Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1911 — Page 3

JJefertile MZcmekiieiLGOOD GRINDERS are not only essential for U9e but for appearance sake. If there is anything the matter with your teeth let us see to them. We can arrest decay and probably keep your teeth safe, sound and white. W T e are dependable dentists and have a reputation for doing excellent Dental work in all its branches. And ire have the additional recommendation of being inexpensive. J. W. HORTON DR. LEON H. SMITH Opposite Court House

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. E. VanArsdel was in Chicago on business Monday. Kentland will have a postal savings bank Nov. 23. Today’s markets: Corn, 52c; Oats, 42c; Wheat, 86c. High-top jockey boots in all sizes at Rowles & Parker’s. Benj. Welsh went to Chicago Saturday to visit his brother Jesse. .. Leon Lamson returned Sunday from a business trip to la. We sell the famous Grain King Scoop Board— Hamilton & Kellner. F. Mi Hershman of Walker tp., was a' business visitor in tihe city Friday. J. J. Montgomery and H. F. Parketr were in Monon on business Monday. Mrs. W. I. Hoover and Mrs. F. E. Babcock were Chicago visitors Monday. ■ ■ ~ " New prunes, dates, figs and seeded raisins are now in, at the Home Grocery. W. N. Jones has been confined to his home this week with stomach trouble. Four hundred incorporated towns in Indiana held, town elections yesterday. # Mrs. M. Meyer went to Danville, 111., Saturday to visit her son, Frank P. Meyer. Jerry Shea, Wm. Wesner and G. W. Faris of Gillam were <iow r n Frifiav on business.

Our ammonia-proof shoes only $2.50. the best barnyard shoe made. — Rowles & Parker. Mr and Mrs. Robert Sheets of Sterling, HI.. came Friday to visit relatives in Union tp. A barrel of the finest dill pickles vou ever saw has just arrived at the Home Grocery. 8 rolls good, toilet paper for a quarter. Sale continues all this week, at the Home Grocery. Weber. Columbus, Bettendorf and Buckeye Wagons, sold and warranted by Hamilton & Kellner. Mrs. Earl Wicks of Rochester, Ind-, came Friday to visit Tier parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bruner. Mrs. O. K. Rainier and daughter left Monday for Oshkosh, Wis., where they will visit for some time. Mrs. John Poole of Fowler was in the city Monday on business connected with her Jasper county farms. Miss Ruth Harris came Monday from her home in Redlands. Cali., to visit her uncle, R. B. Harris and family. Mrs." Amanda Morlaff left ✓Sunday for Bismark. No. Dak., where she will spend the winter with her daughter. Lost —Cover or top protector for automobile top, Wednesday on Remington-Rensselaer road. Finder return to Henry Grow, Rensselaer, phone 198. Reward.

■Diphtheria is epidemic at Morocco. ’ Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Rowles spent' yesterday in Chicago. ■ . It. Mrs. O. D. Heffner of Minneapolis, Minn., is visiting relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. George Reed of north of town spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Terwilliger, near Crawfordsville. Wanted —To rent a seven or eight room house, with cellar if possible.— John Halsema, foreman cement tile factory. Chris Kalberer of Lafayette, former owner of the cement tile factory here, was a business visitor in the city Monday. Miss Nell Meyers came home Sunday from DePauw to spend a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Meyers. George Long, who is attending school in Chicago, spent Sunday and Monday here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Long. If you are hard to fit in shoes or some particular style you wish, why you had better go to Rowles & Parker’s shoe department.

Tlie city schools will be closed Thursday and Friday of this week, while the teachers, following the regular custom, visit other schools. G. W. Biggs, who has been visiting here with A. J. Biggs and family the past few days, returned to his home in West Lebanon Monday. Stewarts Moore, Livingston Ross, Sherman Parks and Malcom Clark attended a dance at Shelby Saturday night, going in the former’s touring car. Our “White Star” flour only $1.35 a sack, every sack guaranteed. If you are having trouble making good bread, buy a sack of “White Star” flour.- — Rowles & Parker. Mrs. Carrie Lowman of south of town was taken to Wesley hospital, Chicago, Saturday to undergo an operation for gallstones, which will probably be performed today. County option is losing out over in Ohio, and in the recent elections in that state the dry verdict of twm years ago has been reversed in many counties by decisive majorities.

Our duck, corduroy, sheeplined and leather reversible coats are the kind that you need for cold or rainy days, all sizes, and our prices mean a saving to you.— Rowles & Parker. It is reported that the Rensselaer garage, besides occupying the building recently purchased of L. Hildebrand, will build a twenty foot addition to the building along the west side. The high school football team defeated Hammond here Saturday by a score of 9 to 6. The local high school w-ill play the Frankfort high school team at the latter place next Saturday. J. E. Carson, who has been suffering w r ith a lame back for the past week or two: started out on his route Monday, going from here to Monon where he will begin his work for the week. Overcoats —Russian Pony fur overcoats, one-piece coat, no seam in back, or side, light, not heavy to carry. Call in and examine these coats before buying elsewhere. Worden’s Harness Shop. Rev. P. H. Lew'is. colored, of the McKinney Polytechnic School of McKinney, Ky., preached at the Baptist and M. E. churches Sunday and Sunday evening, »respectively, and secured cash contributions of about SSO for the uplift of the negro.

Glasses flitted by DR, A G. CATT Optometrist Rensselaer, Indiana. Office over Long’s Drug Store. • Phone No. 232.

Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Thompson of Remington were Rensselaer visitors yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Oliver of Newland entertained several Rensselaer people at a big turkey dinner Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Culp went to Battle Ground Monday to attend the centennial celebration of the battle of Tippecanoe and visit his sister. >_ John Braddock, of the Maxwell garage, in attempting to start a fire with coal oil Saturday morning, w r as considerably burned about the face and head. Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Meyers, accompanied by Dr. E. N. I.oy, went to Chicago yesterday where Mrs. Meyers will consult a specialist with a view of undergoing an operation. Mrs. Charles Morlan gave a surprise party Friday evning in honor of her son Forest’s twen-ty-first birthday anniversary, to which about fifteen friends of the male gender were his guests. Elmore Barce of Fowler, attorney for John W. Poole, the alleged murderer, was in the city Monday. The Poole trial opens at Lafayette next Monday. Some witnesses have been subpoenaed from this county. Saturday, Nov. 4. to Mr. and Mrs. M. L. Sterrett of Wheatfield, a daughter. , Mr. Sterrett will be remembered here as a former teacher in the public schools a few years ago. He is now teaching in Wheatfield.

Mrs. A. Gangloff returned Monday evening from Chicago where she attended Sunday night a big banquet saengerfest at St. Paul’s hall. Covers were laid for one thousand people, and a splendid time was had. H. Wasson ? the busman, has rented the W. E. Moore tenant property on North Van Rensselaer street, vacated by Mrs. Mattie Grant. The former Horton property, now occupied by Mr. Wasson, was recently sold to Mike Kuboski. Mrs. Mell Abbott, who underwent an operation in a Chicago hospital , recently came home Monday afternoon, still quite weak hut with chances of speedy recovery. Mr. Abbott went to Chicago on the early train and accompanied her home. Mathias Zimmer was down from Gillam tp., Saturday. He has sold his 160 acre in section 34, in the southwest part of that towhship, to Guy Fahr of Kankakee, 111., for sllO per acre and will move to Kankakee. Possession is given March 1. The first issue of the Freeland Press under the management of F. H. Robertson, late of the Mt. Ayr Pilot, has reached us and is brim full of news and its advertising columns are well patronized by the merchants of the town. We wish the new proprietor success. The turkey buying for Thanksgiving commences on Nov. 10 and lasts until about the 20th for the eastern market. As the large markets this year claim there is a large crop, I cannot make a definite price. Call on me for prices before selling.— B. S, Fendig.

Mark Reed, who recently underwent an operation at Wesley hospital, Chicago, for stomach trouble, when seen Saturday evening by Dr. Kresler at the hospital, appeared to be getting along very nicely and said that he expected to return home today. Nat Scott and Ray Wood raised upwards of *65 in aid of June Hinkle and to help pay ’his funeral expenses. The first subscriptions were for the purpose of paying a nurse, but death came so soon that the funds will be used for other necessary expenses. -"*■■■

Mr. and Mrs. Clyde Reeve of Remington attended a reunion dinner at the home of the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Leavel- Sunday. All the Leavel children_were present except Mrs. Earl Sayler of “Fargo, No. Dak.- The latter’s husband however, was- here, he having accompanied his mother through from Nortlh ’ Dakota to Washington, 111., where she will spend the yvinter with her son Eugene Sayler of that city.

Mr. and Mrs. E. F. Snively left Saturday for their home in Omaha, Neb., atfer a brief visit with the latter’s sister, Mrs. Geo. W. Hopkins. Mrs. Hopkins accompanied them home for a brief visit. Arthur Bisonette, the Chicago policeman who is supposed to have been one of the poison victims of Mrs. Yermla of that city whose crimes are occupying so much space in the Chicago papers, was a nephew of Fred Bisonette of near Wolcott. The Monon station is expected to be moved to its new quarters the latter part of the present week,, providing the weather is fit so that the work can be kept going. The installing of the electric lights and the work of finishing the interior is now practically completed. The Rensselaer band boys, after the paying of other expenses of the late horse show here, were given SIOO for playing the four days. After they had paid their leader and an outside player employed, they had 62 cents per day for each of the other members of the band. Dr. F. H. Hemphill and Shelby Grant were among those from here who attended the centennial celebration at Battle Ground yesterday. Had the Monon provided a special train on this division, as it did on the Michigan City line, a large number of our people would have attended the exercises.

The weather this week started off almost identically the same as last week. Sunday was quite pleasant, as was the four days preceding, but rain started in Sunday night and kept falling all night long and most of the ’day Monday. Yesterday was bright and sunshiny again and the weather bureau promises colder weather to follow. Simon Fendig and family was down from Wheatfield Sunday to., attend the celebration of his mother’s, Mrs. Mary Fendig’s, 84th birthday anniversary, which her sons, B. S. and Simon had planned. A big dinner in which several other relatives participated, was a feature of the event. Mrs. Fendig is enjoying very good health for one of her age.

The Monticello horse show committee has published a list of all the contributors to their recent horse show, with the amounts each contributed, and an itemized statement of the expenditures. The total receipts were $403.25 and the expenditures $396.11, and it is said they had one of the very best shows ever pulled off in this section of the state. A surprise party was given at Parr in honor of Mrs. L. Schreeg's birthday anniversary. Those present were: Mrs. Leach, Mrs. Benbow, Mrs. L. Wood, Miss L. Eigelberger, Mrs. S. A. Brusnahan, Mrs. B. Shaefer, Mrs. J. Marion, Mrs. M. Gant, Mrs. B. McCurtain. All departed wishing her many happy returns of the day.— A Friend Present. W. C. Babcock was a Chicago business goer yesterday. Mr. Babcock stated that their elevator would be taking in grain by the latter part of next week or the fifst of the week following, when the elevator itself will be in operation. The wiring of the elevator will be begun in a short time and then there will be but little to do toward completing and getting the machinery ready for the handling of the grain. About twenty tickets were sold on the early morning train yesterday for Battle Ground, atid several took the 11:20 traiii! here. Among those who attended the centennial were: O. K. Rainier. Mr. Dowler, John Kresler, Mr. Wiseman, H. W. Jackson, Miss Edith Shedd, Mrs. Ora Ross, Harry Wiltshire, D. H. Yeoman, Lyman Zea, Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Wood, and several making the trip by automobile. Mrs. A. Gangloff visited her son John at the sanitarium at Rome City Thursday and Friday. She reports him to be steadily failing and that he has given up hop'e of ever getting well again. He has. run down greatly and now weighs but 135 pounds. The boy was ruptured some months ago and an abcess formed over the rupture. Poison from the abcess got all .through his system and now it is believed he can not recover.

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 • a —lt is imperative that yon be there with Numbers E. D. RHOADES & SON

Subscribe for The Democrat. Mrs. J. A. Larsh is now in quite a critical condition. Mrs. H. W. Jackson of north of 'town, who has been visiting a sick relative the past few days at Champaign, 111., returned home Monday. R. W. Burris has lately sold his 40 acres of land in Barkley tp., on whidh the improvements are located, to Wesley Price for $75’50 per acre. Mr. Burris will either buy in Jasper county again or locate in Missouri. The Monon local, No. 46, while switching here yesterday morning, spread a rail on the long siding east of the depot and derailed four freight cars, which, after several hours of hard work, were set on the track again. jUj » Ready for delivery off our floor, two of 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 “ars, too. Step in and let us show yor how to save money.—Maxwell.

Box Social. There will be a box social and reading contest at the Rosebud school in Union tp., on Saturday evening, Nov. 11. Come. Prizes will be given.— G. H. Hammerton, Teacher. Lecture Course Dates. Nov. 27—Parlette (Lecture). Jan. 23—John Eberly Co. (Concert). Feb. 5—H. V. Adams (Lecture). Feb. 26— Landon (Impersonator). March 22 —Beulah Buck Co. (Ladies Quaftet). A Great Clubbing Offer. The Democrat has just completed arrangements for clubbing the Cincinnati Weekly Enquirer with this paper at a lower rate than ever before offered—sl.7s for both papers. Send in or bring* in your subscriptions. The above rate applies to both old and new subscribers. Reduced Rate to Indianapolis. On account of the Grand Lodge I. O. O. F. of Indiana, at Indianapolis, the Monon Route will sell tickets at one and onehalf fare for the round trip. Tickets will be on sale Nov. 20 and 21, and will be good to return until Nov, 24, 1911. For further information call on Monon ticket agent.

OFFICIAL COUPON The Jasper County Democrat’s Great |Piano Contest One $350.00 Piano'to*be given away Good for 5 votes for .. ■ I' U ; . • \ II . • Street and No._ : '1 ". ‘ ... | . . ' ... _ ’ • Town : .v ! , ' } f i. ■ Oae Banner Upright Grand Piano will bn Jtwwdcd to the pcrnen living in Jasper or adjacent cons ties receiving the greatest nnnshcr mi votes.*

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