Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1911 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A 10-pound boy was born yesterday to Mr. and Mrs. Dean M erica. Mrs. Merica was formerly Miss Gladys Beam. Thomas Mills and son of Zionsville returned home yesterday after a visit with Mrs. Anna King near Rensselaer and other relatives. " G. H. McLain and family left Wednesday via auto for their old home, Wauseon, 0.. where they will spend a couple of weeks with relatives. Alfred Crisler of Spokane, Wash., who is visiting with relatives here, accompanied Ben Harris to Lafayette Thursday to ’see the elephants. Marion Pierson, who is employed in the offices of the International Harvester Co., at Champaign, 111., came Thursday to visit w r ith relatives here.

Wilbur Putts and Jerry Branson of Jordan tp., left Thursday for Arvilla and Grand Forks, No. Dak., respectively, wfliere they will w r ork during the coming harvest. Hugh Leavel has made a new lease for his present quarters and will remain there with his bakery instead of moving s&me across the street into the phol room building. Alter Bros, have sold their tile mill north of town to S. C, Irwin and John E. Reed. Mr. Reed will be manager at the plant, Alter Bros, retiring from the tile business. Mrs. Frank L. Hunt of Lowell came yesterday to visit with J. J. Hunt and family. Mr. Hunt's mother continues very poorly, her condition yesterday morning was very discouraging. When trading at the stores of any of the merchants giving piano certificates, a list of whom appears elsewhere, be! sure to ask for these certificates and you can vote them later for your favorite candidate, a list of which apepars in another column.

Mrs. S. A. Overton and children, accompanied by Miss Lucy and Paul Healy, went to the former’s home in South Haven, Midi., Wednesday. Mrs. Overton is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Mathew" Zernden of this place. Mrs. John Gwin and Mrs. Bert Hopkins intend to leave for Jamestown, No. Dak., in a few days, near which place the former owns a farm. Mrs. Gwin will tench in North Dakota the coming school year, we understand. W. F. Smith & Co. have sublet their contract for tw r o miles of stone road in Monon tp., White county which connects w r ith a road petitioned for in this county, to B. J. Moore, wh® expects to have same compleed and ready for traffic in a couple of months. . Thomas Lemon, a farmer residing a short distance south of Reynolds, seems to have put all other wheat growers in the shade. Off of 2.87 acres of ground (actual measurement) he threshed 178 bushels of wheat, or a trifle over 62 bushels to the acre.

Ivan Carson met with an accident Monday morning while on his w r av to his work in Chicago. He was run down by a speeding motorcycle and his right leg was painfully bruised and skinned up, so that he has been confined to the house since returning honie. There is little likelihood of his being able to get any damages from the motorcyclist. Clerk Mustard received a check for SI,OOO Wednesday, to cover the policy held ,by the late Grover Ritchey in the Modern >Voodmen of America order, and which was payable to his wife. Mr. Ritchey had been a member of the local Camp only a comparatively short time and had paid in about sl9. This SI,OOO will come in very handy to the widow who w r as so soon deprived of a husband’s strcfeg right arm. Parson’s Poem a Gem. From Rev. H. Stubenvoll, Allison, la., in praise of Dr. King’s New Life Pills. “They’re such a healthy necessity, In every home these pills should be If other kinds you’ve tried in vain USE DR. KING’S And be well again. Only 25c at A. F. Long’s. ”, Subscribe for The Democrat.