Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1914 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The annual spring vacation in the city schools begins Monday, and lasts one week. J. H. S. Ellis, Jr., and Dr. John Ellis, of Chicago, were Sunday guests of their father, J. h. S. Ellis. Mrs. Peter Kohler returned to ( hicago Heights Saturday after a weeks visit with relatives here. Mrs. Elmer Wilcox was operated on in a Chicago hospital last week for a nasal trouble. This is the third time she has undergone an operation for this ailment. Charles F. Bradshaw, formerly principal of the Rensselaer schools, but who lyis been employed in a similar capacity at Lebanon for the past three years, has been chosen from a list of forty-five applicants to preside over the schools at Delphi, as superintendent. Grant Warner passed his 56 th milestone Monday, and Mrs. A. F. Long gave a dinner for Mr. and Mrs. Warner and several other friends in honor 0 of the celebration of Mr. Warner’s birthday and that of Mrs. Warner’s of today, and her own, occuring Saturday.

Natural JAP-A-LAC i* better than any other form of varnish for finishinfi floors and new woodwork in new houses and for new and old hard and soft wood floors anywhere, any time. Now is a good time to use it, and the place to get it is Fendig’s Rexall Drug Store.

Under the new trpin schedule on the Monon the Chicago morning papers do not reach Rensselaer until 11:05 a. m., and they cannot be sent out ovdr any other line, either the Wabash or Big Four, so they can get here form the south, either on the Indianapolis morning train or the milk train.

The weather last Sunday was in direct contrast to that of the Sunday previous, which was the only spring day we have had thus far. The mercury Sunday was below the freezing point all day. Since then, however, it has warmed up somewhat, an . pt noon yesterday stood at 55 in the shade, and yesterday was the second real spring day of the season. '

Eli Arnold returned last week f’ cm spending the winter in Pomona,

Cal., and El Paso, Texas. At the former place he visited his brother, Henry, and at the^latter his sister, Mrs. W. N. Pence, Whose husband was former foreman of the old Nel-

son Morris ranch near Demotte, Jasper county. Mr. Pence for some years now has had charge of a big ranch of the Morris estate 150 miles from El Paso.

Mrs. Patrick F.-awley, of Kansas City, Mo., sister of Mrs. Geo. Robinson, of South Dakota, known better here as Miss Mary Beyers, aged 68 years, died at her home in Kansas City, Nov. 21 last, and word of her death has just reached her two neices, Mrs. L. H. Hamilton and Mrs. Clarence Maxwell, of Rensselaer. Her husband, five married daughters and a son, who died Feb. 28th, survived her. Mrs. Frawley was formerly a resident of Jasper county, about a dozen years ago, residing with her family here.

As Mr. and Mrs. George Borntrager and children were returning home from church Sunday, their horse took fright at a passing automobile and gave a sudden lurch that overturned the vehicle and precipitated all of the occupants' on the ground. Fortunately none of them were seriously injured, but the buggy was rather sadly demolished, especially the top. Dr. Kannal, who was passing in his car at the time, Mopped and gave them all the aid he could, even going so far as to take Mrs. Bbrntrager and the children home, and contributing $2 toward repairing the damage.