Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1911 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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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