Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1915 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. H. R. Lange w’ent to _ Laporte Thursday. C Andrew Gangloff went to Blue Island, 111., Wednesday to visit relatives. .. Remember Hamilton & Kellner sell the John Deere and Oliver line of implements,. Clint Colvert returned Tuesday from a visit with his brother, Leo, and wife at Joliet, 111. Miss Elizabeth Peters of south 01 town, went to Lafayette Wednesday to visit her brother, George, and family. " \ Mrs. Adam Flesher of Barkley tp., is suffering from a broken ankle, caused by a fall on the ice one day last week. Up to yesterday there had been 222 bills introduced in the. lower house of the legislature, and .167 bills in the senate. Lou Robinson returned Saturday evening, from Chicago, where he re cently underwent an operation for double hernia, and is getting along nicely. Before you buy a corn planter see the new Black Eagle. It has four wheels and has the fertilizer attachment on the back axIe.—HAMILTON & KELLNER. Mrs. C. A. Brown of Knox, after a few days’ visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Day, left Wednesday morning for South Bend to visit her daughter there. There wafc a rise of several degrees in temperature Thursday night, and yesterday morning the mercury stood at about 4 above zero. The forecast for today is “fair and warmer.” Mrs. L. R. Florence, who has been keeping house for her father, John English, and brother-in-law, Albert Brand, since the death of the latter’s wife, w’ent to her home at Brookston Thursday. Arvil Bringle of Fair Oaks, will take a permenent position in the Rensselaer postoffice Monday, as clerk, to succeed Miss Wilda Littlefield, who took Edson Murray’s place when the latter left last fall to attend college.

A miscellaneous shower was given Saturday evening by Mrs. E. P. Lane at her home on Forest street, for Miss Gertrude Schmal, who was married Thursday morning to Mr. George Putts of southwest of town. Th<_ young lady received many nice presents. The following from Rensselaer went via autoes to Kentland Tuesday evening to attend a dance givfen there by the Knights of Columbus: Misses Charlotte Kanne, Lucy Healy, Edna Robinson, Maurine Tuteur, Clara Plunkett, Martha Ramp and Frank Cox, Lon Healy, John Ramp, Clemons Gangloff and Ed Duvall. Edna N. Dexter, hine-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Dexter, died Saturday mo.rning of scarlet fever and diphtheria and was interred the same evening. She was taken home very sick from the Cox school on Wednesday. Three other children of the -same family have the fever but are getting better. Also one of James Burnside’s children and two of Charles Potts’ children are afflicted.—Morocco Courier. A family by the name of Baker, moved here this week from Frankfort, Clinton county, expecting to occupy a farm house on the Lawler ranch, and Mr. Baker was going to erect a sawmill and cut wood for Mr. Lawler. Upon arrival they found the house had most of the window’s broken out and in fact so badly taken care of that they could not occupy it. No vacant house could be found in town, so they moved into rooms over Warner Bros., hardware store until they can secure a house. T. A. Crockett, to settle a dispute over the date of the “big sleet” in this section of Indiana many years ago, showed us a copy yesterday or a poem written by his son, Mort Crockett, on this sleet, at the time, ■and the date given there was Feb. 3, 1883, therefore next Wednesday will be the -32 d anniversary of this storm which did so much damage to fruit and shade trees and in which mapy head of dattlp lost their lives. Mr. Crockett states that jp an argument over the date a few days ago some contended that the sleet occurred in 1885, instead of 1883.