Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1915 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Miss Jennie Harris was a Chicago goer Wednesday. W. S. Ahrens of Barkley tp. ( went tfl Chicago on business Wednesday. - ■ " 1 • <y William Havens moved this week from Milroy tp., onto James Parkison’s farm two miles west of Rensselaer. ' Mrs. Jacob Junglas returned to her home at Valparaiso yfestefrday after visiting the Zacher families oi Newton tp. Mrs. Howard Mills entertained the Girls’ Sew Club Thursday afternoon at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Parkison. Little fellows’ Oliver Twist, Dutch, Middys and romper wash suits now on display,__.All color combinations. All tit reasonable prices.—C. EARL DUVALL.

Mr. and Mrs. J. T. Murray and daughter, Mrs. 11. W. Wood, Jr., attended the funeral in Chicago Monday of Mrs. D. B. Whetstone, a sister of Mr. Murray’s. Mrs. Marion Adams is expected home next week from a two months’ visit with her daughter, Mrs. Zoe Goff, at Tulsa, Okla., and with her sons, Ray and Lee, at Demapolis, Ala. “Uncle” Jacob Lesh, who has been visiting here for the*'pasT'five~weeks With his daughter, Mrs. Eli Arnold, of Barkley tp., and other relatives, will return to his home at Menomonie, Wis., today. We will unload a car of fancy .Michigan sand-grown potatoes next Monday and Tuesday, put up in 150 pound sacks, Sy 2 bushels each. In 2% bushels lots or more, 55c a bushel. —JOHX EGER. 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. About twenty friends gathered at the home of Mrs. James Jordan Wednesday evening and gave ft shower for Miss Amanda Jenkins. A very enjoyable evening was spent and Miss Jenkins was the recipient of many gifts. Notice to the ladies of Rensselaer and surrounding country that you will now find on display a, large assortment of little fellows’ wash suits in Oliver Twists, Dutch suits, Middys and rompers. All cofiibinations.—C. EARL DUVALL. Governor Ralston has put the kibosh onto the race gambling and "prize fight bills by notifying the legislature that he would stand for no such laws, and yet this race gambling bill passed the senate with a whoop. Shake, Governor, shake.

Dr. Brown’s sale Thursday was well attended and property brought good prices. Dr. Brown and family came in Thursday evening and have taken up their residence in their property on River street, thus becoming bonafide citizens of Rensselaer once The aifdacity of race track gamblers was never more brazen than in the attempt to get a bill through the legislature to legalize machine gambling. Governor Ralston did the right thing in asking the house to kill the bill. That it did pass the senate is a disgrace to that body.—Ham mono News (Dem.). The Goodland K. of P. lodge celebrated the 51st anniversary of the order at their castle hall in that city last night. A feature of the celebration was the presenting of veteran’s jewels, gold medals, to Knights who had retained their membership in that lodge for twenty-five years. The editor of The Democrat was one of this number, having joined the Goodland lodge in 1889 and retained his metnbership there all of this time. ’ Five cases of scarlet fever are reported near Gifford, Mrs. Wesley Walker ahd three children, and a little daughter of Sheridan Logue, who resides on Dr. W. B.Myer’s farm, being down with the disease; v The youngest of the Walker children also has diphtheria complications* and is in quite a critical condition. As the children had been running about until they were taken down, it is feared that several more cases of the disease will develop, and Health Officer Dr. Hemphill has closed the Gifford school;