Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 July 1912 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. F. E. Babcock goes to Goodland today for a visit of a few days with her mother, Mrs. S. M. Freelove. " ’ ■ The local militia company has about petered out. Despite the persistent foraging for new recruits, only thirty-six all tola went to Indianapolis Monday to the state encampment. ■ : Floyd Hemphill ’went to' Chicago Saturday for an over Sunday visit with his brother George, who is employed in the tariff department of the Rock Island railway offices in that city. • Persistent urging by the other members of the democratic state committee and other prominent democrats has induced Thomas Taggart to reconsider the matter of resigning from the state committee, and he will continue as a member thereof.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward 11. Bender of San Francisco stopped off here Sunday for a visit with Capt. Hagins and Mrs. F, W. Powers. They- have been on a Visit to New York and also in Maine. From here they go to Hutchinson, Kan., and then to Denver and from there home. Nature is solving the high cost of living to some extent, and potatoes have got down to about 90 cents a bushel now. The rains of the past lew weeks have insured a great crop of potatoes this fall, and they are not likely to be over 25 to 35 cents a bushel when harvested. » _ _____ _ Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Mpore, Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Yates, Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Donnelly, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Kresler, Mr. and Mrs. I). E. Grow, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Alter, Mr. and Mrs. N. Schmitter and Mr. and Mrs. D. W. Waymire, and Mr. and Mrs. Joseph P. Hammond motored to the Kankakee and Bass Lake Sunday. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Thad Stephens got hold of a small bottle of carbolic acid Saturday afternoon and got some of the burning fluid in his mouth and the mouth and chin were burned considerably' before his screams called attention to what he had done. Antidotes were given promptly and he is now apparently all right again.

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