Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1915 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Allen Catt visited Orville Burris at Stoutsburg Sundav. rt. - Quite a large number of auto touri?ts passed through Rensselaer yesterday on tlieir way home from the -Indiafat prtljg; r aec;. _ While Monday was quite a pleasant day* it grew considerably cooler at night, and yesterday morning the mercury registered at 65, and the indications were for more rain. -drs, B. F. Edwards, accompanied by her three little daughters, and her mother, Mrs. Catherine Rowen, of Pontiac, 111., came over last week to visit her sister, Mrs. J. H. Long. A. S. La Rue, as agent, made a sale Monday of C. B. Wells’ SO acre farm just north of the Barkley M. E. church, to Nick Syhmitter, of near Rensselaer, for $l2O per acre. Mr. Sehmitter will move onto the farm next spring, it is understood. We are not informed as to Mr. Wells’ plans.

The Ladies’ Aid of the Kniman E. church will hold a strawberry festival Saturday afternoon and evening, June 5, at the home of W. A. Lake, 3-4 mile north of the Kniman school house. There will be games and pastimes in the afternoon and a stereoptican entertainment and sacred concert in the evening. Ernest Morlan of just west of town, in Newton tp., killed a rattlesnake on Tuesday of last week, while plowing, that had seven rattles. This was not of the same species, however, as the 76 rattlesnakes and scorpions, referred to by a Rensselaer paper as opposing the giving of $16,000 to a bunch of paper railroad promotors. Mrs. Simon Leopold, who has been staying with relatives at Peoria, 111., for some time, came to Rensselaer Saturday and, after a visit of a week or ten days here, will go to Crystal Falls, Mich., to visit her daughter, Miss Selma Leopold, who is teaching there, until the latter part of the month, when her school is out. Both will then go to W’oodman, Colo., where Mr. Leopold is taking treat-: ment for tuberculosis and is said to ! be receiving much benefit therefrom. !

Mrs. Bernice Clark of Wheatfleld, '•'ill entertain the Housekeepers’ Club at her home there in a short time, and the members are arranging to make the trip in automobiles. —Crown Point Star. Democratic County Chairman Frank Billings of Morocco, has resigned, because of having been appointed postmaster at Morocco, and Judge Darroch of Kentland, has been elected county chairman in his place. A petition for the erection of a new school building at Gilboa Center in Gilboa tp., signed by fifty-one school patrons, has been presented to the trustee and advisory board.

The RACES were postponed and Our CLEARANCE S4E Has Been Continued on Account of the Weather. ONLY 4 MORE DAYS ENDING NEXT SATURDAY

Don’t Miss the Great Opportunity to get some of our rare bargains in dishes. Remember that this will positively be the last general discount on these this year. *»

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