Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 93, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 March 1912 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

William Fitzgerald of Kankakee tp., was a business visitor in the city yesterday. Frank Kelley, who has charge of the match factory, went to Elkhart on business yesterday. An improvement is noted in the condition of Mrs. Robert Yeoman, who has been suffering with a case of shingles, an old-fashioned eruptive disease, which, when the eruptions encircle the body, is supposed to result fatally. . . - .. The chicken-pie supper given at the Christian church Wednesday evening by Mesdames P. W. Clarke and W. G. Winn’s classes, was a great success, about $45 being cleared. The money will be used to make a payment on a new carpet for the church. ■, We are still having some cool weather, and every night since Sunday night the mercury has got down to within 10 to 15 degrees of zero, and it dbesn’t warm up much during the day. March came in bright and sunshiny yesterday, and i L |g4 oe sn’t play its usual pranks the frost may get Out of the ground by April 1. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Duvall, returned Wednesday from Grand Rapids, Mich., where they were called a few days ago by the death of his sister, Mrs, W. H. Cornell, who died very suddenly Saturday morning from neuralgia of the heart.. Mrs. Cornell has a large number of friends her who will remember her as Miss Jennie. Duvall. She leaves a husband and two children. The funeral was held in Grand Rapids Monday.

The -Chicago Record-Herald of Wednesday contained a picture of the headquarters of the big Nelson Morris ranch near Sierra Blanca, Mex., together with a picture of Winifred Pfence, and some cowboys, who beat off a crowd of Mexican bandits, who had made demands on the foreman for supplies and were refused. Mr. Pence is well known in Jasper county where he used to reside and had charge of the Nelson Morris ranch near Demotte. Word has been received here of the death of a former resident of Jasper county, Rev. Peter Hines, at Little Rock, Ark., on Feb. 13 from pneumonia. Rev. Hines used to reside in Milroy tp., this county, coming from Shelby county here and buying the former Cleveland farm, which he later sold and moved to Jennings county, later going to Kansas. He leaves a wife and one grown son. He was a brother-in-law of Mrs. James Jordan of this city. * At the regular annual election of officers of the D. A. R., held at the residence of Mrs. HowaTd Mills Monday, the following officers were chosen: Regent, Mrs. J. L. Brady; V. Regent, Mrs. H. J. Kannal; Recording Secretary, Miss Maude Daugherty; Corresponding Secretary, Miss Edith Shedd; Treas., Mrs. G. E. Murray; Registrar, Mrs. Howard Mills; Historian, Mrs. Ed Parkison; Program Committee, rMs. H. L. Mills, Mts. S. S. Shedd and Mrs. A. R. Hopkins ~ :gl

A half-dozen Roosevelt boomers, including Nelson J. Bozarth, of Valparaiso; R. K. Bedgood, C. A. Murk-; hoff, W. A. Roberts and Charles Henderson of F. J. Doudican of Indianapolis, and E. O. Fifer of Elkhart, landed in town Wednesday to attend a big meeting for the cowboy candidate, they stated, but no one here had heard anything of the meeting ahd,jione was held. There, are severat Roosevelt admirers here, including County Recorder Tilton, W. H. Parkison and others. The county convention of the Royal Neighbor? will, be held in Rensselaer in Woodman Hall, Wednesday afternoon, Mared! 6, and alio in the evening. Mr. Volz, state organizer for the M. W. A., and his wife, Supreme Auditor of the Royal Neighbors of , Indianapolis, wili be present both afternoon and evening. The evening session will be phbllc to anyone wishing to attend. Woodmen and their . wive? are especially invited, and a large attendance is desired. John F. McHugh, a prominent Lafayette attorney and one of the two democrats who ever represented Tippecanoe county in the legislature, died at his home in Lafayette Wednesday evening of gangreneous blood poisoning, aged 55 years. While visitng in his old home in Ohio during the holidays he became sick and after he. came home gangrene developed in one of his fee*. Three of his tees were amputated in an effort to save his life, but without avail. He leaves a widow, 'a, * hir second wife, to whom he was married six years ago.