Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1910 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

All oxfords at greatly reduced prices at Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store. Opera House Block. / The 17-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Hornbeck of four miles northeast of Brookston, djed Saturday evening from taking carbolic acid by mistake ior olive oil. it is said. j ■ r\ F. B. Meyer was down from Gary Thursday and shipped to Tolleston, Lake county, the drug store fixtures and stock which he has had in storage here for the past two or three years. He will open a drug store at Tolleston. .

Mrs. Arthur Ashby of Mt. Ayr was in the city yesterday to meet her son William Goodspeed, w'ho came from Chicago for a few days visit. Mrs. Ashby’s sister-in-law, Mrs. Cornish, also came for a short visit with her, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Dunn and children of Mt. Vernon, 0., went to Wolcott Wednesday after a ten days visit with the former's sister, Mrs. George Spangle. WhThT here Mr. Dunn helped Mr. Spangle in the harvest field. John Werner, who has been ocupying rooms over the Trust & Savings bank, moved Thursday back into his own property on McCoy avenue. Wm. Lewis, who occupied John’s property, has moved into the Reeve tenant house on South street. Charles Elder went to Bloomington yesterday 7 where he will work at the carpenter trade the next six w'eeks. He will go from there to Mitchell, So. Dak., where he will join his brothers Omar and Leonard, who are working at the carpenter trade there.

Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Wilson and children of Washington, D. C., are expected here to-day for a visit with Mrs. Wilson’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wasson. They 7 have visited a week at Columbia City and a week at Winona, coming from t*he latter place here. John Sharp returned to Chicago Heigfhts Wednesday w'hexe he is employed in a steel factory, and will spend a few' days there straightening up his books, after which he will return here for a visit, and may decide to move back to Rensselaer and locate here permanently. ‘'xFred Arnott accompanied his and sister-in-law, Mrs. Arthur Arnott of Spokane, Wash., w*ho had been visiting here the past few months, as far as Hammond on their w r ay to Crown Point where the two ladies will visit relatives. They will return here in a few days.

Thursday Hammond Times: Mrs. Paxton and daughter. Miss Florence Paxton of Longmont, Colo., will conclude their visit in Hammond, tOdday and return home. They have been the guests of Mr. and Mrs. G. W. Paxton at t*heir home in Rimbach avenue while in Hammond and have al so visited friends and relatives in South Bend and Rensselaer. Ind. - . vßev. J. C. Parrett and Prof. Inman will leave on the earlv train Monday morning with a company of Rensselaer boys, mostly members of the K. O. E. A. club, for a two weeks outinsr at Winona Lake. At this writing it is not known just how many boys there will be in the party' Cope Hanley, eldest son of Judge Hanley of Rensselaer is an active candidate for mayor of Boys’ City.

Chicken thieves are said to be A getting in tlheir work in Rensselaer quite freely, and as most o* tire owners of chickens have loaded up their shotguns with buckshot in preparation for a visit the coroner will likely have a job ere long. A dhicken thief is about as low down in the depths of degredation as it is possible for one to get, and beside him the horsethief or holdup man is a gentlemen. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Snyder were called to Medaryville Wednesday to attend the funeral of Emery Low, a brother-in-law of the latter, who died Saturday nigfht after an extended illness. Mr. Low was engaged in the implement and undertaking business and had acquired large real estate interests in that vicinity. He was one of Medaryville’s pioneer business men. He was the father of fifteen children, eleven, with the wife, surviving him. His age was 57 years. *