Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 62, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 November 1911 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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.