Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1916 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

CLOSED ALL DAY JULY 4th • • The Clothing House of WILLIAM TRAUB FALL IN! MUSTER IN FOR THE FOURTH We’ve mobilized whole platoons of Stylish Clothes for men and young men especially low priced for Independence Day The KNEE PANTS for boys are not forgotten—the Scout Master will give them special reductions on all suits for the Fourth. Special Sale on Clothing and Furnishing—two days only—Saturday, July 1 and Monday, July 3 It will be dollars in your pocket to take advantage. THE CLOTHING HOUSE OF WM. TRAUB Odd Fellows’ Bldg. Rensselaer, Ind. CLOSED ALL DAY JULY 4th

Fate at the Makeeyer House a couple of days this week. Mr. Tatman is a representative of the Victor XRay Co. of Chicago and was here for the purpose of trying to sell a machine to the hospital board. About 20 members of the local I. O. O. F. lodge among whom were G. L. Thornton, Jesse Nichols, Omer Osborne, Ben Welsh, Eph Hickman, C. E. Simpson, William Clouse, William Coen, O. L. Calkins, George E. Collins and Fred McColly went to Mt. Ayr Tuesday night and gave the initiatory degree to several candidates. The members of the Dorcas class of the M. E. church held their June picnic supper Tuesday evening at the home of Mrs. Hugh Hurley. The hostesses being Misses Alice Dewey and Stella Platt, Mrs. Hugh Hurley, Mrs. Frank Moore and Mrs. William Platt. All present reported having a delightful time; The Dorcas class is planning to help the wives of families of the needy militia boys. This section has been visited by a most plenty of rainfall this season. Henry Phelps, who keeps tab on the precipitation, states to us that during the months of May and June there has been 11% inches, and that there has been a total of 21 inches since the first of January. This seems to us to be about a year’s supply and we ought to have a few days of fair weather, pretty soon.—Remington Press. Among the Rensselaer ladies who attended the Federated clubs’ meeting at Brook Tuesday were: Mrs. M. D. Gwin, Mrs. E. J. Randle, Mrs. J. D. Allman, Mrs. Oren Parker, Mrs. Ernest Lamson, Mrs. A. J. Bellows, Mrs. G. E. Murray, Mrs. Alda Parkinson and Mrs. B. F. Learning of the Ladies’ Literary club and Mrs. E. P. Burton, Mrs. M. I. Adams, Mrs. L. E. Barber and Mrs. M. E. Drake of the Home Economics club. Gravelous Hansson, accompanied by his mother and sister Annetta, went to Grand Rapids and Detroit, Mich., Sunday and drove home Tuesday another Overland touring car for his father, Dr. Hansson, who is agent for same. Gravelous says he had an exciting experience when he went across the river from Detroit into Canada and was seized by the Canadian officers, who wanted to make a soldier out of him, but he convinced them he was an American citizen and was allowed to come back to dear old U. S. A.