Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 November 1915 — Page 11 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Stop, look, “get Hamillized,” save! Try our white ash eval at $4.00 per ton.—J. C. GWIN LUMBER CO. Mrs. John Kelsey of Lafayette, was the over Sunday guest of her cousin, Mrs. W. T. Bott. The Democrat force will celebrate Thanksgiving, and the office will be closed at noon for the day. Mr._ and Mrs. Albert Hotler, of west Carpenter, were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Joe Branson Sunday. See our new line of 23c books. A display in our west window —FENDIG’S REXALL DRUG STORE. Start the day right by eating cakes made from Early Breakfast Self .Rising Buckwheat FIour.—IROQUOIS ROLLER MILLS, phone 456. J. C. Gwin went to,Lafayette Monday to bring home his wife, who has been taking treatment at the Wabash Sanitarium for several weeks. Yesterday’s markets: Corn, 47c; oats, 31c; wheat, 90c; rye, 80c. The prices one year ago were: Corn, 57c; oats, 4 sc; wheat, $1; rye, 75c. Mr. and Mrs. A. Leopold celebrated their 51st wedding anniversary last Sunday with a big family dinner at which all their children were present. Phone No. 7 before buying- your lump or egg coal. We will have something interesting to tell you about our coaI.—HARRINGTON BROS. COMPANY. d-4 Will Washburn, Harold Ott and Bruce Peck of Remington, took the train here Friday for Bloomington to attend the Indiana-Purdue football game Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Hl D. Kenfield of Cass Lake, Minn., enroute to Orange Beach, Ala., to spend the winter, stopped off here the latter part of the week to visit with Mr. and. Mrs. J. L. Hagins. The Makeever bank building room into which Burchard’s 5c and 10c store is to be moved, is being remodeled and cleaned up in nice shape, and will make excellent quarters indeed for Mr. Burchard. Mr. and Mrs. G. D. McCarthy returned Sunday from a week’s visit in Chicago with their daughters, Mrs. Roy Chissum and Miss Ethel McCarthy. The former accompanied them home for a short visit here. About an inch of snow fell again Monday night, butt it soon disappeared under “Old Sol’s” effulgent rays next morning. The mercury stood at 35 above zero as The Democrat wentXo press yesterday afternoon. George Hurley, who has been ditching in Blue Earth Valley, Minn., during the past season, returned home a few days ago. Winter had already set in there before he left. There was four inches of snow on the ground and the mercury registered 2 below zero. Joseph Smith received notice yesterday that his nephew at Peru, Garland Smith, had died there Monday, and would be buried today. The young man was but 19 years of age. His death was caused from consumption, brought on from excessive use of cigarettes. Mr. Smith went to Peru last evening to attend the funeral. Carl Clift, who has been working during the past season for Nees & Seamon of Frankfort, the contractors wbp put in the Washington street pavement here, on a five-mile stretch of brick pavement on the Lincoln highway at Goshen, is home for a few days vacation. The road contract was recently completed and Carl has since been working for the Hawks Electric Co., of Goshen, and will return there after spending a few days here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Clift.

The Democrat has been unable to learn anything more regarding the alleged shortage in the accounts of John Harmon, late driver of the American Express Co’s, wagon here. The representatives or the express company were to return to 'Rensselaer last Friday, Harmon having been given an extension of time to that date to “come across,’’ but they did not come and had not up to yesterday afternoon. It is probable that they will not return now until after Thanksgiving. The new agent, F. W. Tobias, has heard nothing from them and does not know whether the alleged shortage has uv~n fixed up direct with the Indianapolis office or not, but the inference is that it has not been.