Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1911 — Page 3

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Jesse Grayson spent Monday J in Lafayette. Walter Lee was in Lafayette on business Monday. B. S. Fendig was a Monticello business goer Monday. * Just in, fresh Kellogg Corn Flakes, —Home Grocery. W. H. Parkison was in, Logansport Saturday on business. Crown Point will vote June 6 •* on t'he proposition of becoming a city. Purtelle may be short on finl ance but he certainly is long on nerve. Mrs. Charles Osborn and Mrs. F. W. Tobias were in Chicago Monday. j Miss Carrie Pierce returned Monday from a short visit with friends in Morocco. Today’s markets: Corn (No. 3), 46c; Oats (No. 3), 30c; Wheat (No. 2), 84c. Miss Julia Leopold returned home Monday after spending a few days in Hammond. G. E. McColly of Lamar, Mo., is spending a couple of months visiting relatives here. j Harve Robinson came over from Francesville Monday for an extended visit here with relatives. ‘ Buckwheat —Yes, it pays to fertilize it, and for the land sake use Bowker's. —J. J. Weast, Agent. < jul As famous as the plow a man can pull are the J. I. Case cultivators. See them at Maines & Hamilton’s. W. H. Collins of Knox came Monday for an extended visit with his daughter, Mrs. James Parkison, and other relatives. Cleve Eger and Fred Cissel went to Indianapolis Monday to make some improvements on the former’s farm near that place. Alex Miller of Mt. Ayr was in the city on business Monday, going from here to Columbia City to look after his farm near tfhere. k A. J. Bellows and w’ife went to Berwyn, 111., Friday afternoon to visit their daughter, Mrs. Charles Murphy, and famliy a few days. Ivan Carson spent Saturday and Sunday here with , his wife k and baby. He is a 3hoe salesman, and left Monday for Wabash, the first place he will make this week. Frank J. Reed, general passenger agent of the Monon, and O. C. Carter, general freight agent, with a party of seven Ohicago gentlemen, spent Sunday at the George Ade farm near Brook.

Come and see our disc cultivators. —Maines & Hamilton. Charles. Reed was in Paxton and Thawville, 111., Saturday on business. . . William Pauley visited with relatives here a couple of days last week. John Poole was in Hopkins Park, 111., Monday looking after his farm near there. H. C. Hoshaw returned 'home Saturday from a short visit with his son in Indianapolis. Mrs. Firman Thompson spent a couple of days in Chicago the latter part of the w’eek. J. L. Brady and wife and Walter and Elizabeth King autoed over to Monticello Sunday. Miss-Josie Miller will spend the summer at Indiana University where she will study medicine. Mrs. H. B. Coburn and baby of Ft. Wayne are guests of her sister, Mrs. W. I. Hoover, this week. The two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Davenport is suffering from a severe case of pneumonia. Robert Smith came from Boswell Sunday to accompany his wife home Monday who had spent the week 'here. Mr. and Mirs. James Gibson of Marion, who came here to attend the funeral of the latter’s brother’s little child, Hill Havens, returned home Monday.

Mrs. Rebecca Hemphill, who was recently operated on at Hahnemann hospital, Chicago, is now considerably improved and is able to sit up some. Miss Lulu Nagel, who 'has been living here with her sister, Mts. James Overton, has gone to Augusta, Me., where s'he will make her home with-relatives. John Healey and son Lorenzo, and Father Theodore Saurer attended the dedication of the new Catholic dh,urch at Kokomo Sunday. Miss May Kinney of Spencer visited with her brother Everett a couple of days last week, going to Chicago yesterday to visit friends. The funeral of Mts. Wm. Lee, who died Friday about 9 a. m., at her home in the east part of the city, was held Sunday and burial made in the Osborne cemetery.

Mrs. J. W. Childers attended the annual meeting of the W. R. C. held at Richmond, joining 'her husband at Delphi for a short visit with relatives there before returning home. Wm. Timmons has severed his connections with the garage business which 'he started about three years ago in Longmont, Colo., and it is reported, may open a garage here opposite the Makeever House in a short time. Frank King 'has bought the former Aug. Rosenbaum property on Cullen street, lately vacated by Mrs. Pierce, from a Hammond brewing company and will soon occupy same. He will sell his property on Elm street. The property is well located and Mr. King got it at a bargain price, but the exact" figures he doesn’t care to state. Wm. Augspurget has purchased a 280 acre farm some 7 miles north of Mankato, Minn., a city of 15,000. He will move there from his farm in Newton tp., next spring, expecting to isell his farm here, as he desired more land. His farm here is one of the best in the county, with modern appliances and well improved, in fact the 'home of a scientific and up-to-date farmer. Blaine Peacock returned Monday from a visit with his sister, Mrs. McClure at Hammond, and left last night for Tarpon Springs, Florida, to make an indefinite visit with his father, Erastus Peacock, who owns a fruit farm near t'hat place. The latter, in a letter to Blaine, says there is a good outlook for a large fruit crop, especially oranges, in his locality. Blaine has been working in the Milliron restaurant for the past year or so. He» has been having considerable trouble with an ingrowing toenail,, and expects* to take life a little easy in the south until that member gets well.

'Mrs. J., K. Davis spent yesterday in Monon. See the new J I. Case Gopher at Maines & Hamilton’s. Mi’s. L. H. Busha came Sunday t for a visit with her son Frank and other relatives, here. Arvel Bringle of Fair Oaks returned yesterday from a week’s visit with relatives in Lafayette. Floyd Griggs and sister Lovie will go to Frankfort tomorrow to visit their sister, Mrs. Lester Brown. The monthly 10 cent social of the ladies of the Christian church was held yesterday at the 'home of Mrs. Nellie Scott. Mrs. Mary E. Lowe returned Saturday from M|onon where she attendde the commencement exercises Friday evening. W. H. Miller was examined by Chicago specialists the first of the week and no hope for recovery was given him. He is suffering from heart trouble. George and Owen Kanne and Owen Lamb of Campus, 111., were the guests of Michael Kanne and family Sunday. John M. Knapp unloaded his third carload of Ford autos Saturday. One of the last shipment had already been sold to Henry Grow.

Miss Alta Randle, daughter of of T'hos. Randle, of Ottawa, Kan., is visiting herd with relatives. She will also visit in Francesville, staying here about three months. Mrs. Jdhn Merritt was in Chicago Sunday spending the day with her brother, E. W. Hickman, who is. greatly improved and expects to return 'home soon. The old Wilson flouring mill, one of the old landmarks of Monticello, built in 1850, was destroyed by fire Sunday night. It had been abandoned for several years. Jesse E. Wilson and famliy came from Hammond Sunday. Mt. Wilson returning Monday. Mrs. Wilson and Children will visit for some time with her parents, Mr. and Mrs.- J. M. Wasson. Alf Donnelly, the Jasper county onion king, has out about fifteen acres of onions this year, besides other truck, and they were never in finer condition and promise the greatest yield 'he ever had. .

W. L. Nowels received a telegram Friday night from Elk Falls, Kan., stating the serious sickness of 'his sister, Mrs. Sarah Boyce. Mr. Nowels left Saturday afternoon from Elk Falls to see her. Mrs. A. L. Padgett, president of Milroy Circle, Ladies of the G. A. R., was elected as a delegate at large to the national convention at Rochester next September, at the state meeting at Richmond last week. Miss Ethel McColly of Chicacago Heights. 111., was united in marriage to Mr. George Smith of Odgen, Uta'h, in Chicago last Friday. Miss McColly has a large number of friends here where she formerly resided. Monday’s Delphi Herald: D. C. Hopkins and Nim Hopkins of Rensselaer are here visiting C. A. Hopkinsand wife... Mrs. Walter Stevens of New York City and Miss Elizabeth Luers of Rensselaer are guests of Miss Bertha Conway. } Mt. and Mrs. Dean Merica spent Sunday in Francesville with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Merica. Dean reports that his father 'has not yet sold his property there and has for the present at least, given up his intended removal to this city. William Beck, who is foreman of a big lumber yard at Terre Haute, spent Sunday »here with his wife and daughter who 'have been visiting relatives here for several weeks. He returned home Monday but Mrs. Beck and daughter will remain here for awhile longer. Ernest Clark, youngest son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Clark, who is employed as linotype operator in the Republican office, will be married Thursday, June 1, to Miss Katharine Rafferty of Delphi. They will go to housekeeping in furnished rooms in the former Kissinger property dn v Cedar I street.

Miss Ruth Turner, who has been staying here with Miss Gertrude Hopkins while completing this term of school, will leave in a few days for Fieldholme. Canada, where she will join her parents who moved there about the first of the year. Little Leon/ son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Messman. had a painful accident a few days ago by falling on an old brass curtain rod with which he was playing, It cut a bad wound in his throat, one of his tonsils being almost entirely severed. Kentland passed an ordinance last week for the placing of oil on their streets wjthin thirty days. The time honored method of dishing a few drops of water over the surface to make the dust look like it had been asked to lay down and be good, was not good enough for them.— Brook Reporter. Mrs. Ivan Carson, who is subject to attacks of appendicitis, had an attack last Friday and for some time it was feared that she could not survive. Her weakened condition, owing to recent childbirth, made it the harder to combat. After she has gained sufficient strength, an operation will be performed. James Campbell, aged 25 years, died at the home of Chas. Shroyer in Barkley tp., at about midnight Friday night of consumption. from which deadly disease he had been suffering for some time. A wife and an infant child survive him. The funeral was held Sunday at 2 p. m., from the Brushwood church and interment made in the Smith cemetery. Conrad Kellner, who raises a number of hogs on his farm just southeast of Rensselae. has been having an epidemic of cholera among them, and already twen-ty-one are dead. Mr. Kellner went to Purdue Sunday to see the chief veternarian who came yesterday to attempt to check the onslaught of the disease. No hogs 'have died from the disease for the last couple of days. Miss Katherine Rafferty resigned her position today at the New York store and will be married the first week in June to Ernest Clark, linotypist of the Rensselaer Republican. Miss Rafferty has won many friends through her pleasing manner, who extend best wishes to her on her approaching marriage. The Citizen-Times especially congratulates her on her approaching advent in the ranks of those Who are engaged in the art preservative of all arts, printing. — Carroll County Citizen-Tirfies. A welcome rain relieved this section of the country Saturday, and the long spell of 'hot weather which had broken all records for May, causing twelve deaths in Chicago alone, gave place to welcome breezes and a cooler, fresher atmosphere. More rain fell Sunday night and Monday, and all vegetation has taken a start that will bring it out in great shape. An old farmer told us Monday that he never remembered of planting corn When the fields were so dry and dusty as this year. The corn generally is all planted and the rains will bring it rapidly to the cultivating stage. Another nice rain fell here yesterday morning.

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