Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1911 — Page 3

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. . . 4 ———_ Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Today's markets: Com, 58c; Oats, 35c; Wheat, 80c. Another fine rain fell in Rensselaer Monday niglht. C. B. Steward was in Chicago on business yesterday. F. J. Donnely was in Lafayette on business yesterday. J. F. Payne and son Clifford spent yesterday at Monticello. The Tippecanoe County Fair will be held next week, August 21-25. C - Hay Fever is positively cured by Anti-Phymin. For sale by A. F. Long. George A. Williams went to Paxton 111., yesterday morning on business. Everett Halstead returned last week from a prospecting trip to the Dakotas. Walter Lutz returned home Saturday from a short visit with relatives at Remington.

one dose of Anti-Phymin gives immediate relief from Asthpia. For sale by A. F. Long. Richard Shirer went to Wheatfield Saturday for an ovet Sunday visit with relatives. Eli Gerber went to Thayer M-ondy to attend the funeral of Mann Spitler, held that day. Ray Wood and Joe Hardman went to the Kankakee Monday to spend a- short time fishing. Miss Jennie Harris and Mrs. Roberts went to Lafayette yesterday to spend the day with friends.

Miss Bertha Conway of Delphi returned Tuesday after spending a few days with Miss Elizabeth Luers. ' Sam Duvall, who is employed by the Western Union, went to Chicago Saturday afternoon to spend a short vacation. , , - - - -Jb Mr. and Mrs. Hale Warner went to Chicago Monday to witness the flight of the airships and to transact business. Anti-Phymin, that strong expectorant, cleans out the lungs without injury to lining of stomach. For sale by A. F. Long. Mrs. Sarah Garriott . and daughter Minnie of Brookston came Saturday to visit a few days with Mrs. J. W. Hitchings. Mrs. Edna Gray ■of Meeteetse, Wyo., came Monday for a visit with her father W. H. Ritchey and other relative for a few weeks. E. J. Casey was down from Lowell on business Saturday. He closed a deal last week whereby Carl Hamacher, traded residence property in Chicago Heights for a 130 acre farm IJ4 miles north of Lowell. Mr. Hamacher’s lease on the farm he occupies near Foresman will not expire for another year, after which he expects to move on the Lowell farm.

Flour Sale fl All this week car unloading sale —A. &K. Best Flour $5.00 a barrel $ 1.25 a sack • fl Every sack guaranteed. With the advancing grain market this is a golden opportunity for you. Home Grocery "Growing Softer Every Day"

Samuel Bahr went to Marion on business Monday. J. W- Ward w r as a Monon business visitor Monday. F. J. Donnelly was in Chicago on business Saturday. George Worden of Remington was a business visitor in the city Monday, rf* Miss Minnie Sheurich lyent to Indianapolis Monday to study millinery styles. Lawson Bruce went to Chicago Heights 111. Saturday to spend Sunday with relatives. The next annual meeting of the Northern Indiana Editorial Association will be held at Gary. Mrs. W. S. Day went to Laporte Saturday to spend a few days with her son Omar and wife.

James Hill went to Lansing, Mich., Saturday to visit for a week with his sister, Mrs. C. Allen. Monon Old Fellows have let the contract for a new Odd Fellows’ building 36x90, two stories high. Mel Abbott and family went to Monticello Saturday to indulge in a little fishing on the Tippecanoe. Mrs. E. F. Gibbs returned to her home at Kirklin Saturday after a visit with Clinton Beck and family of north of town. J. D. Allman and wife and A. J. Bellow and wife went to Chicago Monday afternoon to take in the airship demonstrations. Mirs. J. T. ’Francis returned to Fithian, 111., her home, Saturday after a visit with Joseph Francis and family of Newton tp- ■ Mr. and Mrs. M. I. Adams left Sunday for a ten days visit with relatives at Rushville, Indianapolis, Franklin and Spencer. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hamilton of Indianapolis are spending a few days here w r ith her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Hale Warner. Mrs. Lizzie Cook and daughter of Frankfort came Saturday to spend a short time here with her nephew, H. C. Hoshaw, and family. Jasper Pass and Mrs. Alonzo Staten left Monday for Sylvia, Kan., where they will visit with relatives for the next three or four weeks. Charles Harmon returned to Greencastle Monday after a few days visit here with his family, who are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Brown. John Strady, accompanied by his mother, returned to their home at Kokomo Monday after a visit here with Newt Hendricks and family. Rev. O. S. Rardin of Rosebud went to Frankfort Saturday to assist over Sunday in a big revival meeting held there. Monday he attended the M. P. conference at Muncie.

Joe Donnell was in Chicago on business Saturday. B. J. Gifford was over from Kankakee, 111., Sturday bn business. Mr. and Mrs. W. W- Reeve are spending a few days with relatives at Bass Lake: Miss Nell Moody went to Monticello Monday afternoon to spend a short visit with friends. Miss S. M. Davidson of Carthage, 111., is visiting here with her sister Mrs. George A. Williams. • Thompson Ross returned to Chicago Monday after a short visit with his mother, Mrs. F. A. Ross. Mrs. Joseph Luers and little daughter Madeline and Miss Elizabeth Luers left Tuesday for a couple of days vsisit with friends in Lafayette. . Roy Gundy, who is employed by the Gary Telephone Co., as lineman, is spending a vacation with friends here and with his parents near Fair Oaks.

Mrs. Fanny Straeling, Mrs. Brenneman and Mrs. Mdses Chupp went to Miami and Howard counties Monday to spend a few days with relatives. Mrs. E. Stevens and Mr. and Mrs. Stanfield of Cincinnati, who are the former’s guests here this week, went to Chicago Monday to spend a few days visiting with relatives. * Lightning Saturday morning struck the barn on the place occupied by E. J. Casey at Lowell, splintered up the roof somewhat but not setting fire to the building. Elizur Sage has purchased the torpedo bodied Overland car that Dr. Hansson recently received here. His old Buick car he ihas given to h isdaughter, Mrs.. David Zeigler, we understand.

Miss Ethel Hermansen, who is taking a purses’ training course at the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago is spending a few weeks Vacation with her parents in Gillam and other relatives. Little Vera Baker of Pontiac, 111., is visiting her grandfather, John N. Baker, and family of Barkley tp. She was accompanied here by her aunt, Mrs. Otto Robb, who is visiting relatives and friends. Mrs. E. Young of Jonesboro, who has been visiting with C. J. Hopkins and family of Mt. Ayr, returned to her home Saturday accompanied by Miss Leeta- Dirst who will spend a tew days with her. Dr. J. Hansson, while driving his Oyerland auto Saturday evening, ran into Ed Kanne’s rig and smashed up .the buggy somewhat, but fortunately injured no one. The accident happened right near the doctor’s home on McCoy avenue. Why don’t you get envelopes printed with your name and address in' one corner? None of your letters can then get lost. Looks business-like and makes a good impression on those you write to. You can get 100 for 50 cents at this office.

Mrs. Nelson Liane and two small children of Buttzville, North Dakota, who have been here for the past. three weeks visiting with her aunt, Mrs. Candace Loughridge and old Jasper county friends, returned home Monday. She was accompanied as far as Chicago by Mrs, Chapman. The parents of young Edward Honan, who recently left home to explore the wild and wooly west, received a card from him Monday mailed at Forsythe, Wyo., stating that he was getting homesick and ' had given up going on to the coast; that he would start back home and expected to reach here by the first of the month. Josiah Davisson was in from Kniman Saturday. The Democrat was misinformed about the location of that gate-post he tried to knock out of the ground with his new auto. The gate was located—note we use The past tense—-at Ray Thompson’s farm in Walker tp. Ray has no fence or* gate in front of his residence on McCoy avenue.

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The automatic block system, being installed by the Monon, is about completed between here and Monon, that is, the wires are all in and several of the batteries are set. George Michaels, who has been in a Chicago (hospital for the past two weeks, where he underwent an operation for appendicitis, was expected home yesterday. Miss Ethel Jacks was up from Lafayette Friday to attend a reunion ,• of the 1909 high sdhool class at the home of Miss Marceline Roberts tliat ening.

Victor Yeoman is spending the week in Muncie, attending the annual conference of the M. P. church, as a delegate from the Rosebud and Mt. Hope classes. He will visit his sister, Mrsf Ed Mauck, while there. Mrs. N. Monahan and children who have been visiting relatives here the past several days, returned to their home at Wallington, 111., Saturday, accompanied by Miss Eva Hammerton who will visit them there a short time. Beryl Shaffer, son of John Shaffer of Idaville, a barber and an all-round athlete, died at Monticello Sunday while playing ball. He was catcher for the Monticello team, and toppled over after making a run and died in a few moments. He had been married only a short time. Ninety-eight tickets were sold on the Monon’s excursion to Chicago Sunday, and about fifty more were sold on the 10:05 a. m., train. The chief attraction that drew so many people from here seems to have been the airships at Grant Park, on the lake tront, and which will continue to give practical demonstrations there until Friday. The ball games at the city were also good crowd-drawers. Probably the heaviest rain we have had in six months came about midnight Saturday night, and was accompanied by considerable lightning. This, with the rains of Friday and Saturday mornings, wet the ground up pretty Well and raised the water in the river perhaps six inches. It did not cool the atmosphere very long, however, and Sunday afternoon was a scorcher, with Monday liitle if any cooler.

J. J. Williams of Cleveland, Ohio, a brother of the late Jay W. Williams, (has been visiting Mrs. Williams and family a few days. _■ ‘ 1 ... .. y A good yield of wheat is reported from the Dr. Besser farm southeast of town upon which John Robinson is tenant, the amount being 480 bushels on about 15 acres of ground. B. N. Fendig, Dr. E. N. Loy and family, Mrs. G. F. Meyers, W. C. Babcock and family, Harry Moore and Edson Murray went to Chicago yesterday morning to take in tlhe airship demonstrations. W. R. Lee has traded his Surrey grocery to M. J. Thornton for the latter’s residence property in the east part of town, and Lon Kiser, who has had charge of same, will return to Rensselaer and resume his position as clerk in the Home Grocery.

A subscriber asks The Democrat to publish a warning to the parties out south of town wlho have been buying beer by the keg and selling or\ giving *it to minors. Unless the practice is stopped, this subscriber says, the matter will be placed before the proper authorities. Work on the Monon’s new depot is going on rapidly. Yesterday morning several bricklayers begun laying the brick and stone on the foundation, the l fomulation being almost completed and the laying of the brick will now be rushed as quickly aS possible. ! Word received from James Matheson, who recently underwent an operation for cancer of the bladder in an Indianapolis ‘hospital, i$ to tfhe effect that he is getting along as well as can be expected and that he will be brought home the first of next week. No hope is held out for his permanent recovery, however. Mrst I. L. Bramblet of Indiapolis and sister Mrs. Harry Linton and little son of Council Bluffs, lowa, came Sunday 'to visit Mrs. Geo. Hopkins. J Monday, accompanied by Mrs. , Hopkins, they went to Goodland, their old home, to visit until Friday, when they will return here. They will attend the , annual reunion of their old girls’ club the Cyclone Club, at I Goodland.

Louis Ramp, Ralph Donnelly, Charles Rhoades and Floyd Hemphill went to the Kankakee river Saturday to spend a couple of days fishing. *—■ - ■— ■■■■ ■ ■ I■» ■■■ Ihe dirt from the excavating for the M. E. church is being used to fill in the depression of the old Makemself ditch, on the lot just north of the old August Rosenbaum place, on Cullen street. The school board has employed Mr. H. C. Marvin of Augusta, Miqh., as instructor in physics and chemistry to succeed Miss Elizabeth Hume, now Mrs. Ross Dean. Mr. Marvin is a married man and will move to Rensselaer. • Ready for delivery off our floor, two of those staunch, reliable runabouts that have made the Maxwells “the great economy cars.” A car which can run on Jasper county roads at a total

cost of 1 3-10 cents per mile. A nice carrying space on these cars, “ too. Step in and let us show you how to save money.— Maxwell. Mr. B. Forsythe has sold the remainder of his . stock of general merchandise at Winamac to Wilson & Co., of Plymouth and Knox, who will continue the business, and has returned to Rensselaer and will occupy his handsome home here. His neice, Miss Cora Meese, of Dixon, 111., will come here and keep house for him and attend the Rensselaer school.

F. M. Lakin was in from Union tp. Monday. He has became to old to work like he used to and has decided to rent his big farm and move to town, probably to Rensselaer. He has been a very rugged man, though small of stature, and never took a dose of medicine until in the last year, when his stomach has bothered him considerably and he has doctored quite a little. Farmers tell us that corn was I urt more last week, up to the rain of Friday morning, than any time yet. In numerous places on the higher ground the stalks were “fired” all the way up and completely killed. The rains Friday, Saturday and Sunday, which were all general throughout this section, have supplied sufficient moisture now to mature the corn all right now. 1 All the news in The Democrat*