Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1912 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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.