Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 54, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 October 1912 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mr. and Mrs. Simon Leopold were Chicago visitors Friday. Mr. and Mrs. John Eger went to Chicago Sunday afternoon. W. H. Ritchey went to Gary Friday to see and hear Governor Woodrow Wilson. Remember us with your next order. We want your business. Phone 202.—Bowen & Kiser. The last call for peaches. Fancy Michigan peaches, $1.25 to $1.50 a bushel, Wednesday and Thursday. J ohn Eger. The new vehicle and “cut out’’ ordinance went into effect in Rensselaer Sunday, October 6th, and is to be rigidly enforced. Charles Otis of Chicago, millionaire ranch owner and owner of the Otis ranch of north of here, was in the city a short time Sunday.

Bert Brenner and Boyd Porter were in Hammond, Gary and* Valparaiso Friday. They also heard Governor Wilson speak in Guny. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Harmon and Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Fate spent Friday in Chicago, taking in the “Mian Higher Up at the Olympic theater tlhat evening. Mr. and Mrs. S. D. Clark and son of Wheatfield drove down Saturday and spent Sunday with Dan Tanner and family of Jordan tp., Mr. Tanner being a brother of Mrs. Clark’s. Henry Grow and John Lesh were in Chicago Friday to see about buying a bunch of feeders, but they found that class of cattle too high, they thought to justify them in buying. To-day, October 8, is the 41st anniversary of the great Chicago fire, and will be observed in Indiana in the schools and by the municipal and commecrial bodies as Fire Prevention Day. Mrs. E. N. Boughton of Pitrsburg, Kan., writes The Democrat and among other things says: “We have fair crops this year, especially fruit, but are in the territory where that dreadful disease attacked the horses and we lost two, and many near us lost more.”

Mr. and Mrs. N. C. Pumphrey, Mrs. Grace Pumphrey and a Mr. Schriver of Columbia City, the latter a real estate man, came over' Monday for a couple of days visit with old friends. They will return home today. They are well pleased with their new home. U T Wjilliam Coppick and Marion Brineny, of Jefferson township, came to Delphi Monday with a wagon load of clover seed, harvested from 26 acres. The one load represented 5751.50 in money. It was one of the most valuable wagon loads of farm produce ever brough to this city.—Delphi Citizen. “ In a letter received a few days ago from George M. Babcock, who went west about two months ago, he stated that he had stopoed off in Spokane, Wash., for a couple of weeks after leaving Fargo, No. Dak., and left Spokane last Wednesday evening for Seattle. He is thinking of going on to San Francisco to spend the winter, he wrote. A later card stated that he was now employed on the day force of linotypes on the Seattle Daily Times.