Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1911 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City 5 and Country Readers. .. - Perry Horton was in Lowell Wednesday on business. The Democrat office is well equipped to do the better grades of job printing. Mrs. Alfred Donnelly went to Chicago Wednesday for a few days visit with relatives. Excursion to Chicago next Sunday. Only 75 cents for the round trip from Rensselaer. C. W. Rhoades took in the auto races at Indianapolis Tuesday, returning home Wednesday. Today’s markets: Corn (No. 3), 47c; (No. 4), 2c discount; Oats, (No. 3), 31c; Wheat, (No. 2), 82c. Scott Chestnut, H. F. Parker and John (Gangloff returned from the Indianapolis auto races Wednesday. Buckwheat —Yes, it pays to fertilize it, and for the land sake use Bowker’s.—J. J. Weast, Agent. jul Rev. Father Daniels went to Logansport Wednesday for a short visit with relatives and friends. Only 75 cents to Chicago and return via the Monon next Sunday. Train leaves Rensselaer at 8:48 p. rp. Homer Hopkins of Monticello spent Decoration day here as the guest of his mother, Mrs. Mary jane Hopkins. Eight thousand gallons of cream were shipped from the Rensselaer Creamery during the month of May. Several 'members of the local lodge of Pythian Sisters- attended the district convention of that order at Brook Thursday.

Misses Martha Long, Merle Harris and Ruth Harper have returned from a short visit with friends at DePauw University. The Rensselaer Lumber company are enlarging the capacity of their coal sheds opposite the Babcock & Hopkins elevator site. The cutworms are said to be working in the corn badly, in some fields. One farmer reports twelve acres completely ruined. „ A stranger hired a rig at a Monticello livery barn Saturday to drive to Burnettsville. Neither the rig nor the stranger have been seen since. We are told that Granville Moody of Barkley tp., had to kill fifteen head of hogs the first of the week on account of their being afflicted with rabies. Brazil, Clay county, was* another Indiana city to vote wet under the local option law, th? majority being 713. Every other township th the county voted dry. Joe Jeffries, formerly of Rensselaer, wbo failed recently in the grocery business at Huntington, has moved to Montana, the Huntington Herald states, where he has secured a positiop ,as bookkeeper in a bank. Nate Welsh, son of Frank Welsh of Jordan tp., left Tuesday for Luvertife, Minn., where he expects to secure employment and spend the summer. His brother Claude has been there already for a few weeks.