Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1916 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Panama hats, fibre as fine as fly 1©»8. A $7.50 hat for $5, when you’re Hamillized. Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Allman and son Elvyn and Miss Esther Padgitt went to Chicago Monday to attend the musical festival at Northwestern university, where Mr. Allman’s two daughters, Misses Florence and Aileen, are attending school. Letters remaining uncalled for in the Rensselaer postoffice for week ending May 29: Lester.Clouse, Arthur Johnson and Harry Romaine. The above letters will be sent to the dead letter office, if uncalled for, June 12.—-N. LITTLEFIELD. P. M. Complaint is made about horses running at large of night in the southeast part of town. running over yards and doing much damage. Unless they are kept up the owners are likely to be called upon to pay dami ges in court as well as suffer prosecution for permitting the animals to t un at large. A A couple of men driving an Oakland roadster run oft the grade Just north of the Burke bridge, north of town about 12 o’clock Monday night, into the nfbd and water. A relief party went out from the Central garage and their car was pulled out. Nobody hurt nor was the car damaged, and the occupants continued on their way to the races, wet but joyful.

John, Thoma-, James an.l William Walters and families autoed to Lafayette Sunday to visit Sister Anacleta, a sister of the Walters’ boys, who is at St. Ignatius’ academy. They took dinner at Tecumseh trail, at which place they arrived about noon. They report having seen some good fields of oats and a tew patches <>r nice corn between here and Lafayette. Dr. H. L. Brown, Dr. W. L. Myer, G. J. Jessen, Dr. A. G. Catt, County Superintendent Lam son ami Ira F. Meader of Union tp.went ot Hammond Monday aftempon and attended a meeting of the Hammond Shrine, F. & A. M., at which Rev. J. C. Parrett, former pastor of the Presbyterian church here, was one of the candidates initiated. They returned home on the 1:38 train, and report having had a splendid time. Sylvester Gray has commenced a general remodeling of his residence on the corner of College avenue and Clark street. He will excavate and put in a basement under the entire horse and will install a furnace and bath room. He expects to also remove a rear addition to the house and will construct a garage therefrom. And with the addition of a large porch on the south side of his residence will have one of the most modern homes in Rensselaer.

Concerning Salt. Don’t pity the country boy too much. There- are times when h!s “disadvantages’’ help him. If an almost learned doctor in this city had been laid up in a farm house with pneumonia when a lad of 10 and had read the travels of Winwood Reade and Livingstone while convalescing, he would not have grown So wildly excited over the amount of salt used in modern cookery. “Come and eat with us,’’ said the hospitable Sudanese whom Reade encountered, “we are going to have salt for dinner today.” It was the greatest of luxuries, yet they must have secured it in pretty large quantities. The Manyema cannibals whom Livingstone sojourned for a season told him that human flesh “is salty, and makes us dream of the dead,” yet not one of these mildmannered epicures had ever tasted a white man. They banqueted entirely on their brothers in black. Finally, the country boy might tell the near-savant that the yarn of Fijians refusing to devour salty missionary is on all fours with the Western story that coyotes will not east a Mexican, because he uses so much chili sauce. Both tales are interesting—and there Is not the slightest evidence that either is true. Please pass the salt.—Chicago Journal. . Private Street Oiling. Parties residing on streets not included in the city oiling contract should see or phone Harry Gallagher if they desire to have their street oiled while the contractor is in Rensselaer with his street oiling outfit.-—M. J. EHBERT, Contractor m-29 Electricity on Trains Those who wonder how the electricity used for lighting trains, operating fans in coaches and tlite like is generated should know that it comes from a turbine generator which is usually geared to the axle of the car, the motion of the train operating it and supplying the current at no cost but that of “deterioration of machinery.”— Chicago Journal.