Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1916 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

W. V. Porter is the owner of a new Maxwell automobile. Mrs. W. H. Beam will leave next week for a sojourn in Michigan. Pocket the difference, $22.50 suits $19.75, at HILLIARD & HAMILL’S ..Mrs.- Josiah Davisson and daughter Fern spent Friday in Hammond. Miss Agnes Kahler returned home from Lafayette Saturday where she had been attending the Purdue summer school. Hugh Yeoman, the son of Robert Yeoman of Newton tp., received a broken right arm last week while cranking an auto. Work on Mrs. John Martindale's residence*on College avenue is being pushed right along and good headway is being made. Mrs. Rankin D. Jones and daughter of Cincinnati, Ohio, came Mod* day afternoon for a few days’ visit with the former’s brother, George E. Murray, and family. Mrs. E. Cregg of Campus' 111., and daughter, Mrs. M. Fenton, of Kan-1 kakee, 111., came the latter part of, the week to visit the former’s daughter, Mrs. A. Quinn. - * Mrs. J. Hansson, who was recently operated on in a Chicago hospital, for tumor, is improving slowly and it will probably be some time before she is able to return home. An automobile bearing a Washington state license passed through Rensselaer Monday, headed sos Chicago. The machine carried a large camping equipment on one side. There is some talk of trying to get a public bathing pool built in Rensselaer; something after the plan of that at Wolcott, which is very popular during the summer season. Mr. and Mrs. William Maloney and children of Chicago drove down in their big Overland car Thursday for a week’s visit with the former’s sister, Mrs. M. E. Drake, and family. Mrs. Charles Grow and son Charles, jr., are visiting in Urbany this week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. Paxton. Mr. Grow will drive down and bring them back in his car Saturday. Mrs. S. A. Beal of Macon, Mo., who has been visiting here for the past month with her sister, Mrs. William M. Hoover, and brothers, Joseph and Marion I. Adams, returned home , yesterday.

It is said that $l3O was expendedfrom the “luxury fund’’ of Company M while the boys were in camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison. As 16 members of the company were not accepted and came home about the time the company left Indianapolis, it might be a good idea for those in terested to ask some of these, boys what extras they got while at Fort Harrison which was purchased 7roir. this fund amounting to about $2 per man. On his recent trip to South Dakota Conrad Kellner met George E. Timmons, formerly of Jordan tp., who is engaged in the stock business near Wall, So. Dak., and is doing well. George is raising cattle and horses for the market and had 255 head of cattle and 65 horses when Mr. Kellner was there. He has 480 acres of land of his own and lease; a school section adjoining for which he pays $4 0 per year rental and two quarter sections which he pays S2O each for. This is not a good farming section of country but is alright f oi grazing purposes, Mr. Kellner states