Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 April 1916 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Get Hamillized and wear Crawford shoes. Mrs. E. J. Randle was a Chicago visitor Wednesday. We carry a fine line of buggies: see them 'before you buy.—SCOTT BROS. Mrs. Laura Michael has been quite sick since last Friday with an attack of heart trouble. •The farmers are busy plowing for corn and getting ready to plant as soon as the weather becomes fit. It is expected to start the band concerts for the summer season one week from Wednesday night, May 3. Miss Jeannette O’Dell of Crawfordsville, who had been visiting friends here, returned home Thursday. Yesterday’s markets: Corn, 65c; oats, 38c; wheat, 90c; rye, 75c. The prices a year ago were: Corn, 66c; oats, 53c. Paul Miler, who is attending a dental college at Indianapolis, is making a few days’ visit here with his mother, Mrs. Sarah Flynn. Dr. E. N. Loy entertained the Jas-per-Newton Medical society last evening. A nerve specialist from Chicago addressed the doctors at this meeting. “Uncle” John English and daughter, Mrs. L. R. Florence, came up from Brookston Tuesday to look after his real estate interests in Barkley tp.

Miss Eva Hurley, accompanied as far as Chicago by her brother Hugh, left Tuesday for Huntley, Minn., to spend the summer with her father, George Hurley. Mrs. Simon Thompson entertained about a dozen of her husband's friends at a dinner followed by cards Tuesday evening, at . the Thompson home just north of town. The household effects of E. J. Gamester, who recently purchased the Harvey Grant five-acre farm at the north edge of town, were brought through from Chicago by automobile Tuesday. Excavating has been going on this week for the basements of Alex Merica’s new residence on east Washington street and George Long’s residence on the corner of South and Grove streets. Johnnie, the eight-year-old son of Mrs. Williams, a widow lady residing on west South street, suffered a bad fracture of his right arm Wednesday evening while at play with another lad. Dr. Hemphill was called and set the broken bones. Carl Clift is now at Monroe, Mich., where he is employed in a factory, operating a drill press. He writes home that he likes his work firstrate. Monroe is about 37 miles out of Detroit, and has a population of some 15,000 people. Quite a little damage was sustained by farm owners in Wednesday night’s windstorm. Dr. Hansson Dr. Myer and J. W. Faylor suffered the loss of silos and other minor damage. The former was in Newton tp. and the two latter in Barkley.