Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1911 — Page 3

LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Garden seeds—3 packages for sc.— Depot Grocery. Today’s markets : Wheat, 82c; Corn, 43c; Oats, 29c. Quick deliveries of oil and gasoline.—Depot Grocery. Kainit in, 125 lb. bags, only $13.00 per ton. — Maines & Hamilton. Vern Cristler went to Chicago yesterday on a day’s business trip. Mrs. Grace Lefler of Lafayette jwas a Rensselaer visitor yesterd^yF*^ John D. Cooper of near Tefft was in the city on business Saturday. ' Uncle'William Cooper of Virgie was a business visitor in the city Saturday. Millard Brown and Minor Chapin of Brookston spent Sunday with friends here. Devere Yeoman was home from Gary Saturday for a short Visit with his parents. Roy Gundy of Fair Oaks, who is working on a telephone line in Gary, was in the city Saturday. James Overton went to Rossville yesterday for week’s visit with his brother-in-law, Wm. Porter. If you want the very finest early cabbage plants, order the Holden varieties of the Home Grocery. Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Gilman of Goodland were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Hopkins Friday afternoon. The Home Grocery is now ready to redeem your Atlas E-Z seal fruit jar coupons. Bring them in. Mrs. J. H. Moore of Barkley tp., went to Springville, Ind., Monday for an indefinite visit with her son. Two more pianos sold last week. A few seem to know a good thing., when they see it, — Perry Horton. G. A. Blystone, who has been visiting with Jacob Wright and family of south of town, returned JLo his home in Frankfort Monday. Mrs. Chris Koepkey and two children went to Francesville Saturday for a two weeks visit with her parents and other relatives. Alfred Collins went to Columbus Saturday to attend the funeral of his brother’s wife, Mrs. ,Wm. Collins, who died in Terre Haute a few days ago. Miss Vera< Parker returned Sunday evening from Chicago where she had accompanied her sister, Miss Fern on her way to her parents at Mitchell, So. Dak.

Hurley Beam was down from Chicago a couple of days the first of the week, visiting wtih his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beam, returning to Chicago Monday afternoon-

Sherman Poole, formerly of Goodland, who recently moved here from Kankakee, to work in a bakery, did not stay with his job long, and has now moved to Rossville, 111.

Mrs. E. b N. Loy and son Robert returned home Monday from Gary where the former attended the convention of the Ladies’ Home Missionary society of the Presbyterian church.

Mrs. Horatio Ropp of Barkley tp., brought, in the greatest freak hen egg Saturday we have seen this season. It was very dimiifhtive, had a hard shell, and was shaped like a small gourd.

Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Manley, who occupy the Mrs. Leota Jones property on Front street, will move to Keokuk. lowa, and Mrs. ~ Maines and daughter, Miss Eva, will occupy the Jones property.

Mrs. Van Grant and son Billy spent Sunday in Chicago with her mother, Mrs. Mary Eger, ,who was operated on recently in Wesley hospital. Mrs. Eger is reported to be getting along nicely and' is soon expected to be able to come home. ~

J. L. Brady spent Monday in Chicago. .

B. S. Fendig was in Chicago on business Monday. Vu

B. J. Moore made a business trip to Monticello yesterday.

Geo. A. Williams made a business trip to Indianapolis Monday-

C. J. Dean, accompanied by Wm. Augspurger of Xewton tp-, left Friday on a land prospecting trip to Minnesota.

Miss Opal Sharp returned home Monday from a w r eek’s visit with her brother John and family in Chicago Heights,

Mr. and Mrs. James Mead and two qhildrerCof Hammond are visiting Mrs. Mead’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Clark.

Francis M. and Lewis Welsh were called to Moiocco last Tuesday by |;he funeral of their aunt, Mrs. Joseph M. Potts, an old resident of that vicinity. She had been in failing health for several weeks- Her age was 70 years.

Mr. and Mrs, A T . Osborne and daughter, Miss Nellie, of Gillam township w.ere in the city Monday. Mr. Osborn has all his last year’s corn crop yet, some 7,000 or 8,000 bushels, and was offered 45 cents at Francesville Saturday, three cents per bushel more for it- than the price being paid in Rensselaer.

Brook Reporter: Mrs. Wm. Watt died' at the home of her brother-in-law, A. J. Spllis( Wednesday morning, of an acute attack of liver trouble, after only a week of illness. She is the daughter of Henry Barton, now of Goodland. Funeral arrangements had not been made up to the tirrte of going to press.

White County Democrat : Are there any relatives of James Stover living hereabouts? The Stovers resided in this vicinity in an early day and a man named James Stover recently died in Los Angeles, California, and an effort is being made to find his relatives. A letter addressed to them is in the postoffice at Delphi.

A five passenger body does not make a five passenger car. Neither does a guarantee make a car. The same with price- Our cars were built and did sell for more money. They have the staunchness to warrant a life-time guarantee, and the bodies are designed to carry what the rest of the car will, instead of being two or thiee sizes too large.— Maxwell

Dr. Edward A. Corcoran of Chicago came Saturday for .a visit of several days with Mr. and Mrs- E. P. Honan, his wife and little daughter have been here for the past week. Dr. Corcoran is a member of the faculty of the Physicians and Surgeons of Chicago and one of the surgeons who operated on both Mr. and Mrs. Honan, the former a few years ago and the latter just recently.

C. F. Tillett was in from Gillam Monday on tax-paying busine.'s, the first time he has been to Rensselaer since he went home sick off the petit jury last month, followed by a very severe siege of pneumonia. He is lu icing quite well now, but says he is net quite strong ;as vet. Frank took a load of ear com to Francesville Saturday and got 43 cents per bushel; shelled corn vas 44 cents- Saturday, Apri* 19, he went to both elevators there and the price was 43 cents for shelled corn. Here it was 42 centslast Saturday and but 39 the Saturday before. In fact it yvas 39 cents here up to Saturday last but at Remington it was 42 cents all last week.

O U Kid U Bet U R Right 2 C Us B 4 Ordering Printing Done El^where, We Want No Pay _ Unless O. K.

OLSON WINS MATCH

From Sam Marbarger Saturday Night in Straight Falls Before Small Crowd. (By a Critique.) Charlie Olson of Indianapolis won from Sam Marbarger (Tom Coburn) Saturday night in two straight falls in jig time, winning the first fall in 16 minutes, and the second in about 10. From a classy performance point of view it was good, from the box office receipts viewpoint it was not what it should have been. Olson is an attraction in Chicago and wresting patrons are getting weak-kneed in this locality evidently as there were but a few of the faithful present. The management is trying to arrange an event in the near future that should pack the house. That is Fred Beell and Olson to a finish. Should this be arranged and at present everything favors it, Jasper county sport patrons wiji have to sit up and take notice, as there is no man in the country, not even barring the incomparable Frank .Gotch, who has more admirers nor has a better reputation as a grappler than the Wisconsin man—Befell, and Olson is one of the best in the countty. Seat reservations would have to be made early as nearby towns would undoubtedly send delegates. Olson met Walter Willoughby of Cleveland at the Coliseum in Chicago Monday night in a finish match which the Indianapolis •man won. Speaking of this match which the Indianapolis man won, the Chicago Examiner said:

Willoughby, than whom there is no faster or more skillful man among the middleweights, is taking on a big contract with Olson, who still claims the light-heavy-weight title of the country. Olson at one time was regarded as a possible successor to Gotch as American champion, but became interested in theaters in Indianapolis and this kept him out of the game for long stretches. He has been campaigning now, though, and is in fine shape.

IN BEHALF OF THE DOG.

An Admirer of the Canine Takes Up His Defense In View of Present Agitation. (Contributed.)

Regularly each year we have a "mad dog’’ scare, with the resultant indiscriminate slaughter of inoffensive animals, together with much more or less wellmeaning attempted legislation against our four-footed friend.

In about one case out of every 400, the cause was a real case of rabies. In the other 399 cases it is nothing more nor less than because some long-haired, highbrow employed by the state to hold down a fat sinecure known as State Health Officer turns the specimen submitted for examination over to some undeveloped assistant, whose real province is supposed to be medicine and whose knowledge of veternairianism is nil. The embryonic M. D. in his exalted wfsdom immediately pronounces it rabies and an order is issued to kill all infected animals. This order, originally well-meaning enough, gets into the hands of an officer, or officers, for enforcement whose knowledge of infection is still more limited, and ergo, one dog is mad, all dogs are mad, kill ’em all.

When sheep go mad, the state has them killed and in some states the owner is reimbursed, when a dog goes—mad, the local authorities kill as many dogs- as possible, but' 1 never think of reimbursing the owners. And in well-bred animals, on the open market, the dog will bring more money than a flock of sheep. By this, I mean, such dogs as Collies, English Bull dogs, Bull Terriers, Setters, Pointers, and a host of other breeds that are famous for utility arm comradeship. It is nothing unusual for any of these dogs that are w ell bred to bring hundreds of dollars. One English Bull dog sold not a great .while ago for $5,000 and numerous other specimens are in this country that are valued in the thousands. A good Collie is a bargain at SIOO. Hunters think nothing of paying from SSO to SIOO for a good Setter or Pointer. Chvners of automobiles and gar-

ages seldom question SSO for a BuH- Terrier, as a watch and guard dog, and other breeds are similar. ..

There are some dogs in Rensselaer that SIOO would not buy, and if any of these animals should by any manner of means be killed undoubtedly the owners wop Id raise a storm of protest, and rightly, too. This is no de-

sense of dogs running loose. They should' not tun at large any more than a horse, but because a dog gfeits out from a yard or kennel is no excuse for killing him any more than for killing any other stray animal.

In no other country is the dog so little studied and his possibilities so overlooked. He is. without a doubt man’s best friend. An excellent campanion, ups and downs in life make no difference to him, fair weather or foul its all one to your four-footed pal. Joyful when his master is with him and sorrowful when he leaves. No other animal- alive shows onehalf the appreciation for such little attention as a dog. Yet someone in the high places issues a decree that he must be killed because he wasn’t born with a tin muzzle on his jaw. Why not muzzle all the sheep? They go mad. And any man who has ever been chased out of a pasture lot by an old buck sheep knows they are dangerous, too. Frequently in range horses one will be a ‘‘man-killer.” Should we kill all the horses without muzzles?

Only the veriest kind of an imbecilic long-horn would suggest such a thing. “Sufficient unto the day is the evil thereof.” Keep your dogs at home, don’t abuse them any more than you would any other animal friend, give them plenty of clean water/don’t overfeed in warm weather—twice a day is plenty unless he is doing hard work, and raw meat occasionally is healthful for any dog, if not fed in huge quantaties, and rabies will shortly be a thing of the past.— Dog Admirer.

Kainit in 125 lb. bags, only $13.00 per ton. — Maines & Hamilton.

BUGGIES.

We have Jhe nicest line in the city, value considered. Call and see thfem before buying—Scott Bros.

OF ENGLISH EYELET EMBROIDERY.

en in the dressmaking world this season. Embroideries that play so conspicuous a part on these costumes Is of a mingled heavy and light weave. But as there must be an exception to every rule the lingerie gown sketched is composed almost entirely of heavy but very handsome English eyelet embroidery.

Fountain Designed by a Woman.

Miss Blanche Nevin, the sculptor who made the statue of General Muhlenberg in the Revolutionary hero group in the capitol at Washington, has a fountain in her back yard in Lancaster county. Pa., that has attracted much attention. It 4s supported by the statues of four women, each prominent in the history of the country, one of them being Mrs. Mary Baker Eddy The Difference. The worm will turn; The pancake will not. No matter how hot. It "’ill stay and burn. The Difference. “I find it is so hard to get my husband started,” ‘‘Do you? My difficulty is quite another matter.” “What is it?” “I find it so hard to get mine stopped.”

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Ransf orus last Sale Before the Final Round Up One week of slaughter. One week of turning goods quick for cash. Get busy and attend the greatest closing out sale-ever put on in Rensselaer. The only genuine sale now running in Jasper County. Don’t delay as this is positively, beyond a doubt, the last sale Mr. Ransford wijll have in Rensselaer. Sale is now running and will continue to run until we are closed according to law, which will not be later than Miy ist at the latest. Do not delay, but come one day at least and help us out. E. V. RANSFORD, Rensselaer, Indiana . . ....... . . » t »■«■■«.« » » « I I I II U1.1,1,i.,U,1..1.l l I . . l l . ... . . . ._ . . . . . .. . . . . . . 1. .