Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 July 1912 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Try the Home Grocery This Week For Swift’s Empire Sugar Cured Hams, Picnic Hams, Rolled Boned Picnic and Brookfield Pickled ! Pork. ; Dryfus Star Brand Sugar Cured Breakfast Bacon. 3 Lake Herring in kies or barrels, and Fat Irish I Mackerel. ; We can use any amount of : home Grown Raspberries or i Blueberries. ■ Phone 41

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Buy your box stationery and envelopes at The Democrat office. Today’s markets: Corn, 65c; Goats, new, 30c; old. 48c; Wheat, 51.01. Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth went to Kalamazoo, Mich., Saturday for a visit with relatives. Rev. Father Sylvester Hartman went to Hammond Saturday to’ assist in services over Sunday. Arthur Cowgill of Remington returned home Saturday after spending a few days here with friends. B. J. Moore and family motored to Monticello in their' new Jackson auto Sunday to spend the day with friends. The rain Sunday night blew down the cats badly. Over west of town the rainfall was much heavier than in Rensselaer. 1 Mark Reed is in quite a critical condition at his home yyest of town, and his friends have about given up all hope for his recovery. Miss Elsie Clemens returned to her home in East Lynne, 111., Saturday after spending a few days here with Clara Elder and other friends. Conrad Kellner and family and Leon Eiglesbach motored to Lafayette in Cooney’s Apperson Sunday and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Kennel.

Miss Mary Remsburg returned to her home in Kentland Saturday afternoon after spending a few ‘days here as the guest of Misses Aileen and Florence Allman and other friends. James Badger of Fountain county, a friend of W. R. Newels, who came here a few days ago to see about getting a school for the coming year, either in Jasper or Newton counties; returned home Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Buffert of Lafayette, who have been visiting with relatives in Wisconsin and Chicago for some time, stopped off here Saturday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Nagel of southwest of town. W. N. Kenkle of north of town has traded in u his four passenger E-M-F 30 auto on a ( new five passenger 45-horse power Apperson touring car. Mr. Henkle and Joe Erbs, the auto agent, left Sunday for Kokomo to get the new machine from the factory. Mr. Henkle had run his old car three years but-it has been taken care of and is in good condition. John A. Gray and son of near Valparaiso came down. Friday to get his binder, which he had left on the old Bicknell place where he lived last year. They started back home Monday. The distance from here is about 60 miles and it take them nearly two days to make the trip one way. Mr. Gray reports crops looking very poor up in his locality, the late backward spring having retarded their growth, and it is naturally about ten days later there than here. He said it was very dry up there, they; having, had co rain to speak of for three weeks.