Jasper County Democrat, Volume 16, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1914 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

“Casey” Hemphill and “Abe” Moore took in the sights in the Windy City yesterday. Miss Martha Long came home last week from Western College, at Oxford, 0., for the spring vacation. Wm. Comer and wife, of Danville, Ind , are guests of his sisters, and daughter at the Comer House. Insist on having our Aspdratio chick starter, scratch feed, or corn grits. Ask your grocer, or phone the .Mill, 456. V The continued wet weather has made it impossible to get in the fields to sow any oats -as yet, except possibly in a very fevy tases, and not many fields will be fit to work for a week now, even if we have no more rain. Mr .and Mrs. D. G. Warner entertained (Mr. and Mrs. WL H. Wolcott, of Rushville, last week, they going from here to Remington, to spend several days with friends and relatives. Mrs. Wolcott will be better remembered here as Mrs. Maude Lally Reed.

Among the recent purchasers of Cord automobiles from W. I. Hoover, the Rensselaer agent., are Michael Delehanty, of Wheatfield; Thomas Spencer, of Milroy; S. S. Shedd, P. G. Kresler and Simon Thompson, of Rensselaer. All are touring cars except young Thompson’s, which is a runabout. The next Indiana legislature will be asked to enact a law licensing all persons who engage in the crying of public sales. It is the wish of the Indiana Austioneers’ Association for the purpose of weeding out incompetents and limit the number fpllowing the business. •». “The wants the progressives to come back to the republican party to reform the latter,” said a prominent progressive to The Democrat editor yesterday. “Why not the republicans come to the progressives to be reformed?” he continued. “Should the tail wag the dog, or the dog wag the tail?” Rensselaer relatives are in receipt Of cards from Albert, Kan., announcing the marriage of Miss Lydia Haas, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frederick Haas, of that city, and J. L. Morris, a son of Mrs. E. J.‘Morris, of Rensselaer, on Wednesday, March 25. After April 1 the newlyweds will be at home to their friends at Wichita, Kan.

C. T. Bojpourt, who has been on a prospecting trip down in Texas, returned here last week, and joined his wife, who is staying with her 1 mother, Mrs. Wm. P. Baker. Mr. Boicourt did not decide definitely on a location, and does not expect to do so until fall. Owing to the present unrest along the Mexican border' he did not visit in New Mexico, as' he intended to do. While exercising in a gymnasium in Marion a few days ago, Judge Robert Vanatta, of the DeftfwareOrant superior court, - fell from a ladder and broke his left leg and suffered some other injuries. His daughter, Miss Marjorie Vanatta, who makes her home here with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. vanatta, went to Marion on receipt of the news of her father’s injuries. 'Mrs. S. B. Thornton writes The Democrat to change the address of their paper from Big Lake, Wash., to Mt. Vernon, Wash., and says: “We do not want to miss any copies of The Democrat. We are having fine spring weather. The gardens are up in many places. We like our new 1 home quite well, but husband's health is very poor yet. We send best wishes to yoursejf and all old friends.” Taking fright at a go-carton West Clark street, Tuesday evening, the horse driven by iilr. and Mrs. David Zeigler, plunged through the feiy:e at the J. F. Bruner residence, ran about several in the yard, and out on the road pgain, upsetting the buggy and throwing Mr. and Mrs. Zeigler out upon the ground. Aside from a few minor bruises and scratches, Mr. and Mrs; ,Zelgler were uninjured, but the horse continued its erratic course until the buggy was a complete wreck.

We arc paying for Butter fat this week 25 k WILLIAM H.OJEXTER Rensselaer, Indiana V