Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1916 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

G-.'H. Comer of Barkley tp. was a Monon business goer Monday. Misses Hazel and Gladys Reeve are visiting Mrs. Ethel Cole at Lafayette for a few days. Miss Nell Reish and Tack and Doris Larsh returned home Monday evening after a two weeks’ visit in Chicago. Howard Mills, wife and baby re turned home Saturday from a two weeks’ outing spent at Bass Lake, Plymouth and Warsaw. Clothes don't cost any more at Hilliard & Hamill’s than elsewhere and they’re more elegant. Drop in and get posted an the new styles. Yesterday’s markets: Corn, 79c; oats, 41c; wheat, $1.30; rye, sl. The prices a year ago were: Corn, 72c; oats, 27c; wheat, 70 to 85c; rye, 70 to 8 oc. Miss Marguerite Irwin went to Wolcott Saturday, and in company with her brother, Ed Irwin and wife of that place, drove to Rossville Sunday and visited friends. John O’Cqnnor returned yesterday from a trip to Conrad, Newton county. He says the corn looks well in that locality and that o-ds yielded quite well indeed for this season.

Victor Hoover, who has been working during his vacation in F. B. Meyer’s drug store at Gary, came home Saturday'and is making preparations to re-enter Purdue university again. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Donnelly and son Robert, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Lefler and son and Miss Lesta Wasson drove to Lafayette Sunday, visiting the soldiers’ home and also visiting Mr. and Mrs. Len Lefler. Delos Dean and Miss Mildred Biggs drove up to the Metz camp on the Tippecanoe river near Winamac Sunday, where Miss Nell Biggs was visiting and the latter and Mrs. Florence Metz accompanied them home.

The members of the Dorcas class of the M. E. church will hold their August picnic supper at the home of Miss Stella Platt on Thursday evening. All members are urged to be present and to bring their baskets of “eats.” .

Chas'. I’efley sola tne lumber he had advertised in The Democrat, Saturday to Frank Hill, who will haul it out to his Jordan tp. farm and use it for constructing more farm buildings. It was lumber from the old Jack Warner shop which Mr. Pefley recently bought and had torn down. The lot where the shop stood is owned by the F. W. Bedford estate, and it is understood that A. Leopold is figuring some on buying the lot and erecting two large modern tenant houses thereon.

Messrs. Elmer Daniels and Herman Lange and Misses Leota Muster and Helen Worland drove to Terre Haute and return by auto Sunday. They visited Miss Mabel Worland, who is attending normal there. They made the drive each way, about 125 miles, in six hours, and found good stone or gravel road all the way. They report that Saturday night’s rain extended south about two miles beyond Attica, but from there on to Terre Haute It was quite dry. The corn down In that locality, however, looked well and they seemingly have had plenty of rain.

The Rensselaer doctors and their families enjoyed a day’s outing at Hazelden farm, the country home of George Ade, near Brook, Friday. The occasion was a picnic by the members of the Jasper-Newton Medical society to the doctors of the Tenth district, and, many were presfrom Gary, Hammond, Lafayette and other places, making in all an attendance of about 100. Mr. Ade' 'reciter! an original poem in sla,pg on “Microbes,” which was typical of the humorist. He stated that he had submitted it to several V publishers, who had rejected it, so he would hand it to the doctors. Bathing and golf were the principal amusements of the day. E. P. Honan, who with his wife and son Edward, attended the Democratic editors’ meeting at Michigan City last week, witnessed with the editors a ball game Friday between two teams of the state prison. The editors were guests of Warden E. J, Fogarty, and from him learned considerable about the national game among the convicts of the institution. A baseball league is maintained and a regular schedule of games arranged. The teams are sometimes placed on their honui and permitted to go to other towns for games there, and no man has ever yet violated the trust plaqpd in him on an occasion of this kind. Mr. Honan stated that the men took a great deal of Interest in these games, and therein they served a purpose htCrd to obtain otherwise. 1