Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1912 — Page 3

BIG CHANCE : ''j . • ; Tomatoes lOc a Can All know the reputation of the Home Grocery for high class canned goods. And just now no article ip cans are in such a de-'i as tomatoes. Hence as a stimulator we offer a 12 l-2c tomato, as a leader, this week at only 10c a can. Home Grocery Phone 41. § O

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. z~ Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Try The Democrat want ads for Results. Today’s markets: Corn, 65c; Oats, 51c. C. E. Prior was a Lafayette business goer Friday. 1 * :• George Ketchum and wife went to Chicago Saturday. Harvey Messman was in Chicago on business Saturday. Hey. A. G. Work of Lafayette Was in the city Saturday. Mrs. W. R. Meguire went to Chicago Saturday on a visit. This week the city schools are closed for the spring vacation. Malcom Clark of Wheatfleld spent the week-end with friends here, v „ u Mrs. George Landis of Mont'icello is visiting with Mel Abbott and family.

Mrs. J. B. Martindale and little daughter are visiting relatives at Terre Haute. Mrs. C. E. Richardson of Chicago came last week for a visit with felativea here. John and Harry Eger were in Edinburg Monday looking after their farm near there. A dance was given Monday evening at the home of Mi's. Ora T. Ross on River street. Deles Thompson and a party of friends were duck hunting on the Kankakee marsh Monday. Mrs. Frank Stafford of Bluffton is visiting here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. K. Davis. Mrs. Claude Kruzan and babe left Saturday morning for Decatur, 111., for a week or ten days visit With her parents.

Almost everyone who owned an automobile was .cut Sunday taking advantage of the splendid weather, and the good roads. 1 Mrs. Simon Leopold returned home Thursday from Peoria, 111., where she was recently called by the death of her sister. Galbraith of Elmhurst, 111., came Friday evening for a couple days visit with relatives. Ira still holds a job of telegraiihbr Sam Sparling expects to rriake an extensive southern prospecting trip, after his sale next week, and among other places will visit Winifred Pullins In Mississippi,

Keith O’Connor, who has a job firing on the Monon railway’s Indianapolis division, came over from Remington Sunday evening to go to Monon "to resume work. The saloons at Goodland closed their doors to business Monday evening for the last time, having been put out of business by a remonstrance circulated there a few weeks ago, it is reported. f ■ The long hard winter, with farmers generally a little short on ooarse fodder, has too exhausted the supply of rough feed, it is said, in numerous instances farmers are feeding corn alone. , f . ,

H. R. Kurrie was down from Chicago bn business Saturday. Fred Harris of Springfield, O'., is spending a few days with Ms cousin, James Willis. Mrs. E. X. Loy. and son Robert are spending the week with relatives at Piqua, Ohio. Nicholas Krull, Jr., of Kentland is visiting with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Ramp. - - 1 Mrs. Clyde Comer returned to Winchester Saturday after a few days visit with relatives here. Joe Nagel, who has been sick for the past week with and rheumatism, is slowly improving.

Arthur Shedd was down from Chicago to spend Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Shedd. Miss La Vera Lee went to Bloomington Saturday where she- will attend Indiana. University this summer. Floyd Robinson went to Connors vi lie Monday to attend the funeral of his nephew, Neville Robinson. C. B. Brunsden of East Chicago jcined his wife here Sunday for a v s sit with his father-in-law, W. R. Shesler. A. Beasley, who is now located in the photograph business at Goodland, was in the city on business Monday. The 3-year-old son of' Mr. and Mrs. George Iliff, of south of town, is suffering from a severe case of pneumonia. Mrs. James Willis, who has been in poor health this winter, expects to undergo an operation to restore her health.. ■ : ' Mrs. Sarah Freelove of Goodland came Monday for a visit of a few weeks with her daughter, Mrs. F. E. Babcock.

Leo' Worland, Hugh Kirk and a few other young men are thinking quite seriously of purchasing motorcycles this spring. Henry Whitaker” formerly of Wheatfleld, bar landed the nomination for sheriff of Lake county on the republican ticket. Mr. and Mrs. E. E. Powell, who have been visiting relatives at Jamestown the part several days, have returned .home. Rev. W. G. Winn and W. R. Brown went to‘ the district convention of the Christian church ■at Remington Friday. Mrs. George Reed and Dr. t. N. Loy were called to Chicago Sunday to be present at the final operation on Mr. Reed Monday. Charles O. Hiatt of Kalamazoo, Mich., was here last week visiting his daughter, Mrs. Vern Hopkins, who died Friday night. Mrs. W. F. Smith is spending several days with relatives in Chicago. Millard is spending the spring vacation week at Lafayette. W. S. Day was called to Kingman, Kan., by the serious illness of his son Frank, 'Who was recently operated on for appendicitis. Miss Hazel McColly of Chicago Heights, 111., who has been visiting relatives here the past several days, returned home Saturday.

I / Advertised letters: Ada Sullivan, Grace Myers, Harvey Livipgston, Wm. Manning. Mrs. E. H. Shields is visiting her daughter, Miss Katie, a teacher in the schools at Brook. , Mrs. Robert Graham of Bluffton, who has been spending the past week with -her sister, Mrs. Sam Scott, returned home Friday. y ■ Miss Alice Shedd came Saturday from Otterbein w'here she teaches in the public schools to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Shedd. . Frank White and wife of Lafayette, who have been visitng here a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Wil•Tiam Barkley, returned home Friday. ' . ..

Miss Lizzie Hemphill, who is teaching in the Anderson schools, spent the spring vacation here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Hemphill. Homer Hiatt of Wabash, Anna Ray and Rose' Wright of Sheridan were among those.from out of town present at the funeral of Mrs. Vern Hopkins. r S George Long, who is attending the Chicago College of Pharmacy, is here to spend the spring vacation with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Long. Lee A. Carson, who has been traveling for the J. B. Farwell Co, of Chicago, with headquarters at Enid, Okla.. is here for a visit with his parents. Mrs. Carrie D. Short was in Motion Monday looking after her farm near there, and from there she went to Medaryville for a visit of a few days. A imst card received from Louis Fendig at Jacksonville, Fla., by B. F. Fendig announced the arrival to Mr. and Mrs. Fendig of a daughter on March 28.

Pensions granted to Indianions in this vicinfty since our last issue: Rena Belle Sherman, Brookston, sl2; George Burs-on, Winamac, S2O; James E. Carney, Goodland, S3O. The Kanne Bros, autobus has been laid up a few days with a broken spring, being the second one they have broken in a few week's, owing to the crossings that the city sports. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Day of Indianapolis, who have been spending the past, week on a honeymoon trip, came from Chicago Saturday to visit with her aunt, Mrs. A. Simpton. Steward Moore has again got his Buick 10 car in running order, the water in 'the cylinders havihg frozen up and cracked the cylinders during the cold weather of the winter. “Fiddling Bob” Taylor of Tennessee is dead in Washington, following an operation for gallstones. Senator Taylor was 62 years of age. He had been in poor health for some time. Miss Tillie Malcho ( is still confined to her home with .rheumatism and Mrs. Ross Dean continues to teach in her stead in the city schools. Mi;s Malcho’s condition shows little If any improvement.

Harry Gilbert brought over a number of young fellows from Remington Sunday evening. He reported that the roads near the Hoover slough bridge were in an’ almost impassible condition, that is, for a touring car. Mxv and Mrs. Jacob Wilcox, who have been on an extended tour of the west the past two months, visiting A. L. Branch at Stockton, Cal., and with Relatives in various parts of the west, returned home Friday. Charles Grow has sold his sixroom cottage north of the railroad tb Sylvester Hutton, and it is reported that Mr. GroW will purchase property more centrally located. The consideration is understood to have been $1,250. The Domestic Science Club will meet in the Library auditorium Saturday afternoon. In answer to roll call members will give items in garden making. Among the subjects will be a. paper by Mrs. Marsh Warner on “Profits in Chicken Raising.” Thomas Callaghan, a veteran of the civil war and about 86 years of age, died Friday following an attack of quincy at the 'home of his sister, Mrs. Noah Stonebraker, at i. Wheatfleld, where he recently moved from Chicago Heights. Interment was made at Wheotfleld.

M 3». Charles Nuthall, instructor in music and drawing in the city schools, is spending the vacation week at her home in Detroit, Mich. • :J Mrs. Howard Mills and Miss Edythe Adams give a miscellaneous shown. next Monday evening in honor of Miss Lora Bruce, who is to be married the following Wednesday, to Mr. John Culp, the auctioneer. Miss Bruce has resigned her position i n the city schools, Leland Jessen, who has been working as a telegraph operator at Demining, Mexico, is spending a few days visiting here with his mother, Mrs. Jennie Jessen. He expects to secure a position near here for the summer and to return to the south for the winter, V h Fred Sipes, who travels around the world with a two-cyiinder Buick auto, on which he carries a complete show called the “Mysteries of the Eskimo,” is here and will soon start giving' performances. He had some bad luck nearing town, getting stuck in the mud and breaking the transmission shaft. Sunday was a very pleasant day, almost like a day in June. The sun shone gently and a soft zephyrous wind stirred lazily about the city in the 0 * morning, and people generally ’began to shed their coats. But Monday was an entirely different sort of a day, a nasty cold, damp rain falling most off the time, having changed Sunday afternoon to a rather low temperature, followed by the rain on Monday, R. M. Moore of Lebanon, Tenn., has been here for a couple of weeks on business and visiting his sister, Mrs. Joseph Yeoman. Mr. Moore sold his farm near Trafalgar last fall Pnd with his son and the latter s family went, to Tennessee where they may buy if pleased with the country after a year’s residence there, Mr. Moore says it was very rainy and wet there all winter and there was one fall of 2% inches of snow, and 1 the mercury got down to zero. Old rest-'

EASTER AND I r®P r ‘lnif.sianC!oihj!j AHlerso^jlm^ s^^g SSS^| Itass***® <& | QN SATURDAY, APRIL 6th, we inaugurate our Spring Opening exhibit and sale of ADLER’S COLLEGIAN CLOTHES, and we say to f you right here, that this, or any other store in Rensselaer has ever shown a more comprehensive line of Fashionable Clothes for Men and § Young Men than we have ready for your inspection. Here you’ll see I hundreds of beautiful patterns and colorings, in checks, stripes, plaids 1 and novelty effects, also ■ I serges of various shades of blue. In fact, our line is so «, A„ s&tf novel, and complete, you'll /r" open your eyes in bewilder- h i V ment. Every new model is 1 I here, including the two and ] if ' fiiiMjj I three-button sacks, English -k I semi-form fitting models, I and many others. IW" I Prices range from X ' I - sls to $25 Wsam ll I Come and Participate in I this Opening Celebration x _ The Quality Shop I C. Earl Duvall, Prop. I r 3. -

den,ts told him it was the severest winter they had had since ’64. Joseph B. Fagan, formerly of Mt. Ayr and Goodland, now superintendent of the Bedford schools, was elected president of the Southern Indiana Teachers' Association at their meeting in Indianapolis Friday. X. Osborn was down from Gillam to the convention Monday. He reports that his daughter, Mies Nellie Osborn, slipped on the ice a few days ago and has a badly sprained or broken ankle, it being so badly swollen that the doctor could not determine as yet whether it was broken or not. Miss Nellie's! many friends among The Democrat; readers will be very sorry to learn of her misfortune. By a vote of 46 to 21 the Slier-; wood pension bill that had success-' fully passed the house, was rejected by the senate Friday night and the Smoot general age and service! pension bill was adopted by a vote cl c>6 to 6. It is estimated' that the latter bill would add about. !■ 20,000,000 annually during the next live years to the pension expense of the country. The bill must now be concurred in by the house before it can become a law. ' -L- ' ' . Word was received here by u. K. Fen,dig a few days ago stating that his brother, Albert's house ; i Brun.-wick, Ga,, had been com-: plWely destroyed by fire, supposedly started from an electric iron, which bad been left sitting on a table, and when the laundress retired after the rest of the family, she forgot to turn ofT the “juice.’’ The iron set fire to the table and the house was soon enveloped in flames. Mr. Fendig and family narrowly escaped from the burning structure. They are now living at a Brunswick hotel. Ice was. reported three feet thick last week at Cedar Lake, and there is a record of early times of people hauling large load§ of wood across the lake as late as April 10th, which shows this is not the

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latest, spring ever known, although it might have been the longest and coldest winter. At this time the ground ig frozen three feet down and while the snow has disappeared in spots there are still batiks two feet high and it freezes hard every night. The winter will reach into April and the spring plowing and planting will necessarily commence a month later than la- 1, year.—■ Crown Point Star. '

Faster Apron Sale and Market. The ladies of the Methodist church will have their annual apron sale and market" Friday and Saturday, April 5 and 6, In the former Williams furniture store building adjoining the Roth meat market. Sunbonnets, useful and fancy aprons, laundry articles, fancy towels and sun hats on sale. Lunch will be served on Saturday. Sale opens each day at 10 a. m. a 6 Job printing of the better class type, ink and typography in harmony- — The Democrat