Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1912 — Page 3

We Handle the Famous Bouer Line of Coffees 2 World-Famous Brands Each the best of its class. 2 splendid grades at 2 different prices. OLD MASTER AND SAN MARTS COFFEE “The Kind With the Flavor” SOLD BY Phone 41 Home Grocery

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. D. M. Worland made a business trip to Indianapolis Monday. Today’s markets: Corn, 67c; Oats, 29c; Rye 62c; Wheat, 90c. Frank Rowen and wife returned Sunday from a week’s visit with relatives in Illinois.

Mrs. Henry Amsler went to Battle Ground Saturday to spend a few days at the campmeeting. H. W. Kiplinger went to Eaton Saturday to attend the funeral of an old friend, Charles Younts. Benton Review: Miss Edna Swanson returned Monday from a visit with her sister, Mrs. Gilburg, near Rensselaer. Miss Jensen of Wheatfield returned home Sunday after a week’s visit here with her sister, Mrs. J. P. Hammond, and family. Wm. Huffman left for So. Dak., Sunday to work through the harvest season and also to visit his daughter, Mrs. Ray Kenton.

' John, P. Carr, the republican organ in Benton county, is a rampant Bull Mooser, and there is woe in the camp of the Taftites in consequence. Clifford Beaver expects to “crackerjack” at old settlers’ meeting in Delphi Saturday, August 10, and go from there to Fountain Park with his outfit for the Sunday trade there. W. H. Beam, wife and son Paul went to Chicago Saturday. Mr. Beam returned 'home Sunday, but Mrs. Beam and Paul will spend a few days there with her son Hurley and friends.

Mr. and Mrs. Fred Phillips, Mrs. C. A. Roberts and Mrs Caddie Martin vtisited Mr. Phillips’ and Mrs. Roberts’ sisters, Mrs. S. S. Barnes and Mrs. Frank Van Natta, in Fowler last Thursday.

F. C. Williams, who is now resident manager of the Huntington business college, came over Friday evening to visit relatives over Sunday and do a little missionary work for his business college, Emma Burden, writing from Boyd, Okla., in renewing her subscription for The Democrat, says: “We are just about through harvest. Have good wheat, oats and barley. The grasshoppers are very plentiful,” Albert DeFries of Thayer, accompanied by his daughter, came to Rensselaer Friday to get his new R-C-H automobile, purchased from John M. Knapp, who sells this machine in Jasper and Newton counties.

Mrs. Harry Dewey of LaFarge, Wis., who has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alf Peters of south of town for the past month, left Friday for Chicago where she will visit relatives a few days before proceeding home. » .

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Frank Messman. was in Monon on business Monday. ___ __■ »_, John Robinson spent Saturday nighl and Sunday in Chicago. Excursion to Chicago next Sunday. Only ia cents for the round trip. Leo Colvert, who has been spending the past week with relatives at Chicago, returned home Monday. The Domestic Science Club will meet Saturday afternoon at 2 o clock at the Library auditorium.

Advertised letters: Mrs. Clara Bickford, Miss Jennie Mcodonol, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Cheadle, T. G. McClellan. Orla Clouse returned home Friday from Dowagiac, Mich., where he has been spending his vacation the past week. Hugh Kirk went to Thayer and other points of Newton county Friday to assist John M. Knapp in placing R-C-H autos. Ernest Ramey and family, tvho had been spending the past week with Hammond relatives and friends, returned home Monday.

Wm. Hill returned to his home in Madison, Ind., Monday after a few days visit here with his brother Frank and other relatives. Miss Laura Harrod of Indianapolis, a niece of Mrs. George Fate, who had been visiting here for several days, returned home Saturday. Considerable more rain fell again Monday afternoon. Altogether too much rain in the north and east part of tihe county for the good of farm crops.

The republicans of Ohio have just received an awful jolt. Judge E. B. Dillon, recently nominated for governor by the regulars, has resigned from the ticket, and will, it is thought, cast his lot with the Bull Moosers. L. H. Hamilton spoke up at Lowell Saturday night at a Bull Moose meeting. Frank Maloy, formerly of Rensselaer but now the Monon agent at Lowell, is chairman of the Bull Moosers in the township in which Lowell is located.

Ellis and Geo. Jones, Dr. Robinson, Wm. Roadifer, B. F. Spencer and son Keith, Dr. Besser, Fred Berger, Dennis O’Reilly, W. T. Elmore, Ed Sutherland and Chas. Parker, all of Remington, were Rensselaer visitors Monday.

Mrs. Mattie Sharp left Monday for a few weeks visit at Yelverton and other points in Ohio. Her father, John Stively, 89 years of age, who went to Ohio the latter part of May, has been rather poorly ht the home of his daughter at Yelverton. He will return to Rensselaer with Mrs. 'i Mrs. Sharp, if able, when she comes ‘home.

H. N. Moulds and family autoed over from Eylar, 111., last Wednesday for a visit with old friends in Hanging Grove and with N. Osborn and family of Gillam tp. They returned home Mondays accompanied by Mfs. Osborn, who will make a week's visit with relatives and old friends in that vicinity, from which they moved ten years ago. This is Mrs. Osborn’s first trip back there since they moved away.

Malcom Clark of Wheatfield s-pent Sunday here with friends. Robert Wartena was over from Kentland Sunday to spend the day. Miss Letha Wright went to Chicago Monday for a few days visit. Hurley Beam came down from Chicago Saturday to spend Sunday with ills wife. - The six-year-old son of Ira Brown who is sick with pneumonia, is slightly improved. ,

Mr. and Mrs. John Eger motored to Wolcott Sunday afternoon with Art Ba'ttleday at the wheel. Mr. and Mrs. L. P. Shirer and son Richard and John Warne motored to M heatfield Sunday in the former's car. ’ Lawson Meyers and a friend were down from Gary in his touring car Sunday to spend the day with old friends. James, Fisher, the carpenter, who is now employed in Hammond, was home Sunday to spend the day with ■his family. • W. F. Smith and wife and C. W. Rhoades and wife motored to Lafayette Sunday evening in the former’s auto.

Ross Ramey resigned his position with the Eger grocery and has gone to Philadelphia where he &pects to get employment.

James George is spending a few days here with his mother, Mrs. Charlotte George, and his sister, Mrs. W. H. Beam, Jr. All accounts that have run longer than four months are now due and payment on same will be greatly appreciated.— l. M. Washburn. Mrs. Thomas Fay of Parr, who had been visiting her daughter and other relatives at Muncie and Peru for some time, returped home Monday. Harrison Timmons went to Monon Sunday to meet his wife and babe, who were returning home from a week’s visit with relatives at Buffalo and Francesville. Mrs. L. C. Canada and little babe arrived here the latter part of the week from their home in Winchester to join her husband, who is working at the Rensselae Garage.

A number of the Rensselaer band boys went to Cedar Lake Sunday to furnish music for the Chicago picnickers. They played for the dance at the pavilion there that evening, returning home Monday.

A. H. Hopkins and family and aunt, Mrs. Keever of Monticello, left Monday for Conover, Wis., where they will enjoy an extended outing and will probably not return here until the first or second week of September.

£harlie Pullins was in from Barkley tp., Saturday and left a bunch of oats stalks at The Democrat office, the longest of which measured five feet and seven inches. He had ten acres iw this field and he had not seen such oats before in many years. The men cutting them thought they would yield 70 to 75 bushels to the acre.

Mr. and Mrs. Arthur L. Schacha of Cleveland, Ohio, came Saturday for a few weeks visit with Mr. Schacha’s uncle, E. P. Lane, and other relatives here. Mr. Schacha is a medhanical draftsman and also assistant band master of .the sth Regiment Band of Cleveland. He will play with the Rensselaer band in their concert oni the street tonight.

The annual picnic of the Sew Club and the members’ families, was held on the spacious lawn of the H. R. Kurrie residence at the south end of Front street Friday evening. All kinds of good things to eat were there in an abundance and races and contests in which various prizes were offered added to the enjoyment and amusement of the guests, and was acknowledged by all to be one of. the most enjoyable events of the season.

Miss Ruth Makeever gave a dinner party Sunday in honor of her guets, Miss Elizabeth Dixon of Roseville, 111. Those present were: Misses Lucy Healy, Marie Heckaman, Bernice Rhoads,- Gertrude Jackson, Martha Ramp, Florence and Aileen Allman, Maurine Tuteur, Edna Robinson, Ethel Davis, Ocie Wood, Edna Babcock of Rensselaer; Miss Nellie Ejj;an of Medaryville; Miss Blanche Hunt of Baroda, Mich.;, Avaline and Geraldine Kindig of Monticello.

Mrs. H. W. Jackson is recovering after_=a=rsevere attack of throat trouble.

C. W. Eger and . Eph Hickman were business callers in North Judson Monday.

Miss Bertha Kepner returned Friday from a week's visit with friends at Indianapolis. v

Mr. and Mrs. Virgil Hamilton are spending the week here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. H. Warner. '

Miss Nell Drake will leave today for a week's visit with her sister, Mrs. J. F. Jones, at Cambridge, O. George Collins and wife of Indianapolis are spending a few days here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs Alf Collins. Miss Ella Condron left Thursday for her home . in Pittsburg. Pa. after a visit here with Mr. and Mrs. Jerry Healy. Lon Neese, a Wheatfield butcher, suffered a fractured ankle Saturday in jumping from his wagon while out in the country.

Mr-. T. W. SheSler and two sons arrived here Monday from Richmond for a visit with W.' R. Shesler and family.

Rev. W. W. Groendyke of North Judson, who is a candidate for the democratic nomination for state senator, was in the city yesterday. Mrs. Margaret Phillipa of Chicago, who has been spending the week here as the guest of Mr. and Mrs. H. W. Walter, returned home Monday. ' Misses Helen Meader and Josie Dexter entertained a number of their friends at a picnic supper at! the home of the latter Sunday evening.

Mr. and Mrs. Ross Cain and Samuel Perry and son, who have been visiting with Jay Lamson, south of the city, have returned to their home in Burlington, Ind.

Miss Elizabeth Dixon returned to her home in Roseville, 111., Monday after a several days visit here with Miss Ruth Makeever, who accompanied her as far as Chicago.

C. C. Starr was in Chicago Sunday and Monday. His little granddaughter, Genevieve Guss, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. Chas. Baldwin, returned home with him.

Miss Grace Robinson of Wesley hospital, Chicago, who has been spending a three weeks vacation here with her mother, Mrs. G. M. Robinson, returned to the city Friday.

Mr. and Mrs. N. S. Bates went to Chicago Sunday for a visit with their daughter, Mrs. Rufus Knox. Mr. Bates returned home that evening, but Mrs. Bates will remain until Saturday.

About twenty-five ladies, members of the Women’s Relief Corps, met at the home of Mrs. R. P. Benjamin from 2 to 5 Thursday and were delightfully entertained by Mrs. Benjamin and Mrs. Jane Norris.

Jay and Milton, the two small sons of Mr. and Mrs. Sam Roth, went to Mulberry and Dayton last week for a visit with their grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Dan Roth and Mr. and Mrs. John App.

A kitchen shower was given Monday evening by Misses Nell and Madie Drake at the home of their mother, Mrs. Mary Drake, south of the city, in honor of Miss Myrtle York’s coming marriage to Roy Parks, Aug. 26.

The opening play of the Warner Stock Co. Monday night drew a very large audience, their tent being completely filled. The play was well presented and the patrons were well pleased. The company plays here all week.

The Burke bridge, crossing the Iroquois river north of town, is again in an unsafe condition and notices have been posted warning the public from using it, A new bridge will have to be built there, the old one being beyond repair;

Coroner J. A. Wickersham came! over from Goodland yesterday forenoon and. from here drove to Thayer, where he had been notified a man was found dead yesterday morning. Mr. Wickersham knew nothing of . the particulars and neither were we able to learn anything about the matter.

Seventy-five cents for the round trip to Chicago next Sunday. Miss Anna Jasperson of Tefit is the guest of Miss Mary Goetz of west of town. Mr. and Mrs. I. A. Leavel went to Wabash Saturday for an over Sunday visit with relatives. Miss Irene Balcom of Remington the guest of Misses Georgia and Muriel Harris this week; 1 Mrs. John Mecklenberg went to Lafayette the latter part of the week to visit her son Charles. Mrs, Ida Champion and two children of Chicago are guests of her mother. Mrs. Philip McElfresh. Mr. and Mrs. B F. Fendig and Mr. and Mrs. Ernest Lamson motored to Wheatfield Friday in the latter’s auto. . '

Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Lee and two grand-daughters are visiting their daughter. Mrs. Harry White at Francesville this week.

Frank Dalton of Deleware, 0., went to Gilman. 111., Friday after a two weeks visit here with his aunt. Mrs. Mary E. Travis.

Leo Reeve got thrown from John Eger's delivery wagon Monday, when the horse ran away, and one ankle was quite severely sprained.

Paul Glazebrook returned Monday from a business trip to Galesburg, III; He saw many places in Illinois where the rain had completely ruined crops.

A very commodious cellar, a kitchen and a large roomy porch are'among the various Improvements that Carr brothers are making at their farm residence west of town. Besides the improvements to the residence proper they are building a large 4S foot double corn and grain storage crib, with cement floor.

Misses Louise Mendel hall of Greensburg and Miss Evelyn Clark of Chicago, guests of Misses Nell and Jane Moody, and Misses Helen Murray. Elizabeth Spitler Muriel Harris and Georgia Harris, Edith Adams. Martha Long, Nell Meyers, Alice Coen, George Long, Floyd Meyers and Granville Moody, Jr., motored to the grove near Ade Thursday evening and enjoyed a picnic supper, after which they attended the band concert at Brook.

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Presbyterian Sunday School Picnic.

The Presbyterian Sunday school will hold a picnic in Kanne’s grove, immediately west of William Washburn’s residence, on Thursday, Aug. 1, 1912. The members of the Sunday school, church and their friends will meet at the Presbyterian church at 10 o’clock a. m. 12 M—Dinner. Amusements: Base ball game between Mr. Gwin’s and C. 1 G. Spitler’s classes. Play ground ball between Mr, Williams' class and adult Supporters. Peanut races between the members of Mrs. Loy and Mrs. C. IC. Warner's classes. 1 Potato rape by members of Mrs. Parrett’s class. Sack race by members of Mrs. Goble and Miss Wright’s classes., Egg race between the members of Mrs. Hopkins' class. Bowling green by Mrs. Barber's class. Three-legged race by members of Mr. Gwin's class. ■ Dressing contest by members of Mr. Williams’ class. Mathematical contest by members of Mrs. Watson’s class. Archery contest by Mrs. Williams’ and Mrs. Chapman's classes. Conveyances will be at the church ready to take all who are not provided with transportation.

Resolutions.

The Committee on Resolutions of the Pythian Sisters, Temple No. 58, made the 1 following report: Whereas, An All-wise Providence has removed from our midst, our brother, Mark Reed, Resolved, That while we must bow to the law of death, we yet desire in this public manner to express our feeling of deep regret at his loss and tb extend our most earnest sympathy to the friends and family of the deceased: Resolved, That in the decease o’s our fellow-citizen and neighbor, we recognize the fact that our county has lost a valuable citizen: Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be presented to the family and that they be published in the papers of Jasper county. ETHEL SHARP, MARGARET DUVALL, MATTIE KRESLER,

EXCURSION TO CHICAGO SUNDAY

Only 75 Cents for the Round Trip On the Monon. The Monon will run another of its popular excursions to Chicago on Sunday, August 4. Following is the special train schedule and round trip fare from all stations at which stops are made north of Monon: Lv. Monon 8:20a.m. |I.OO Lv. Lee . . 8:30 a.m. .90 Lv, McCoysburg .8:35 a.m. .90 Lv. P. Ridge . . 8:40 a. m. .80 Lv. Rensselaer .. 8:48 a. m. .75 Lv. Surrey .... 8:57a.m. .75 Lv. Parr 9:02 a.m. .75 Lv. Fair Oaks .. 9:09 a.m. .75 Lv. Roselawn ... 9:20a.m. .75 Lv. Thayer 9:25a.m. .75 Lv. Shelby 9:28 a.m. .75 Lv. Lowell 9:42 a.m. .50 Ar. Chicago ....11:30a.m. Returning special train will leave Chicago at 11:30 p. m.

Gleaners Twine.

The Gleaners twine is all sold. It Is giving such good satisfaction with those who are using it that we could have sold twice the amount. FANCY PRODUCE MARKET.

A. M. Nason, farming near Canaan Me., was badly crippled with sciatic rheumatism due he says to uric acid in his blood. “Foley Kidney Pills entirely cured me and also removed numerous black specks that were continually before my eyes.” Foley Kidney Pills are a uric acid solvent and are effective for the various forms of rheumatism.—A. F. Long.