Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1911 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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.