Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1911 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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.