Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1916 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Howard Myers was over from Brook yesterday. L. E. Barber has been sick for a few days with an attack of heart trouble. Miss Helen Higgins of Lafayette is visiting Misses Alice and Jennie Eib of Barkley tp. Miss Ruth Woodin of Hammond has been visiting old friends at Remington this week. Mrs. H. L. Brown and daughter Mary Jane went Thursday to remain until today. We will do all kinds of moving out of town at liberal prices.—-H. R. LANGE & SON MUSIC STORE. Mrs. James Snedecker and daughter went to Rockville Wednesday to visit her cousin, Miss Gladys Cooper. Mrs. John Copsey and children of Lafayette are here for a few days’ visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Carr. Frank Bartoo and sons, Pete and Elmer, of Carpenter tp. drove to Lafayette in their car Wednesday and attended the Tippecanoe county fair. Mrs. R. V. Scott and daughter, Mrs. Julius Huff, of south of town went to Danville, 111., Wednesday to visit another daughter, Mrs. J. H. Hardesty. Yesterday’s markets. Corn, 80c; oats, 42c; wheat, $1.35; rye, sl. The prices a year ago were: Crn, 72c; oats, 30c; wheat, 70c to 90c rye, 80c. Miss Rae Blanke of Chicago, who had been visiting Mrs. E. J. Duvall, returned home Tuesday accompanied by Mrs. Duvall, who will visit there for a few days.

Editor Logan of the Goodland Herald took the train herb Wednesday for Vernon, the county seat of Jennings county, to attend the home coming being held there this week. A big Mais moving van almost as large as a freight car passed through Rensselaer yesterday morning north bound. It was carrying a load of household goods from Indianapolis to Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Kahler and the former’s sister, Miss Anna, together with Albert Baumgartner and William Keilman, autoed from Dyer Wednesday morning to attend the Nagel-Kahler wedding. Twenty members of the Odd Fallows degree staff went to Brook Tuesday evening find conferred first and second degree work. Splendid refreshments were served by the Brook lodge and the visitors were treated royally, they report. Newell and Lowell Hayes of Barkley tp. returned Thursday from a few days’ visit at their old home in Henry county. Rain fell while they were there and the corri is looking better than here. The wheat crop, however, was very poor. The Sisters of the Catholic school of this city have returned from their summer vacation. The muslc'teacher is now prepared to resume her work in giving lessons on piano, violin, mandolin and organ. Call at Sisters’ home or phone No. 40.—Adv. a-30

Mr. and Mrs. George Strickland and son of Laurens, la., came Wednesday via auto to spend a couple of days with his sister, Mrs. Jesse Gates. They left Laurens Sunday and struck rain at Des Moines, and drove through rain until they reached Davenport, about 200 miles.

N. C. Shafer returned Tuesday night from Detroit, Mich., with another new Maxwell car. Among the recent purchasers of new Maxwells are S. H. Holmes of north of town and C. E. Prior of Rensselaer. Mr. Prior sold the Maxwell he had been driving for some time and bought another car of the same make.

Mrs. Len Lefler came up from Lafayette Wednesday morning to spend the day with her sister, Mrs. Thorston Otterburg, and her mother-in-law, Mrs. James Lefler. She came as far as Lee with Mr. Lefler in his auto and from there came over on the milk train, Mr. Lefler gding on to his farm near Gifford. Mrs. James Lefler’s condition continues about the same, there piping no material change.

Practically all the wheat and oats threshing is now over with in Jasper county. There is, perhaps, now and then an isolated job and a that were stacked, but these are few and far between. Excellent weather has prevailed this year all through the threshing season and scarcely no time at all was lost by rain. Last year it was rain all the time, starting early in July and continuing through September, with the result that all the threshing was not finished until October.