Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1915 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Dr. John Ellis and wife of Chicago, visited over Decoration Day with his father, J. H. S. Ellis. Forest Morlan of Chicago, visited here Decoration Day w ith his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Morlan. The Jordan tp., Sui May school convention will be, held at Egypt school house Sunday, June 6, at 2 p. m. ■ We have a few slightly used high grade pianos, and some second-hand ones which -will go at a bargain.— H. R. LANGE & SON. j-3 Homer Hopkins came up from Lafayette Sunday morning and spent Sunday and Monday here with his aged mother, “Aunt” Mary Jane Hopkins. On account of the Junior Reception at the armory tonight, the regular band concert will begin a halfhour early, at 7:30 instead of 8:00 as usual. We have in stock and will sell on time, gasoline and kerosene engines, cream separators, corn shelters and grinders.—WATSON PLUMBING CO. Phone 204, Rensselaer, Ind.

A. Beasley, formerly of Remington, but now located in the photographing business at Tolleston, Lake county, was in Rensselaer Friday afternoon enroute to Remington for a visit. ■ Mrs. John Martindale was taken to Chicago Friday and operated on for the removal of a tumor. When her daughter left her bedside, Sunday, she was getting along as well as could be expected. A card received Monday from George M. Babcock, states he has left Tacoma and is now at Everett, Wash., which he says is a beautiful little city of 30,of?0, located at the northern end of Puget Sound. Frank J. Babcock returned Sunday from a nine weeks' sojourn at the North Shore Health Resort at Winnetka, 111. He gained ten pounds in weight while there and is feeling quite a little improved in health. Don Hoover returned Saturday from a Chicago hospital -where he underwent an operation and treatment for swollen glands. He is looking and feeling much better and will no doubt soon be all right again.

Mr. and Mrs. John Sharp and children of Chicago Heights, came down Saturday for a couple of days’ visit with his aunt, Mrs. Mattie Sharp, and sisters, Mrs. W. P. Cooper of Reynolds, and Mrs. George Dolson of Chicago, who were also here. Monday was observed as a legal holiday throughout the country, as Decoration Day this year came on Sunday. In Rensselaer the-banks were closed and the rural mail carriers took a day off, which was the only indication here of its being a holiday. Mrs. F.j M. Pollard returned a few day's ■ ago from the Methodist hospital at Indianapolis, where she had been for a week with her daughter, Olive, who underwent a severe surgical operation for the removal of a tumor. She is getting along as well as could be expected. —; e> The rainfall for the month of May w'as one of the heaviest for a long time, and totaled, according to the government gauge at St. Joseph college, 8.33 inches. The fall from May 23 to 30, was 4.38 inches, and for Friday, Saturday and Sunday, 3.48 inches. Friday’s rain was the heaviest for any one day,, being 1.18 inches. “Uncle ’ Jacob Lesh of Menomonie, \\ is., stopped off here Saturday while on his way home from a visit in Dayton, Ohio, for p, week's visit with his daughter and son, Mrs. Eli Arnold of Barkley t p„ and John Lesh of tJnioh tp. D. E. Lesh, also of Menomonie, accompanied by Soloman Stoner, who had been attending ! the Dunker meeting at Dayton, 0., stopped off here a few days last week to visit Dan’s brother and sister, John Lesh and Mrs. Arnold.