Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1910 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

There was no particular change in the condition of Mrs. J. C. Porter up to yesterday noon.

Frank Meyer and wife of Danville, 111., are here for a week’s \isit with his mother and sister.

Joseph Wendling. the' muchwanted St, Louis child murderer, was nabbed in Sajj. Francisco Sunday.; 1 fD. M. Worland is having a fetge new pordh built on the front of his residence on North Van Rensselaer street.

The Home Grocery makes a specialty of lucheon goods. The best in olives, pickles, preserves, fresh fruits, etc., always found there.

\Y. F. Smith and wife and son Millard went to Sheldon, 111., yesterday where the former has a stone road contract. Mrs. Smith and son will return to-day. ' The city council is asking tihe Monon to dough up S6OO per year for its water for locomotives, a raise of $250 over the rate the road has been paying for the past dozen years.

Scotland Yard detectives overhauled Dr. Crippen and his typist at Father Point. Quebec, Sunday morning. Crippen is charged with the murder of his wife, known on the stage as Belle Elmore.

Notwithstanding the fact that chicken owners in Rensselaer are sleeping on their guns, the chicken thieves are as yet unmaimed and are getting in their work every night or two. James Donnelly had 21 taken Friday night.

Harold Clark and Ernest Moore returned last w r eek from W inona where the*' went with the party of boys from Rensselaer a few days before. They had committed some infraction of the rules of the Boy City, it is understood, and rather than submit to the penalty came home.

Goodland Herald: Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hazen returned Thursday from Soutfh! Bend, where they visited this week with his sister, Mrs'. Frank Tobey... Lewis Spaulding, who underwent an operation for gall stones at Ferguson hospital at Chicago some time ago, will return to Goodland this Friday or Saturday.

S s Mrs. Frank Foltz continues to recover slowly from her recent stroke of paralysis, and now walks about the (house some with assistance. She is slowly regaining her voice also. Saturday she was brought down town and sat by the * window in Mr. Foltz’s office and saw the circus parade, seeming to enjoy it very much.

Francesville Tribune: Jens Hansen and daughter from Illinois,. made a brief visit with his brother, Yeppa Hansen, in Gillam tp.. last week, returning !home Friday morning. Mr. Hansen had just returned from Denmark, wthiere he visited several weeks with relatives. During his trip abroad his daughter was the guest of relatives in Boston.

Brook Reporter: Nearly all of the towns of this section which have not tried the street oiling, are talking of following the ones that have taken up tfhe experiment. The towns that have used oil on their streets this season are loud in the praise of the results. Many people are now advocating tftie use of oil on the roads over the county, as a matter of protection .to the stone roads.

AY. H. Daugherty of Barkley tp.. threshed 38 acres of wheat and got 900 bushels, or a little better than 23% bushels per acre. His early oats that for a time he thought would not make anything. yielded. 32 bushels to the acre, and his late oats, he thinks, will go 40 to 45 bushels. Ike Walker, also of Barklev, had one field of wheat that threshed 28 bushels the acre, but the rest of it was poorer and the average vield was about 20 bushels.

Xo, The Derfiocrat man has a private bath tub iiy his residence and furnishes his own soap and talcum, therefore he has no use for the one to be installed at the city light plant for use of the city employes and republican editors. Besides, we wouldn’t care to use the latter after the editors who have not these luxuries had used k, unless a disinfecting operation was performed on it by the city health officer. One can’t be too careful about such things.