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

W. R. Lee was over from Mt. Ayr on business Monday. Mrs. Pearl Currens of rßemington took the train here Monday for Chicago. Fred Schultz of Union tp. is suffering from an abscess in the palm of one of his hands. * Miss Virginia Winship of Lansing, Mich., is visiting her cousn, Miss Emily Thompson. George Fate left Monday to visit relatives in Cincinnati aua other points for a few weeks. Misses Marguerite Roberts and Cora Davis of Lafayette spent Sunday with Miss Gladys Groom. Mrs. Anna Best of Van Rensselaer street underwent an operation Monday for the removal of her tonsils. Mrs. J. H. Gilbert and Mrs. George Wood of Remington took the train here Friday for Chicago. Mrs. J. H. O’Neil of Indianapolis came Sunday for a couple of weeks’ visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. M. Parcels. Louie Ramp and wife, Carl Wood and Miss Madeline Kellner went to Water Valley Monday for a week’s outing on the Kankakee. Mrs. Thompson Ross and little son of Chicago spent the week-end at the Ross home on River street, returning to Chicago Monday evening.

Yesterday’s markets: Corn, 77c; oats, 39c; wheat, $1.25; rye, 85c. The prices a year ago were: Corn, 73c; oats, 33c; wheat, 90c to 95d; rye, 80c. Mr. and Mrs. A. H. White of Joliet, 111., came down the last of the week to visit C. W- ltuoades and wife, and all spent Sunday at Battle Ground. • Mrs. John Healy, daughter Marie and son John, jr., returned Friday from a couple of weeks’ visit with her sister, Mrs. S. E. Overton, at South Havqn, Mich. Mrs. George Werner of Frankton, who had been visiting her brother, James Lefler, and wife, returned [home Monday. Mrs. Lefler’s condition is about the same. Joe Croft of Indiana Harbor was the Sunday guest of Miss Annabelle Wartena, Miss Wartena went to Indiana Harbor Sunday evening to visit her brother Robert and wife. Fred Rhoades, who has been attending school in Chicago to prepare himself for the Armour institute, to take a course in mechanical engineering, is home for a few weeks’, vacation, The weather still continues hot and dry. There have been local showers all about Rensselaer but very little rain has fallen here. Yesterday was somewhat cooler than usual and at 11:30 o’clock the mercury had only reached 88 degrees in the shade.

• E. M. Baker and wife and adopted daughter, who with her baby had been visiting them for a few days, were driven to Frankfort yesterday by Rex Warner and they will make an extended visit with relatives in that vicinity. Mr. Baker, who has been suffering from rheumatism for several is still in an almost helpless condition and can only get about with difficulty on cratches. County Treasurer May and family spent Sunday at Remington. Oats over in the vicinity of Mr. May’s farm are turning out from 25 to 35 bushels per acre, some going slightly under this figure and some yields are *a little higher. The average seems to be about 30 bushels. They are quite light in weight. There was a very heavy wind in connection with the rain over there Thursday night and some of the fields 1 of corn were blown flat to the ground. On account of the corn not being hilled up as much as usual this season it Is not set very firmly in the ground, and some of that blown ovqr will scarcely raise up again.

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