Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1914 — LOCAL AND PERSONAL. [ARTICLE]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL.

Brief Items of Interest to Cit> and Country Readers. While indulging in rough and tumble play in the court house yard several days ago Raymond Dixie got his hair pulled so hard that the scalp was torn loose trom the skull and it '■vts necessary for the doctor to open the scalp and draw off the blood hi< h had formed there.

Former township trustee Theodore Phillips and Jerry Shea drove down in the la:ter’s automobile front ~Gltlant yesterday. Mr. Phillips remaining in Rensselaer to look after some (business matters while Jerry went on over to Remington to get a couple of young calves which he had bought front his sister, Mrs. George Worden.

Hr. Turfler had a crate of fine red onions on display in A. F. Long's drug store Which were raised by George Zea on the doctor's onion farm near the Burke bridge, which lie will ship to President Wilson to season the dressing for the big international peace banquet, which it* is hoped will be held ere long at the White House,

Paul Stoudt of Remington, returned home Saturday morning from a few weeks' stay in North Dakota, where he worked in the harvest fields. He was in the vicinity of Lisbon, and reports that so much rain fell there that slow progress was being made in the harvesting of the wheat and barley crop. Wheat is not an extra good crop there this year, he was told. V •' " ' . . •' ■■ I' ■■ ' ■ - ■ . ... •

w;m. Harrington and F. E. Lewis of Kersey, went to Lafayette Friday to see the former’s son, Francis Harrington, who got his foot so badly mashed at Newland recently while coupling cars on the Gifford road. He is in the St. Elizabeth hospital and is doing nicely. He can move the toes of the injured foot and will probably regain almost full use of the member.