Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1916 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Rensselaer Chautauqua, August 10 to 15. The brick work on the hospital is completed and the roof well under way. Miss Grace Norris left Friday for a visit with friends at Bloomington, Greencastle and Crawfordsvill4. Mrs. Applegate and Miss Bowman of Delphi came Saturday to visit Del Bowman and family at Newland. Mrs. A. S. Barlow came down from Wheatfield Saturday to visit her daughter, Mrs. Henry Gilbranson. Persons knowing themselves indebted to me are requested to come in and settle.—l. M. WASHBURN, M. D. alO Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth left Saturday for Harmony, Me., to visit their daughter, Mrs. Cecelia Chadbourne. The Misses Mitchell and Miss Vera Gerharz of LeMont, 111., are here for a 10 days’ visit with Mrs. Edward W y Kanne and Miss Viola Kohley. Watson Plumbing Co., pnone 204. The only reliable concern drilling water wells in this part of Jasper county; will drill wells any size and anywhere. ts Mrs. Jesse King and children left Friday for their home at Excelsior Springs, Mo., after a visit here with her mother, Mrs. J. W. Marlin. Her brother, Jesse Marlin, accompanied her home. Joseph Myers, who has been employed as linotype operator on The ! Democrat for the past three years, resigned Monday.., We are unadvised as to what his intentions are fo’r the future.

George Mauck, who is employed as press feeder in the Conkey printing plant at Hammond, came down Saturday afternoon to visit until Sunday evening with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. D. Mauck. Don’t forget that the subscription price of The Democrat will be raised on Sept. 1, 1916, to $2 per year, as previously announced, but new subscriptions and renewals will be accepted up to that time at the old price of $1.50 per year. si Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Long, accompanied by their son George and wife and little daughter, drove to Hammond Sunday morning and met their daughter, Mrs. Russel Strawbridge and baby of Niagara Falls, N. Y., who will visit them for a couple of months. Lee Matheny, who lives on the old L. L. Ponsler farm northeast of town, had the best yield of oats yet reported. He had 12 acres that turned out 60 bushels to the acre, and the average on his 32 acres was 52 bushels. On the W. J. Rains farm in Barkley, the oats turned out 46 bushels per acre, and 12 acres of timothy threshed out 75 bushels.