Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1912 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Dressmaking —. Schmal Sisters, phone 138. The frame is up for the new’ 'bungalow of J. J. Montgomery's on north Cullen street. Esta Keener while working on a threshing machine Thursday was severely cut on the forehead and the wound required several stitches to close it. Marriage licenses issued: George Elmer \\ ilcox of Rensselaer, aged 22, occupation telegraph operator, to Beatrice Adaline Yates, also of this city, aged 26, occupation housekeeper. First marriage for each. An unusually large crowd attended the dance given at the armory Thursday evening. The- Douglass colored orchestra, of Indianapolis, who have played here several times betofe on such occasions and met with unlimited approbation, furnished the music.

While the extreme, heat of the past ten days has'been a little hard on. the sweltering humanity, it has been just the weather needed for making the corn crop, and we can all put up with the heat discomfort for a while in anticipation of the prosperous times to come. Dex ere \ eoman, who for some time has been superintending a difficult job of sewer construction at South Bend, for a Hammond concern, was down yesterday to register. He will complete the South Bend contract in a few days and then expects to return home here to remain permanently.

While hitching up a horse Saturday evening to come to Rensselaer, Russel Prince, aged 24, a son of Mrs. Lon Colton of Pleasant Ridge, was badly cut and bruised in the barb wire fence of the barn lot by the horse taking a notion to get scared and start to run, dragging him about the lot and against the wire fence until his shirt and trousers were literally torn to shreds and his body was a mass of cuts and bruises. It took nearly fifty stitches to sew up the wounds, made by the barb wire. \ David Elder of Rensselaer was shocked and rendered uncoiisciuos Monday afternoon at Parr when a bolt of llghftning struck the front of Greenlee’s store. Elder was sitting on a bucket with several others in front of the store when the bolt came and tore off a few shingles from, the building, doing perhaps $25 damage to the store. He regained consciousness soon and came home that evening on the milk train little the worse for his experience. Hugh Gaffey’s house was also struck by lightning at Parr the same afternoon and the chimney demolished. Notice to Creamery Patrons. Wilson & Gilmore expect to be in (their new creamery builldlling at Parr by Monday, September 16, and on and after that date will pay one cent above Elgin prices for butterfat. Bring your cream to us.— WILSON & GILMORE. ■j . Public Sale of Horses. Public Sale in front of the court house on Saturday afternoon, Sept. 14, of a pair of roan geldings 2 and 3 years old, to the highest bidder. Will be sold on 12 months time.— Herbert Harriott and Fred Phillips. Subscribe for The Democrat

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