Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1912 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

John O’Conmbr was down from Kniman on business Tuesday.

Harry Brown of Wheatfield was a business visitor in the city Wednesday.

Mrs. Wm. Warren of Tefft was here on business and visiting her sister, Mrs. Bruce White, a few days

Mr. and Mrs. J. A. Riggs and two children of Edinburg, Ind., are visiting here this week with her sister, Mrs. A. W. Sawin and family.

If want to buy a good horse, go to the Wm. Markin sale, 5 miles north of town, next Monday. See list of property in another column.

Roy Stevenson of South Norfolk, No. Dak., who had been visiting his mothter, Mrs. C. E. Stevenson, here for some days, left Thursday for South Norfolk.

Former republican state chairmanman Lee has opened Roosevelt headquarters in Indianapolis and an effort will be made to secure a part of the Indiana delegation for Roosevelt to the national convention.

Ben Smith expects to move into his fine new cement bldck house, north of the new depot the first of the week. Ben has a modern and commodious home, with hot water heating system and everything complete.

While thawing out a frozen water pipe the first of the week with boiling water from a teakettle, Mr. L. Strong spilled some of the hot water on one of his limbs, making quite a severe burn, but not sufficient to lay him up.

C. H. Merrill a pioneer citizen of Hammond and a brother of the late Dr. W. W. Merrill of Rensselaer, died suddenly at his home in Hammond Monday night from heart gdsease. His age was 60 years. A wife and four sons survive him.

Ed Randle, on the J. A. farm east of town, is preparing to move back to his own property in Rensselaer,’ now occupied by Frank Morrow, and Newton Hendrix and Elmer Pumphrey will go on the farm he vacates. Mr. Morrow has secured no place to move at this writing.

Mr. and Mrs. Atphonsus Kanne, the “newlyweds,” took the 10:05 train Thursday for Campus, 111., where they will spend their honeymoon with his brother and other relatives. They were accompanied as far as Chicago by his sister and brother, Miss Charlotte and Ed Kanne, who spent the day in the city.

Mrs. George Reed, who has been at the bedside of her husband since his removal to a Chicago hospital, returned home Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Reed.* reports Mr. Reed as getting a/long as wefll as could be expected, but that he will have to undergo another operation before he will be able to return home, for the removal of about three inches of the bone of the leg amputated.

Dr. F. H. Hemphill, accompanied by Peter Van Leer, the Front street contractor, went to Chicago Thursday where the Hatter entered a hospital to take treatment for a few week® for stomach trouble, with which he has been suffering for some time, and gradually growing yery weak, so that the hospital treatment was deemed necessary. It is not thought that an operation will be needed. The Michigan City News denies the published statement of Lake Michigan being entirely frozen over. It says “Old Mlich.” is never still long enough to freeze over, -and has never known to be so. The ice freezes in places and drifts in piles along shore, stretching. out| into the lake for a long distance and in places the piled up ice be-! ing twenty feet thick, but such a thing as the lake freezing entirely over “from shore to shore” has never occurred' so far as known. Rev. J. C. Parrett was In Chicago Monday and _ called at the hospitals and saw George Reed, George Ketchum and Mrs. Zimmerman, who are taking treatment there from this place. Reed is getting along nicely and in a few] days the surgeons will cut off three inches more of the bone of his leg and close up the wound. It will probably be about two weeks after this is done before he can come home. George Ketchum, who is suffering from a blood trouble, ior the lack of certain corpuscles of *H'he blood, is doing very well also, as is Mrs. Zimmerman, who is having her eyes treated.