Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1910 — Page 3

~Opening WJeeK.~of~FaH T~errn M August 29 to September *6. < " . ==r-. . ■ HE interior of the room has been re-painted and improved B ■ and will be ready for the special classes which will enter ■ August 22. If it is possible for you to be one of these classes K you should do so. but if you cannot, don't put off entering later ■ than the opening of the FALL TERM, AUGUST 29. If you H have not received a copy of the new BEACON, write us for K one. It will tell you all about out courses. For all informg- ■ tion, call or address Chas. E. Batchelor, Mgr., f I Lafayette Business College, I 423 Columbia Street, Lafayette, Ind.

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. To-day’s markets: Corn, 55c; Wheat, 90c; Oats, 30c; Rye, 65c. Mrs. Frank Ross was in. Chicago Saturday. George Ketchum was in Chicago Saturday. Bruce White was in Chicago on business Friday. Jap Fleming was in Frankfort on business Saturday. Wm. lilff was a Frankfort business visitor Saturday. W. K. Akard went to Monticello on business Monday. Clyde Williams was in Monticello on business Saturday. Deloss Dean went to Chicago Monday to spend a few days. Mrs. Margaret Possin was in Monon on business Saturday. O. K. Richey got his threshing done last week despite the rain. ]Only 75 cents for the round tiip to Chicago next Sunday over the Monon. George Casey and Isaac Kight went to Portland, Ind., on business Monday. Frank Tobias left Monday for a visit with relatives at Greenville and Dayton, Ohio. - Miss Helen Murray left Friday for Eagle Lake, Mich., where she joined a camping party. Women’s $3 to $3.50 and $4 shirt waists, slightly soiled, now $1.98. — Rowles & Parker. Shoe bargains for men, women and children in the shoe department at the Home Grocery. A. L. Padgett went to Crown Point and Charleston, 111., Monday, where he has race horses. -UMiss Glenn Day, who has been *v£&iting in Laporte for the past week, returned home Monday. Mrs. Emma Hirschey of Lincolh.Neb., came Saturday for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Oscar Hauter. Mrs. E. N. Loy went to Piqua, Ohio, Monday to visit Dr. Loy’s mother, Mrs. J. W. Loy, for a few days. Mrs. Nellie Webb and son of Wabash came Saturday for a few days visit with J. L. Griggs and family. F. M. Dowdy and son J. E., went to Indianapolis on business Monday. They expect to be gone' several days. Mrs. J. K. Smith was called to Indianapolis Monday by the serious sickness of her sister, Mrs. Frank Cooper. Just received a car of big lump Indiana coal. This is an excellent threshing coal. Maines & Hamilton. Phone 273. —' .■ —rMrs. C. O. Swift of Chicago returned home Monday after a few days visit here with her sister, Mrs. Milt Roth. All kinds of underwear for hot weather. $1 Porous-knit union suits, Short or long sleeves, 69c. —Rowles & Parker. The ball game here Sunday between Donovan (Ill.) and the local team, resulted in a victory for the latter by a score of 4 to 1. ' • ’ Q . Goodland Herald: Mrs. Maria Hopkins of Rensselaer came Thursday evening for a short visit with P. R. Hopkins anl. family. i r

M. J. Ahlgrim of Shelby was in town on business Monday. Men’s two piece porous-knit underwear always $1 a suit, now 75 c.— Rowles & Parker. Rev. G. H. Clarke returned Monday from a few days visit with his parents at Edinburg. J. E. Francis and Warner Hough of west of town were in Lafayette on business yesterday. jkMrs. N. Littlefield and children Spent Sunday with her brother, F. R. Erwin and family, at Fair Oa.ks. Every low shoe in our house at a big reduction—Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block. Charles Jouvenat of Chicago spent Sunday here with his wife, who is visiting her sister, Mrs. Charlotte George. Mrs. E. E. Fritts and daughter of Delphi came Sunday for a couple of- weeks visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Alter. Miss Bertha Kepner, who has been visiting with relatives in Lafayette and Delphi, for the past ten days, returned home Monday. Mrs. Sylvester Gray and Miss Edna Babcock left Saturday for Kenosha, Wis., to visit Mr. Gray’s brother, Albert, for about a week. J. J. Montgomery and wife were in Chicago Saturday. Mrs. Montgomery went from there to Rockford for a short visit with relatives.

Wm. Timmons of Longmont, Colo., arrived here Sunday evening to visit relatives and friends His wife preceded him several weeks ago. « Charles Snyder, a brother of Mrs. James Hurley, who is critically ill with tuberculosis, came Monday for an indefinite stay at her bedside. Miss Floy Lembke of Valparaiso, who 'has been visiting the family of her cousin, Louis Mustard, for the past few days, returned home Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Magee of Otterbein, who have been visiting with R. P. Benjamin and wife for the past two or three days, returned home Monday? Mr. and Mrs. Lloyd Keever of Monticello visited Mr. and Mrs. Frank Critser of Rensselaer and Al Witham and family of Union tp., Saturday and Sunday.

This is the Handy Store During the heat of summer there are a host of appetizing things that we can supply ready to eat. No necessity at all for cooking oneself cooking meals. Our canned goods department is always ready to serve you. Potted Ham, Sliced Beef. Delicacies in biscuits to no end. The freshest fruits from far and near. In short, there is every requisite here to enable a housekeeper to prepare appetizing meals easily and quickly. And best of all, the grades that we handle are guaranteed to be pure amd wholesome. Try us on anything you like MCFARLAND & SON RELIABLE GROCERS.

B. F. Fendig went to Chicago on business yesterday. J. C. Borntrager and George Terwilliger were in Logansport yesterday on business. Mrs. W. H. Townsend of Goodland is visiting her daughter, Mis. C. W. Rhoades. - —— - Miss Minnie Sheurich went to Indianapolis yesterday for a visit with relatives and friends. __________ * You can buy the best 50c work shirt made for 39c at the Big Corner ’Dept. Store.—Rowles & Parker. Misses Bertha Stocksick and Bertha Short went, to Brook Saturday to visit the former’s sister, Mrs. Lewis Beach. C. J. Dean, the real estate man, went to Saginaw Valley, Mich., yesterday on business. He also expats to visit Detroit. V Dr. E. N. Loy, who is attending Mrs. B. Forsythe at Brook, reported yesterday that there was a slight improvement in her condition. Joseph Nagel and wife went to Lafayette- yesterday where they will visit the latter’s uncle and other relatives and friends. They expect to be back Friday. Miss Jessie Makeever arrived home Saturday from a several weeks visit in Oklahoma with relatives and friends. She seems quite favorably impressed with that part of the country. Daglin Flynn and wife of Campus, 111., returned home Monday after a few days visit with their former neighbors at Campus, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Kanne and family of west of town. Mrs. L. K. Yeoman and daughter, Mrs. S. F. Pool, and baby of Kankakee, 111., who had been here visiting the former’s sister, Mrs. A. A. Yates, for the past several weeks, returned home Mjonday. Jerry Healy is home from Brook this week on a week’s vacation. He reports that Mrs. Forsythe, who was in a very critical condition from peritonitis last Friday, is now getting better and it is thought will fully recover. Francesville Tribune : Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Wade were here from Rensselaer Sunday, the guests of her parents.. .Miss Onalea Bell was here from Rensselaer this week, the guest of several young friends. : Rev. and Mrs. Fred Rich of Plattsville, 111., who have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Collins here for about two weeks, returned to New Lenox, 111., Saturday where they expect to attend campmeetings for a week .or more before returning ’home. x 4lerman Hordeman, with his cylinder Nichols & Shep ard separator and 18-horse power engine threshed out 3,447 bushels of oats Monday in 10% hours and made one move. The threshing was done at the poor farm and Ed Grant’s, west of town. Next. Harry Wade and wife left Saturday for Big Rapids, Mich., for a short visit with relatives. They will be accompanied home by the latter’s mother, Mrs. James Yeoman, who went there a few week? ago, accompanying 'her granddaughter, Ruth Hammond, home from a visit in Rensselaer.

Kentland Democrat: Mr. and Mrs. Perry Washburn went to Gilman, 111., yesterday in response to a message announcing the serious illness of Mrs. Washburn’s aged and only sister, who died last night. A. D. Washburn and family will go to-morrow to attend the funeral.

x/Threshing would have been pretty thoroughly cleaned up in this county last week had it not been -for sbme delay on account of rain. As it is -this week will clean it up if rain does not interfere; All in all, the oats and wheat in the county is the best quality* and best yield we 'have had in a number of years. An excursion train bearing the country correspondents of the Lafayette Journal from Lafayette to Cedar Lake Monday morning, hit the hand car of the local section crew at the J. H. Holden i crossing, completely demolishing the car, and one of the section men is reported to have stumbled and had a very narrow escape, just getting off the track as the train hit the car.

Mrs. Jay Wood was called to Indiaanpolis Mondav serious illness of her sister, Mrs. Frank Cooper. Dr and Mrs. I. M. Washburn went to Chicago'yesterday. Mrs; Washburn will visit for a short time before ‘returning home. James Ellis, Jr. went to Monticello Monday for a week’s visit with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John B. Ellis, and other relatives. Will Woodworth of Belle Fourche, So. Dak., who has been here visiting relatives for the past week or two, returne 1 home yesterday. Mrs. Clarence Hamilton of Sheldon, 111., who has been visit ing her brother, Charles Sanders, here for the past week, returned home Monday. Men’s two piece underwear Conde Mesh or Porous-knit regular 50c shirts and drawers, 37% cents each. The Big Corner Dept. Store.— Rowles & Parker. Mrs. Sarah Hemphill, whose condition was quite bad again for a few days the latter part of the week, was considerably improved Monday and yesterday. R. E. Kanney and wife of Chicago, who have been visiting her parents, H. Jackson and wife, of north of town, a couple of days, returned home Monday.

Mrs. Wm. E. Adams and daughter of Franklin, who have been visiting with W. M. Hoover and family for the past two weeks, returned home Monday. E. S. Tillman left Monday for Lebanon where he will teach biology' in the schools at that place the coming term. Mrs. Tillman expects to go some time next week. Mrs. A. Schmidt of Chicago, who had been visiting her daughter, Mrs. Mathew Nessius and family of south of town, the past two or three months, returned home Monday. John M. Knapp and family returned Monday from their visit at Panama, N. Y. They were accompanied home by Frank Hart of Panama, who will visit them for awhile. Mrs. C. W. Duvall and Mrs. VV. H. Eger left yesterday for a two weeks visit with relatives at Big Rapids, Mich. They expect to take a trip on the lakes, visiting several places of interest. About a dozen boys, members of the Boys’ Brotherhood of the M. E. church, chaperoned by Rev. Harper, left Monday for a week’s camping out along the Tippecanoe river, near Monticello. Rev. J. W. Jenkins and family of Parr left yesterday for Manchester, Mich., where the former has accepted the pastorate of the Free Will Baptist church near that place. He had served at Parr in the same capacity for the past two years.

John P. Walter, of southeast of town, left a bunch of German millet at The Democrat office, a few days ago that beats anything of the kind we ever saw for size of both stalks and heads. The longest head was 10*4 inches and the others were close seconds. The amount of seed an acre of e such millet would yield can scarcely be thought possible, so great would it be. Reynolds items in White County Democrat: Mrs. Randle of Rensselaer spent the latter part of the week here with 'her daughter. Mrs. Belle Josserand.. .Mr. and Mrs. Benj. Rutherford and children of Chicago, who were on their way to Rensselaer, and Mrs. Bertha Crane of Satiburn, ■ Ind., and Mrs. Tena Byrner and little daughter of Kansas, dined with Mr. and Mrs. Bert Snyder Saturday. The Brown estate north and east of Shelby this year produced on 800 acres of wheat an average of 32 bushels per acre, and the crop was sold for an even $1 per bushel. There is also several thousand acres of corn on this estate that bids fair to make 40 to 50i bushels per acre. Probably there is no section of Indiana in which such a wonderful transformation has been wrought in the past five years as in this particular section, since the extensive open drainage and dykes have been built through and along the 14;000 acres owned by the Browns. ,

WANTED! White, Red and Cross Ties, 6xßxß ft. To be Delivered Along the Right-of-Way of Monoiußy. We Pay Cash. We Can Interest You. Write Us and Our Representative Will Call and See You. H. A. McCOWEN & CO., SALEM, IND.

For Sale— A couple of show cases. — Home Grocery. W. C. Milliron and wife spent yesterday in Chicago. An armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office. A son was born Monday to Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Mayhew of Newton tp. John Quinland and wife went to Monticello Saturday to visit relatives for a short time. Mrs. James Shindelar, an aged resident of Jordan tp., died Monday night. We were unable to learn the funeral arrangements at the time of going to press. Mr. and Mrs. Leopold Weil of New Orleans came Sunday for a visit with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Fendig. Miss Edna Fendig,, who had 'been visiting them for several months, came home with them. George Simons of Monticello, Who made the balloon ascension here July 4, had the misfortune to have his balloon burned up at Gilman, 111., last Thursday when making ready* for his first ascension. *> Mrs. Laura Lutz and daughter, Mrs. J. C. Maxwell, left Monday or Colorado Springs, Colo., to visit the former’s daughter, Mrs. Bert Bickford. Mrs. Lutz expects to remain there indefinitely, jut Mrs. Maxwell will only stay a few weeks. \/Charlie Leavel, who has been located at Frankfort in the bakery business, is moving to Crawfordsville, where he will engage in the same line of business. Mrs. Leavel is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mfrs. J. W. Norman, north of town, until Charlie gets located at Crawfordsville. It is reported that a strong wind at Cedar Lake Monday night blew a number of freight cars onto the main track of the Monon railroad, and a fast freight train which pasesd this station at about 12 p. m., crashing into them blocked the track, and the early morning trains were detoured around by Michigan City. The milk train, due here at 7:31 a. tn., was able to get through.

A FINE MEETING AT GARY.

A rousing organization meeting was held at Gary Saturday, attended by District Chairman Charles J. Murphy, State Chairman Stokes Jackson, most of the county chairmen and democratic editors of the district, nearly all the democratic candidates on the state and district tickets, county candidates and many prominent democrats district. - The meeting was for the purpose of talking up organization for the coming campaign, and similar meetings have been held or will be this week, in all the other congressional districts, the object being to perfect a complete and compact organization to carry on the work of the campaign. Brief talks were, made by State Chairman Jackson, Lew G. Ellingham, candidate for secretary of state ; Wm. H. O’Brien, candidate for state auditor; 'Thos. M. Honan, candidate for attorneygeneral; Ohas. E. Cox, candidate for supreme judge from the Third district; Joseph G. Ibach, Andrew

A. Adams and M. B. Hottel, candidates tor appellate judge, and John B. Peterson, candidate for congress from this district. The state chairman and candidates spbko of the strong sentiment in favor of the democrats found in every district visited, and they were confident Indiana would roll up an immense democratic majority if care was taken ’to see that the vote was gotten to the polls on election day, and this could only be looked after by the thorough organization down to the precincts. Mr. Peterson spoke of the encouragment he had met everywhere, and while he had the hardest prospect before him of anyone who had spoken, he stated that he had thoroughly considered the matter from all sides before agreeing to accept the nominaiton, and that 'he proposed to leave no stone unturned to land the persimmon in November; that he expected to be “on the job” every minute of the tim>e from now until the polls closed on election day. His remarks evoked much applause, and all felt that in Mr. Peterson the democrats of the Tenth district had the livest candidate they have had in many years. * E. P. Honan and F. E. Babcock attended the meeting from this county. We are still, spiling old wheat flour, White Star $1.40 and Acme $1.50. Every sack guaranteed to please or your money refunded. —Rowles & Parker.

RUBBER TRUST HEAD,

Colonel S. P. Colt, Is To Be Next Senator From Rhode Island. Newport, R. L, AugUst 21. Colonfl Samuel Pomeroy Colt, the head of the Rubber Trust, despite recent denials, is to be the next United States Senator from Rhode Island, to fill the vacancy the retirement of Senator Nelson W. Aldrich will cause next month. . The state is now thoroughly Republican, and has every earmark of continuing so. The State , Committee will have no trouble in proclaiming Colt elected next January. There is no other man in the party in Rhode Island, except Colonel Colt, with the money that such a job costs, and has it to expend for political honors.

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