Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1911 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Mrs. John Cryton is still quite sick. Growing better every day.— \Home Grocery. W. J. Wright was in'. Chicago on business Thursday. W. F. Smith was in Mbnticello on* business Wednesday. Uncle Simon Phillips is slowly improving from his sick spell. D. M. Worland was a Chicago business visitor Wednesday and Thursday. Miss Beatrice Yates went to Winona Lake Thursday to spend a few days. —. ■■... ■ ' ■■ Miss Edith Shedd went to Chicago Thu r sday for a short yisit with relatives. Seven cents and return tomorrow on the Monon excursion. William Lee and children went to Markle Wednesday to visit his parents for a few days.. Arthur Tueter returned home Monday from a few (jays visit' with relatives at Peoria, 111. • Mrs. Frank Tobias has been in Indianapolis for the past week caring for Mrs. George Reeves, a friend, who is sick. AV. F. Smith & Co., landed another big stone road contract last week, in Laporte county, amounting to $59,000. The heavy rain Tuesday afternoon cooled off the atmosphere greatly and the weather has since been quite comfortable. F. D. Grant, traveling passenger agent for the Soo line, was in the city on business a few days the first of the week.

Adam Flesher, who lives on one of the John Eger farms in Barkley tp., has two daughters down sick with typhoid fever. Mrs. H. L. Brown and daugh- _ ter, Miss Mary Jane, went to Glencoe, 111., Thursday to spend a few days with relatives and friends. An automobile advertising and distributing car for the Postum Cereal Co., of Battle Creek, Mich,, was in the city Tuesday and Wednesday. Mrs. Frank Critser has been laid up for the past week with an infection of one of her limbs, caused from a slight scratch. She is improving now, however. The match factory people have a force of a dozen men and teams at work making cement blocks for the factory building and grading for the sidetracks. Louie Leopold of Wolcott was here Tuesday on his way home from Chicago, where his wife had just undergone a surgical oper* atiori in one of the hospitals in that city. ’ Lightning struck tihe depot' telephone wire Tuesday afternoon putting both the instruments out of commission, and also destroying a part of the telegraph paraphernalia. Mrs. F. L. Yeoman of Hibbard, Ind., formerly Miss Myrtle Bringle of Newton tp., this countp, underwent a successful operation a few days ago at a Ft. Wayne hospital, for appendictitis. The annual encampment of the state militia will take place at Indianapolis, beginning Monday and continuing for ten days. Co. M of Rensselaer will leave at 6:30 Monday mprning on a special train starting from this city. James Ritchey has sold his grain business at Guernsey to Babcock & Hopkins of Rensselaer who will proceed to make improvements so they can handle grain more advantageously. —Monticello Journal.

Mr. Herman R. Langdpn of Wheatfield, and Miss Ollie M. -White, one of Jasper county’s popular teachers, were married Wednesday at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Nativia White, at Tefft. They will be at home after September 15, at Wheatfield.