Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1916 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Misses Gladys and Hazel Reeve spent Sunday in Chicago with their brother, Joe Reeve.

Charles Robinson of Jordan tp. went to Battle Ground Friday to visit Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Clark.

The next time you need coal, phone No. 7, and let us tell you about our coal. —HARRINGTON BROS.

Miss Elsa Knapp of Wheatfield is substituting for Mrs. J. I. Gwin in the Parr schools, during the latter’s visit in the South.

Yesterday’s markets: Corn, 56c; oats, 35c; wheat, 95c; rye, 75'C. The prices a year ago were: Corn, 61c; oats, 50c; wheat, $1.30; rye, 90c.

E. E, Warren, the barber, has bought the Thomas Daugherty property in the west part of town and will move into same this week.

Sample copies of the Indiana Daily Times, the big daily paper given in connection with The Democrat to country or rural route subscribers, at only $3 for the two papers, may be seen at The Democrat office. ts

Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Allman visited the former’s sister, Mrs. C. H. Peck, at Remington again Sunday. Mrs. Peck, who was operated on some months ago for cancer of the breast, has been suffering but little pain for the past week and is apparently quite a little better. The wound had healed perfectly and her doctors have hopes that the new treatment being used, the Atolsyn, will perhaps effect a cure.

Yesterday’s dispatches stated that in the great battle front at Verdon, where the Germans had steadily pressed back the French forces, the latter, after a long night fight, have temporarily given, a severe check to the army of the crown prince attacking the great fortress of Verdon from the north and east. Despite the two weeks’ battle the city and the surrounding forts still remain in the hands of the French. It is said that more than 150,000 Teutons have already been sacrificed in this great battle, one of the most terrific of the vj'ar. . -

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The Chicago aldermanic primary was held yesterday after one of the warmest campaigns in the city’s history. A dispatch from Valparaiso states that thieves In an auto raided farms and smokehouses near Wheeler last Thursday night and stole considerable poultry, meats, cream and other property and at the Ed Yelman farm butchered and dressed a cow and hauled it away.

Ou of 1 00,000 words used in personal and business letters the word “the’’ heads the list infrequency being used 6,93 3 times, according to a recent investigation. “And*’ comes next. “Mother” was used almost twice as frequently as "father” in these letters, and ‘‘good’’ was used eight times as often as "pretty.” Times are getting so bad in this country that the local car inspectors for th'e New York Central lines have received an increase in wages of $3 per month without their knowledge or solicitation. This raise, we understand, is general along the entire system. It does beat all how the country is going to the dogs under a Democratic administration.—Ex. Rev. Elvin Daniels, accompanied by Dr. Kinneman of Goodland, took both Mrs. Daniels and their son, Master Earl, to St. Vincent’s hospital, Indianapolis, Saturday, where both where operated on MondayMrs. Daniels for female trouble and Earl for appendicitis. Both operations were successes and, according to reports received since, both patients are getting along nicely.— Kentland Democrat. The Tribune is in receipt of a copy of the Big Horn (Wyoming) Rustler, published at Basin City. It bears the name of our old friend. Dr. M. G. Traugh, formerly of Goodland. It has a very interesting article on future oil developments in Wyoming from the Dally Mining and Financial Record of Denver, Colo. It is predicted that Wyoming will yet be one of the greatest oil -producing states in the union.—Fowler Tribune.

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