Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1911 — Page 5

IK lllftl COHH HMfittl f.i.iiKW.fflwtmwiuati. OFFICIAL DEMOCRATIC PAPER OF JASPER COUNTY. Entered u Second Class Matter June S. 1908, at the post office at Rensselaer, ynd <ana, under the Act of March 3, 1879. Published Wodheaday and Saturday. Wednesday Issue 4 Pages; Saturday issue 8 Pages. ■■ . Long Distance Telephones Office 315. - Residence 311. Advertising fates made known on application. SATURDAY, AUG. 19, 1911. LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. One dose of Anti-Phymin gives immediate relief from Asthma. For sale by A. F. Long. Mrs. Cora Potts spent Wednesday in Monon. Rev. J. P. Green was a Monon visitor Thursday. George Cox was in Monon on business Thursday. Today’s markets: Corn, 58c; Oats, 35c; Wheat, 78c.

Ed Gates of Wheeling, Ind., svas in the city on business Wednesday. Hay Fever is positively cured by Anti-Phymin. For sale by A. F. Long. William Abbott of Goshen came Wednesday to spend a few days with the Spitler family. Mr. nd Mrs. John Q. Alter returned home Wednesday afternoon from their western trip. Misses Ethel Sharp and Lora Bruce returned Tuesday from a week’s outing at Lake Winona. Mrs. M. M. Ocker of Medaryville came Wednesday to visit with J. P. Hammond and family. iMiss Elsa and Zea Smith went to Indianapolis Sunday for a" two weeks visit with relatives. Mrs. J. F. Schwartz of Joliet, 111., came Thursday to spend a few days with W. R. Lee and family. Anti-Phymin cures Tuberculosis. Give it a trial and be convinced. Sold and recommended by A. F. Long.

Mrs. Wesley Mustard and children of Union City came Thursday to visit with Sylvester Gray and family. Dr. finch’s next visit to Rensselaer will be on Thursday, August 24. See ad ejsewhere in The Democrat. J. F. Price of Lafayette was in the city Wednesday looking after the interests of his farm near McCoy sburg. . Mrs. Susan Maines and daughter Eva returned home Thursday from a trip to Niagara Falls and Toronto, Can. Misses Florence and Ruth Moore of Chicago, who had been visiting here for a few weeks with their uncle, J. H. Holden, and wife, returned home Wednesday. i

Flour Sale f - (J All this week car unloading sale —A. &K. Best Flour $5.00 a barrel $1.25 a sack (J Every sack guaranteed. With ' the advancing grain market this is a golden opportunity for you. Home Grocery “Growing Bolter Every Day”

Victor Moore went to Monticello on business Thursday. Eugene Purtelle was a business visitor in the city Thursday. ’ Ray Parks is spending the week with Walter Seegrist at Tefft. .. ■ ... .. F. W. Tobias and wife and Raymond Dixey spent Wednesday in Chicago.. JErnest Lamson, B. F. and Samuel FendSg were Chicago goers Wednesday. Miss Maud Daugherty witnessed the avitation meet at Chicago Tuesday. David Pulver, an old and well known citizen of Morocco, died a few days ago, aged 82 years. I'-* - ■ - W. W. Reeve and wife went to Bass Lake yesterday morning to spend a week with relatives. Miss Emma Smith of New Philadelphia, Q., came Thursday to spend a few days with B. Forsythe. Mrs. R. E. Flanders of Pierceton is spending a few days with her father, P. F. Roberts, of near Mt. Ayr.

Miss Minerva Jennings and son came from Thorntown Thursday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. W. A. Green of north of town. P. T. Longacre and J. H. S. “EllIs" were in Chicago on business Thursday, and also took in the aeroplane demonstrations on the lake front. J. J. Williams returned to his home at Cleveland, 0., Thursday after a visit here with relatives. He is a brother of the late J. W. Williams. E. P. Honan went to Lafayette Wednesday to attend a meeting of the committee on by-laws of the C. O. F., of which he was chairman. Mrs. F. H. Hemphill and mother, Mrs. Harris, who have been visiting relatives in Chicago for the past few days, returned home Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Haskell and son went to Frankfort Wednesday afternoon to spend a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Carter Moore and take in the fair.

A number from here attended a dance given at George Ade’s farm, Hazelden, near Brook, Thursday evening. Lonzo and Paul Healy furnished the music. - Because of the band going to Fountain Park Thursday, the regular weekly band concert was held Wednesday evening, instead of Thursday evening, as usual. Mrs. George Dunn and son Of Wichita, Kan., who are the guests of Granville Moody and family of northeast of town, were joined Wednesday by Mr. Dunn. Mrs. Mathew Nessius and baby and Mrs. Barney Stein of south of town went to Chicago Wednesday afternoon to spend a few days with relatives and friends.

Dr. M. D. Gwin was a Chicago visitor Thursday. Leo Lyons went to Demotte Thursday morning to work. John Marlatt was in Chicago Thursday morning on business. Mr. and Mrs. John Eger were Chicago business goers Thursday. Mrs. Mose Chupp and daughter, Miss Laura, went to Goshen Thursday to see the former’s sister who is quite sick. Mrs. Jennie Jessen, who has been visiting with relatives at Lebanon for the past several days, returned home Thursday. David Nay and wife and Mrs. Daniel Dirst of Mt. Ayr left here Thursday for a few days visit with relatives at Jonesboro.

Miss Florence Reynard of Union City, who has been visiting here with Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lamson, returned home Thursday. Miss Clara Jessup of Ft. Wayne, who had been visiting relatives near Brook, took the train here Wednesday for Monon to spend the day, returning in the evening. Perry Gwin, who is now connected with a commercial rating agency and stationed at Norfolk, Va., is spending a few days here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Gwin. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Austin and Dr and Mrs. Ensminger passed through here Thursday on their way home to Chicago after a visitin in Indianapolis, Crawfordsville and Lafayette. Mrs. J. H. Chapman returned home Thursday morning from Chicago where she accompanied Mrs. Nelson Liane and children on their way to their home at Buttzville, No. Dak., Monday.

Rev. W. G. Winn, the new pastor of the Christian church, has rented the Judson Maines property on Dayton street and will occupy same with his family about the middle of next month. Lon Kiser, who has had charge of the Surrey branch 6f the Home Grocery, moved into the Mrs. Mary Jane Hopkins property on River street Thursday and will again clerk in the Home Grocery. J. W. Zimmerman of Lima, 0., who has been here visiting with his son Arthur and family, refurned home Wednesday, accompanied by Mrs. Zimmerman and children, who will visit with him for several days. Four automobiles conveyed several members of the local band to Fountain Park Thursday afternoon, where they had contracted to give a couple of concerts. The next one will be next week, a couple_ of days. Misses Nellie, Alice and Madie Drake entertained three dozen of their young lady friends at six-hand euchre at their home south of the city Tuesday evening. Miss loma Imes of Chicago was the guest of honor.

Mrs. J. F. Murphy of Chicago is spending a few days here as the guest of her uncles, the Carr brothers. She will be remembered here as Miss Essie Kendall, a former teacher in the Jasper and Newton county schools. Mrs. Woodward and daughter, Miss Judith, of Madison, Wis., came Thursday afternoon for a few days visit with Mrs. S. C. Irwin. Miss Woodward will bt; remembered as a former graduate of the Rensselaer high school, 1909 class. Mrs. Jane Reed returned from Payne, Ohio, Tuesday. She was called there last Friday by the death of her daughter, Miss Mary Reed, aged 53‘years, who had gone there to visit relatives and to take treatment for asth-» ma, and who died suddenly last Friday morning and was buried there Monday. A five-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Wilcox of near Parr was bitten on the hand Wednesday by a dog belonging to Watson Humes. The dog gave no evidence of being “mad,” but the wound was carefully cauterized and it is not expected that ahy serious results will follow. .

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E. A. Fisher went to Chicago on business yesterday morning. William Daniels went to Roselawn on business yesterday. C. H. Hickman went to Bellefontaine, 0., yesterday on business. Mrs. E. P. Honan entertained at cards Wednesday and Thursday afternoons. H. C. Hoshaw went to Mt. Ayr yesterday to visit his daughter, Mrs. Chas. Burns, for a few days. Rev. Father V. H. Krull goes to to Frankfort today and will begin a week’s mission there tomorrow. — F. J. Donnelly and family, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. George Ketchum, spent Wednesday at Burnettsville, making the trip in the former’s auto. The alley paving contractors completed the cement curb on the Monnett alley Thursday, and yesterday morning began on the curb for the Leopold alley. Train No. 32, due here at 10:05 a. m., Thursday, was late about an hour due to a defective engine. Upon arrival here, the engine of the morning local from the south was hooked onto the passanger engine and the train was doubleheaded to the Hammond yards. The local was thus delayed several hours.

The fire department was call-' ed out at about 6:30 yesterday j morning by a small blaze in a summer-kitchen at Wm. Dixey’s on south Weston street. The ( fire was acused from a stovepipe | running through an attic, and the damage was less than SIOO. ■ Jim Rhoades, while at work on the roof, was overcome by the smoke and for several minutes was unconscious. ) Tom Florence was down from Virgie Thursday. He is working now at pressing wild hay in the Kankakee marshes and says three presses are baling from 60 to 70 tons per day where he is working. The hay is extra good, tall and thick on the ground, and is cutting three tons or better to the acre. This hay is too coarse for feed, nearly all of it being made into rope, and it is therefore called “rope hay.”

August 17, to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Ho'shaw, a son. Frank Bruner went to Roselawn yesterday on business. Merle Porter of Francesville is spending a short time here relatives. Attorney J. A. Dunlap was in Monticello on legal business yesterday. Russel VanArsdel returned home yesterday morning from a visit with relatives dt Chalmers. Mrs. Carrie D. Short went to Medaryville yesterday morning to look after her farm near that place. Mr. McGuire, who is connected with the match factory here, went to business yestcrcay. F. P. Huntington of Mt. Ayr took the train here yesterday morning for Indianapolis wheie he goes on business. W. H. Parkison went to Indianapolis yesterday to undergo an operation, the nature of which was not stated. D. J. Hostetter and wife came yesterday morning from Valparaiso to visit with her father, James Blankenbaker, and famil /.

Mrs. J. B. Harris returned to her home at Roann, Ind., yesterday morning after a visit with her daughter, Mrs. F. H. Hemphill. Mrs. Mary Drake and daughters, Misses Madie and Nellie, and Lonzo Healy and Arthur Kanne left yesterday mornihg for Detroit, Mich., and thence by boat to Buffalo, Niagara Falls, Toronto, etc., for a week’s pleasure trip. Mrs. Ed Heath and son Lewis of Oxford, who have been visiting here with Mrs. George Colvert, went to Battle Ground yesterday to visit with relatives, Mrs. Coivert accompanying them there for a short visit. v While out to his farm Tuesday Thomas A. Crockett suffered severely from an old rupture which came upon him gradually. He was able to drive, to town but suffered terribly on the way. He is feeling much better now.

LOCAL M. W. A. MEMBERS Are requested to meet at lodge rooms Sunday at 2 p. m. Special business is to come before this meeting, ahd all members are urged to be*present.— Geo. Mustard, Clerk., FATAL ACCIDENT OCCURRED AT BROOKSTON. William French of Brookston, was badly • burned Monday by the explosion of a gasoline burner in the canning house of French Bros., and died as a result of his injuries Wednesday at 4:30 p. m„ aged about 48 years. Mr. French was a great hustler and a businessman of great ability, having, with his brother, taken over the Brookston stock cannery, in which several people host a large amount of money, and made a success from the start He was also connected with his brother in the hardware business and became quite well-to-do.

IF YOU WANT LIGHTNING PROTECTION. I can furnish you protection and give you an assurance to that effect. If interested see me or address me at Rensselaer, Ind. —F. A. Bicknell, Box 77. ts Ready - for delivery off our floor, two pf 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. Souvenir Envelopes—We have a very few of those handsome souvenir envelopes of half-tone views of Rensselaer, St. Joseph’s College, etc., just the thing to use in writing to absent friends or on business, as they advertise your city. Only 10c pet; bunch of 25, or 75c per 100 with return card printed in corner; $2 for 500; $3.50 per 1,000. NOTICE TO FARMERS. The farmer who has a McCormick Corn Harvester can get repairs at C. A. Robetrs’ and also repairs for McCormick Shredders. If you want to pur- . chase new either of these machines, please call on me. For this kind of machine, you can not buy a better one of anyone. —C. A. Roberts, Agent, Rensselaer, Ind. All the news in The Democrat. ♦ ■ ■■