Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — Page 5

Echos from the Bargain Counter of the Home Grocery A Dozen Useful Items at a Big Cut for This Week.

7 Bars Lenox Soap 25c 4 Cans Golden Wreath Sugar Corn - -25 c 4 Cans Argos Golden Pumpkin - - -25 c 4 Cans Great Western Lye Hominy - -25 c 4 Cans Extra Red Kidney Beans - -25 c 1 Package (12 boxes) Searchlight Matches ■ - - -45 c

Phone 41—Thank You :: The cleanest and freshest Grocery in the City. < > Patronage, great or small, wanted and appreciated, t

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Miss Cecil Morgan spent Tuesday in Chicago. Today’s markets: Corn, 65c; Oats, 27c; Wheat, 90c. H. R, Kurrie returned to Chicago Thursday after a short visit here. Mr. and Mrs. W. J. Wright spent Thursday and yesterday in Chicago.

Otto Braun Went to Monon Tuesday evening on a short business visit. Only 75 cents for the round trip to Chicago next Sunday, July 21. Mrs. Earl Ellis attended the funeral of her cousin, Mrs. S. L. Johnson, at Monon, Thursday. Miss Yeoman of Ambia is spending the week here with Mr. and Mrs A. R. Hopkins, and other relatives. Mrs. True Woodworth and little son and Mrs. F. J. Donnelly spent Thursday afternoon with friends in Monon. Dr. A. B. Cray and a couple of other Monticello gentlemen were in the city on business a short time Thursday. Misses Bethel Rutherford, Ruby Thornton and Bessie” Rutherford went to Monticello Thursday for a visit with friends.

Mrs. Amy Hess and Miss Anna Phillips of Momence, 111., are here for a few days visit with sister, Mrs. Earl Ellis. All accounts that have run longer than four months are now due and payment on same will be greatly appreciated.— L M. Washburn. The Democrat and Cincinnati Weekly Enquirer or the St. Louis Twice-a-week Republic, only $2.00 per year. This applies to both old and new subscribers. Mr. and Mrs. Ivan Dunlap and two children, of Elwood, who have been visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Dunlap, of near Surrey, left Thursday for their home. Mrs. Dunlap, Sr., going with them for a few days visit.

Uncle Stewart Hammond, who suffered a stroke of paralysis several months ago and who was not expected to get up again owing to' his extreme age. was in town Wednesday and climbed in and out of a buggy with but little assistance. V. Nowels was in Crown Point and Gary Tuesday. At the latter, place he was the guest of Lawson| Meyers, a former resident here* Mr. Nowels was greatly impressed with this wonderful steel city, and especially with the -street ofi Broadway, which is claimed to be one of, if not the finest. Streets in’ the world. 1 Joseph Smith has sold his 80 acre farm % mile south of Kniman to T. J. McMurray of Sheldon, 111., who will move onto same this fall and will build a new house and barn on the place, there being no improvements now there. Consideration about $45 per acre, cash. The sale was made through Harvey ■Davisson's agency. Mr. Smith expects to move to Renssealer.

2 Packages Oriole Corn Flakes - - -15 c 1 Pound 60-cent Japan or Gunpowder Tea 3 Packages Reindeer Seeded Raisins -23 c A really good 40-cent Broom, only -29 c A. &K. "Best Flour, guaranteed - $1.39 4 Pounds Good Rice 2 ic

C. E. Prior was in Chicago on business Wednesday and Thursday. Fred Berger, John Wilson. George Besse and a few other Remingtonians were over Thursday on business. Mrs. H. J. Bartoo of Remington came over Tuesday for a visit with her mother, Mrs. E. Peacock. She will return home tomorrow. Mrs. Comer, of Winchester, who has been visiting here with the Comer Sisters at the Comer house, left for her home Thursday. Mrs. S. C. Irwin and daughter Genevieve left Wednesday for a month’s visit with relatives and friends in Minneapolis, Minn. E. J. Brownell agent for the Rambler motor cars with headquarters at Crown Point, drove here Wednesday evening on business. Rev. A. G. Work came up from Laiayette Tuesday to join his wife, who is visiting her father, C. P. Moody, near Pleasant Grove. Joe Hoover left Thursday on a business visit to Logansport. Winamac. and Pulaski, and will return here about the first of the week.

Advertised letters: Mr. Harmount, Mary Warn. Kate Houston, Mary J. Irwin. George Herr. D. D. Look. Tom McAliicter. E. A. Malsbary. George Morgan and Mrs. Mary Morgan came down from Chicago Thursday, and Mrs. Morgan will remain for a visit here with George and wife. | • Ellis Lowell Thomas and Blanche •Anetta Coffel, a young couple residing in the east part of the city, were united in marriage at the home of the officiating clergyman. Rev. D. T. Halstead, on the evening of July 16. Will Woodworth, of Newell, So. Dak., who came through to Chicago with a car load of cattle from that place, came down Monday for a visit here with his parents. Mr. and Mrs. A. Woodworth, and other relatives.

According to Postmaster General Hitchcock, chairman of the republican committee in 1908, the Taft campaign fund that year was sl,655,518.27. This evidence was brought opt by the U. S. senate investigation committee Wednesday. Harold Clark, living on the Mrs. Julia Peet farm near Monticello, committed suicide Tuesday evening by taking strychnine. Domestic troubles. His wife has confessed having been too familiar with a former farm hand. Chas. Burden, of Monticello. William Cooper of near Virgie hag traded his 14LSi_ acre._ arm there for the Robert Michals tenant property on South Van Rensselaer street and will move to town. The farm was figured in at $6,000 and the town property at $3,000 in the trade. Mr. Michals also owns a farm which is occupied by his two sons, just across the road from the Cooper farm. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children The Kind Yoa Hau Always Bought Bears the ’* Signature of

’ J- J- Montgomery is figuring on ■ buying a lot and building himself -a bungalow. Mrs. J. W. Childers is spending a j couple of weeks with her brother, Park Overton and family. I _ j 'Misses. Opal Harrington and Harriet Tull ,of Monon were guests of 'Miss Ethel Grant Thursday. John K. Stoudt. an old and well known citizen of Remington, suffered a paralyetic stroke Wednesday night. ' John Price, while working on the , new school building a few days ago. got his foot quite badly hurt by a heavy iron girder failing upon it. Mrs. Swain, of Morocco, returned home Tuesday after a short visit here with her sister, Mrs. M. E. Spitler, and with Miss Maud Spittle?.

j Miss Cathryn Cooper of Indianapolis. who has been visiting with | Miss Blanche Babcock of near Parr the past several days, returned home j Thursday. . Miss Minnie Hemphill left Tues- . day for a month or six weeks visit ‘ with, relatives at Mitchell, So. Dak,, j her sister Lizzie .accompanying her fas far as Chicago. The Marion tp. Sunday school convention. which convenes at the M. E. church at 2:30 Sunday afternoon, especially invites other townships of the county to be present. Mrs. Lizzie Jones and three children of Belle Vernon, Pa., came Thursday for a visit with Mrs. Jones’ parents. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Mustard, and other relatives. J. K. Davis, and family, who are preparing to move to Greencastle to .educate their daughter, Miss Ethel Davis, expect to leave Rensselaer some time next month.

Miss Martha Parrett, of Ohio, who has been visiting here with her brother. Rev J- C. Parrett, and wife, left Thursday for Winona Lake where she will spend her vacation Mrs. S. A. Royster, who has been visiting friends and relatives here and near Mt. Ayr, for the past few days, went to Delphi Thursday her longer visit, the guest of Mrs. Dean Merica. The body of Bryan Legg, the Monticello lad who was drowned in the Tippecanoe river at that palce Sunday last, was recovered Monday evening and burial made the day following. Dr. A. R. Kresler accompanied F. L. Hoover to Chicago Thursday where the latter was examined by a specialist in an effort to diagnose the ailment from which he has been suffering of late. Mrs. W. A. Brown and daughter, Miss Esther Phillips, arrived here Wednesday evening from their home in Minneapolis, Minn., for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Philip Blue, and other relatives. Dr. Floyd Cording, a Lafayette dentist, formerly of Medaryville, suicided in a lonely spot on the Wabash near Lafayette last Friday night and Ms body was not found until Tuesday. He was a cocaine fiend, it is said.

Miss Edna Fendig left Tuesday for a month’s sojourn at Tampa and other points in Florida. She will visit her sister at Tampa. B. N. Fendig and Miss Tillie accompanied her as far as Chicago, Tillie returning here Tuesday evening and Benhart Wednesday. John W. Norman received a letter from his brother Doss Wednesday. in which he stated that the hail storm near Hamilton, No. Dak., that destroyed the crops on the W. P. Baker farm 1 , passed within about three miles of him. Doss lives on J. K. Davis’ 465 acres farm adjoinIng rhe town of > Hamilton on the north. Doss' props are fine this year. Jacob Junglas writes from Valparaiso and states that his aged mother died at Ft. i Recovery, Ohio, July 5, at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Joseph Guggenbiller. Her age was 77 years and 4 months. She leaves, the following children: Mrs. Joseph Guggenbiller, Ft. Recovery, Ohio; John Junglas, Fair Oaks. Ind.; Jacob Junglas, Valparaiso, Ind.; Mrs. Henry Wapelhurst, Coldwater, Ohio; Mrs. David Shupe, LaSalle, 111., and Mrs. John Shupe of Valparaiso. She was a faithful member of the Catholic church. Burial was made at Sharpsville, O,

John Eger made- a business trip to Chicago Thursday. Mrs. M. E, Spitler and daughter Maud spent Thursday ;in Chicago. F. M. Reed of Indianapolis was a business visitor in the city Thursday. July 1,7. to Mr. and Mrs. Ord Yeoman of near Pleasant Ridge, a son. - . Mrs. A. G. Brosier came Wednesday from Dayton. 0., for a week's visit with her sister. Mrs. W." L Myer. ' • ’ . • Mrs. A. K. Yeoman, accompanied by her grandson, Walter Randle, went to Chicago Wednesday for a visit with her son. Roe and wife. An . interesting and instructive program lias been arranged for the annual M. E. campmeeting at Battleground to be held Aug. 3-IS. Nirs. Conrad Kellner went to Chicago Tuesday to attend the wedding Wednesday of Lawrence Hildebrand, son of Henry .Hildebrand, and well known here. -Mrs. Charles Smith and sister came down from Chicago Tuesday, fo.r a week’s visit with their father, Jacob Wagner and family of Carpenter. tp„ and other relatives.

Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Parki.-on afid daughters. Ruth and Jane, left Tuesday for Kingman, Kan,, where they will possibly spend the winter if the climate proves beneficial to Miss Ruth’s health. Mrs. Ed Peck, Cathryn Peck, Miss Lucile Babb, Mrs. Belle Green and Mrs. G. H. Hargreaves motored oyer from Remington Wednesday to spend the day with Mrs. J. D. Allman and Mrs. A. J. Bellows. E. P. Honan was in Hammond Tuesday to attend the state meeting of the Catholic Order of Foresters, and went to Chicago Wednesday to attend a meeting of the High Court of the same order. Miss Mildred Harris, who has been spending the past tvo weeks with relatives at .Indianapolis and Spencer, returned home Wednesday, accompanied by Miss Artie Benjamin, who will be her guest here for some time.

Mrs. A. D. Bickford of Colorado Springs, Colo., a sister of Mrs. W. R. Lee, who returned here a few weeks ago with the latter, left Tuesday for home. She was accompanied as far as Chicago by Fred Arnott. Miss Julia Leopold, who was accidentally injured by her eye coming in contact with a wire of a bird cage at her home last Saturday, is now taking treatment in Chicago and it is thought she will recover without any serious results. ■ Mrs. Mary D. Eger was in Chicago Wednesdoy and visited Mrs. Matie Hopkins, who was so painfully hurt in the collision of the W. B. Austin touring car and a street car in Chicago a few weeks ago, but who is now recuperating nicely and soon be able to leave the hospital. H. R. Kurrie and Alfred Donnelly have purchased the 80 acre tract of G. F. Meyers, formerly known as the Monnett lands, north of town, and lying near Mr. Donnelly’s farm. Mr. Donnelly gets the north 40 acres at $,157.50, while Mr. Kurrie paid $l6O per acre for the south half.

Frank Hoover returned from Chicago Thursday evening, but went back again yesterday, accompanied by his brother, Sheriff Hoover, and may undergo an operation. We were unable to learn anything of the nature of the diagnosis Thursday. In fact the diagnosis was not finished, Dr. Kresler states, but was to be continued yesterday. Mrs. iJ. J. Hunt entertained a score of young ladies at her home on Front street Tuesday afternoon in honor of Mr. Hunt’s two neices, Misses Blanche and Mabel Hunt of Baroda, Mich., who are spending the week here with them. Dainty refreshments were served and the guests departed after spending a very pleasant The match factory people have written here acknowledging the reciept of the proposition made them by the city council, and state that Mr. Sterling, president of the concern, is now in the east and that upon his return a meeting of the directors will be called and an effort made to come to an agreement with the council at their meeting Monday evening.

POULTRY

BREED CHICKENS FOR PROFIT In Making Selection One Must Be Governed to Great Extent by Man-ket-—Cockerel Is Important. In making the selection of breed, one must be governed somewhat by the market. Birds that sell best on the block should be medium In size, plump, condition, with yellow skin and legs. Most all our American breeds have these requirements, and by careful selection at breeding time one can build up a profitable laying strain from this class of birds, such as the Plymouth Rocks or Wyandottes. The common «practice of breeding from the flock as a whole has done more harm than anything else in making, the flock unprofitable as egg producers. Breeding from birds tßat produce but one or two clutches of eggs during the year will produce birds of like nature, and breeding a sire that has not the laying quality and characteristics bred in him cannot but help 'to make the situation worse. The success with' egg production must begin with breeding. When you have a hen that will lay a large number of eggs each month during the winter, breed from her. The trait of superior egg production is a habit that may be acquired and transmitted. A hen whose ancestors were poor layers aannot be expected to be a good layers. No amount of coaxing or coddling with mash or feed will induce her to produce an unusual number of eggs, because the trait of superior egg production was not acquired by Her ancestry and could not therefore be transmitted to her. The selection of the male to head the flock should not be neglected, fte should have been bred from productive ancestry. The male is half

Plymouth Rock.

the flock, and If his dam and granddam were good producers, he should be worth much more as a sire than those whose dam produced only a limited number of eggs. He should have a good constitution, showing short beak, broad head and bright eye, neck short and stout, breast of good width carried well for ward and of fair depth. The mating of such a sire to a flock of hens bred from laying ancestors cannot but help to give good results with proper feeding and housing. The breeding pen should be yarded separate from the whole flock, selecting for this pen only the very best egg producers, and this should be done each year. One male with 10 or 12 females will give best results and eggs will be of stronger vitality for incubating purposes. The breeding pen should be well cared for. Quarters should be roomy, well lighted and ventilated. The quarters should at all times be kept clean and disinfected. A variety of grain feed, green cut bone and green feed is absolutely necessary to Insure fertile eggs, and grit and water should be kept before them at all times.

Lay Good Sized Eggs.

Hens that produce not only a goodly number of eggs, but eggs of moderately large size, (eggs weighing two ounces each on an average) are Plymouth Rocks, Wyandottes, Rhode Island Reds, Orpingtons, Minorcas and some strains of Leghorns.

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Advertise your' wants in The Democrat’s want ad columns and get results. Remember, every bodyreads The, Democrat. • Thomas Tanner left Monday for Conway, lowa, from which place he had received word the day before that hjs sister, Mrs. Simeon Dowell, had died following an operation that day in a hospital. Oge Yeoman aqd wife of Kingman, Kan., who were called here to attend the funeral of the latter’s father, W. E. Moore, left Wednesday for home after a visit with relatives here of several days. Mrs. F. H. Hemphill writes from Roann, where she was called a few days ago .by the serious' condition of her father, Jesse Harris, that his condition remains about the same, and that his death Is expected at any moment.

STATE HAPPENINGS RECORDED IN BRIEF

NEWS ITEMS FROM ALL OVER INDIANA. BANK MAN $14,500 SHORT William B. Hale, Assistant Cashier of Geneva Institution. Who Committed Suicide Monday, Was an Alleged Embezzler,_ Geneva. Ind., July 19. —William B. Hale, assistant cashier of the Bank of Geneva, who hanged himself Monday, was $14,500 short in his accounts, state bank examiners announced.- Th® stockholders agreed to an Immediate assessment to cover the deficit. Hale bad been assistant cashier of the bank for 16 years, drew a salary of $65 a mpnth and was janitor of the banking room, besides having practically entire charge of the business. He owned an automobile and he and hia wife lived well, but the bank's officers told the examiners they understood he had an income from investments, : ■ ’

Names Institute Faculty.

Shelbyville, July 19. —County Superintendent Ayiliiam Everson has selected AV. S. Currell, professor of English tn the Washington and Lee university at Lexington. Va.; Prof. R. B. Klein Smid of the department of education and .psychology In DePau w university at Greencastle, and Miss Anna Orehaugh. teacher of music In the State Normal at Terre Haute, as Instructors for the teachers* Institute, which will be held here. August 19-23. A feature of the institute this year will be the work of Prof. M. L. Fisher pt Purdue university, who will be sent here by that institution to give instruction In the teaching of agriculture in the publie schools.

Many Hurt in Rail Crash.

Laporte, July 19.—Two men were seriously, if not fatally, hurt, and a. number of others slightly Injured when a fast freight on the Grand Tnink Western road crashed Into a wrecking train near Stillwell The injured, all belonging to the wrecking crew, were placing a derailed locomotive On the track The two seriously injured were taken to the Battle Creek ( Mich.) hospital before their names could be learned. Responsibility for the accident has not been placed.

Fractures Skull BY Fall.

Columbus, July 19.—Thomas J. Kobbe, seventy years old. a wealthy German farmer and Republican politician, is dead from a fractured skull, sustained while unloading hay at hia home near here. His feet and legs became entangled in the trip rope, when he was drawn up by the hay loader and dropped a distance of fifteen leet to a cement floor, the back of his head striking on the cement.

Jumps From Third Story.

Newcastle, July 19.—Ollie Skinner leaped from a third story window at his home and escaped without injury while an officer, who had accompanied him there to secure cash bond, stood close by. Skinner had been arrested for keeping a gambling house, and, having on a previous appearance for the same offense, been promised a jail sentence by the mayor, took a desperate chance to escape.

Farmers Care for Waifs.

Lafayette. July 19.—Twenty-five wealthy farmers living in the vicinity of Montmorenci, Tippecanoe county, are taking care of fifty-one little children from the tenement district of Chicago. The waifs, all between six and ten years old. were met at the station by automobiles and taken., to farms, where they will spend the next two weeks. The tots have never been In the country before.

Train Racer Badly Hurt.

Richmond, July 19.—While racing a limited train on the Terre Haute, Indianapolis & Eastern traction line. King Brumfield, twenty five years old. was thrown from his automobile and badly hurt. Two ribs were broken, a number of- teeth knocked out and he was badly cut about the head. His machine sk’dded aryl turned over a culvert west of this city.

Florists Elect Officers.

Winona Lake, July 19.—J. D. Connors Jr- of Wabash has been elected president of the Northern Indiana Florists’ association; Harry White of North Manchester, vice-president, and .1. W. Waggner of Columbia City, sec-retary-treasurer. Thirty-three members were present at the annual banquet. . . '

Fights Three Robbens.

Wabash, July 19. —John Jackson, sixty-seven years old, was held up and robbed In daylight by three men. who seriously Injured him before they were able to overpower him. Jackson was relieved of a watch and a small amount of money.

Floor Falls; Seven Hurt.

M abash, July 19.—Seven persons weje ’injured, four seriously, at the Wabash Canning company's plant when a section of the first floor collapsed, dropping the seven employes, all women, into the basement. 15 feet below.