Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1911 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Ward Sinclair made a business trip to Crawfordsville yesterday. F. W\ Fisher of Kankakee tp,; was in the city on business yesterday. Brook Reporter : Mr. and Mrs. Lyman Barce of Rensselaer were in town a few hours Tuesday. Wm. Shirer, wife and daughter of Valparaiso are visiting the Misch family near Wheatfield. Mrs. A. Eib attended a megt-t ing of the Conn’s Creek Primitive Baptist Association at Sheridan a few days last week. Charles Passons and family of Chicago Heights, 111., are spending a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Passons. Mr. and Mrs. William Wasson of Union City came Monday evening to spend a few days here with their son Harrison and ilyMrs. Harry Thewlius of Three Fork, Mont*, left for her home yesterday after a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Jordan. Mrs. Everett Leech and mother, Mrs. Ross, of East Chicago, .are visiting here with Mrs. Alex Leech and family. Everett joined them here yesterday. Bert Laßoche has moved here from Kankakee and will have charge of the cigar factory which J. J. Weast is starting in the room occupied by him as a pool hall. ' ” Mr. and Mrs. Alva Simpson, who have been visiting his father at Sheridan for the past week, returned home Sunday. Mr. Simpson, Sr.-, is in very poor health. Henry Pruett of Sheldon, 111., returned home yesterday morning after a visit here with Mrs. Sarah Pruett. He stopped off at Iroquois to attend the Woodmen picnic .on his way home.

Wm. Fitzgerald of Kankakee tp., has sold to a Chicagoan the 100 acre farm known as the Oscar Graves farm south of Teqt, which he has owned but a few months, cleaning up about sl,000 on ths deal. John Wilkens, who lives on Frank Fisher’s farm in Hanging Grove tp., has been down with typhoid fever for the past week. He is apparently doing as well as can be expected. Dr. Clayton of Monon is attending him. F. X. Busche moved his goods from the Nowels tenant house, just south of the depot, yesterday morning and will store them and live with his father-in-law, W. H. Beam, until the return of Mrs. Beam from the west. Word comes from Las Vegas, New Mexico, of the marriage there on August 19 of Miss Katie Marlatt, daughter of Perry Marlatt of this city, who went west some three years ago for the benefit of her health, to Mr. Isaac Hooker of that city. The Democrat was a little premature in saying that Mrs. Cripps had moved her millinery store up town from Mrs. Shields’ residence She is preparing the rooms over the Trust & Savings bank this week and will move into them next week. The 12-year-old son of John F. Pettei of Walker tp., was kicked in the head by a horse Saturday and the frontal bone of the skull fractured- and a gash cut five inches long. The boy was unconscious for some time and was unable to explain how the accident happened when he regained his senses. Mrs. Gaylord Michael of south of town is a sister of the lad and she was summoned his bedside.

OFFICIAL COUPON ’ The Jasper County Democrat’s Great Piano Contest One $350.00 Piano to be given away : Good for 5 votes fori- • Street and No.! : Town . One Banner Upright-Grand Piano will be awarded to the person living in Jasper or adjacent counties receiving the greatest number of votes.