Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1914 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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