Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1911 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

■ - The very finest home, grown tomatoes at the Home Grocery. Dr. A. G. Catt drove to Crown Point in his auto Sunday. Herbert Paxton of Gary spent Sunday here with relatives. Hurley Beam of Chicago spent Sunday here with his parents. Ward Sharp went to Monon yesterday to spend a short time with friends there. A number of men and teams are .now at work on the Monon’s spur to the match factory. John M. Knapp and son Lawrence were in Chicago Monday buying automobile supplies. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Hawkins of Logansport are spending this week with Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Mackey. • Ben Michaels of Chicago is spending a few- days here as the guest of his sister-in-law, Mrs. Sarah Pruett, and other friends.

Mrs. Bessie Makeever-Parker-Shesler-Brown came yesterday from her home in Oklahoma for a visit here with relatives and friends. F. M. Sawin of Edinburg, who has been visiting here for the past few days with bis son, A. W. and family, returned home Monday. J. J. Weast has bought the G. D. McCarthy pool parlors and will have his fertilizer office there and place a man in charge of the pool tabels. Mrs. Wade Loop and children of Marion, who had been spending the past week here with her mother, Mrs. Marion Tullis, returned home yesterday. A big rain /by severe lightning, fell in Rensselaer Friday afternoon, and lightning struck and demolished the flagstaff .on the I. O. O. F. building. Mrs. Clara Peterbaugh of Piqua, Ohio, a sister of Dr. E. N. Loy, who has been visiting l her brother and family here for the past two w-eeks, returned home yesterday morning.

Miis Elizabeth Trenberth, a former music instructress in t'he schools here, returned to her home in northern Michigan yesterday after spending a couple of weeks with Rensselaer friends. - * A heavy rain fell Monday at Indianapolis and all the way along the Monon north nearly to Monticello. At Frankfort and Delphi water was standing in the fields. No rain fell here at all. Mr. and Mrs. John Q. Alter left this morning for Longmont, Colo., where they will spend a month or two with relatives and friends, probably visiting several other places of interest in the west before returning home. H. R. Kurrie returned to Chicago Monday after spending a short time here with his family. He reports that all bids for the construction of the Monon’s new depot here must be in by July 18, when the contract will If>e let and work begun as soon as' possible. Deacon Hollister, who for the past several weeks has been suffering with a carbuncle, and whose life was for a time despaired of, is now able to be up town, making his first trip Monday. He was given the serum treatment and his improvement "was rapid and lasting after the first injection. The carbuncle has now almost disappeared.

Mrs. H. J. Bartoo and daughter of Tacoma, Wash., are visiting with relatives In Remington, and Mr. Bartoo will join them in a few days. Under date so July 6 the latter wrote The Democrat a c-j»«*l from Tacoma stating they were about frozen up there and could use a little of the hot weather of which we had an abundance and to spare. The extreme dry, hot weather has' caused the grade $t Burk’s bridge, north Qf town, to loosen up and fall away from the roadway, leaving a Very narrow space for vehicles and autos to get through. It is particularly bad for automobiles as the slightest turn cf the steering gear is liable to cause the machine to skid into the ditch.