Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 90, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 February 1915 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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.