Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1916 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

W. L. Bott was a Lafayette business goer Monday. $1 indigo dyed overalls 85c — HILLIARD & HAMILL. Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Hazen of Goodland were visitors in the city Monday. G. H. McLain has broken ground for his new residence on McCoy avenue. More new sl, $1.25 and $1.50 waists t.’iis week at ROWLES & PARKER’S. The Ladies’ Aid of the Barkley M. E. church will .meet today with Mrs. A. Eib of that township.

Ever see a cornei ot tires. We have one. Step in and see them, it will pay you.—MAIN GARAGE, j-7 Just received—new Crawford oxfords, New York styles, Hamill prices.—HILLIARD & HAMILL. _IE Robert Loy entertained several young couples at a Victrola dance at his home on River street Friday night. Mrs. Ed Herath and children went to Joliet, 111., Saturday to make a few weeks’ visit with her mother, Mrs. K. Wolfrun. Omar Kenton and family and James Reed and family of Surrej' made an automobile trip Sunday to Brook, Goodland and vicinity. iMr. and Mrs. Wilbur Liddle, who are driving through from their home at Jennings, Alabama, to Detroit, Mich., visited here Monday with Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Gilson. Mrs. W. A. Davenport and children left Saturday for an extended visit with her people in Kentucky. Mr. Davenport took them as far as Indianapolis in his automobile. J. R. Sprague and daughter, Miss Elsie Sprague, of St. Petersburg, Fla., who had been here as guests of the former’s brother, Ralph Sprague, and family, left Friday to visit another daughter at Cornell, lowa.

Miss Helen Murray, who has been teaching in the Centralia, 111., schools, returned home Friday evening. Her brother, Edison Murray, who is attending school at Madison, Wis., will he home about the 20th. Judge and Mrs. Robert Vanatta of Marion returned home Sunday after having made a short visit here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John R. Vanatta, and the former’s daughter, Miss Majorie Vanatta. A little daughter of J. W. Tilton was accidently knocked down when she stepped in front, of an automobile driven by Willis Lutz near her home on Front street Monday morning. She was not seriously hurt. Dario Resta, winner of the Indianapolis speedway races, won the 300mile race at Chicago Sunday, in a Peugeot car, in three hours, two minutes and 31 seconds, an average of 98.7 miles per hour. Ralph De Palma was second. The Wallace-Hagenbeck circus, which has in years gone by delighted the citizens of Rensselaer by the clean performances given here, will show at Kentland in August. It was secured to show there through the influence of George Ade.

Mrs. W. W. Wilmer Of Washburn, Wis., who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. V. H. tHancock, at Morocco, is now visiting here with her brother, W. J. Wright, and family. They are moving from Wisconsin to Louveiers, Colo., where the DuPont Powder Co., in whose employ Mr. Wilmer is, have a plant.

T. J. Harrington of Lafayette, x at one time engaged in the grain business at Remington and a member of the Harrington Bros, company of this place, has purchased the former Oliver W. Pierce, jr., residence at 673 North street, Lafayette, and will move his family from 1008 South street to his new home within the next two weeks. The price paid was and the Lafayette Journal says that it is one of the most beautiful homes in the city and it is modern in all its appointments.

“Uhcle’’ John Casey has sold his dwelling house and 10 lots in Fair Oaks to Mrs. Sarah E. Geary of Fair Oaks for SSOO, and his sister, Mrs. Martha Dickinson, will either sell or rent her property there and with Mr. Casey’s daughter, Mfss Fawn Casey, go to Marion, where they will rent property and be near Mr, Casey, who is staying at the National Military home. Mr. Casey is loud in his praise of Governor A. B. Crampton of the home, and says that the “boys” all think the world of him. Bro, Crampton, who was formany years publisher of the Carroll County Citizen-Times of Delphi, is the right man in the right place, Mr. Casey thinks, and the home was never better governed than at present.