Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1916 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Rensselaer Chautauqua, August 10 to 15. ' ■ ■ . i V M. I. Adams- was a Chicago business goer Monday. T : '

Miss Clara Gerlach of Ambia came i Friday for a week’s visit with Miss Charlotte Kanne. ,

An automobile party passed through town yesterday morning, north bound, from Birmingham, Ala.

Miss Helen Porter of Remington took the train here Monday for Chicago to visit friends and relatives there.

Mrs. W. A. Burns and baby of Chicago came Saturday to visit the Charles Burns and John Price families of Barkley tp.

Black and tan Crawford oxfords at materially reduced prices, cost of leather considered. See windows at HILLIARD & HAMILL’S.

Work is being pushed on the Earl Duvall and George W. Hopkins new houses on College avenue, and the basements are now in for same.

Miss Jessie Fleming went to Chicago Monday for a couple of weeks’ visit after which she will go to Seattle, Wash., to visit “her brother Edward.

The hot weather has evidently not been favorable to marital bliss, as no less than four divorce cases were filed in the Jasper circuit court last month.

Mrs. George Buck and children returned to Goodland Saturuay after a couple of weeks’ visit with her brother, Charles Bowers, ana wife of w est of town.

Drs. Hemphill, Kresler and Washburn attended the meeting of the Jasper-Newton Medical society held with Dr. Van Kirk at Kentland last Thursday night.

Nightwatch Critser was notified Saturday night to be on the lookout for a couple of automobiles stolen that night at Lafayette. No trace of the machines was found here, however.

George Wade, who has been farming with his uncle, Roe Yeoman, over in Newton tp., has stored his household effects in Rensselaer and expects to seek employment at bis old trade of barbering.

Miss Jennie Comer returned Friday from a visit with her brother, Clyde Comer, and family at Winchester, Ind. She was accompanied home by Mrs. Comer and children •who will visit here for a short time.

You kin git on th’ good side o’ most any feller by askin’ him where he got such a purty shirt. “Don’t worry” is a pop’lar motto with those who don’t amount t’ anything.—Abe Martin in the Indianapolis News.

Next Saturday is the -‘big day in Rensselaer.” The great HagenbeckWallace circus and mendgerie will exhibit here on that date and an immense crowd of people will be in city to see this show, which never disappoints.

Lee Adams returned Monday from a 10 days’ trip to Demopolis, Ala., accompaning there his brother Ray, who had been visiting here and at Mt. Ayr. While it was very dry here during July, they were having floods in the south and the crops in the river bottoms are destroyed in many places.

Through an error in the date given in the dispatch front Lafayett° for the Jackson club picnic at Michigan City published in Saturday’s Democrat, the date given was Au gust 8, next Tuesday, when it should have been August 6, or next Sunday. The special train will leave Lafayette at 8 a. m., maKlng no stops after leaving Monon, and will reach Michigan City about 11 a. m

Mr. and Mrs. James Drake of Chi cago have been visiting with the former’s mother, Mrs. M. E. Drake* and family of south of town for the pas: week. Mrs. J. F. Jones and little daughter of Gary are visiting her mother, Mrs. Drake, having r.c companied the latter home la’t Thursday. Mrs. Drake went to Gary to remain at the Jones home whil? Mr. and Mrs. Jones attended the funeral of Mr. Jones’ father, who was killed in a factory at Marion last week by a redhot bolt of iron striking him. ,

Mr. and Mrs. George W. Hopkins returned Saturday morning from a 10 days’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. John Jenkins and family at Big Rapids, Mich. They were accorj panied home by the little nine-year-old daughter of their hosts, Mary Ellen Jenkins, who w'ent to Goodland Sunday night to visit the children of Dr. and Mrs. J. D. Bond, who drove over after her in their auto Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Hopkins report a very pleasant sojourn in Michigan with good fishing and bathing in the lake near the home of their hosts.