Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1912 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Box Stationery, 15c to 50c a box. The Democrat Office. J. W. Marlatt was in Chicago on business‘the first of the week. E. P. Honan is in Indianapolis a Jew days this week on business. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Warner went to Chicago Saturday to visit friends ard attend the fat stock show. Miss Madaline Ramp, since the operation on her ear, in a Chjcago hospital, is getting along as well as could be expected, and it is thought will soon be restored to health. 1 X Miss Bessie Wiley, teacher iu the sixth grade of the public schools, entertained her brother, J. R. Wiley, a Purdue student, and sister, Miss Rosalie Wiley, who is a student of Northwestern University, Chicago, over the Thanksgiving vacation, at her boarding place, the Laßue home on River street. Miss Zoe Adella Sayler, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew K. Sayler, of Big Rapids, Mich., and Mr. Clyde Ulrey of Brook, were married at the home of the bride's parents on Sunday, November 24. They will be at home after December 1 at Brook. Mr. Ulrey is well known here, having taught school in Newton townhsip. Newton County Enterprise: John Montgomery of near Brook shot a golden eagle Monday, and brought the same to Kentland to be mounted by Chester Loughridge. The bird measures 7 feet and 1 % inches from tip to tip of wing, and is a fine specimen. Eagles seldom visit this section and this stray bird fell prey a good ways from its native mountain home. A family reunion of the Kanne family of west of town was held Saturday and a big dinner was the feature of the occasion. All their eleven children, nine boys and two daughters, Mrs. Stephen Kohley and Miss Charlotte Kanne were present. Three of the sons still live in Illinois near .Campus, and six of therp live at or near Rnesselaer. The three former came over Friday evening by auto ard remained here;.until Monday.

J. C. Pitts, a tourist printer who has been working in the Monon News office for several months, was found dead in his room in the hotel at that place Sunday evening. Pitts worked for several months some years ago on the Rensselaer Republican. He is said to have been- a dope fiend, and is thought to have taken an overdose of morphine. age was 46 years, and his hornet said to have been at at Seymour, Ind.

Jacob Finglemeier, an old resident of Jordan tp., died Thursday at his home four miles northeast of Remington, aged 83 years. He leaves one son and three daughters, two of the daughters, Mrs. John Hordeman and Mrs. Peter Van Lear, residing in Rensselaer. The other daughter, Mrs. Anna Sharp, resides in Chicago. His death was due to a paralytic stroke received some time ago. 'Ehe funeral was held from Sacred Heart Catholic church Ln Remington, Saturday morning ami burial made in the Mt. Calvary cemetery, south of Rensselaer, where his wife, who died several years ago, is also buried. Jerome G. Andrus of Shelby, Mich., who came Saturday, arriving at 11: a. m., in response to a telegram the day before informing him of his brother John’s critical condition, is engaged in the potato ard fruit growing business there. He shipped quite a number, of barrels of apples here this fall to old friends who ordered them from him. Potatoes in his locality, he states were hurt considerably by blight, Dealers there are now paying 40 cents per bushel, which is a very good price, and is probably twice as much as they will be worth next spring. An enormous crop, the country over, was raised this year, and it is only the inability to get cars for shipping them that is keeping the price up to the present figure. Beans are also grown extensively in Jerome’s locality and are usually a very profitable crop. HJ planting, however, was a failure this year, owing to the wet weather.

FREE HOMESTEADS. Can locate you on 320 acres of rich level land with an abundance of water at a depth of five to fifteen feet. All that is required for a clear title is cultivation and residence on same for a period of three years. Only a very few tracts left, so if you are desirous of getting some of this land Uncle Sam is giving away, don’t delay in writing for particulars to E. HUFTY, 1538 Spruce St. Pueblo, Colo.