Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1915 — LOCAL NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOCAL NEWS

Roy Scott, who has been at Rochester, Minn., for some time undergoing treatment for cancer, is expected home Saturday, but will return to the hospital later. The doctors there hold out encouragement for him, his friends will be pleased to learn. Miss Grace Peyton, who sails tomorrow from New York City for Santiago, Cuba, where she will take up missionary work, left Monday for L tica, N. Y., where she was to speak last night at a missionary meeting and will s-peak tonight in New York City. Before beginning her missionary work she will enter a training school in Cuba and learn the Spanish language. Harry Newman, who is employed by the International Harvester Co., as a traveling salesman and has made his headquarters here for some time, and JMi ss Lillie Sommers, formerly of Milroy tp., were married Sunday at the home of the bride’s sister, Mrs. John Murphy, of Surrey, Rev. Titus of the Christian church officiating. They will reside in Renssealer.

Jesse Smith returned to his home near Delphi Saturday afternoon after a visit since Thursday with his daughter, Mrs. W. I. Hoover. He was accompanied home by his little grand-daughter, Irene Hoover, who will visit there this week. Mt. Smith, who was a former resident of near Rensselaer, thinks there has been a wonderful improvement in Rensselaer and the country thereabouts during the past few years, and says that he oiever saw better prospects, for Jiian we have. Wheat in Jasper county is looking considerably better than in Carroll, the fly having damaged it quite a good deal there.