Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 January 1914 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Fresh fish received daily at FISH MARKET. Phone 472. ----- f.gi Scott Bros., will show you the largest line of harness ever shown in the city. The John Deere Low Spreader is the acme of success. It is sold by HAMILTON & KELLNER. Scott Bros, can show you breechen harness, heel chain harness, slip-tug, and anything in single harness. Last Friday night the St. Joseph basket ball team played at Ft Wayne, and were defeated by the Friars, by a score of 18 to 6. Adam Nagel has bought the Mar-' tha Alice Moore Paxton farm, north of town in section 5, consisting of 161 acres, paying therefor $17,710. J. W. Beckman, who is employed as a traveling salesman for a Chicago cement company, left Wednesday for Waterloo, lowa, to again take up his duties, after a short vacation here. George Goff, who has been in South Dakota for the past few years, came this week for an indefinite stay in Rensselaer. George has a farm near Belle Fourche, So. Dak., and his son, Bert, is engaged in the livery business there. The report from Washington in the Indianapolis Star last Sunday, to the effect that Ben Dickson had declined the appointment of postmaster at this place because of a SI,OOO increase of salary as manager of the Crushed Stone Co., is said to be without foundation at this end of the line.-—Monon News. Mrs. Ora T. Ross was hostess Wednesday to eighteen of her lady friends, the two guests of honor being Miss Julia Leopold, who is to be married on the 4th of February, and Mrs. Stella Ketchum, who expects to leave the first of the month for a Mediterranean tour to Egypt and the Holy Land, the entire trip occupying three months’ time.

Mrs. Estella Gray, widow, of the late Allen Gray, formerly of near Remington, who is now engaged in the dressmaking business at Ft. Dodge, lowa, suffered a loss by fire of about SSOO recently. The fire started in the rear of h ; er dressmaking establishment and for a time threatened the entire block, says a Ft. Dodge paper. The loss on the building was about SSOO also.

A daughter was born New Year’s day to Mr. and Mrs. Rollin Stewart of Shadeland, Tippecanoe county, formerly of Hanging Grove tp. Mrs. Stewart will be remembered as Miss Hazel Drake, a daughter of Robert S. Drake, and this is the first grandchild for Mr. and Mrs. Drake. Grandpa and Grandma Stewart of Hanging Grove, went down to Shadeland Friday to see the new youngster. Two children, a boy and girl, of Mr. and Mrs. John Sommers, Jr., of Milroy tp., are suffering from diphtheria. The boy has the disease in a rather mild form compared to that of the girl, but antitoxin has been administered to both patients and the members of the family as a precaution against contagion. The school which the children attended is now closed and being thoroughly fumigated. The Bert Wood, who recently wrote The Democrat from China, where he is stationed as a soldier in the U. S. army, we learn is a son of S. F., or “Dick” Wood, as he is generally known, now of Lafayette, where he is engaged in the manufacture of artificial limbs. Bert worked for John Scott of north of town a few years ago but just how long he has been in the regular army, we are unable to state. v - The Democrat was in error about Lon E. Bernethy of North Judson, democratic candidate for the nomination for state treasurer, being in Rensselaer a. few days ago. A friend of Mr. Bernethy’s called at The Democrat office during our absence and left some of the latter’s cards, and, as this friend did not leave his name, we were under the impression that the caller was Mr. Bernethy himself. We have since been informed, differently, and that Mr. Bernethy will probably be in Rensselaer soon.

0 We are paying for Butter fat this week 321 c WILLIAM H. DEXTER Rensselaer, Indiana