Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1916 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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The little son of Mr. and Mrs. Max Kepner is quite sick with bowel trouble. ' Miss Blanche Grant of west of town is Confined to her home with malarial fever.

Quite a number of Rensselaer I. 0. O. F’s. went to Brook last bight to confer degrees in the Brook lodge.

Mrs. W. H. Sayler has been suffering from malarial fever for some time, but is some better at this writing.

Lee Kimble, the aged gentleman of near Parr, who was operated on recently for strangulated hernia, is reported to be getting along nicely.

Yesterday’s markets were: Corn, 80c; oats, 40c; wheat, $1.35; rye, sl. The prices a year ago were: Cofn, 72c; oats, 30c; wheat, 90c: rye, 80c.

We do not make as much noise as some concerns, but we always have the highest quality merchandise at the lowest prices to show you at ROWLES & PARKER’S.

Rev. F. Hz Beard has been indisposed for the past three weeks and unable to fill his appointments. His ailment is thought to have been caused from the extreme heat and nervous trouble.

Delos Thompson has bought the old red barn on the Thompson property on River street and same is being torn down and the lumber will be taken, out to his farm oast of town and used to builcLa cattie shed.

Tom Huston, who has been working up about Roselawn for the past three weeks, returned to Rensselaer yesterday. He says they got a fine rain there last Thursday night. None fell in Rensselaer or immediate vicinity, however.

Dr. and Mrs. H. J. Kannal, accompanied by Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Irwin, left Sunday in the former’s car for Detroit, Mich., where Dr. Kannal will attend a veternarian convention. They are expected home the latter part of the week.

T. G. Wynegar received a telegram yesterday from his son Grant, saying that he had just arrived in Indianapolis and would be stationed there as a recruiting officer. Grant is a member of the Rensselaer company now down at Llano Grande, Texas.

Mrs. Rose Graf of Des Moines, la., came Saturday to spend a week with her sisters, Mrs. W. D. Bringle and Misses Mary and Clara Goetz, of Rensselaer. Her son Winthrop will join her here next Saturday and accompany her home.

Mrs. G. E. Murray, while going down in the basement at her home on River street Monday afternoon, fell and struck her head against a step, cutting quite a gash about one and one-half inches in length above her left eye. It required several stitches to close the wound.

Mrs. E. J. Steinke of Union tp., while on her way to church last Sunday morning, was thrown from her buggy when her horse became frightened at a passing automobile and struck her head on the wheel, cutting quite a gash above her right eye and it required several stitches to close the wound.

The Rensselaer schools will commence on Monday, September 4. There will be but very little change in the high school faculty, but we are unable at this time to give the. changes in the other branches. Miss Helen Lamson of Jordan tp., who taught in the city schools a couple of years ago but did not teach last year, will be back again.

W. R. Brown returned Monday evening from a week’s visit with his daughter, Mrs. Charles Harmon, at Evansville. 'Mrs. Harmon has just recently undergone an operation for the removal of her tonsils in a hospital there. Mr. Brown states that they had good rains down in that vicinity while he was there and the corn looks fine.

* Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Hill and son Donald drove down from Chicago Thursday, accompanied by Miss Gertrude Hopkins of this city, who had gone to Chicago on Wednesday, and visited until Saturday with Miss Hopkins and her mother, Mrs. Austin Hopkins. Saturday all of them drove over to Goodland and visited some old friends of Mrs. Hill.

The Goodland Herald states that the little Jessup boy, who was so severely burned there on August 11. when his brother, David, caught hold