Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1915 — Page 3

W. Li. Bott is confined to his home with a case of the grip. If your harness needs to be repaired and oiled, bring them to SCOTT BROS. William Middlecamp and Miss Minnie Schmidt of Kniman were married in Chicago last Friday. Jarrette’s Variety Store enameled ware sale is still on. See the remarkable values in our window for, 10c. John Clager, A. S. Keen, John A. Williams and Simon Fendig were down from Wheatfield on business Saturday. Mrs. H. R. Lange came over from Laporte Friday to remain a few days with her husband. They expect to move here soon. B. S. Fendig and family came down from Chicago Saturday afternoon for a short visit with relatives and to look after some business matters. WANTED—I am located at Fancy Produce market and pay Elgin prices for butter fat. Correct tests guaranteed. Your patronage solicited.— C. H. LEAVEL. ts The Rebekah’s of Gifford lodge will give an oyster supper Wednesday night, Feb. 1”. Pie, coffee and oyster stew will be served for 25c. Everybody invited. —Advt. ‘Price of Beer Goes Up In Capital of Germany,” read a head line in Sunday’s paper. Now those Ber-r liners will perhaps realize that what Sherman said about war was true.' E. P. Honan, president of the Indiana Fraternal Congress, went to Indianapolis again Monday to look after matters in the legislature in which fraternal orders are interested. - The Rensselaer high school basket ball teams lost both games at Medaryville Friday night to the Medaryviße teams. The boys’ team was defeated by a score of 24 to 11, and the girls’ team by 8 to 3. • Louis Ringheisen of Fairmont, Minn., after a ten days’ visit here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Michael Ringheisen, of the west side of town, went to Peoria, 111., Monday, where his wife is visiting relatives. "Uncle” James T. Randle has donated the price of new pulpit furniture for the Methodist church, and same will be put in about the time the new pipe organ is installed, which is expected to be in place for the Easter services. The Scott Bros, sale in Barkley tp., last week, cried by Auctioneer John G. Culp, was well attended and property sold well. Five 2 and 3-year-old horses averaged $l9O •each, one 2-year-old mare bringing $231-; Sheep sold as high as $9 and $9.50 per head, and the cattle also sold well. The tale totaled about $3,500.

E. L. Bruce has rented the Mrs. Daniels property, consisting of residence and five acres of ground, in the northeast part of town, at present occupied by G. D. McCarthy, who will move back into his own property, -which is now occupied by Frank Bruner, who will move into the Mrs. Troxell property, next door east of the McCarthy property.

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O. P. Wright was in Lafayette on real estate business yesterday. The Lowell basket ball boys’ team will play our high school boys’ team here Friday. Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hielsher ot Kniman were business visitors in the city Saturday. D. B. Wallace of Chicago, spent Sunday here with his son, A. E. Wallace and family. i. Now is a good time to repair and pit your harness before going to spring work. SCOTT BROS, will do it for you. About 4 tons of nice bailed timothy' hay will be sold at the W. I. Hoover sale on Monday, Feb. 22. Also 12 to 15 acres of shock corn. Alfred Donnelly returned Saturday from an onion selling trip to Danville, 111., and other cities. He has sold out entirely now, it is understood. Mrs. Alta Parkison returned recently from Long Beach, Cal,, where she had been for the past nine months with her sister, Mrs. X. SBerray. * Have you seen our line of house aprons at 49c and 63c. Good mawell made and desirable patterns. JARRETTE’S VARIETY STORE. M. o. Stokes recently sold his property at Remington and has moved to Spirit Lake, lowa. He has subscribed for The Democrat in order to keep posted on Jasper county doings. We understand that Bro. Hr J. Bartoo of the Remington Press is putting in a Junior linotype. Bro. Bartoo is giving the people of Remington a good live newsy paper and we are glad to note this evidence of his prosperity. The Joab Branson sale in Jordan tp., last week, cried by Col, Fred Phillips, totaled about $4,500. Horses sold from $l4O to $269, one roan mare bringing the latter) price. A team of mules sold at S4OO. Mr. Branson had some good stuff and it all brought good prices.

Mrs. M. E. Thompson, who, with her daughter, Mrs. Ora T. Ross, has been up at Battle Creek, Mich., foi several weeks, taking treatment, returned home Saturday. Mrs. Ross stopped over in Chicago to see her son, Thompson Ross, and family, and did not get here until Sunday evening. Saturday was a fine warm day, a real spring day in fact, and the mercury reached about 60 degrees in the afternoon. There was a large number of people in town and the merchants all did a brisk business. Sunday was somewhat cooler and Monday was cold and raw, the mercury getting down below- the freezing point again. At noon yesterday the mercury stood at 34. Mrs. Arthur Boone has as her guests Miss Margaret Williamson of Greenfield, and Miss Bernice Boone of Rensselaer. . . .Mr. and Mrs. Saylors of Lawrenceville, 111., were here Friday for a visit with The~ latter’s uncle, Frank Hodshire, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Hodshire and daughter, Miss Hazel, accompanied them to Remington this morning for a brief stay..—Saturday’s Montcello Journal.

Now is the time to get your harness repaired and oiled. Get it done at-SGOTT BROS. 4 ——;— Friday, Feb. 26, E. E. Burkhart, 5 miles northwest of Wheatfleld, will have a general farm sale. f-16 Mr. and Mrs. Hiram Day went to Chicago Saturday to visit relatives and take in the cement show. f . Sylvester Gray went to Bluffton, Ind., yesterday to look after his farm there. He will probably be gone about a week. Some of our readers report having seen robins and bluejays, but it is probable the birds will wish they had stayed a little longer in the southland. The Democrat now has in its stationery and office supply department, those perpetual calendar pen-cil-holders, for fountain pens, as well as pencils. They cost but 10c each. Call in and see them. The annual Jackson banquet will be held at Lafayette by the Jackson Club of that city on Friday evening, Feb. 26. It is probable that several of the local democrats will attend. Mr. and Mrs. George Putts returned Friday from a wedding trip to Chicago, Gary and Crown Point, and that evening they were given a charivari. George came out and set up the “smokes,” and thereby fixed it up alright with the crowd. Mr. and Mrs. Clayton Wilkinson and children, Albert Floyd and William Cloyton, Jr., of Tefft. Mr. and Mrs. George Sheetz and daughter, Margaret Azalia, of Rensselaer, were here to spend the first of this week with Mr. and Mrs. AI Maguire.—Oxford Gazette.

Miss Louise Harmon, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Andrew Harmon, residents of Rensselaer a few years back, v. as married last Thursday at their home iA Pontiac, 111., to Mr. Anton Fisher of that city. Miss Harmon is a sister of L. A. Harmon, still residing here. ■ William Broadie and family, old residents of Remington, are preparing to move to Chautauqua county, New York, near where the late W. E. Peck resided. Mr. Broadie bought a, farm there last fall. It is reported that the Peck family will return to Remington if they can sell out in New York state, Mr. Peck’s death having disarranged alltheir plans. Mrs. X. A. Hendrix of east of town, suffered a fracture of her right hip last Wednesday by tripping on a piece of linoleum in her home. Her son, Dr. Richard Fidler, of Milwaukee, was sent for, and, with the local doctors, set the fracture and placed the hip in a heavy plaster cast. It is thought that she .will get along alright, although her recovery will necessarily be rather slow. Dr. Fidler returned to Milwaukee Friday. Walter Porter has recently sold 80 acres of his land lying just west of W. I. Hoover’s farm, in southwest Marion, to J. A. Larsh, the druggist. The consideration is reported to have been $125 per acre. There are no improvements on the land. Joe is evidently trying to catch up with John Eger as a bloated land-owner, and now owns 220 acres in Jordan tp.; 80 acres in west Marion and 120 acres'in east Marion, a total of 420 acres, and all fine land, too. „ Mrs. C. P. Wright was .informed by phone Sunday of the death of her aunt, Mrs! William Hubbard, of Kentland, who died there on that day after ah extended illness from Bright’s disease. Her age was about 76 years. The remains were brought to Remington and the funeral held there yesterday afternoon. Mrs. Wright and son, Don, and Mr. and Mrs. Zern Wright attending. Mrs. Hubbard was known to many of our readers in the south oart of the county. (T . \ Chester Besse of Remington went to Chicago Monday to enter a hospital for an operation for appendicitis, and his wife, who is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John O’Connor of Rensselaer, and Dr. Rainer of Remington, went up yesterday to be there when the operation was performed. Mr. Besse suffered an attack; of appendicitis about a year ago and had been' troubled again of late with the same ailment. After an x-ray examination the doctors decided that an operation should be performed as soon as possible.

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Simon Hochstetler went to Shipshewanna Saturday to visit his sister, residing there. | -Miss Francis Irwin and Miss Emily Wightman went to Chicago day to visit relatives. Mrs. W. L. Wqod welnt to Indianapolis Friday td spend Sunday with l*er husband, Hop. W. L. Wood. ;-y : '( : iT '' ' * Look your harness over and see if they -don't need repairing and oiling, and bring them to SCOtT BROS. —a . Mr. and *Mrs. Burwe|l Lucas of South Bend, came the latter part of the week to visit his brother, A. G. Lucas and family. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Torbet of Barkley tp., went to Thorntown Friday to .attend the funeral of R. M. Ilainill, a brother-in-law of Mr. Torbet’s. i Another new supply of Ideal Account files received in The Democrat’s stationery department. These are' much cheaper and more convenient for keeping moderate-sized accounts than a cumbersome ledger.

From present indications the Indiana legislature will pass a law legalizing rade track gambling in Indiana, and Representative Waltz, of Evansville, lias introduced a bill to. legalize “boxing bouts”, or prize fighting, and to have a commissioner appointed to look after same. If both these bills go through, the sporting fraternity will, have fared mighty well from this legislature. Miss Millie died at the county dHb' last Friday morning of She had been brought there Kankakee tp.j about Nov. 1. Funeral services were conducted by Rev. Curnick and burial made in Weston cemetery. The young woman leaves one sister, who resides in Elwood, but no word was received from the latter. Miss Crane had lived with a family by the name |of Hamlet, in Kankakee tp., before being brought to the asylum.

The residence properties of Ben Smith, which he sold here at public auction Saturday, were bought by the following persons: The cement block house, where Ben resides, and the small cement tenant house just east thereof, were sold to Hiram Day at $2,425 and $375, respectively. Henry Amsler bought the place in the east part of town at $1,125. Mr. Smith and family expect to move in a couple of weeks to Zurich, Mont., for the benefit of the former’s health. They will locate upon a farm, we understand. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Yeoman returned Monday night from near Columbia City, where they had" been for several days packing up their household effects to ship to Surrey, where Mr. Yeomaijwill take charge March Ist of -the Paxton general store, "which he recently purchased. While at Columbia City Mr. Yeoman disposed of the balance of his last year’s wheat crop at $1.55 per bushel, but when he left there Monday the price had dropped to $1.45. Wheat fields are looking fine over in that section, considerably better, Mr. Yeoman says, east of Logansport than they do west of the latter place!

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Yesterday’s markets: Corn, 70c; pats, 55c; wheat, $1.45; rye, sl. f . r A civil service examination will bq held by the local board here Saturday for postmaster at Shelby.

Supt. James E. Walter of the J. J. Lawler lands, w r ent to Chicago Sunday morning and spent Sunday and Monday with Mr, Lawler, returning home Monday evening. He reports Mr. as getting along nicely and that- he will probably bo out in the course.of a week or ten days. V W. R. Willit was in from MeCoysburg yesterday. The joint sale of Willit’s and George Parker "at "McCoysburg Monday was well attended and property sold very well indeed, three horses bringing a total of $559. :?■ * . - y W.;; ■■, v’-c,. k •"■'.'.-i-'r ■ ■?" ■ John McGUnn moved down from near. Lowell Monday €o the Henry Grow farm, northwest of town, driving through with his goods. J. V. Lesh, who occupied the (Show farm, lias moved to his own fan- in; Union tp-. which lie recently purchased of. James K. Harriott. ’ v "<

The fire oompdny was called to the home of Clency Wood, at the southeast part of town, about 2 p, m„ Monday whero a defective flue had et lire to the roof of the house. The blaze was put out wllh chemical extinguishers and but little damage done except a hole burned in the roof about the chimney, Mr. and Mrs. Joe Duets of Parr, were given an enjoyablo surprise last Friday evening when several couples of their friends came in upon them and reminded them that it was the eighth anniversary of their marriage. A fine supper of roast chicken and accompanyments was had and an enjoyablo evening was spent by all. - The Democrat will print your return card in the corner of 100 good quality envelopes, furnish the envelopes, and mail to your address any place in the United Sates for only 50 cents, cash with order. Larger quantities at a much less proportionate price. You cannot afford to go without your return card on your envelope when you can buy them for so small a price as this. It is believed that the same bunch of “spectacle peddlers’’ who recently worked in the vicinity of Rensselaer and caught a few farmers hereabouts for rentals of “electrical machines,’’ to cure rheumatism, etc., worked about Roselawn last May. where they found a few victims, W. M. Brown being caught for $7.50 and William Laßanta for $22.50 for advance payments on rental qf these alleged electrical cure-alls.

L. 11. Hamilton and Kerry Newman, the latter an agent for the international Harvester Co., went to Kankakee, 111., Monday to attend the funeral of George Bray ton, an T. H. Co. salesman, who had the territory comprising Benton, Jasper, Newton, Lake and White counties, and who died in Kankakee Saturday of tonsilitis, following a severe attack of rheumatism. He leaves a wife and three children. Mr. Brayton had Intended to move Rensselaer some time early in the summer and occupy the J. T. Randle property, whepe O. F. Parker now lives.

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