Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1911 — Page 3
Christmas I The holiday I Shopping trade is on F° r y°u who wish to make your selections early. Our Christmas Merchandise is ALL on display. EVERYTHING IS NEW Our low prices and well selected line enabled us to sell everything we had in the holliday line last season. ,We have the best selected and largest line of Toys and China in Jasper County. We have had many Christmas shoppers in the past 10 days. Any selection will be laid aside for you by making a deposit of one-third the.purchase. Buy Now — Save the Worry Jarrette’s Variety Store
LOCAL AND PERSONAL.
Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers.
Mrs. J. J. Weast was in Chicago Monday.
Thomas Hoyes spent Friday night at Lafayette.
J. W. Marlatt was a Chicago business goer Friday.
Today’s markets: Corn, 5 4 c; Oats, 44c; Wheat, 86c.
Jerry Garland went to Monon Saturday for a short visit.
C. P. Moody went to Lafayette Friday on business.
Mrs. Emma York spent Sunday with friends at Monon.
George Platt spent Sunday at ternoon with friends at Cedar Lake.
Robert Wartena and F. E. Cox spent Sunday with friends at Monon.
Frank Haskell was in Lafayette and Otterbein jon business Monday. , ' ' *
For Rent—A farm well located. Call quick.—S. H. Moore, Rensselaer, Ind.
Dr. I. M. Washburn made a professional trip to Rose Lawn Sunday afternoon.
y 2 price Millinery season-end sale beginning Monday, Nov. 20. —Rowles & Parker.
Mrs. Eva Hopkins went to Crawfordsville Saturday to visit hes brother Ray a few days.
Guy Ropp returned Saturday from Dwight, 111., where he had been working the past month.
Nathan Eldridge and wife of Barkley tp., went to Monon Saturday to visit relatives a few days. ,
Mrs. Anson ,Cox and little daughter went to Chicago Monday to attend the funeral of a relative.
Miss Emma Phillips and Claud Hess Of Momence spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs. Earl Ellis, and husband.
Richard Foulks and wife of McCoysburg (have moved to Wheatfield, where they have a daughter living, 7
Mrs. A. J. Laws of Crown Point came Saturday to make a short visit with Mrs. H. W. Kiplinger and family. -■ ■ ■ - 'r~Philip Kerns’ little daughter is suffering from a very severe cold on the lungs, which threatens to develop into pneumonia. Mr. and Mrs. Fred Greve of Wibeatfield, after a short visit with the family of his sister, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Tilton, returned home Monday. « You will be sure to want a new hat at the prices, or if you already have one you’ll want another. Rowdes & Parker j4-price Millinery /sale Fegins Monday, Nov. 20.
F. B. Ham was in Lafayette yesterday.
Marion Robinson went to Lafayette on business Saturday.
£ranville Moody made a business trip to Lafayette Monday.
Rev. Morrow of Morocco w r as a business visitor in the city Mon day.
Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth returned Saturday from a Chicago visit.
Mrs. Mary E. Travis and Mrs. Tames Maloy spent Saturdaj* in Chicago.
Thompson Ross of Chicago spent Sunday with relatives and friends here.
Miss Nettie and Lonnie Davisson of north of town spent Saturday iri“ Monon.
A son was born Monday afternoon to Mr. and Mrs, John Zimmer of Newton tp.
Miss Cinda Maekienburg attended the funeral of Mrs. Thena Wagner at Chicago, Monday.
Remember The Democrat gives piano certificates with orders for sale bills and all job work.
Oscar Phegley of Monticello came over Monday for a short visit with relatives, returning home yesterday.
The Democrat’s piano contest closes Dec. 23, and it behooves the friends of each candidate to put in their best licks during the few- remaining weeks of the contest.
Conrad, Joe, Lawrence and Philip Kellner and mother, Mrs. John Kellner, returned Monday from Chicago from attending the funeral Of their neice, Mrs. Christena Wagner.
sj. M. McGinnis writes from Westville in renewing his subscription and says they enjoy the semi-weeicly visiit s of The Democrat and hearing about old friends and neighbors;
Mr. and Mrs. Sylvester Galbraith, who have been employed on a dredge near Port Huron, Mich., returned to Rensselaer Saturday and wijl remain here for the winter.
Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Garriott and baby returned to Hammond Saturday after a month's visit here with her mother,- Mrs. Alexander Leech and family, and other relatives in this vicinity.
Lack of employment in the Calumet regiqm is causing many saloons to close their doors and quit business. The Hammond Times says that five saloons have recently quit there for lack of trade, and as many more will have to quit by Dec. 1. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hopkins, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Long, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Hardman, Miss Edith Shedd, and G. L. ThornTon of SurYey spent yesterday in Chicago at the land show. Mr. and Mrs. Long also visited theif son George, who is attending a pharmacy school there.
One week from tomorrow is Thanksgiving day. J. \Y. Poole of Swanington was a business visitor at her farm north of town Sunday. James W. McEwan is said to be improving from his sickness from bladder and kidney trouble.
Dr. Rose M. Remmek returned home Sunday from a week's visit with her parents at Indianapolis.
Joe Jareds of south of town went to Chicago yesterday to spend a couple of days visiting friends. ‘ -
Wm. Daniels, who has been in poor health tor a long time, has been feeling very poorly the last few days.
The Rensselaer-Sheridan high school football game here Saturday resulted in a score of 9 to 0 in favor of Rensselaer.
Mrs. E. P. Honan accompanied her son Edward to Peru, 111., yesterday to enter him in a Catholic school at that place.
Mrs. John Critzer, who has been suffering with consumption for some time, is reported as being in a critical condition.
Mrs. Otis Brow r n returned to her home in Brookston yesterday after a visit here wdth her sister, Mrs. Harve Miller and husband.
Dr. Honan left yesterday for his home in Augusta, Ga„ after a few days visit with his brother, E. P. Honan and wife. Mrs. Honan remained for a few days longer visit.
The Babcock & Hopkins . elevator is expected to be in operation this morning, that is, they will begin handling grain for the first time in their new elevator.
Fred Schreiner, who recently moved here from Sheridan, 111., is building a large new barn for M : ke Jungles of Walker tp. It is to be 50x70 and 24 foot studding. 1
Rev. Baech, a former minister here, but now located at Delphi, passed through here yesterday on his way tb a Chicago hospital where he will undergo an operation. #
Charles Simpson, C. B. Steward. Lem Huston. Fred McCollv and Wm. Simons went to Indianapolis yesterday to attend the I. O. .O. F. grand lodge meeting.
Mr. and Mrs. Jacob R. Wilcox are expecting to leave in about ten days for a visit with his brother. Geo. M. Wilcox, at Eugene, Ore., and A. L. Branch and family at Oakland, Cali.
The Foresters’ Band met Sunday and elected Ed. Robinson as manager; Jerry Healy, secretary; and John Eiglesbach treasurer. At their entertainment last Wednesday evening about SSO was taken in.
The High Warming Closet on the Faultless Malleable Range is provided with Gravity Drop Door Handles and the Door need not be lifted up to close it as on other Malleable Ranges.—Sold by C. W. Eger. J
Leo Reeves, who has been laid up the past several weeks with a very severe attack of stomach trouble, returned to his as clerk in the Eger grocery Monday. He doesn’t lc>ok very stout yet. but is improving right along.
D. W. Mauck of near Mt. Ayr was. in the city Saturday getting a set; of those good sale bills at The Democrat office. He has rented his ftffm to his son-in-law. Walter Kelly, and will move to Mt. Ayr and take things easy.
Fowler Leader: John J. Garrity of Chicago was in Fowler this week visiting his old father and mother. And at the end of it, took them both with him to spend the winter with him in Chicago. They aae not so young as they were, and at times the care of themselves is a burden. It is a kindly act.
Fendig’s poultry house has been one of the busy places in town for the past ten days, and up to yesterday noon he had shipped out 38,000 pounds of dressed turkeys. The prices paid for these w 7 as 14 cents per pound, live weight, but yesterday the price had dropped to 13 cents. N. S. Bates has been helping Mr. Fendig during the rush.
Uncle Lewis Davisson celebrated his 85th birthday anniversary yesterday at his home on Weston street, with a big family reunion. Clarence Smith and Walter English, accompanied by three of their Purdue student friends spent a short time here Sunday evening visiting their parents, returning to Lafayette that evening in the W. F. Smith car, which Clarence will use there a few da vs.
Miss Elizabeth Leurs returned from Chicago Monday, being called there Sunday by the death of a*friend, Mrs. Christena Hildebrand 'Vagner. Miss Luers was one of the pall-bearers. Mrs. \\ agner's age was 2’ years, and she had been a member of St. Magdaline’s Court, W. C. O. F., of Rensselaer for six years and carried SI,OOO insurance in same.
Be sure to ask for the free piano certificates with your cash purchases at the stores handling them, a list of which appears elsewhere. These certificates cost you nothing, and by saving them for your favorite candidate you may be the means of her winning The Democrat’s fine $350 piano, now ,on exhibition in Worland’s furniture store.
H. B. Avis, who moved from south of town to Lawrence county last spring, has returned to Rensselaer and will take up his residence here, while looking for a farm to rent. His move was an expensive one to him, he states, as conditions in Lawrence county were not as expected, and he is out his summer’s work and S3OO by the move.
Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Gifford of Kankakee, 111., have taken up their residence in Rensselaer, at the Makeever House, and he announces that he will soon have a gang of men engaged in building the grade for the southern extension of his railroad on to Wolcott and thence tp Lafayette. Mr. Gifford is a very old man and is in his dotage. If the road ever reaches Wolcott it will probably have to be built by other parties.
The bans of marriage were published at St. Augustine’s Catholic church Sunday for Mr. John Frederick Jones of Cambridge, Ohio, and Miss Alice Drake, daughter of Mrs. Mary E. Drake of south of town. The marriage will take place at 9 a. m., Nov. 30, at the church. Mr. Jones is a draughtsman, and they will reside .at Cambridge. Miss Drake is a very popular young lady and has a host of friends in and about Rensselaer.
George Cox of Rensselaer has been granted a patent on a portable bath cabinet which he invented some months ago, one of which he has on exhibition in Cain’s barber shop. The cabinet is a light frame work covered with oil cloth, and when not in use can be quickly taken down and folded into a small space. If George can interest some company in manufacturing and pushing the sale of the cabinet he will probably do quite well with it.
Obituary of Mrs. J. A. Larsh. The funeral of Mrs. Maud Leah Larsh was held in the Christian church on Sunday afternoon at 2:30 and was very largely attended. Mrs. Larsh was the wife of Joseph A. Larsh. She was born in Jamestown, Ind., August 25, 1875. and was married to Mr. Larsh on Feb. 17, 1901, in Frankfort. f and had since resided in Rensselaer. She united with the church in Frankfort when only 13 years old and was active in church affairs until impaired health confined her to her home. Mrs. Larsh was one of those genial spirits who always created an atmosphere of hopefulness* Even up to the very hour of her death there was sounded by her a note of hope. She was always thoughtful and considerate of others. Her heart was in her work, and her work was in tter heart, especially when she was on a mission of mercy. She was not oflly active in the realm of I benevolence, but she also filled a prominent place in the social world. The one spot in which her life shed its brightest rays was in her home and it’s there the darkest hours will be experienced because of her absence. She leaves behind to mourn her loss her husband, Jos. A. Larsh; Jack, her son, aged 8; Doris, her daughter, aged 7, her mother and father, Mr. and Mrs.
*\l guard the coal bin .when The Faultless Malleable Iron Range is on duty in the kitchen ,v I f M m FOOD BILL ttjUCAN remjCw the mm Malleable Iron Range i. ■ Ii• *1 §*- SBaTT _ _ *V3 I - I HI fIMOICjm *1 Has Fuel Saving Features Found in No Other Range Agency in most large towns. Write to Faultless Stove Works, St Charles, 111., lor free magazine “ Range Reasons ” no. xan-n-** C. W. Eger, District Agency Rensselaer, Indiana
Mark Barnes of Frankfort, Ind.; her brother, Geo. Otis Barnes, of San Francisco, Cali., and a great host of loving friends. i Card of Thanks^ Being unable to thank*each one personally for the loving service and expressions of sympathy so generously given during the trials through which we have just passed, we take this means of giving expression to our appreciation. We thank you.—The Larsh F amily. Ready for delivery off our fioor, 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 ** r s. too. Step in and let us show yor how to save money.—-Maxwell.
OFFICIAL COUPON The Jasper County Democrat's Great |Piano Contest One $350.00 Piano]to f be given away / .■ *• . • •. •. r .' ; V.:;.Ji.. ' . j , Good for 5 votes for 1 V - ' ‘ ■ V' i . V . .7street and No. Town 0 One Banner Uprifht Grand Piano will be awarded to the person living in Jasper or adjacent coon ties receiving tbe freateat number of votes. •
Public Sales. The Democrat has printed bills f for the following public sales: Wednesday, Nov. 22, Clyde Davisson, 10 miles north of Rensselaer, on the Harvey Davisson farm. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs, corn, hay, farm tools, household goods, etc. Wednesday, Dec. 6, D. W. Mauck, 3 miles north and 1 mile ea 8 t of Mt. Ayr. General sale of horses, cattle, hogs and farm implements. If .Yon Are A -Trifle Sensitive About the size of your shoes, It’s some satisfaction to know that many people can wear shoes a size smaller by shaking Alien’s FooiEase Into them. Just the thing for Patent Leather Shoes. Sold Everywhere, 25c. Sample FTtEE. Address, Allen S. Olmsted, Le Roy, N, Y. n!5 3t