Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1912 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. H. B. Tuteur was in Chicago Wednesday and Thursday. To-day’s markets: Corn, 55c; oats, 27c; Wheat, 75c; Rye, 60c. We want your butter and eggs. Phone us for Prices.— Ro wen & Kiser. We are in a position to furnish cabbage for kraut making. Phone us call at store. —RHOADES’ GROCERY. Mrs. Ike Wiltshire, who has been visiting relatives at Town Creek, Ala., for several months, returned home Thursday.

Mrs. Sylvester Gray is confined to her bed with sickness.

W. W. Mann, a Muncie attorney, was here on business yesterday.

George Davisson, of Unioh tp., is confined to his house on account of sickness.

Remember us with your next order. We want your business. Phone 202.—Bowen & Kiser.

The little child of George Sigo, 6 miles south of town, is quite sick with summer complaint.

Mrs. W. I. Hoover visited relatives in Carroll county, near Delphi, several days this week.

When you can get cash and topnotch prices for your produce why not bring them to us. — Ro wen & Kiser. Phone 202.

Mrs. W. V. Porter and son Ross left Tuesday for a month’s visit with relatives at Bucklin, and Coats, Kan., and Mitchell, So. Dak.

Relatives here of Sam Pullins have received word from him that he was operated on in a hospital in Townsend, Mont., last Saturday for a serious case of appendicitis. Sam is a rancher near Townsend.

The ladies of the Presbyterian church are busily at work for their Christmas bazaar which is to be held the first week in December.

The two-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Ord Yeoman of Barkley tp., has been very ill this week from inflamation of the bowels, said to have been caused from eating green hazelnuts, but is reported better at this writing.

Mr. and Mrs. Grant Davisson, Mr. and Mrs. Wes Hinkle and Rudolph Ritter of Barkley tp., autoed to Attica and Kickapoo last Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. L. W. McCabe of Kankakee, 111., were guests of his cousin, Ray Parks, and wife, between Thursday, going from here to Indianapolis.

John Marlatt of Barkley tp., has bought the A. R. Kresler property now occupied by W. C. Babcock, it is reported, and will move to town. Mr. Babcock will move into the former G. E. Marshall property on East Washington street.

C. E. Prior went to Chicago Tuesday afternoon to attend the marriage of a daughter of his old friend, Judge McKinzie Cleveland, and to look after some business matters.

Mrs. Minerva Reed of Strawn, 111., and Mrs. Susan Washburn of Sacket’s Harbor, N. Y., who have been visiting their sister, Mrs. C. H. Tryon, of Rensselaer, left Thursday for Sacket’s Harbor, Mrs. Tryon accompanying them as far as Chicago. •

Joe Nessius of east of town was taken to Indianapolis Thursday to consult _ a specitlist regarding the growth on his left cheek that has been bothering him for some time.

Louise VanWeinan, 15-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. William Van Weinan of Keener tp., died Sunday, Septi 29, in a Chicago hospital, following an operation for appendicitis.

The regular monthly dime social of the ladies of the Presbyterian church will be held at the home of Mrs. A. P. Burton next Tuesday afternoon, Oct. 15. A cordial invitation is extended to everybody and strangers in the city are especially invited.

Miss Dorothy Spencer of Remington was the guest of Miss Marie Hamilton Wednesday. Thursday, accompanied by Miss Luclla Robinson, they went to Monticello to attend the horse show.

Joe Hoover brought a couple of stalks of corn to The Democrat office a few days ago that do very well indeed for city grown corn, he having raised it on his place in the east part of town. The stalks are 1 4 ft. in height and the ears are 8 ft. from the bottom of the stalk. Joe has quite a 1 litttle patch of this corn in his garden, and he has either got to get an extension ladder or chop the stalks down to husk it.

Mr. and Mrs. Robert Smith of Bloomington, 111., returned home Wednesday after a visit here with Mrs. J. H. Clemmons, her mother, of north of town. They have rented J. N. Leatherman’s farm in Barkley tp., and will move onto same next spring. ___

Joe Nagel tells us that we made an error in the number of acres which his brother Mike had in wheat near Mitchell, 90. Dak. He had in 300 acres, 160 acres of which made 25 bushels to the acre and- was the best quarter section of wheat in that part of the country; the rest of the 300 acres went 20 bushels to the acre, and the total yield from the 300 acres was 6,800 bushels, the amount stated by The Democrat.

Mrs. James Griswold of Valparaiso returned home Tuesday after a visit here with her sister, Mrs. Mary D. Eger, and brother, C. W. Duvall. Mrs. Lenora Haig qf New York, a cousin of Mrs. Eger and Mr. Duvall, is also here for a few weeks visit while on her way to Olathe, Kan., to look after some real estate interests she has there. This is her first 'visit here since a small girl.