Jasper County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1915 — Page 3

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Next Sunday is Easter. See us for cream separators.— HAMILTON & KELLNER. M. R. Willett of McCoysburg was A business visitor in the city Monday. A chance to buy a good family broke driver a?t Knapp’s livery stock sale Saturday, April 3. Mr. and Mrs. George W. Hopkins attended the funeral of the latter’s uncle, A. C. Tedford, at Goodland Sunday. Remember that this coining Friday is “Good Friday,” and the proper time to plant early potatoes, according to the old adage. „l Mr. and Mrs, L. Strong went to Tab, Benton county, Saturday, to visit their daughter, Mrs. D. M. Yeoman, and family a few days.

Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth and daughter, Miss Cecelia Hollingsworth, left Monday for Chicago and Kalamazoo, Mich., to visit relatives. Mrs. Fred Bartels of Newland, is suffering with a severe case * of gallstones, and will undergo an operation as soon as she is able tb stand the operation. Mrs. Bruce. White returned home Saturday after a week’s visit at Tefft with her brothers, Robert ana Louis Zick, and her sister, Mrs. William Warren. If you have friends visiting you, if you are going away on a visit, or if you know of any item of news that will be of interest, phone same to The Democrat office. We are always thankful for any items of news sent us.

Frank Cox, who has been clerking in the G. E. Murray Company store for several years, expects to leave shortly for Billings, Mont., and will possibly be accompanied by Virgil Denniston, the barber, who also expects to locate in Montana. . The Leech property, which was to have been sold here last • Saturday at public auction, was not disposed of. There were quite a number of prospective purchasers on the ground and the place was run up to SI,OOO, where it hung. The heirs wanted to get at least $1,200 out of the property, and therefore decided to withdraw it from sale.

Hislt Grade House and Barn Paint Reliable Paint at Money Saving Prices. TIMELY NEEDS You Can Find Them Here PAINT, WHITE WASH AND SCRUB BRUSHES, DUST MOPS, FLOOR MOPS AND BROOMS, MOP STICKS, CARPET BEATERS, WALL PAPER SCRAPERS, PUTTY KNIVES, GARDEN SEEDS, FLOWER SEEDS, RAKES, HOES, SPADES, SHOVELS, GARDEN TROWELS, FLOWER POTS, JARDINIERES, WIRE HANGING BASKETS, PORCH BASKETS. JARRETTE’S VARIETY STORE Sells Most Everything; Saves You Money, and Saves You Steps. PHONE 530.

BARGAINS IN SECOND-HAND ;; Autos 2 Ford Touring Cars, ’ 2 Buick 5-passenger, 2cylinder cars, 1 Regal 5passenger, all in good ’ running order. Will trade " for live stock or sell on ~ time with approved se- ~ curity. RENSSELAER: GARAGE t J. W. MARLATT, Prop, j

Mrs. Alta Parkinson wasi a Chicago goer Saturday" Charles Sebring of Gary, came dow n Friday to visit his parents, Rev. and Mrs. John Sebring. The simplest spreader oik the market is the John Deere. iV is sold by HAMILTON & KELLNER. Mr. and Mrs. Guy Gerber and baby of Kokomo, are visiting his parents here, Mr. and Mrs. Eli Gerber. E. S. Tillman came down from Hammond and spent Saturday and Sunday here with Mr. and Mrs. J. W. King. L you want to buy a good carriage, buggy, harness or robe, cheap, attend the Knapp livery stock sale, Saturday, April 3. We can supply you with all kinds of poultry feed. Ask your grocer for our starter and scratch feeds.— IROQUIS ROLLER MILL, phone 456. *

Gaylord McFarland, who is employed as a book-keeper in a strawboard factory at Wabash, came over Saturday to spend Sunday with his parents. Miss Anna Clark of Wheatfield, came over from Monon Monday, where she had been visiting, and stopped off here to visit Mrs, Ernest Ramey. Joe Reeve, Ed Robinson and Ray Laßue, who are attending a commercial school in Chicago, came down Friday night to spend Sunday with home folks. We have in stock and will sell on time, gasoline and kerosene engines, cream separators, corn shellers and grinders.—WATSON PLUMBING CO. Phone 204, Rensselaer, Ind. C. W. Eger, who has been in a critical condition with pneumonia, is now on the mend, and unless something unforseen sets in it is thought he will get along all right now.

c. A. Tindall, commercial teacher in the city schools, returned Monday morning from Shelbyville, where he went last week with the expectation of spending a couple of weeks and having his tonsils removed. He decided, however, to put off the operation until the close of the school. William Whited, who has been living in the tenant house on B. Forsythe’s farm northwest of town and raising onions for Mr. Forsythe, has moved over east of Newland where he will superintend the raising of onions for a couple of Chicago men who expect to put out 50 to 75 acres this season. Mr. and Mrs. George P. Daugherty of just east of town, celebrated their sixtieth wedding anniversary Sunday with a big family dinner at which all but one of their six children were present, also his brother, John Daugherty of Rensselaer, and 15 of their grandchildren. Mr. Daugherty is 8 7 years of age and his wife is 77. Rev. J. C. Parrett went to Hammond Sunday morning where lie is conducting the Passion Week services at the First Presbyterian church of that city, preaching Sunday morning and every evening this week except Saturday. Rev. J. P. Green occupied the pulpit of the Presbyterian church here both Sunday morning and evening, in Rev, Parrett’s stead.

The weather Sunday afternoon vas very disagreeable and a part of the time the air was filled with snowflakes, almost enough snow falling to cover the ground white. At night the mercury got down several degrees below the freezing point and the ground was frozen quite hard. Monday was cloudy most of the day and a cold, raw, penetrating wind pierced one to the marrow. 1 ' Mr. and Mrs. Robert Dowler of the northwest part of town, passed their 61st wedding anniversary last Friday, and their Neighbors and friends gathered in and helped them celebrate the event with a big dinner, which they brought with them. There were about thirty-five present. Mr, Dowler ig 80 years of age and his wife is one year his senior. Both are in fairly good health considering their advanced age.

Subscribe for The Democrat. See our line of buggies and carriages.—HAMlLTON & KELLNER. William Ott of Remington was a business visitor in the city yesterday. - Don’t forget the public sale of the John M. Knapp livery stock Saturday afternoon, April 3,

Yesterdayjs markets: Corn, 64c; oats, 53c; wheat, $1.40. The prices one year ago were: Corn, 58c; oats, 35c; wheat, 75c. Mrs. Goldie Didlake of St. Cloud, Minn., came the latter part of the week to visit her mother, Mrs. John Lamborn of Remington. If you want to buy a cozy, well located property in Rensselaer, come out and bid on the John M. Knapp property Saturday, April 3. If you are not pleased with our Blue Ribbon or Magnolia flour, we are not. Ask for your money back. — IROQUOIS ROLLER MILL, phone 456.

The basketball game between Goodland and Rensselaer, at the high school gymnasium Friday night, resulted in a score of 30 to 10 in favor of Rensselaer. ' «! ' B. D. Comer and son purchased a new Ford touring car Saturday from the W. I. Hoover agency. Other purchasers of Ford cars through the Hoover agency are: Granville Moody, Harry Gifford, William B. Yeoman, Andrew Misc'b, Roe Yeoman and Charles Kessinger. Miss Agnes Platt returned Sun day from a visit to Chicago and was accompanied by her uncle, William Zacher, wife and baby, of Chicago, and Mrs. Zacher’s sistei. Miss Esther Schiebe, of Appleton, Wis., who will all visit relatives here for about a week or ten/ days. Yesterday was a bright, sunshiny day, and considerably warmer than Sunday or Monday, although the ground froze quite a little Monday night. It is not thought the freezing nights of late have injured the oats that have been sown because the ground is so dry and not many of the oats have sprouted.

The necessary $1,200 to purchase a street flusher, for'use on the brick paved business streets has been .raised by subscription among the business men and will be turned over to the city for the purchase of same. The city will do the flushing free and will also gather up the garbage from the business district as heretofore. Rev. J. C. Parrett returned Friday evening from Lynden, 0., where he officiated Wednesday at the marriage of his sister, Miss Margaret Parrett, to Mr. John W. Dinsmore, Coshocton banker. M|ss Parrett had been a teacher for several years. They take in the exposition~at San Francisco on the honeymoon trip, going via the Panama Canal route. Mrs. Margaret Taylor, a sister ol Mrs. John Makeever of this place, died Friday afternoon In an Indianapolis hospital of old age. She was 86 years old. Mrs. Makeever is herself in feeble health, she being 88 years of age, and was unable to attend the funeral, which was held in Tndianapplis Sunday afternoon, from the late residence of deceased, and burial made at Lafayette.

Miss Ethel Holmes, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Holmes of two miles north of town, who remained in North Dakota, when her parents returned to Jasper county, was the successful candidate in a subscription contest recently conducted by the Mandan Republican, of Mandan, N. D., and won the first prize, a Light Four Mitchell automobile. Miss Holmes is at New Salem, N. D., and her vote was 3,411,800. The next highest vote received by any of the candidates was 1,109,100. M. Y. Slaughter suffered another paralytic stroke Sunday evening, which has almost completely paralized 'him, and his chances for recovery are thought to be very slight. This stroke was on the right side, and about a year ago he suffered a stroke on the left side. lie had partially recovered from the former stroke and was feeling quite well. He ate a hearty dinner Sunday and seemed in his usual health. Mr. Slaughter js staying with his daughter, Mrs. Kenton Blankenship, on Elm street.

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’ROUND ABOUT US. R. S. Moore of Lafayette, Ind., has awarded the contract for constructing the federal building at Lawton, Okla., at a cost of $128,24 2 The prosecution rested Saturday in the Terre Haute election cases being 1 tried in the federal court at Indianapolis, and the defense started in. It will probably take a week or two yet to complete the trial. the school house at Enos was destroyed by fire last Wednesday night or early in the evening. It was one of the best single room school buildings in Newton county and had an exceptionally good library, which, together with the voting machine for McClellan tp., was burned.

North Bend township, Starke county, in which is situated Bass Lake, a summer resort, voted “dry” last week by a majority of 9. Center township, jn which is the town of Knox, went “wet” by a majority of 87. Union township, Marshal county, in which Culver and Lake Maxinkuckee are situated, voted “dry” by a majority of 72. The township had been “wet.”. Kentland Enterprise: J. G. Davis, deputy clerk, and Michael Wagner, official court reporter, are giving ear to the importunities of their friends and may possibly conclude to give an entertainment at the opera house at no distant date. Mi. Davis is to do the singing and Mike will play the fiddle—and Judge Hanley says Mike is some fiddler. The court house bunch have subscribed for reserved seat tickets.

The trustee and advisory board of Gilboa tp., Benton county, recently decided to build a high school building at Gilboa Center, at an expense of $25,000 to $30,000. The taxpayers have held an indignation meeting add appointed a committee to engage lawyers to fight the erection of a new building thereat. They argue that the expense is not justified by the number of high school pupils that they would have. All hope of rescuing alive any of the twenty-one men who went down in submarine F-4 off Honolulu harbor last Thursday, was abandoned a few days ago. Up to yesterday the boat had not been raised, although it is said to have been located within a radius of 50 yards and that it lies at the bottom of the mouth of the harbor in water ranging from 4 3 to 60 fathoms in depth. A fathom is six feet. The boat is very likely crushed in, as it could not probably withstand the pressure at so great a depth, as 60 fathoms.

(eci{ Vanmeter, a young farmer of east of Monon, about 23 years of age, has been mysteriously missing since February 4, and his friends are unable to learn anything of his whereabouts. A young man by the name of Frank Hoover has rented a farm near Nauvoo and moved Vanmeter’s wife and four small

Wm. Traub ■" - ; For your Easter Clothes, correct styles and lowest prices? YES. FOREASTER Stetson Hats $4.00 Elk Brand Hats $2.50 Longley Hats $3.00 Wonder Hats - $2.00 Boy’s Hats 50c to $1.50 Correct Styles? YES. Other Nobby Furnishings? YES. V - 1 . .• . ' . Wm. Traub Leading Clothier Odd Fellows’ Bldg. Rensselaer, Indiana

■■ As Always H) Hat Event of I the Season | R first display of the jf ew Hats for Menntic styles for Spring, y gs ons, both Stiff and Soft (elected by ourselves in | lock and Colors expressly n of this community, s hats are getting to be •ee—more “saesy,” as one sis customers expressed it. hats, Soft hats, Self-con* g derbies. m e see them. jfp I’s Quality Shop I . EARL DUVALL f§ slaer, - Indiana

children thereon, the Monon News states, and Hoover’s name has been unfavorably mentioned in connection with the family. It is thought that Vanmeter has left home because of domestic difficulties. A conference was held at the court house yesterday afternoon between Judge Darroch, 0. S. Hubble of South Bend, and C. It. Aptharp of Cleveland, Chip, representing the C. I. & s. Railroad Company; T. B. Cunningham, representing Newton county, and Ira H. Drake, Leroy Hayden and W. 1). Parker, commissioners and engineer of the Williams ditch, concerning the lino the new ditch should follow as it passes under the wagon and railroad bridges north of Lake Village. The ditch as now surveyed runs about twelve hundred feet south of the two bridges, and would necessitate the building of two new bridges at an estimated cost of about $90,000. The wagon bridge was hut recently completed, the cost being apportioned to the two counties, but in case the new ditch line is established south of the county line, as now proposed, the cost of a new bridge

would fall entirely upon Newton ccftmty.—Newton County Enterprise.

MILLION DOLLARS

Appropriated By China for a Trade Crusade in the) United States. New York, March 28. —-CMna has appropriated $1,000,000 for ex* penses of 50 Chinese bankers, merchants and officials, who, as announced by the Merchants’ Association, will .spend 70 days touring the United States, beginning in May. Starting at San Francisco, the party will travel 11,000 miles, finishing the triji at Seattle on July 10. The object of the trip is to establish closer trade relations between China and the United States, the party will visit San Francisco, Oakland, Los Angeles, San Diego, New Orleans, Kansas City, St. Louis, Indianapolis, Columbus, Cincinnati, 1 ittsburg, Washington, Baltimore, 1 hiladelphia, Boston, Providence, New Haven, New York City, Schenectady, Syracuse, Buffalo, Cleveland, Toledo, Detroit, Grand Rapids, South Bend, Chicago, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Tacoma and Seattle.

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