Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 59, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1911 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]
FREE! On Nov. 11, at 3;30 o’clock, we will give away, free of charge, a SSO Porcelain Enameled Bathtub For each 50 cents paid for merchandise, or on account, we will give you a number. Party holding number drawn on above date will receive Bathtub, if at store when drawing takes place —lt is imperative that you be there with Numbers E. 0. RHOADES & SON
Mrs. A. J. Bellows, Mrs. S. R. Nicholas and Mrs. Kate Watson went to Lafayette Wednesday to attend the state Presbyterian missionary society meeting. Ted Ramey, the 8-year-old son of Mrs. Al Ramey, while scuffling with Guy Albertson Thursday evening, was thrown and received a fracture of the left arm below the elbow. Mrs. Mary Heck and Mrs. Thomas Beagle and little daughter and little daughter of Burnettes Creek, Ind., came yesterday to spend a few days with O. S. Baker and family. Miss lola Garrison of Wellington, Kan., who has been visiting here with relatives for the past week, w r ent to Edinburg yesterday where she will spend a few days visiting „her mother and other relatives before returning home. Dr. E. C. English, accompanied Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jenkins and little daughter to Chicago yesterday where the little girl will be examined by a specialist for spinal trouble with whch she has been suffering for some time.
The roof on the main building of the match factory is well under way, the storage house roof is already completed and tfte installation of the machinery has begun. The work of covering the blocks and making the structure appear as if made of solid masonry has been going on for the past few days, and certainly adds greatly to the appearance of the building. The postal savings banks in most places don’t seem to be doing much, and particularly places where one would think business would be best. In Hammond, for instances, the first two days but $9 was deposited. In Rensselaer, with one-tenth the population of Hammond, the deposits the first day (unofficial) were sll4, and now reach almost sl,000. And it has been established here but six weeks, too. The late James Matheson, until some six or seven years ago, carrietl $3,000 insurance in the Modern Woodmen order, and had been a member of that order for many years. He cancelled $2,000 of this insurance after the death of his first wife, and carried but SI,OOO at the time of his death. Had he carried the other $2,000 on it would have cost him less than $l5O for the time he lived after cancelling same.
OFFICIAL COUPON The Jasper County Democrat’s Great (Piano Contest One $350.00 Piano to be given away Good for 5 votes for Street and No Town . —.— One Banner Upright Grand Piano will be awarded to the ptraen living in Jasper or adjacent counties receiving the greatest number of votes,,
