Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1914 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL AND PERSONALBrief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Feed of all kinds at the mill, phone 456. The price of fat hogs advanced 25c per cwt. last week. County Agent Barrett went to Chicago Saturday evening, returning Sunday. Mrs. Scott Johnson returned to Morris, 111., Saturday after a visit here with Mrs. Emma York. Gerald Strong, a student at Ann Arbor, Mich t> was the week-end guest of Miss Anna Hartley. / Buy a “Staydown” tank heater from The Watson Plumbing Co., and keep your stock tanks from freezing over. Mrs. James Fisher and daughter, Miss Clara, of Hamomnd, were in Rensselaer' a few hours Saturday on business. Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Fendig and daughter, Miriam, of Chicago, were week-end guests of his aged mother and sister here.

“Aunt” Mary Jane Hopkins returned Friday afternoon from a month’s visit with her son, Homer Hopkins, and family in Monticello. Henry Jones, who had been visiting his brother, John, in this county for some time, left Friday for Black Mountain, N. C„ to spend the winter. Miss Selma Leopold went to Joliet, ill., Friday to spend a few days with her college roommate, and from" there the two returned to Ann Arbor, Mich. Call on us for anything,in a full line of bicycle tires, supplies and repairing. Free air. Also gun and lock work, and everything in the mechanical line.—MAlN GARAGE. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Prior were Chicago visitors Friday. Mr. Prior’s nephew, Walter Crampton, who had been spending the holidays here with him, returned to Chicago with them. Joseph Willetts writes from South Dakota, in renewing his subscription to The Democrat, and instructs us to change the address of his paper, from Fufton, S. D., R. 1, to Artesian, S. D„ R. 1. Floyd Spain, who went to Texarkana, Texas, a couple of months ago with Stewart Moore, in search of employment as a chauffeur, returned home Saturday evening. Stewart returned a few weeks ago. They did not find employment there as they had hoped. 1

The matter of employing a new English and Latin teacher in the city schools was not settled Friday afternoon as anticipated, owing to the non-arrival of some of the applicants who were to appear in person before the school board and Mi's. Ross Dean is still teaching these branches temporarily.

A. B. Crampton, of the Carroll County Citizen-Times, was a pleasant caller at The Democrat office while in the city Saturday afternon. Bro. Champton, who is one of the oldest newspaper men and also one of the most prominent old soldiers in Indiana, was here for the purpose of installing the new officers of the Rensselaer G. A. R. Post. Indianapolis had a $300,000 fire Friday night which burned the 4story Langen business block on west Washington street. The loss on building was $80,000; loss on stock of the E. O. Langen Co., SBO,OOO to $90,000; L. S. Ayres & Co., $60,000; W. jK. Stewart Co., $50,000; L. S. Ayres & Co., on main building, stock and stock of Albert Gall & Co., S7O - 000. 1 ■ D. J. Babcock, who is employed op the liiiotype force of the Elkhart Truth, came down Saturday evening for a short visit with bis parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Babcock, returning to Elkhart via Chicago Sunday afternoon. He likes his work at Elkhart very mpch, and is pulilng down from $24 to $32 per week, depending on the amount of overtime put in. The regular scale is s2l per week of M 8 hours.

We are paying for Butter fat this week 35c WILLIAM IL DEXTER Rensselaer, Indiana