Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1916 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

$13.75 will buy you an all wool worsted suit worth $16.50 when you're Hamillized. Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan drove to Lafayette Saturday where Mr. Honan attended the K. of C. convention. Fishing has been the best for years in the Iroquois and several good catches of bass and salmon have been made. Janies Clark is remodeling his house on Weston street by raising the roof and adding a full secondstory thereto. For Sale—Six-room house, walks, deep well, electric lights, nice lot. Price $1,000; S4OO down;, take live stock —G, F. MEYERS. ts A F. Long spent Sunday in Valparaiso with Bert Brenner and family, going from there to Chicago Monday and thence home. Yesterday’s markets: Corn, 6Sc; oats, 39c; wheat, 9 0c; rye, 75c. The Prices a year ago were: Corn, 67c; oats, 4 7c; wheat, $1.43; rye, sl. H. R. Kurrie, president of the Monon, was down from Chicago last Saturday. Mr. Kurrie and family will remove to their summer home here this week. Mothers, you should see the greatest line of Perfection boys’ and little fellows’ suits now on display at Duvall's Quality Shop. Prices reasonable.— C. EARL DUVALL. Rev. Tillitson gave a storeopticon lecture at the M. E. church Friday evening concerning bis trip through Egypt and along the Nile river. All present report it a most interesting ta 1 k. Misses Alice Daniels, Helen Worland, Pauline Hordeman and Leota Muster and Elmer Daniels, Omar Osborne, Herman Lange and George Babcock autoed to Lafayette Sunday, taking, dinner at the Fowler, and returning by way of Delphi and Monticello. B. B. Stroud, employed as a dredge superintendent on one of the dredges now at work on the Marble ditch near Baum's bridge, was rendered unconscious and received several cuts and bruises about the head Friday afternoon near Kouts an the result of speeding a Ford auto while passing another car. About 25 friends and members of the Knights of Columbus gathered at the home of A. Gangloff in the south part of town Friday evening to help his son Clemens celebrate his 24th birthday anniversary. Cards were played until a late hour when refreshments were served. All present report a very pleasant evening. Under date of May sth Joseph Grube, formerly of Wheat field, writes The Democrat from Cavalier, N. D., and says that Mrs. Grube Is gaining from her serious operation of April Hi and was able to be brought home from the hospital last Tuesday. Mr. Grube says the weather is fine there and farmers are very busy, their spring being quite late. Ex-Sheriff W. I. Hoover, the local Ford agent, has got in three carloads of ears during the past week or ten days, but at the rate they are being sold he will have them all out in a short time, lie sold three of the touring cars Monday, one to George Heil of Barkley, one to William Clouse of Rensselaer, and one to Henry Kolhoff of south of town. County Treasurer May of Rensselner, Neal Brown of Shelby, Mr. Crowder of south of town and Allie Francis of Union tp., accompanied Dr. Hansson, the local Overland agent, to South Bend Sunday ajpd drove through three new Overland cars, one a Wlllys Knight. They came home via Valparaiso on the Lincoln highway, reaching Rensselaer about 8 o’clock Sunday evening. Charles Lyons, a Kokomo merchant, passed through Rensselaer Monday morning driving a sevenpassenger Haynes automobile which had been stolen from in front of his home a few days previous and which is alleged to have been sold to Basil Emmetts, a young man of near Crown Point, who was being taken to Kokomo to answer the charge. Emmetts declares he bought the car from a stranger for S3OO. Carpenters began work yesterday On the extensive improvements, Dr. Kresler is having made to his far?h east of town, near Pleasant Ridge. The improvements will be made on the west part, where the present house will be remodeled, the roof raised and a second story added, also new porches and new windows, doors, etc. A new well is being drilled, and a new wellhouse, a large new barn with concrete floor and a large new concrete silo will be built, making it when completed the best improved farm on the Pleasant Ridge road.