Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1911 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. Elizabeth Sterret, aged 86 years, died at Delphi last week. Her father, William Wilson, came to Delphi before the town was named, and gave one hundred acres to the county where Delphi now stands for county seat purposes. Mrs. Sterret had lived there since 1844. Don’t fail to ask for the free piano certificates with each cash purchase at the stores handling them, a list of which appears elsewhere in this paper. Remember you can fill in the name of any candidate you choose to vote for, and if you do not care to vote them now you can do so later. Elmer Gwin came in Saturday afternoon from the wilds of £he Gifford district, where he is putting down four school house wells in Barkley tp., with a week’s growth of alfalfa covering his face He’has finished up the wells in the muck district and is now working on the fourth well at Blackford. Mr. and Mrs. John Jordan and Mr. and Mrs. John McCullough of Remington, and Mr. McCullough’s mother, Mrs. W. I. McCullough, of Benton county, drove over Monday afternoon in Mr. Jordan’s auto. It was Mrs. W. I. McCullough’s first visit to Rensselaer, although she has resided in Benton county all her life. No, it is not 'too late for new candidates to enter The Democrat’s piano contest, but it soon will be. No new candidates can enter after the date soon tj be announced. While the early candidates have, of course, got a lead now, a few new subscriptions and renewals will place a new candidate right up among the leaders. A nine-year-old Gary boy was taken to Longcliff last week. He is the youngest patient ever admitted to an asylum in Indiana. His case was thoroughly investigated by the physicians and nurses at the institution, and while not certain as to the causes of the lad’s insanity, they seem to think that it came from his spine and teeth.

W. D. Bringle returned Monday from a few days visit with his sister, Mrs. F. L. Yeoman, at Hibbard, Ind. Mrs. Yeoman recently underwent an operation in a Ft. Wayne hospital for gallstones and before she got out of the hospital her husband was brought there suffering with typhoid fever. He just got out last week. Both are now getting along nicely. W. F. Hayes, who was here a few days the first of the week looking after his farm in Barkley tp., deposited two mammoth apples on our table Monday that he picked from his orchard there. The largest jjne measured inches in circumference. He did not know what variety they were. ' He states that there will probably be 35 or 40 bushels of peaches on his place this year. Mrs. B. M. Williams i returned Friday from a week’s visiting trip through Indiana and Illinois, going east first and then back west to Pontiac and Fairbury, traveling in all about 500 miles. She says crops in Illinois are about the same as here except at Colfax, 111., is a stnj> about ten miles wide that the hail took everything and the ground is as bare as if plowed. Mrs. Williams reports having had a nice visit with her mother and family and old home friends.