Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1911 — Page 7

Personally Conducted Excursion to Niagara Falls VIA Chicago, Indiana & Southern R. R. Wednesday, August 9,1911 Round Trip Fare, $8.50 Special train, consisting of Pullman Standard and Tourist sleeping cars, high-class coaches, smoking and baggage cars, will leave SHELBY at 4.07 p. m., and run through solid without change. Stop-overs allowed at Toledo, 0., Cleveland, 0., Erie, Pa., Westfield, N. Y. (for parties desiring to visit Chautauqua Lake), on return trip. Tickets limited to 12 days, including date of sale, affording ample time to visit Niagara, also make such trips as are afforded from Niagara Falls to Toronto, Thousand Islands, Highlands of Ontario, Montreal and Quebec. The most attractive and inexpensive vacation trips of the season. For complete information apply to nearest ticket agent, or write to the undersigned, who will mail you a beautiful booklet, “Niagara Falls,” and other matter describing the advantages of this excursion. , J. W. DALY, J. P. HAGERTY, Passenger Traffic Manager Traveling Passenger Agent CHICAGO

News Notes of Nearby Towns

A* Furnished by Our Regular Correspondents

| REMINGTON. | WEST TRAINS EAST *7:35 a m Local passenger 11:18 am 5:44 pm Passenger & man 5:10 pm 12:58 pm Local passenger 5:53 am A big rain fell here last Friday afternoon. Bert Cowgill and son returned last week- from a visit in Dayton, Ohio. Mark Phelps of Peru visited here with his brother John a few days last week. Mrs. George Stoudt and daughter Ruth were in Rensselaer a few hours Wednesday. ■C. H. Peck, John McCullough and Wm. Broadie were in Rensselaer Tuesday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. George Capes and daughter of near Monticello spent the 4th here with Mrs. Groves. 'Mrs. John McCullough returned last week from a few weeks visit ■with her parents near Redfield, So. Dak. Mrs. Alice Tharp Johannessen and little son of Chicago spent a few days here last week with her father, J. G. Tharp. John Crabb and daughter, Miss Zepher left last week for a visit with his daughter, Mrs. Frank Pample, at Hastings, Neb. Bert Spencer of Remington with his daughter and three or four of her associates are here for a three or four days camp outing on the river.—Monticello Journal. Mr. J. M. Ott and daughter, Miss Daisy, and Misses Margaret Johnston and Gertrude Besse returned Monday evening from their eight days eastern trip with The Democrat’s party and speak in the highest terms of the pleasures of the trip. The coroner has placed the blame for the death of Frank Baughman, the Panhandle brakeman killed at Effner recently while making a coupling, on the railroad company. It was found that the coupling pin lifter was defective.

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| PALESTINE. | Mrs. Anderson called on Mrs. Jones Sunday afternoon. Miss Hazel Davisson spent Sunday with Miss Ima Brough. Some of the farmers in this vicinity are cutting their oats. Mrs. Nels Anderson and daughter were Wolcott callers Tuesday. . Mrs. Charlies Jones spent Monday afternoon with Mrs. Nelson Anderson. » ■ ■Bert Dowell and family were guests of George Caster and family Sunday. Mrs. Thomas Conley attended the Christian Ladies Aid at Mrs. Hughes’ Wednesday.

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| NEW CENTER. -v-l Oats harvest is in full blast. Wiley Latta’s sister of near 'Wolcott spent Sunday with them. Mary Miles and Carrie Anderson were Wolcott guests Tuesday. Chas. Harwell is assisting Mr** Hanna with his hay harvest this week. I Bert Dowell and fainily spent Sunday with George Caster and, family. John Southard and (daughter transacted business in Rensselaer Monday. We were welcomed \Tuesday by a

good shower of rain which we were badly in need of. William Vanatta assisted Wiley Latta with his oats harvest Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs. William Jacks and Mrs. Sage spent Thursday afternoon with Mrs. William Vanatta. Ralph Miles came 'Saturday for a week’s visit with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Miles. Mir. and Mrs. Chas, McCashen and baby of Lee were in attendance at Milroy Sunday School Sunday. George Caster’a sister, after spending a few days with him, returned to her home at Des Moines, lowa, Monday. Remember that on tomorrow afternoon at 3 o’clock Rev. McCorkle will preach at Milroy. Let all come out and hear him. Miss Ara Griswold and little neice Flossie were shopping in Rensselaer Monday. They spent Monday night with their aunt, Mrs. Hoover, of near that place. Vern Sander’s, while on his way to Sunday school l Sunday morning, started to run. Thp lines not being safe for a fractious horse broke after which the horse took for the ditch, springing the axle and breaking out the shafts. Luckily no one was hurt.

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PARR. | |— Earl Bruner was seen driving east Sunday evening. W. L. Wood’s blacksmith shop is running day and night. Otto Schreeg is attending to the grain dumping for J. L. Babcock. Earl Bruner, Harvey and Estle Myers made a flying trip to Cedar Lake Sunday evening. The Cobb sisters of Thayer were guests of Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Myers Tuesday night. The band is increasing in numbers with experienced players. Concerts every Friday night. A. S. Lowman was caught out in the rain the other day. and now his hair has turned red.

KIDNEY DISEASES ARE CURABLE under certain conditions. The right medicine must be taken before the disease has progressed too far. Mr. Perry A. Pitman, Dale, Tex., says: “I was down in bed for four months with kidney and bladder trouble and gall stones. One bottle of Foley’s Kidney Remedy cured me well and sound.” Ask for it. —A. F. Long.

—1 i~ | SOUTH NEWTON. I .■4—' V l -- ■ ~ i News is not very plentiful this week as everybody is too busy to visit. Estle Markin and wife of near Surrey spent Sunday with relatives in this vicinity. Miss Ada Miller of Mt. Ayr was the guest of Miss Sadie Paulus Saturday and Sunday. Philip Paulus and son Russell visited with her daughter, Mrs. James Reed, Sunday. Everything looks fine since the rain, except where the hail struck. Farmers are all busy cutting oats. Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Pruett visited with, the former’s sister, Mrs. Earl Clinton, andi family near Brook Sunday. Miss Ada Yeoman of near Columbia City, who has been' visiting in Rensselaer with her grandmother Powell, came Saturday to Arthur Powell’s for a few days visit. Miss Gertrude Gosnell returned to her home in Illinois Monday after an extended visit with her sister, Mirs. David Bare, and family. She was accompanied home by her nep>hew, Edgar Bare.

f|T Items of Interest jj from Surrounding Towns Tersely Told. Chronicling the Happenings in the Territory Adjacent to the Jasper County Metropolis

I. LEE. I G. A. Jacks was in Rensselaer Wednesday. G. A. Jacks and wife took dinner Sunday at L. M. Jacks’. Mrs. Ola Randle has had her house repainted which G. A. Jacks occupies. David Culp and family and J. H. £ulp and family took dinner Sunday t Elmer Gilmore’s. The doctor was called to see Mr. Gilmore, who got too hot apd drank too much water, but he is better now. ——? — Orlando Vanderver ok* Indianapolis visited the past week here with Mrs. Holeman, J. H. Culp’s, Frank Overton’s and John Osborne’s. Miss Cassie Holeman of Monticello visited her grandmother, Mrs. Holeman, and other relatives at this place during the past week. Com is looking fine in this locality, and the farmers are busy cutting oats and putting up their hay, both of which were hurt by the dry weather, but will make a very fair crop yet. The League gave an ice-cream supper Saturday evening and a program was given. A large crowd was present. The net proceeds were $14.50 which is to be used to buy new song books for the church.

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FAIR OAKS. | Will Gundy was a Rensselaer visitor Wednesday. Health is generally good in our neck of the woods these hot days. Miss Buela Shean of Lafayette is visiting her grandpa Kight’s this week. Mat Karr is preparing to start out on his threshing campaign in a few days. Mrs. Mildred Cottingham visited at Dr. Fyfe’s at Wheatfield the first of the week. _ J Miss Dunkleberger of Lowell was here the first of the week instructing her music class. Abe Bringle and family autoed down to Jordan tp. Sunday to visit his brother Will and family. Fred Williams has the M. E. church about finished painting, and it looks as nice as a new one. John Kight and daughter, after a week’s visit with his parents, returned Saturday to Indianapolis. Miss Hazel Kimble, of the Lawler ranch, is helping Mrs. F. R. Erwin with her household work nowadays. --- The recent rains have spurred up the -business vines the last few days. Pickles will begin to come in in a few days. ®d Kesler is suffering with very badly inflamed eyes, caused from wiping sweat from his brow while handling creosote ties. Harry Hickman of Rensselaer and Arvel Bringle with his mother and sister took a drive over to Tefft Wednesday on business. There has been two or three teams busy for a week or more hauling tile from a car here to the Earl farm a few miles east of town.

Owing to the fact that the superintendent and assistant superintendent of the M. E. Sunday school were absence there was no Sunday school Sunday. J. M. Allen, the hotel landlord, went out to lowa and to other western states last week to visit relatives for a coupfle of weeks. Jacob Spitzer, who has been working at Davenport, la., for several years, is at home now and will take charge of the livery business while Mr. Allen is absent. We are still having very hot weather with an occasional shower, which is very gratifying to the farmers. Haying is in full blast in these parts and the showers make it a little slow. But corfa is doing fine. We noticed a few early sweet corn patches had been ruined by the hot weather before the rains came. The tops and tassels were scorched, and they look as if they had been frosted. Oats harvest is now under headway, but owing to the hot weather they can not cut fast.

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| 1 WHEATFIELD. ~I M. M. Ocker of Medaryville made a business trip here via Brush runabout Saturday. Mrs. Georgia Ebersol went to Chicago Tuesday for a short visit with relatives, Mrs. Carrie Morton of St. Louis, Mo., is spending the summer with her sister, Mrs. Jos. Hixson. Vic Webb, who is working in lowa, came Saturday for a visit with his father, W’m. Webb. Mrs. Wm. Schultz and son Joe Rogers, of Chicago are .visiting her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Melser.

Miss Sabiaa Hart of Kniman was the guest of ;Mr. and Mrs. Fred Pickner Monday ‘and Tuesday. Rev. Johannesburg and son of Chicago wereguests of his cousins, the Gulbransons, over Sunday. Mrs. Simon Fendig and son Allen went on the excursion to Henry, 111., Sunday, returning home Monday. Virgil Payne, who has been confined to her bed fir two weeks with rheumatism, is able to be but again. Mrs. Roy Williams and daughter went to McCoysburg Saturday to visit her parents, Richard Foulka and wife. Isaac E. Biggs, who is attending the Valparaiso Normal school summer term, spent a few days with home folks. Mr. and Mrs. Al Ramey and child of Rensselaer spent a few days with the Harmon Clark family this week. Mr. and Mrs. Albert VanDoozer, who have been visiting Chicago relatives for several weeks, returned home Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. M. Sands and children of Rensselaer werje guests of Mr. and Mrs. Jos. Hilliard Wednesday. Miss Bruner of near Loganspert, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. George Anderson, for ten days, returned home Monday. James Ryan, who has been an inmate of a national military home in eastern Tennessee for the past six months, returned home Friday. John Campbell of Pulaski, 111., was in town on business the first of the week. Mr. Campbell and family were formerly Wheatfield residents.

Mr. and Mrs. George Swisher returned home from Evanston Saturday from a week’s visit with their daughters, Misses Bertha and Capitola Swisher. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jensen of Rensselaer came Tuesday for a ten days visit with their parents, and also to attend the Langdon- . hite wedding. > Mr. and Mrs. Hans Jensen and granddaughter, Maurine Jensen, of Chicago returned home Saturday after a week’s visit with the former’s brother, E. Jensen, and family. .Mrs. Chas. McCoy, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Hart and Miss Leona Clark of Hammond spent a few days at; the bedside of their sick father, Thomas Clark. Mrs. Anna Adams returned home with the former Saturday. Herman Langdon and Miss Ollie White were united in marriage at the home of the bride near Tefft Wednesday at 2 p. m., by Rev. Thorp of North Judson in the presence of the immediate relatives and a few friends. The cotiple left from Chicago the next morning for a six weeks sojourn in Colorado.

BARNUM’S AT LAFAYETTE

World’s Best Circus to Exhibit There on Thursday, July 27. The people of Rensselaer and vicinity are to be given an opportunity of seeing the Barnum and Bailey greatest show on earth which will give two performances in Lafayette on Thursday, July 27. Many wonderful features, new to American circus-goers are promised. A company of 400 of the world’s most prominent circus talent, principally European, will present an array of novelties, there will be an elaborate forenoon parade and a new menagerie. In the menagerie among many other wonders is to be found Baby Bumbeeno, the only giraffe ever born in America. It is just one year old. Among the more sensational numbers on the long bill are John Ducander’s company of bell-ringing horses, from England; the Fonelli company of Italian acrobats, the SeigristSilbon family of German aerialists; Jupiter the balloon horse; Charles the First, a chimpanzee bicycle rider and roller skater, the great Georgetty family of French jugglers, the’ Lee Deko and Les Silvas family of French equilibrists, Noonan’s brass band of elephants, Capt. Winston’s troupe of ‘riding and juggling seals and sealions, Berzac’s company of mule and pony actors, Nederweld’s dog and monkey circus, Victoria Codona, the world’s greatest wire dancer and the fifty funniest clowns. The Barnum and Bailey circus ;s now at the zenith of success. It travels on a train a mile in length. It employes 1,286 people and has 700 horses. In the menagerie are forty elephants and over 1,000 other st-ange animals. The show car- . ies its own dynamos illuminating the twenty tents and the show grounds with 4,000 incandescent lamps, arc lights, search lights and beacons. The railroads will make special arrangements to convey visitors from outlying towns to Lafayette on show day.

For The G. E. Murray Co’s. July sale we have not bought uo a lot. of cheap stuff, but will offer our regular lines of dependable merchandise.

100,000 Acres Farm and Timber Lands FOR SALE ON EASY PAYM ENTS Special Discount is Allowed on Cash Sales A little money will buy a farm. Quit working for others who grow rich from your toil and start to work for yourself and your family. Termsi SIO.OO Cash Down, SIO.OO Per Month No Taxes. No Interest. Buys 40 Acres in Menominee County, Michigan. 5 per cent Discount is allowed on payments paid in advance. Should you die no more payments whatever are required and the land will be deeded free to your next of kin. Buy a farm, be Independent. Men of pmall means can buy from us. Own your home on which you can become Independent. Raise what you eat, sell what you don’t need. Your crops grow w’bile you sleep. Now is the time to buy. When you stop working for others your Income stops When you stop for a day on the farm it still accumulates and you don’t have to pay a dollar out every time you turn around. Fortunes are waiting those who buy lands in Menominee County, Michigan. Why pay rent when rental elsewhere for a year will buy a farm here. We offer for sale the very best land in Michigan’s rich sugar beet belt. We have bargains to offer to the Investor whereby be can double his money. A few hours ride will take you to this land at a small cost. It is good producing land and will raise all kinds of grain, the finest potatoes and fruits, besides being a natural grazing country. The price of land is advancing and will go much higher. Buy land now’. Buy good land. Buy close to railroads and markets. Buy where there is a good climate and good water. Buy where there are schools, churches and good roads. Buy land suitable for grain farming and stock raising. Homes for thousands In the garden spot of Michigan. Send for free booklet telling all about it Wrlta GEO. W. CASEY, RENSSELAER, IND., Locating Representative

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