Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 May 1912 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. E. Purcupile is spending a few days with her son John at Lafayette. Alva Simpson sustained a fractured wrist while cranking an automobile Friday. f W. J. Wright went to Chicago on business Monday. Literature about the Abbott-De-troit auto at B. Forsythe's residence or at the garage. James Flynn spent Sunday with his daughter, Mrs. H. V. Weaver, and family at Lowell. Leonard Elder was up from Franklin college to spend Sunday with his father, David Elder and family, - ■ '■ Mrs. Mary Jane Hopkins went to Monticello yesterday to visit her soai Homer and family a few days. Mrs. A. H. Hop kies and children returned Monday from a visit with her father, John Ellis, at MOnticello. M ss Flora Harris is spending, the week at Brook, Chicago and Carpentersville with relatives and friends. Miss Bessie Seegar returned to her home in Marion Sunday after a short visit here with L. H. Hamilton and family. A few good second-hand sewing machines at the Singer office. Will sell cheap, cash or time. —R. P. BENJAMIN, Agent. ts

Ed Randle and son Walter and John and George Parkison and Granville Moody attended the cattle feeders convention at Purdue Saturday. Miss Nell Biggs came down from Chicago and spent Sunday here with her parents, A. J. Biggs and wife. She is taking a trained nurse course in Chicago, Elmer Gwi,n is drilling what is perhaps the largest farm well in Jasper county, out at A. O. Moore’s in Barkley tp., for a stock well. It is 6 % inches in diameter. W. Hurley Beam came down from Chicago Saturday to spend Sunday with his wife, and to visit his parents. Hurley stated that they expected to begin housekeeping in the city this fall. M. L. Sterrett and wife of Wheatfield were in the city Saturday visiting old friends. Mr. Sterrett was a teacher in the grades here a few years ago and is now principal of the Wheatfield schools. George Hemphill, who is employed in the tariff department of the Illinois Central railroad offices at Chicago, was here Sunday to spend the day with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Hemphill. Mrs. Ernest Clark arrived at Delphi last week from Colorado to be at the bedside of her mother, Mrs. Rafferty, who died at her home there Saturday. The funeral was held Monday, Mrs. E. L. Clark and Mrs. Leslie Clark going from here to attend the funeral. George Thornton of Canton, 111., was over Saturday to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Thornton of Surrey. He is preparing to move l r Streator, 111., where he will have charge of a grocery- store, having already given up his position as motorman on the Canton city railway. Sunday was a cold, rainy day, and at night, continuing most of Monday, a cold, heavy rain fell, •making the ground too wet to work for several days. Yesterday at 11 a. m., the mercury took at 50 in the shade, too cold for anything to grow except grass, which is~ doing very well.

In the race for the presidential line-up to date Taft has 383 delegates; Roosevelt 207; Cummins, 10'; LaFollette 36; uninstructed 38. On the democratic side Clark leads with 145; Wilson 106; Marshall 30; Harmon 8; uhinstructed 105. Yesterday delegates were selected in Massachusetts, both democratic and republican. There was a large number of people visited the cyclone district in Union Sunday and had the! weather been good it is likely several hundred morei within a radius of twenty-five or thirty miles would have come to view the ruins. We understand that a general subscription has been raised to meet the pressing needs of those who were the most seriously damaged by the storm.