Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 December 1914 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The babe of Mr. and Mrs. Al Kanne is quite sick. Burgess ,is again confined to his home with sickness. Mrs. Angelia Luers went to Parr Wednesday to visit her son, Joe, and family. ■ - Miss Lydia Sands, who has been nursing Mrs. C. H. Mills, went to Lafayette Thursday to visit a few days. Dr. C. E. Johnson will be host next Friday evening to the Jasper and Newton Counties Medical Association, at the Makeever House in Rensselaer. Herbert Zea, who has been employed in Hammond for the past few years, has returned to Rensselaer on account of the slackness of work there, and will take up employment here. Mrs. Neely Wilson, who had been here at the bedside of her mother, Mrs. Guinan, at the home of Mrs. B. S. Rice, returned to her home in Brook Thursday. Mrs. Guinan’s condition is improving slowly. Mesdames J. D. Allman, H. E. Hartley, J. P. Hammond and E. T. Harris went to Remington Wednesday to attend the anniversary meeting of the Fortnightly Club of that place, of which they were former members.

John B. Martin of near Pleasant Ridge, suffered a light stroke of paralysis Wednesday, his right side and face being affected. His son and daughter, Joe Martin and Mrs. Louis Sites and children of Brookston, came up Thursday to see him. Mel Griffin has bought 1% acres of ground of Hiram Day fronting on the road leading south from the west end of McCoy avenue, next to the St. Joseph College farm, and Is erecting a new bungalow thereon. The frame is all up and practically enclosed, work having been rushed on the building. J. Cecil Alter of Salt Lake City, on his return from Washington, D. C., found the yellow flag floating over ihs home and the family, including a new son and a his mother from Indiana, under quarantine for scarlet fever. He expects to start to his San Francisco work Jan. 1. His family will accompany him. The Democrat has just completed printing the poultry catalogues for the forthcoming Jasper County Poultry Show, which will be held this year on January 4 to 9, inclusive, in the Hamilton & Kellner implement room on Van Rensselaer street, north of Knapp’s livery barn. The association has arranged a good list of premiums, and with suitable weather there should be a nice lot of fowls on exhibition and a good attendance at the show.