Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1914 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Lon Healy was a Chicdgd business goer Friday. Today’s markets: Corn, 52c; oats, 35c; wheat, 75c; rye, 55c; buckwheat, 75 c. Mrs. Ernest Ramey returned Saturday from a week’s visit at Wheatfield and Demotte.. Advertised letters: S. W. Moore, James B. Neff, Mr. Walter Kelly and Miss Mary Harris. C. A. Tuteur \yent to South Bend Saturday to attend a banquet of his insurance company’s agents. AV ash Lowman, who is conducting a hotel and restaurant at Goodland, was a business visitor here Friday. Call phone 6 for all kinds of hard and soft coal. Quality and service guaranteed.—J. C. GWIN LUMBER co - \ j!2 Call at Rhoad’s grocery for the Rose Bud Farm mill buckwheat flour, graham flour and corn meal.—AMOS H. ALTER & SON. j_n We have reduced the price on all our remaining blankets. It will pay you to see ours before you buy. E. VAN ARSDEL & CO. A large number of the St. Joseph’s college boys who had been home for the holidays returned Monday evening to take up their studies again. The Poultry and Corn Show opened in the armory yesterday. With good weather there should be a large attendance at the show this year.

Mrs. J. W. McConnehay, who had been visiting here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Randle, returned to her home in Pullman, 111., Saturday. I am willing to prove to you that 1 can save you money, tipae and worry on that hard Monday morning job (washing).—McKAY’S LAUNDRY, phone 340. The sun did condescend to shine for sbout five minutes Monday, about 2 p. m., after weeks of hiding, but so brief was it appearance that but very few people here saw it at all. Joe Putts, who is traveling for the N. K. Fairbanks Company of Chicago, with territory in Illinois and Kentucky, returned to Chicago Friday after a few days visit with home folks. When ordering buckwheat flour, graham, whole wheat flour or meal, insist on having Sprague’s. Made fresh every day. Guaranteed highest quality. Your grocer, or phone the mill, 456. Get your sale bi’ls printed at The Democrat office. A free notice of the sale in full is carried in i’he Democrat up to the date of the salt, with each set of bills printed, and everyone reads The Democrat, therefore you cannot secure such great publicity for your sale elsewhere. A telephone message was received by officers here Sunday morning, from Medaryville, requesting them to be on the lookout for a horse and buggy stolen from a hitch-rack tUere Saturday night. No trace of the stolen property has been found at this writing.

Some idea of the growth of business of the city of Gary may be had from the bank clearings and postoffice business for the year 1913. The bank clearings aggregated $19,684,014, a gain of 30 per cent, over 1912. The postofflce receipts aggregated $65,077, an increase of 29 per cent, over the previous year. Probably no other city in Indiana and probably not in the entire country can show such a remarkable increase of business as this. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Milliron of Flint, Mich., came the latter part of the week for a brief visit with his parents here, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Milliron, and Monday night all left for a month’s sojourn at St. Petersburg and Tampa, Fla. Mr. Milliron left his restaurant in charge of Mr. and Mrs. Ross Ramey during their absence. George Casey an<J Dr. S. H. Moore returned Saturday nigtyt from Jackson, Miss., where they had gone on a real estate deal. Dr. Moore was to trade his land near Hamilton, N. D., for a farm 6 miles from Jackson, and the deal would have gone through all right except that Dr. Moore became sick while down there and was unable to transact any business at all. A physician was with him all of one night and he got enough better to travel, so Mr. Casey hurried back home. With him. The weather there was delightful, Mr. Casey says, and Friday people were going about in their shirt (sleeves like it was summer.