Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1915 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Mrs. Viletta Sparling of Demotte, has been granted a widow’s pension of sl2 per month.

We sell the best threshing coal for the least money.—'HARRINGTON BROS. CO.

W, S. Parks returned Thursday evening from a business trip to Marion and other points in that vicinity.

C, M. Sharp, late principal of the Rensselaer high school, who tendered his resignation recently, will teach in the Shortridge, Indianapolis, high school the coming year.

Abe Martin says; “With new pertaters sellin’ at 17 cents a peck an’ Palm Beach suits within reach o’ all, even a sewin’ machine agent ought f look fat an’ sassy. When we do strike a really-good sweet canteloupe we're all willin’ t’.fergit th’ past.”

Mrs. Garland Grant was a Monon goer Wednesday to attend a dinner given in honor of the 8 sth birthday anniversary of her aged father, H. M. Baughman. Mrs. Grant has rented Aunt Mary Jane Hopkins’ property op River street and will move into same in a few days.

Mrs. W. V. Porter left Wednesday for an extended visit with relatives in Nebraska and near Mitchell, S. D, Mr. Porter will join her in Kansas. and they'will go together to visit the Bruce Porter, Will Clark, the Kenton families and other former residents of Jasper county now residing near Mitchell.

Two small sons of Stipt. Fisher, who has charge of the second big dredge being built for the deepening of the Kankakee river and with his family is boarding at the Halliday Hotel in Kersey, are sick with smallpox. A quarantine has ben established and it is not thought there will be any spread of the disease.

Elmer Elder, aged 53, a brother of David Elder of Rensselaer, died at the home of his son, Van Elder, in Mo'nticello, Wednesday, after an illness of nine months following a stroke of paralysis. He leaves a wife and seven children. The funeral was held at Monticello yesterday and was attended by relatives from here. Burial was made at Idaville.

A gentleman from Edinburg, Johnson county, accompanied by his family, passed through Rensselaer via auto Wednesday evening, north bound. They stopped here for a few moments, and in conversation with C. J. Dean he stated that he was surprised to see it so wet in this part of the state, and said that it was very dry down at his home. He said that it was so dry in the river bottoms that his corn curling. This man evidently a descendant of Anaias* as J. Mr Brown of Franklin, only a few miles from. Edinburg, says it has been very wet there.

Mrs. John McCurtain and family of Parr, have moved to Rensselaer because of fear of her husband, who recently made his escape from the asylum at Longcliff. McCurtain, who has thus far evaded capture and return to the asylum, was over in Illinois, about Streator, last week, according to a letter he wrote to hi 3 wife and which was mailed at that place, but he was in Jasper county again Sunday and put in an appearance at the home of his wife’s parents in Barkley tp., where she was then stopping, and attempted to see her.

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