Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1914 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Buy your oox siadonery and envelopes at The Democrat Office. Mr. and Mrs. Harve J. Robinson spent Sunday in Hammond, with his mother, Mrs. William Porter. The Ladies’ Literary Club will meet Friday with the president, Mrs. M. D. Gwin, it being “President’s day.” Frank Wiseman, who has been working with George Hurley on a dredge in Minnesota, returned homo Friday. C. L. Morrell has bargained for the sale of his auto bus line between Rensselaer and Remington to A. P. Gosnell. Mr. and Mrs. James Watt and Mr. and Mrs. Elijah Harp attended ths old settlers’ meeting at Monticello Saturday. 'f ’ : Calling cards, the correct sizes, both plain and linen finish, constantly in stock in The Democrat’s fancy stationery department. Miss Nettie Brown of Peru, after a visit here with her cousins, Mrs. W. C. Miliron and Mrs. Hale Warner, returned home Monday. Miss Nell Biggs, accompanied by her little nephew, Albert Duvall, went to Indianapolis Friday to visit her sister, Mrs. G. B. Rollings. Yesterday’s markets: Corn, 7 6c; oats, 44c; wheat, 92c; rye, 75c. The prices one year ago were: Corn, 69c; oats, 36c; wheat, 80c; rye, 53c.

George Platt and wife, as a result of a little domestic disturbance last week, have broken up housekeeping here and moved back to Danville, 111. All kinds of casing and tube work. Liner work a specialty. Located over Fred Hemphill’s blacksmith shop. Service guaranteed.—STOCKWELL & BR A DOCK ts Joseph Meyer and tw'o children of Pittsburg, Pa., returned home Monday after a visit here with his mother, Mrs. William Meyer, and sister, Mrs. Mary Meyer Healy. Mr. and Mrs. I. M. Duffey and children of Wabash, visited over Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Walker of Barklej' tp., and sister, Mrs. Jesse Nichols. Clence Wood, the colored man w ho has been living on south Front street for the past couple of years, has moved with his family into a house at the south end of Weston street. The two daughters of Theodore Hurley, deceased, Viola and Emma Hurley, who have been visiting here for a couple of months with Alexander Hurley and other relatives, returned to the soldiers’ orphans home at Knightstown, Friday. Mrs. John M. Knapp is still at the bedside of her aged mother at Busti, N. Y., where she was called three weeks ago. Her mother is 82 years of age and had been enjoying very good health until quite recently, when she suffered an attack of the shingles and her condition is now such that the doctors hold out no hope for her recovery, but say that she may live for some time or may die at almost any moment. i A Washington dispatch in Saturday s papers said: “The state department began a search today for five Hereford cows that were, bought and paid for in England by Warren J. McCray, an Indiana stock raiser and importer, and consigned to him at Kentland. The animals were to have been shipped from Liverpool August 11, but because of the European war it is believed they have been confiscated by the British government. ■■ i ’ ——— j Bert Hopkins has bought a 50 foot lot of Mrs. Cleve Eger, fronting on College avenue and just south of the lot recently purchased by Miss Maude Spitler, and expects to build a residence thereon sometime in the future, but not for a couple of years at least. His lot is the second from the corner north from the street running east and west through Fred Phillips’ Fair View addition. The price paid is not made public, but is probably about SBOO.

People from this vicinity who attended the carnival in Fowler last week reported it quite a thin affair with a very small attendance until Saturday. As a matter of fact the day for such “entertainment” has evidently gone by and carnivals, by whatever modern name U»ey may be filled, have ceased to be drawing cards. Saturday was the only day that they had any decent attendance, and there was a big crowd on that day and the airship flights were extra god.