Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1914 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Any kind of a cap you desire.— WM. TRAUB. M. Y. Slaughter is quite sick with kidney trouble. Yesterday’s markets: Corn, 54c; oats, 43c; wheat, |1; rye, 75c; buckwheat, 75c. * 23 head of extra good milch cows, a good bunch to select from, at the Garriott & .Lakin sale, pec. 17. ~~ 1 ■ X* Mrs. E. G. Perrigo ol Donovan, 111., spent Thursday here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Crockett. Samuel Holmes of Barkley tp. lost a fine mare a few days ago by its getting a leg broken and having to be killed. Stetson hats, Kingsbury hats, flannel shirts, fur caps, cloth caps, polo caps for the Xmas presents.—C. EARL DUVALL. Carving sets, aluminum ware, and many other handsome and substantial articles for Xmas presents, at ■’■oades & Son’s hardware store. Grover Makeever, son of Mr. and Mrs. F. M. Makeever of near Mt. Ayr. returned to his home in Detriot, Mich., Tuesday after a month’s visit at the old home. Mrs. Almeda Chapman of St. Joseph Mich., who has been visiting here for the past month with hei sons, J. H. and Fred Chapman, returned home Tuesday. C. E. Kersey has recently traded his 230 acre farm near Kersey, this county, to Albert Balleau for a 206 acre farm in Bureau county, 111., and will move to that place soon. Umbrellas, fur gloves, silk shirts, dress shirts, silk hose, tie clasp sets, knit caps, mufflers, smoking jackets, bathrobes will make a merry Xmas for the men and boys.—C. EARL DUVALL. Word comes from Bethany, Mo., of the birth on Nov. 30, of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Herman Churchill. This is their second child. Mrs. Churchill was formerly Miss Dollie Shock of Rensselaer. Fur overcoats, cloth overcoats and suits in all the new cloths. We have your size in stock. Make some one happy by making them a Xmas gift of one of our overcoats and suits. Prices reasonable at ROWLES & PARKERS. “ Marriage license notice from Monticello Herald: Dec. 4, Homer R. Payne, farmer, Remington, son of Samuel N. Payne, to Nellie Moore, Monticello, daughter of Joel Nicholson. Married at Monticello Dec. 4th by Rev. F. W. Backemeyer. George Werner of southeast of town, who was taken to Chicago last week for an examination and a possible operation, was brought home Tuesday. The doctors decided that an operation would not help him, and held out no hope for his recovery.

Mrs. Joe Wilson of Parr, who has been in poor health for some time, was taken to Indianapolis Tuesday to the Methodist hospital, Mrs. Ocie Brusnahan accompanying her. She is afflicted with an abcess on the brain, and the hospital people hold out no hope of her recovery, it is reported. Rev. A. L. Ward, a former pastor of the Christian church here, nowlocated at Lebanon, Ind., made an address Tuesday night at the banquet held at the Christian church for the men’s bible class of the Christion Sunday school. L. H, Hamilton was the toastmaster. About 65 sat down to the banquet tables. Bert Nichols of Lowell, who was attending a veterinary college in Chicago, was struck by a street car in that city Saturday night and his skull fractured. It is thought that he will recover. Only last Sunday the funeral was held of another citizen of Lowell, Walter W. Hoyt, who was also a victim of a Chicago street crossing. He was struck by an auto truck on Nov. 17, but lived until Bee. 1, before death occurred. It has d®velopepd that a movement of large proportions is on foot, backed by Postmaster General Burleson, to change the method of payment of rural carriers from the salary basis' to a contract basis. It is proposed that contracts for carrying the mails on the 'rural routes, shall be "let to'the lowest and best bidder. Chairman Moon and Representative William E. Cox of Indiana are two members 6f the committee who favor the plan, which, ft is estimated would save $18,500,000 a year. There are 2,000 rural carriers in Indiana.