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w. I. Hoover was a Chicago business goer Thursday. The best work shoes in town.— HILLIARD & HAMILL. Mrs. Roy Dawson of Piqua, Ohio, is visiting her uncle, Dr. E. N. Loy, and family. Mrs. Firman Thompson underwent a slight operation Tuesday at her home on Weston street. Frank Rowen recently sold his residence property in the northeast part of town to A. Leopold for sl,000. Mrs. Boyd Porter of Renssetegj is the guest of her parents, MiMand Mrs. William Fitzpatrick.—Francesville Tribune. Miss Nora Kabier returned home Wednesday after a visit with her brother Joe and other relatives at Chicago Heights. Yesterday’s markets: Corn, 72c; oats, 34c; wheat, SOc; rye, 75c. The prices a year ago were: Corn, 68c; oats, 42c; wheat, 90c; rye, 75c. The former Kennedy farm of 80 acres, lying near Kniman, was bought recently by G. F. Meyers from Mrs. Lillie Ruffing. Mrs. J. Hansson was taken suddenly ill Thursday and it is thought an operation may be necessary in order to improve her health. Mrs. Sarah Flynn went to Indianapolis Wednesdaj 7 to visit her daughter, Mrs. Edward McGuff, who has been ill for several weeks. Clothes to fit any size man—tall, short or stout—from $9.75 to $27.50 at a cash saving from ordinary prices.—HILLIARD & HAMILL.' Watson Plumbing Co., phone 204. The only reliable concern drilling water wells in this part of Jasper county; will drill wells any size and anywhere. ts Mr. and Mrs. Harry Zimmerman of Michigan City came Thursday evening for a short visit with his mother, Mrs. John Zimmerman, and other relatives. There will be an ice cream social at the Curtis Creek school house on Saturday evening, July 22, proceeds to be used for the benefit of the Cur tis Creek Sunday school. Everybody cordially invited. j 15-19 Mrs. B. F. Fendig returned from Chicago Thursdaj- evening where she had gone to see Miss Mary Worden, who -was operated on for appendicitis in the Wesley hospital the first of the week, and reports her to be getting along very nicely.

p V Hoose Dresses Description cannot do justice to our exceptional values in house dresses I kimonos and aprons. They must be seen to be appreciated. We have everything in the latest styles— <: plain colors, checks, stripes, light and dark figures. Materials include ginghams, percales, lawns and chambrays—plain or :■ embroidered. And the prices will suit you. Courtesy Is Our Watchword and Quality Our Standard G. E. Murray Company

Another Ford party. “Get Hilliardized.” Mrs. John Gwin was a Chicago visitor Wednesday. I Miss Mirian Fqndig of Chicago is visiting relatives here this week. $3.50 for an indestructo Panama hat when you’re Hilliardized.—HlLLlAßD & HAMILL. : A ; ' Miss Alice Fink of Logansport returned home Wednesday after a visit here with Mrs. Carl Duvall. Miss Cinda Mecklenberg, who had been visiting her brother Charles at Lafayette a few days, returned home Tuesday. Mrs. H. F. McCracken of Gary, who had been here visiting her sister, Mrs. E. N. Loy, and family, returned home the first of the week. Mayor C. G. Spitler, A. S. Laßue, B. M, Makeever and Conrad Kellner returned Thursday from their prospecting trip to the Black Hills district of South Dakota. Mr. Hayner, expert piano turner and repairer from Chicago, is now in the city. Your patronage is respectively solicited. Leave orders at Clarke’s jewelry store. —Advt. Mrs. Charles Kasson of Hammond visited Mrs. Van Grant here a few days this week while on her way home from a visit with her daughter, Mrs. Orlan Grant, at Lafayette. “Aunt” Mary Jane Hopkins, Rensselaer’s oldest settler, r fell in some way at her home on River street Thursday evening and bruised one of her hips considerably. Fortunately no bones were broken. Mrs. Thomas Walter and son Delos went to Chicago Wednesday v.’here they made a short Visit with relatives, and later left that city for Mitchell, So. Dak., to visit the former’s sister, Mrs. Fritz Zard, and family. Mrs. A. B. Caylor of Noblesville, formerly Miss Edith Strickfaden of Rensselaer, and Mrs. A. H. Tingle of Indianapolis came Wednesday to visit Mrs. E. P. Lane. Mrs. Ralph Donnelly was hostess to several friends of the two former ladies at her home Thursdaj 7 afternoon. Quite a nice shower fell in south and southeast of Rensselaer Thursday afternoon and farther south it was accompanied by considerable wind. In Tippecanoe county corn and oats were laid flat and trees were blown down in Lafayette and other places. No rain fell in Rensselaer, the storm only extending about a mile west of Pleasant Ridge.

Silk shirts, sport shirts, cool underwear, snappy straw hats, silk hose in attractive array.—HILLIARD & HAMILL. Hr. anti Mrs. H. K. Payne of Indianapolis, who had been here visiting J. N. Leatherman and family a few days, returned home yesterday evening. Mrs. Bert Swain of Morocco WRfi taken to Chicago Tuesday where she underwent an operation for gall, bladder and stomach trouble. She had been here visiting her sister. Mrs. M. L. Spitler, for the past two weeks. Mrs, S. R. Nichols entertained Tuesday Mr. and Mrs. Morris Taylor of Bellingham, Wash., Mrs. L. M. Van Tassel of .Mitchell, So. Dak., Mrs. Jacob Raub of Chalmers, Mrs. W. L. Roach of Monticello and Miss Marguerite Walderton of Delphi. Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Randle, who have been staying at Monon for some time during the sickness and death of Mrs. Randle's mother, Mrs Eli Wood, came to Rensselaer Thursday evening and spent the night with Mrs. Henry Randle, going on to Donovan, 111., yesterday for an over Sunday visit with Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Perrigo, after which they will return here for a longer visit with relatives before returning to their home at Waynetown, Ind. Miss Marie Hamilton was taken quite sick Wednesday morning while at work in her father’s office and was taken to Chicago to Wesley hospital Thursday morning where she will be operated on this afternoon. She was accompanied to the hospital by Mr. and Mrs. A. R. Parkinson Mr. and Mrs. Hamilton went up yesterday afternoon to be with her during the operation. Miss Hamilton has been suffering for some little time and it is hoped an operation will relieve her trouble. The home of Mr. and Mrs. Philip Heuson at McCoysburg was the scene of a Very pleasant gathering Sunday when guests to the number of 52 arrived with well-filled baskets to remind Mrs. Heuson that it was her birthday anniversary, and to make things complete it was a total surprise. After a bountiful dinner was served and every -.ndy had considerably revived ice cream and cake were served. All de >arted at a late hour wishing Mrs. Heuson many more such happy events.—-A GUEST. Attorney W. J. Reed and family left Sunday morning for an automobile trip to Oklahoma City, Okla. They will go by the way of Kansas City and expect to be absent about three weeks. Mrs. Reed’s relatives live in Oklahoma City. It is the intention of the family to move in a leisurely manner across the country, stopping when night overtakes them and endeavoring to get the most possible out of their trip.—Starke County Republican. Mr. Reed is a former resident of Jasper county and , is a brother of Thomas Reed of Carpenter tp. and John Reed pf Virgie. Gertrude, the 12-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ed Fay of College avenue, fell and broke one bone and badly sprained the other of the right arm just above the wrist while playing about the basement of the new church at Parr Wednesday afternoon. She had started to climb down a ladder into the basement of the church, but owing to the slippery condition of the ground from the rain that day the ladder slipped, and in falling her arm was caught between a rung of the ladder and the edge of the foundation. Mr. Fay went to Parr and brought her home where the arm was set that night.

We have had two weeks now of very fine weather. Hot this week, to be sure, but it takes hot weather to make the corn grow, and that it is growing by leaps and bounds one can see every day. A nice rain lasting perhaps a half-hour fell at Rensselaer Wednesday afternoon, and it was very welcome indeed, both as an allayer of heat-—temporarilly, at least—-and it also did lots of good to growing crops. Out in northwest of town, in the Erhardt Weuthner neighborhood, there was considerable wind, and the silo on the Amsler place was blown down while the fields of corn were laid flat by the wind. ; There was quite a surprise on 'Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Smith of Barkley tp. Sunday. Those that took dinner with them were: Mr. Smith’s mother, Hiram Day and family, Ed Walker and family, Martin Wells and family and Oscar Wilson and wife of Rensselaer; vick Johnson of Laura: Robert Toombs and two sons of Barkley; Walter Conn of Remington; Ed Leach of Parr; Francis Leach, wife and sister-in-law of Barkley; Kenslow Patjohn of''Kentucky; Mrs. Maggie Hilton of Winamac; Wm. Wankey and Kenneth Davisson of Barkley. All enjoyed a good time with well filled baskets .containing everything good. There were 40 present in all. xx

$5 raincoats for $3.95 wfhen you’re Hilliardized. i< Lee E. Glazebrook drops The Democrat a line from Tefft under date of July 12, and says: “Had a nice shower this afternoon, the first in 10 4ays. Wheat harvest in full blast, corn is looking much better, oats are not very good. We are in about our usual health and spirits.’

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Thursday's Lafayet.e Journal: Dan W. Simms of Los Angeles, Cali., formerly of this city, has b *en summoned here by the serious illness of his father, Daniel Simms, of Fifth and Owen streets. Mr. Simms is expected to arrive on Saturday The Lafayette Journal says that the case of infantile paralysis reported in that city a few days ago , was not chat disease at all, it later I developed. It was simply a mistake in the doctor’s diagnosis of the case. The patient soon recovered. President Wilson signed the good roads bill recently passed by the congress authorizing the expenditure of $85,000,000 in five years by the federal government on condition that states expend amounts similar to those apportioned to them. The signing was witnessed by members of the senate and house and representatives of farmers' organizations. The Progressive state committee of Indiana has ousted William Holton Dye of Noblesville, national committeeman from this state, who endorsed Charles E. Hughes, Republican nominee for President. The decision to unseat Mr. Dye w 7 as reached by the committee last Monday and he was given an opportunity to disavow or withdraw. Failing to do either a resolution was adopted declaring the place vacant. Judge Pollard of Delphi, special judge in the Baldwin-Dague bank failure case in the Benton circuit court, has granted Willard Elliott, receiver for the Fowler and Ambia banks, an extension of time for filing the report ordered at the June term of court. Mr. Ellictt and his attorneys admitted in open court that under the report previously made and against whieh a bill of exceptions was filed, they had asked the judge to approve over charges against the estate of between $40,000 and $50,000. Frank Caldwell, an acquaintance of Governor Ralston, who formerly lived in Lebanon, Ind., and for nine years has been in the region about Bronwsville, Texas, coifferred with Goveron Ralston Tuesday and assured him that the climate about Brownsville is splendid when compared to other parts of Texas. He said good crops of grain were raised there, and that the Indiana troops, who will he stationed near there, should not suffer from the climate. At the governor’s office it Was said Caldwell now is a colonization agent. —-Indianapolis News. The body of an unknown man was found beside the Monon railroad track north of Chalmers about 9 o’clock Tuesday morning by the crew of a local freight train. The body was not mutilated and it is believed that he was killed by falling from a passing train. The only marks of violence were a couple of scratches on the head. The only thing found on the body wrns a razor that he wore in a pouch which was suspended from his neck; On the handle was marked, “Notify 11. Shaw, Lacross, Wis.” The authorities wired Lacross asking them to locate Shaw 7 . While out in a boat on the Kankakee river Sunday afternoon Miss Hazel Hall of Shelby was overcome with the heat and fell unconscious to the bottom of the boat. Parties in another boat a short distance away saw her fall and hastened to her relief. She was taken to her home and medical aid summoned, but'she got no better. She lingered until 3 p. m. Monday when she passed away. She w 7 as about 20 years of age and was engaged in the restaurant business with her sister at Shelby. She was a young lady who had numerous friends and it was a great shock to them to hear of her untimely death. -—Lowell Tribune Action to recover nearly $ 4,000 alleged to have been obtained illegally from the state by George Stipp, former trustee of Monroe tp. of Pulaski county, will be taken

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through 1 the attorney-general’s office as a result of reports of investigations made by the board of accounts, which were certified, by Governor Ralston. Stipp is' accused of having obtained $170.50 in excess salary and with embezzling $ 3,825 - 38 in false charges for the construction of school buildings. One item netted $585 in substituting hollow tile for brick, as called tor in the specifications, according to the report of the examiners for th 6 board. A fine team of black horses valued at $4 00 and owned by Cosmos Shafer of Monticello were killed in a peculiar manner during the wind and rain storm Thursday evening at that place. A large limb blown from a shade tree broke a ‘ live" electric light wire, the end ot which dropped into a pool of water in the street and one of the horses, stepping in the charged pool, made a frantic leap when the current struck it and pulled the other horse into the pool also. Both animals were killed almost instantly. AbShafer jumped from the Wagon tc the sidewalk to which the water did not extend and thus saved himself from a like fate.

Fourth of July Centennial Celcbratons. Spencer county: The pocket pageant banner was again held aloft on the national holiday this time 1 y Spencer county. And it was held high—as high as picturesque old Rockport sits on the bluffs above the Ohio. As a real county pageant, participated in-by townships, it made Montgomery look to its laurels. With some 1,500 people taking part, the preparation of the various episodes represented an immense amount of work, the success of which was a tribute to the director, Mrs. Ehrman of Rockport, who had traveled all over the county, drilling the townships for their parts. The pageant was written by a former Spencer county girl, Mrs. Kate Milner Rabb, of Indianapolis and many of the pageant actors were descendants of of the historical characters protrayed. The representation of the spirit of the Ohio river and the water nymphs, bordering the lake on the pageant grounds, together with the colorful protrayal of the spirits o! 'he field and Howers, was most beautiful and effective. An excellent chorus, drilled by Miss May Posey, contributed much to the success of the pageant. The tone of the whole celebration was excellent, reflecting great credit upon Chairman W. W. Kellams and his committee. Much commendation goes to Mrs. Helen Baumgaertner for her effective efforts in getting centennial plans started in Spencer county. Fayette county: It took three full days for little Fayette county to do itself justice in observing the centennial. E. P. Hawking was the man of the hour, as county chairman, he having Instilled the enthusiasm and effected the organization that put the celebration across. Aside from the features which other coi:i ties have had, Fayette county had some that were more or less distinctive. The relic exhibit was excellent, and distributing it in the show windows in the main business street of Connersville proved highly satisfactory. The presentation arrangement of the pageant, written and directed by Miss Harriet Williams was unique. On the hillside appeared the interior of a cabin, wherein the settlers’ scenes were made effective through the playing of the flood and spot light. The mass scenes took place immediately before the immense audience. The Fayette Miss Indiana was the first to have a birthday cake, with 100 candles burning. Various features

So Long, Boys, I’m Off For My Vacation” AH, the joys of the seashore, the / ** hillside, the summer cottage nestl- Vgf ed away in the mountains, * Beforeyacationing,how about your wardrobe? Are you 'j j’ vO prepared? We suggest a I Norfolk of crash; white serge L/A P trousers and blue serge coat / I \ for evening wear. We can ll V ■ \\ furnish you with a complete ' 1I ’ft vacation outfit, from negligee II 11 V togs for golf or tennis to a I A\ ft “Dress Up” suit for service # yj when the sun goes down. jiL DUVALL’S QUALITY SHOP “The Store for Vacation Things" C. EARL DUVALL RENSSELAER, INDIANA

si® Here, Good People, is a Lumber Yard Filled from stem to stern with The Best Lumber While nothing keeps better than well Reasoned lumber, we bought it to sell to you to keep. Prove It's Lasting Qualities. GRANT-WARNER LUMBER CO. of pioneer life were -most graphically represented. This county, furthermore, did much in the way of permanent memorials. The Clio club presented a fountain to the city and a Fayette county centennial hospital for which some $40,000 has been raised, was dedicated. Johnson county: A home made, home produced pageant of Johnson county was given by the several townships on the Franklin college campus, In which the history of the county was told in four episodes. It was very largely attended and hailed as the most elaborate historic production ever attempted in Johnson county. Chief credit belongs to Miss Jeanette Zeppenfeld of the Franklin college faculty, who arranged the pageant and was assisted by Miss Hazel Abbett, Miss Florence Johnson and Dana Gather. Local pageants: Irvington, undei the leadership of George S. Cottman, put on a beautiful centennial pageant in Ellenberger park, portraying the beginnings of Irvington on a background of state history. The Culver summer school presented a pageant depicting Indian life and the legends of Lake Maxlnkuckie. The Black Horse troop presented the removal of the Indians by General John Tipton.

SATURDAY NIGHT at the Gayety EXTRA EXTRA 4 People 4 2 Double Teams 2 We promised to give a good show last Saturday night. We fulfilled our promise. We promise a bigger and better show this Saturday night. Don't miss it. 15 and 5 Cents