Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1911 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Ask to see our celebrated Rochester dress shoes for ladies, at Rowles & Parker’s. Tomorrow the old soldiers’ state wide reunion will be. held at the Soldiers’ Home at Lafayette. • Rev. Winn, wife and two daughters, arrived here Saturday afternoon. He is the new pastor of the Christian church. Mrs. Charles Champion and two daughters of Chicago are visiting with' the former’s mother, Mrs. Philip McElfresh, here. Monday being Labor day no local freights were run over the Mo'non road, but an extra freight trom each way took the place of same. Mrs. Bruce, Banta and children of Valparaiso, who have be6n visiting here with James Overton and family, returned home Saturday.

The Domestic Science Club will meet Saturday afternoon at the library auditorium. Subject: “A Week’s Work at the Farm, and Round Table talk.” John Murfitt and granddaughter, Miss Leone Bowman, went to their home at Orland, 111., Saturday after a vsiit with his son John near Mt. Ayr. Mrs. Mathew Nessius and little child returned home Monday afternoon from a two weeks visit with relatives and friends in Chicago and Hammond. Charles Harmon returned to Greencastle Monday after spending a short time here with hisi wife, who is visitng with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Brown.

Miss Ella Welsh left Saturday for Bakersville, Cal., where she will teach this year. She spent the summer here with her brothers Ben and Lewis Welsh, and sister, Miss Agnes Welsh. Lem Hammerton takes the place of Charles Mann, who was a mail clerk on the Monon, but who has been transferred to the Big Four road at Cincinnati. He started on the run Monday on M.ionon train No. 37. ‘ About thirty neighbors and friends of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Frye gathered at their residence Saturday evening to remind the latter that it was her 42d birthday anniversary A very pleasant evening was spent. The condition of the infant son of Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Sands is still quite critical with chances for his recovery discouraging, he being unconscious most of the time since he was taken sick, a few days ago with cholera infantum. Omar Osborne who has been for the past few years been employed in an engine works at Schenectady, N. Y., is spending a few weeks with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Osborne and family, this being his first visit here for three years. • Mrs. Martha Brookshire, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. J. W. Smith*, and husband, went to Rossville Saturday where the former will spend the coming winter with another daughter. Mrs. Brookshire is an invalid and about 85 years of age. I see by the Mt. Ayr Pilot that property values are advancing in Roselawn and Thayer and vicinity by reason of the construction of the Purtelle railroad, I have a house and two lots in Roselawn for sale, and now is an opportunity for someone to get in before the. advance. —J. T. Huston, RenSselaer, Ind. The county council met yesterday and will be in session at least today yet to pass on the estimates for county expenditures for the next calendar year to make the 1911 tax hevy. Councilmna John Martindale, who has been in very poor health all summer was on hand to attend the meeting and is looking quite strong once more. Mrs. W. W; Merrill and daughter Ina and son-in-law, R. M. Bennett, of Chicago aird he~ brother, S. B. Woods, of Crown Point, came Sunday to settle ut> the affairs of her late husband and to get things in shape for moving. Joe Jackson has the house occupied by the Merrills already rented and* will soon occupy same. w. , '