Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1915 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

M. A. Gray was over from Remington Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Hurley Beam came down from Chicago Saturday to visit relatives for a few days. Mrs. Ora T. Ross went to Chicago Saturday to visit her son, Thompson and family, returning home Monday. Young Chickens—Nice 2-lb. fries, dressed and delivered Saturday afternoon for 50c each. —-Mrs. Andy Ropp, phone 923-F. Mr. and Mrs. F. X. Busha and baby of Lafayette, came Sunday for a short visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beam. Dr. Hansson drove through an Overland Six from South Bend one day last week, which he sold to Trustee Stevens of Gillam tp. Mrs. Leota Jones came down from Chicago Saturday and spent the Fourth with her son, C. S. Chamberlain and other relatives. She returned home Monday evening. Mrs. Frances B. Coates of Oklahoma City, Okla., returned home Friday after a week’s visit here with her old schoolmate, Mrs. R. W. Sprague.

We were temporarily out of White Star flour. Our car just arrived. Guaranteed old wheat flour. $1.65 per sack. Your money back If you are not satisfied.—ROWLES & PARKER. In the ball game at Goodland Saturday, the Lafayette Red Sox defeated the Goodland team by a score of 13 to 1. In the game at Parr, Rensselaer won over Parr by a score of 8 to 2. Two cases of diphtheria are reported by Dr. Hemphill in the family of Nathan Richards in Barkley tp. The house has been placed under quarantine and anti-toxin administered to the patients. The Marion Leader-Tribune states that Judge Robert Vanatta of that place, formerly of Rensselaer, where his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Vanatta, still reside, is to be married in a few days to Miss Eva Brady of that place. Mrs. W. R. Brown and granddaughter, Miss Ruth McKenzie, left Friday for an extended visit with Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harmon at Evansville. The latter is a daughter of Mrs. Blown and the mother of Ruth, who will spend the rest of the summer there. Jesse E. Wilson and family of Hammond, A. E. Coen and family of Berwyn, 111., and A. S. Nowles and family of Columbia City, the two latter driving through via automobile, spent the Fourth here with Mrs. J. M. Wasson and Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hunt and family.

Mrs. P. C. Curnick, who has been with her daughter, Mrs. Sam Duvall, at the Methodist hospital in Indianapolis for several weeks, spent Sunday and Monday at home, returning to Indianapolis yesterday. There is no material change in the condition of Mrs. Duvall. Misses Angelia Kolhoff and Nell Drake as chaperones, accompanied the following young ladies to Edgewater, on the Tippecanoe, near Monticello, for a week’s outing Monday: Ada Robinson, Charlotte Hill, Inez and Helen Kiplinger, Elizabeth Moore, Iva Healey, Ora Kepner, Lucile Mackey, Hazel Grant, Thelma Weingar and Elizabeth King. In renewing his subscription for The Democrat, A. L. Bouk writes form Norwich, N. D., and' says: ‘Crop prospects are fine. Corn and hay will be scarce, owing to dry weather and late frosts. Have plenty of moisture for small grains, and quite cool, six inches of rain last week. Wheat is' beginning to head. There 1 is a large acreage in this locality and it stands uniformly thick and vigorous. I have cut my alfalfa and sweet clover (18 acres) and prospects are good for another good crop. Alfalfa is the surest crop we have.”