Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1914 — Page 3

Grand Opening, Saturday, Februury 28,14 Owing to the severity of the weather we have defered our formal opening until the above date Mil IDO Corn n 0 A fancy shopping BASKET, ALSO fill IV fl n rilTfl (111 TUR We will give a FLOWER to every lady.

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John Morgan spent Sunday in Frankfort. The John Deere line is sold by HAMILTON & KELLNER. Roy Lewis, who has been sick with pneumonia, is some better. ■ x Watch for the bargains in the ■window of the 5 and 10 cent store. Get more eggs. Feed Blatchford’s egg mash. Sold by HAMILTON & KELLNER. , . ft Howard Lee, little son of Walter Lee, has been sick several days, but is now better. Advertised letters: Master Russell Paulus, W. F. Wilson, Bernard Nichols, L. A. Greenlee.

A grand surprise for manure Spreader customers. Call and see for yourself.—C. A. ROBERTS. Eton Pitzer will move from the Miary Jane Hopkins property on River street, into the Luther Hemphill property on north Front street. The Barkley Comic Entertainers ■will give a comic play at the Newland school house, Saturday, Feb. 28, at 8:15 p. m. Everybody invited. —COMMITTEE. Monday was a legal holiday for the banks and tural mail carriers. The latter were not bit sorry either, as the snow and wind Sunday night had caused the roads to be badly drifted in places. The obituary of John Tillett, the aged and well known citizen of Gillam tp., who died a few days ago, will be found on another page of The Democrat, in the items taken from the Francesville Tribune.

IF ITS 5 OR 10 CENTS WE HAVE IT Just now we call your attention to rhe exceptional values in Pleatings - - -10 c Embroideries -10 c Embroidery FlouncingslOc and 5 BIG SPECIALS in 10c Enameled Ware Jarrette’s Variety Stores Two Stores | Rensselaer, Ind. Monon, Ind.

5 and 10 Cent Store F. D. BURCHARD, Proprietor

George Putts was in Chicago Sunday. Miss Alice Coen visited in Chicago Sunday and Monday. Order your coal, wood and feed of HAMILTON & KELLNER. William Wortley, trustee of Jordan tp., is confined to his home with the mumps. Mrs. Edward Taylor and daughter, of Chicago, came down to spend the week-end with Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Warner. f ■. . I K ■ ... Ed Bellows and wife, of near Remington, spent Friday here with Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bellows, Mr. Bellows, Sr , being in rather poor health. Just received, shipment of Ball Band rubbers and rubber bo its. Right from the factory.—GEO. E. COLLINS’ NEW STORE, Odd Fellows’ Bldg.

Buy your correspondence stationery, engraved and printed calling cards at The Democrat office. We carry the largest stock of this class of goods in Jasper county. Call in and see for yourself. Mrs. J. K. Moore, of Piper City, 111., came Friday to spend a few days here with her husband, who is employed as a clothing salesman by D. A. Kloethe, who is disposing of the Rowles & Parker stock. Misses Jane Parkison and Ethel Cloathe of Rensselaer, were the guests of Miss Mary Harper. The young ladies are students of the Jacksonville College and w r ere passing through the city on their way home from their studies. —Saturday’s Delphi Herald.

Today’s markets: Corn, 54c; oats, 3ac; wheat, 75 c. Mr. and Mrs. H. F. King were the guests of Monon relatives over Sunday. In Sunday’s basket ball game at St. Joseph r s college the Co. C team, of Monticello, was defeated by a score of 36 to 26. Lee Myres, eight miles north of town, has sixteen head of horses for sale. Among them are several mares in foal. Time can be had on approved note. —Advt. Oscar Tharp, wife and son, of Monticello, are spending a few days here with his sisters, Mrs. John Q. Alter and Mary Jane Hopkins. Mr. Tharp and wife expect to visit their son, Wilbur Tharp, in Oklahoma, in the near future.

Miss Mary Childers returned Sunday from Hammond, where she has been recuperating at the home of her uncle, Parker Overton, from the recent operation which she underwent in a Chicago hospital. Mrs. Childers accompanied her home. George B. Davidson, of Portland, 0., a former resident of Jasper county, v.as here Friday to close up a deal for the sale of his 80-acre farm, adjoining the Dr. A. R. Kresler farm near Pledsant Ridge, to the doctor, the consideration being SB,OOO. John E. Robinson, Lloyd Parks, Orpha Gant, Grant Wynegar and Lieutenant Jerry Garland went to Culver Military Academy Sunday to participate in the annual matches of the Indoor Riffe Association of Northern Indiana, held there Monday. Classified advertising in the columns of The Democrat are an investment and not an experiment, as hundreds of satisfied advertisers will gladly acknowledge. Why not try them yourself if you have anything to sell, exchange, rent, lost or found? It will pay you.

A telegram received by George A. Williams Thursday, informed him of the death of his wife’s sister, Mrs. F. C. Davidson, at Carthage, 111,, Thursday. Mrs. Williams had been summoned there W’ednesday by a telegram informing her of the sister’s serious condition. In the final basketball game of the season scheduled by the Rensselaer high school, held Friday evening, the local five was victorious over their opponents, the Lowell high school team, by a score of 46 to 1.4. The game was very fast and was replete with many brilliant plays on the part o' the local team. A. W. Sawin and family, with the exception of Misfe Nellie Sawin. expected to go to Edinburgh, Ind., yesterday to attend the golden wedding anniversary of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Sawin, both of whom are seventy-five years of age, and in rather poor health. Train serviced however, made their proposed going a little problematical. - 1 Mrs. Nellie Messman and daughter, Miss Cecelia, of near Wolcott, came Wednesday evening, and her son, Joseph, yesterday for a visit with her sister, Mrs. William Molter, and other relatives hereabouts. Mrs. Messman and family are preparing to move from the farm ipto the city of Rensselaer and her eldest son, Anthony, who was recently married. is t o reside on the farm.— Kentland Deihocrat

Rev. H. V. Sharp, of Frankfort, who conducted the services at the M. P. church Saturday evening and Sunday, was the guest of Mr. and Mrs. John Bill while in the city. Mrs. F. B. Meyer, of Gary, who has been visiting here with her brothers, A. H. and Bert Hopkins, and families, returned home Saturday. Lawson Meyer, also of Gary, was here a short time Saturday.

W. R. Lee was up from Wabash Sunday to spend the day with his children. Mr. Lee has been meeting with fine success in disposing of the stock of goods that he recently purchased and is closing out at Wabash, and expects to have the entire stock sold in a week or two more. Miss Genevieve Morgan, secretary to President Roberts, of the N. W. Traction Co., left Saturday for her home at Cambria, Wis., for a few days’ visit. Mr. Roberts spent Sunday in Evansville, while the vicepresident, V. J. Zimmerman, and wife and Miss Marie Hader, of Milwaukee, who have been here for the past few days, returned home. Thomas Jensen and wife and the latter’s sister, Miss Lillie Langdon, of Wheatfield, and Charles Jensen, of Goodland, were guests of Mr. and Mrs .J. P. Hammond here Sunday. Herbert Hammond, who is now employed by the Public Service Co., in * Chicago, was also down over Sunday and Monday visiting Mr. and Mrs. Hammond.

E. P. Honan was the only democrat from Jasper county attending the Jackson Club banquet at Lafayette Monday night. Neither Kern, Ralston, Peterson or Adair were present, as expected, and the snow blockade also kept many others away. There were about 250 present, Mr. Honan states, Including many of the candidates for state office, and they had a rousing good time nevertheless. When you are needing letter heads, envelopes, statements, business cards, or any other class of job printing, call up The Democrat (phone 315) and let your wants be known. A representative of our job printing department will call upon you in town, if requested, at any time to figure with you on any class of work you may desire. We have the type, equipment and printers necessary to turn out high class job printing of all kinds, and we wapt your work, feeling sure that we can please j’ou both in quality and price.

W ,B. Austin, of Chicago, who returned last week from a several weeks' visit at Pasadena, Calk, was down on business Saturday. Mrs. «Mxstln and daughter, Mrs. Shayne, remained at Pasadena, having given up their proposed visit to Honolulu, where they intended, in company with Mr. Austin, to spend the winter months. Mr. Austin returned via El Paso, Texas, ttad while there took the opportunity of ,visiting Juarez, Mexico, where he met some of the leaders of the revolutionary forces, but was not very favorably impressed with their appearance or s he conditions as he found them existing in the war-torn republic. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. Tin Kind Yon Han Always Bought fltgnamm of

A new dredge has been shipped here and will be put in shape for cutting the Carpenter’s creek lateral of the Borntrager ditch. It Is expected to get it In operation early in April. Miss Hazel Kenton, of Mitchell, So. Dak., who has been visiting relatives at Elwood, has returned here for a few weeks’ more visit with Rensselaer relatives, before returning to her home in the northwest. Mrs. Shindler, the aged mother of the Shindler boys and Mrs. Joe Thomas of Newton tp., died Monday night at the home of Mrs. Thomas, aged about 80 years. At this writing arrangements for the funeral had not been completed. A son was born Feb. 17 to Mr. and Mrs. Elery Hearn of Lincoln Neb. The mother is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Edward Long of near Mt. Ayr,, and a few year's ago clerked in the G. E. Murray Co. store in Rensselaer. Her maiden name was Edna Long.

Mr. and Mrs. Emerson Coen, accompanied by his sister, Miss Alice 1 oen, went to Chicago Sunday, where after a few days’ visit with Jesse Coen and family, Mr. Coen and wife will leave for her former home at Waterloo, lowa, where they expect to make their home. The senior reception held at the armory Monday evening was the largest and carried on with the most pomp of any senior reception lor a number of years. After the banquet a dance was held, music being furnished by Perry and John Horton. All report a splendid time. Miss Ethel Kloethe, accompanied by Mrs. J. P. Glass, of Jacksonville, 111., came Saturday to spend a couple of days here with her father, D. A. Kloethe. Miss Kloethe is a student at the Illinois Woman’s College, at Jacksonville. Miss Jane Parkison, also a student there, was home Sunday to visit her parents. Eugene Purtelle, he of unsavory reputation as a traction line promoter, has begun an action in Chicago against the Daily Inter Ocean for $50,000 for libel. Just what the Inter Ocean could have said to have libeled Gene, we have nbt learned, but the case will probably amount to about as much as most libel suits.

George F. Meyers and James N. Leatherman went to Frankfort Saturday where Mr. Meyers completed the sale of the former Callaw'ay farm of 400 acres near Kniman, which he owned, to H. F. Bott of Clinton coun- j ty. An 80-ai-ce farm in Clinton j county was taken in on the deal, but' Mr, Meyers-sold the eighty before' leaving Frankfort. Mr. Bott’s son' and son-in-law will move upon the 1 Walker tp. farm. The entertainment given by the minstrel company of the Lafayette Knightk of Columbus last Friday night at the parochial school hall was very pleasing to the large audi-c-nbe and the local order of K. of C. took in about S6O as the receipts of the evening. From this amount, however, the expenses had to be deducted, so that the net receipts of the entertainment were not very much, although there was a good turnout to the entertainment. Box Social at Slaughter. There will be a box social at the Slaughter school house southeast of Rensselaer, on Saturday evening, Feb. 28. A cordial Invitation is extended to every one to come out. .Ladles please bring boxes.

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Big Stock Sale Postponed

Owing to the bad weather, the Homer Dresbach sale of 188 head of live stock, one and a half miles southwest of Monon, advertised for Monday, Feb. 23, has been postponed until

Saturday, Feb. 28, beginning promptly at 1 o a. m. This sale includes 20 head of horses 108 head of cattle, 60 head of hogs and a quantity of farm implements. Stock will be kept over Sunday with, out cost to the purchaser.

Homer Dresbach I. J. Clyne and Dresbach Bros., Auctioneers. J. H. Smith and Jno. G. Brown, Clerks. Hot lunch by Monon M. E. thurch ladi s.

lt<»ast Chicken Supper. The ladies of the Presbyterian church will serve a roast chicken supper in the basement of the churr.h F'riday evening, Feb. 27th, beginning at 5 o’clock. The public Is cordially invited', and strangers in the city especially invited. menu. , . Roast Chicken and Dressing Gravy Noodles Mashed Potatoes Cabbage Slaw Pickles j e ny Bread Lemon Pie Coffee Price of meals 35c. Public Sales. The Democrat has printed sain bills for the following public sales: Friday, Feb. 27, James Prohoska, 1 miles west of Surrey and 3 miles north of Mt. Ayr. General farm mt la, horses, cattle, farm tools, etc., also 100 acre farm on which Mr. Prohoska resides.

Township Agricultural Meetings for February. Friday, Feb. 27, Center school house, Barkley tp. Tuesday, March 3, at Center school house, Union tp. (A postponed meeting.) ) During February Mr. Barrett will talk on Soy beans and cow peas and also wants to get the farmers to organize in the various communities to further the work of a boys’ corn Club, and a girls’ poultry club as well as to help him in work which is sure to be beneficial to all. Card of Thanks. We wish to express our sincere thanks to our friends and neighbors for their help and kindness shown us during the sickness and death of our beloved wife and mother—John T. Daugherty, Mrs. E. S. Thornton.

<1 We are paying for Butter fat this week 30c WILLIAM H, DEXTER Renaaelaar, Indiana