Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1915 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]
Yesterday’s markets: Corn, 67c; oats, 45c, The 'prices one year ago were: Corn, 65c; oats, 36e. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bellows spent the first of the week in Remington with their son, Ed, and family. We drill water wells anywhere and any size.—WATSON PLUMBING CO., phone 204, Rensselaer, Ind - if Full line of McCormick machinery for sale. Will also buy produce at the highest market price. New phone No. 461. EDWARD HERATH. j-22 The Junior Reception at the armory Wednesday evening, was, as usual, a very pleasant social affair. Music was furnished by the Rensselaer orchestra.
Buy envelopes at The Democrat office. A large number of sizes, styles and colors, both bond plain finish, to select from, at 5c per bunch of 25. Call in and see them. Mr. and Mrs. Jay Woods, who moved to near White Pigeon, Mich., a couple of years ago, returned home the first of the week after a visit with, relatives and friends at Brook and Rensselaer. Leonard Turner, formerly of Monticello, who was linotype operator on The Democrat some years ago, is now a proof reader on the Indianapolis News, where he operated a linotype for some time after leaving Rensselaer. Mrs. S. H. Haskell of the White Boarding House, caught her heel on the top stairstep of the back stairway, last Wednesday evening, and fell to the bottom, breaking the bones in her right wrist, besides bruising her forehead and right side very badly.
Delos Dean will leave Monday for Chicago, where he will take a couple of days preparatory instruction before starting out in the employ of the Lincoln Chautauqua bureau, for whom he will act as superintendent and solicitor of chaUtauquas for the season ending next October. A couple of young men passed through Rensselaer yesterday on bicycles enroute to San Francisco. One of them gave his name as John Bruns, of Port Jervis, X. Y., and the other that of Charles Callahan of Indianapolis. They expect to reach the Golden Gate city by August 1. The marriage of Miss Marceline Roberts of this city to Dr. D. Snorp of Chicago, will take place at the home of the bride’s mother, Mrs. Jessie Roberts, at the H, O. Harris residence, next Saturday. It will be a strictly private affair, attended only by immediate friends and members of the family.
Wednesday’s morning’s rain is said to have caused considerable damage to onion fields about Xewland, the water backing up and covering the fields with several inches of water. Some twenty Romanians came from Chicago Tuesday to work in the onion fields, but they needed a boat to get in the fields. Mrs. John Healy wwfit to Lafayette this week to stay awhile with her daughter, Miss Lucy Healy, who is a patient at St. Elizabeth’s hospital and who is expected to undergo an operation for appendicitis either today or Monday. Lucy is quite weak from her other ailments, but was quite a little better Thursday, a card from Mrs, Healy receiv ed yesterday morning stated.
Eugene Purtelle, the “traction Lne magnate’’ so well known in Rensselaer and other sections of Indiana. through his electric railroad promotion and check swindling operations, was arrested for the second time this week in Chicago a couple of days ago, this time for a hotel bill of S6O at the Hotel Sherman, says the Lake County Times, Hearing in the latter case was set for yesterday. >His arrest Tuesday is mentioned in another part of The Democrat, and was on a jury indictment, it is said, and his bond was fixed at $3,000. „ Dp You Want Lightning Protection? I have been in the lightning rod business for 15 years and during that time have never lost a building by lightning. A five-year guarantee with all rods. If interested call and see me or phone 568.-—FRANK A. BICKNELL, Rensselaer, Ind. ts CASTOR IA For Infants and Children In Use For Over 30 Years Always bears ____ -Mgnature of
