Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1912 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A. Frye made a business trip to Lafayette yesterday. Mrs. V. Nowels went to Chicago yesterday to visit relatives. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Proctor came from Chicago yesterday for a visit ( with Mr. and Mrs. Granville Moody of Barkley tp. 1 ' B. F. Fendig and Delos Thompson went to Chicago yesterday to set in at the final show-down of the republican convention. T Mrs. Conway, who had been visiting her sister, Mrs. Fred Waymire, and family, returned to her home in Valparaiso yesterday. H. W Kiplinger,, Landy Mageo and W F. Powers returned homo Thursday night from a -foui days l fishing trip near Buchanan. Mica. C. C. Brown of Stanley, No. Dak., who with hiS wife have been visiting here several weeks with his mother, Mrs. A. E. Brown, left Wednesday for home. Frank . „ Bruner returned home Wednesday from a few days visit with his wife at Kirklin, and with iriends at other points in the 1 southern portion of the state. Miss Mamie Tullis, a teacher in the Compton, 11l. v schools the past year, returned home Tuesday to spend the summer vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Tullis.

Mrs. Wm. Florence and baby of near Parr took the train here yesterday' tor Marian where they will spend a week with he.r parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Hayes, and other erlatives. W. J. Nowak, the popular professor of music at St. Joseph’s Col lege the past year, has been engaged for next year. He left Thursday for Manistee, Mich., his home, to spend the summer. Miss La Vera Lee returned home Tuesday from Bloomington for the summer vacation. All scholastic and social functions at the school were b.olen up Monday by the death of one of the most popular instructors. Prof. H. W. Johnson. Word was reeeived here the first of the week by H. C. Nevil of the birth of a son to Mr. and Mrs.j Kennedy, at their iiome in Win-: Chester. Mr. Kennedy was employed here a short time ago as a mechanic in the Rensselaer Garage J. H: Gray, a former principal es the Rensselaer high school, isi to be married today at Niles, Mid:',! to Miss Hoadley of that place. The bride is a former teacher in the Huntington schools, where Mr. Gray also taught after leaving Rensselaer. . . *** A H. Hopkins and G. F. Meyers were in Chicago the first of the week to attend the convention, but were unable to even get a look in. Mr. Hopkins and wife went to the city again yesterday and will visit a short time with relatives, and again make another attempt to see some P& the inside doings at the convention.

Ray Smith, who has been working as a teamster for Hiram Day for several months was' called to Chicago yesterday by a telegram informing him that his father had been struck in the eye by a flying spike and that there was no hope of saving the sight, so badly was the eye crushed and cut. The boy's father is a carpenter and contractor there. . i ' The Are department - was called out Thursday about 11 a. m., by a slight blaze at Louie Ramp’s, in the east part of town, resulting from a leak in the tank of a gaos line stove. Mrs. Ramp, however had thrown the tank out of the kitchen before the nre company reached the scene and except for a badly smoked ceiling no damage resulted. Mr. Farmer: Who wants mover and binder repairs. See C. A. Rob eris. 1 have a good stock on hand. I havp the McCormick agency. H you need a hayrake I have the McCormick self-dump, no better made; easy to operate; long-lived; can’t eat; all steel; could make razor blades from the metal 't is made of,—C. A. Roberts, the Buggy Man Rensselaer. Ind. ts O. E. S. Picnic. All of members of Prairie Lodge No. 125, F. & A. M., and their wives are invited to attend the O. E. S. picnic at the home of Mrs. W. H. Eger on Monday, June 24, at 5 I 'L IP- m.