Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 64, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1912 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mile Zara, New r York’s favorite palmist and clairvoyant, has arrived in Rensselaer and is stopping at the corner of Van Rensselaer and Angelica streets. See advertisement in another column. —Advt.

B. Kohler of Kansas City, Mo., arrived Sunday to visit John Kohler and Charles Ramp and families. His wife has been here for about three weeks. This is Mr. Kohler’s first visit here for about twenty years.

The house occupied by James Rees at Newland was damaged about $l5O Saturday noon by fire, but was saved by a bucket brigade before the flames had made very much headway. The loss is covered by insurance.

Mrs. Joseph Leach and two children of Geddes, So. Dak., who has been visiting with relatives here for a couple of weeks, started homeward Monday. She was accompanied as as far as Chicago by her brother, Thomas, and sister, Miss Bertha Eldridge.

Frank Potts, who returned recently from North Dakota, was operated on at the Rensselaer hospital Monday for tuberculosis of the bone of his left limb, below the knee, and the diseased portion of the bone war> chiseled out. It is hoped that he will get along alright now. i The barn on the E. T. . Harris farm, four miles northwest of Rensselaer, was burned Saturday morning, together with its contents, that belonged to the tenant, James Dowers. The loss was about $1,200, about evenly divided between building and contents, and the insurance was S6OO, S3OO on each.

Ed, and Charlotte Kanne entertained Lonzo Healy, Prof. Novak of St. Joseph’s college, Fred and Walter Feldhaus, Elizabeth Luers, Lanie Schmal and Mrs. Al Kanne at a three course six o’clock dinner Monday evening. Prof Novak and Lonzo Healy played several musical numbers during the evening, to the great .enjoyment of all.

Escaping gas from a base burner nearly asphyxiated Mrs. Frank Critser a f«w nights ago. When Mr. Critser went home in the morning 'Mrs. Critser started to get out of bed and fell in a heap on the floor, so nearly overcome was she by the poisonous fumes, which had come out into the room by reason of a stoppage in the chimney.

Walter Schreiner of Sandwich, 111., who with his brother Walter put in some time hunting pearls last jSeptember near |thd Jay Lamson farm west of town, went to New York with the several pearls that they found and sold the finest one for SI,OOO. The boys also harvested about twenty tons of clam shells which they will ship) to a pearl button factory.

And they have even taken Idaho with its 4 electoral votes away from Taft and givem it to Wilson, while later returns give California to Roosevelt by 900. Except for Horace Greeley, in 1872, who got no electoral votes at all, Taft is the worst defeated candidate who ever run for the presidency on either of the leading tickets. He gets but 8 electoral votes to Roosevelt’s 90 and Wilson’s 430.

Saturday night’s jolifloation over the election, by a crowd of boys and young men, was hardly up to Thursday might’s "blow-out.” It did not start until abdut 9:30 o’clock and consisted of a big bonfire on the rfyver bank near the Washington Street bridge. Some red fire and fireworks were set off up town later, and there was but little music. The affair was entirely unofficial and non-partisan in its character.

Basil Leech, delivery boy for the Home Grocery, who was quarantined last Friday, when he was taken down with scarlet fever, Is reported to be doing nicely. His brother, Oscar, who is employed in John Werner's tailoring establishment, and who occupied the bed with Basil the night before he was taken down, was also quarantined. The young nfan fc supposed to contracted the disease qver in Illinois where he and bin mother recently visited relatives. The case is a mild one, it is said.

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