Percheron dam, the dam weighing 1850.

THE NATIONAL MONTHLY

A High Class Democratic Publication for 50c. a Year. If taken in connection with The Democrat, Only $2 for both papers a full year. The Democrat has made arrangements with the publishers of the National Monthly for the exclusive clubbing privilege in Jasper county, and can offer this highclass democratic publication to its readers for only 50 cents where taken in connection with this paper. The National Monthly is unlike any other periodical of a like nature (published. Each number contains a handsome cover printed in colors, and the cover design of each number for the past year has been the home of some former president of the United States. The periodical itself is printed in large clear type, on calendered paper, and is gotten up something after the style of the Ladies’ Home Journal. Sample copies may be had at The Democrat office. You will want the National Monthly after you have seen a copy of same. See large ad elsewhere in today’s Democrat.

SOUVENIR ENVELOPES.

Boom Rensselaer By Using the Handsome Envelopes For Sale By The Democrat. The Democrat has just got in a case of 40,000 souvenir envelopes of Rensselaer. The front contains a group half-tone of St. Joseph’s College, the court house, school buildings, and library, while the back contains a write-up of the business and social advantages of Rensselaer, and a view of Washington street from the west side of the river bridge, and also a view looking southeast from the court house. These envelopes are endorsed by the Commercial Club, and should be used by every business firm and individual In the city. They will be sold in lots of ten or more without printed card in corner or in lots of 250 or more with printed card, as desired. They come but a tnlie higher in price than the ordinary blank envelopes, and after seeing them you will want some. Their use will greatly advertise your home city, and if you are patriotic you will want to <|use them anyway.

Typecasea For Kale—Eight or ten Italic Job Cases, full size and almost good as new, 50 cents each; 1 twothirds case, good as n:w, 50c.—THE DEMOCRAT. Rensselaer. Ind.

You can buy incubator oil at The G. E. Murray Co’s. Use the souvernir envelopes on sale at The Democrat office when writing to your friends or business acquaintances. It don’t require much wind to sell a good flour like A. & K’s. Best. One trial will convince you. $1.50 per sack at the Home Grocery. Here is a Good One About Pants:—2oo pairs long pants, sizes 28 to 33 waist, 29 to 34 lengths, all good, dependable materials, but they are not peg-top. We’re going to close them out. The price will do it. SI.OO the ■pair. Meet these pants face to face, cheaper than overalls.— Model Clothiers, Simon Leopold, Manager.

CEMETERY ELECTION. There will be an election of trustees at 1 p. m., Friday, April 15, for the Prater cemetery in Barkley' tp., and to arrange for cleaning same. If the weather is favorable the meeting will be held at the cemetery; if wet, at the school house.

iPo MAYHEW’S White Wyandottes Thbse Chibkens that Won 25 Ribbons this season at four shows. Eggs For sale at $1 and $2 per 15 ARTHUR MAYHEW, R. 3. Rensselaer. Ind. /fl hr2N ft II A iwßjghjM ‘ To Entrust Their Milting with people who have an established reputation. Do you? If so, we think our past record will warrant our soliciting your patronage. We also have on hand a large stock of feed and grain, and are in a position to give your orders prompt attention. River Queen Hills Phone 92.