Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1912 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. Moses Chupp is confined to the house with sickness. All piano coupons must be in by May 25.— The G. E. Murray Co. Mrs. Chas. Harmon returned to Terre Haute Wednesday after a few weeks here with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Brown. Mrs. N. C. Shafer, who recency underwent an operation at a Logansport hospital, returned home Wednesday seemingly greatly ben»fitted in health. Bob Wartena has secured a position with the Public Service Electric Co. of Peoria. 111., going there Wednesday to begin his duties in the contract department. Mrs. Harry Hardy of hear Ida-; ville was fatally injured Wednesday in a runaway in which she was thrown out and badly hurt that she died a few hours’ later."~~ Fred Berger of Carpenter tp., was over yesterday on business. He ha just traded his his 1911 Apperson auto for a 55-horse power 1912 model of the same make.

Miss Bertha Williams, daughter of Mrs. Joseph Williams of north of town, was taken to Chicago Wednesday' where she entered a hospital to undergo an operation. We have just unloaded 2 more cars of fancy northern grown Wisconsin potatoes. Early Rose, Kings, Rurals. or Burbank’s for seed or fancy table stock, at $1.50 a bushel. JOHN EGER. Friends "of Miss Starr Marshall, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George E. Marshall, of Medford, Ore., but who formerly resided here, have received cards announcing her marriage to Donald Lynge Colvig at Medford on May 8 last. They will reside in Medford. The dangerous steps in the I. O. O. F. building connecting the annex with the older building where uncle Robert Dowler got a bad fall a few days ago, have been replaced by an incline in the passageway. This is much safer than the steps, for now one could not very seriously fall there.

This has certainly been a bad week for farm work. Cold ana rainy, and the big rain of Saturday night and Sunday, Monday and Wednesday nights, made it too wet to do anything in the fields except where they were exceptionally well drained. Many fields that would have been sown to oats will now be put in corn, providing it dries off enough between now and the 4th ot July to plant. There is also much corn ground yet to be plowed.