Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 October 1916 — Page 5

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I WEEK’S X

Another frost fell Tuesday night. Mrs. Charles Porter and Mrs. J. W. Williims spent Wednesday in Chicago. Champion X spark* plugs will sell for 50 cents at the Auto Equip- - ment Co. A. S. Laßue left Thursday morning via auto with a party of land seekers for Niles, Michigan. We still have some of that car of fancy potatoes—4oc a peck or $1.60 a bushel.—JOHN EGER. If you move from one precinct to another after October 7 you will not be permitted to vote November 7. Mrs. Thomas Ratcliff of Paxton, Illinois, returned home Wednesdayafter a visit here with Mrs. Albert Bissenden and famfly. C. C. Warner moved into his neat new residence on West ' Harrison street a few days ago, in time to register in the fourth precinct. Mrs. W. L. Bott left Wednesday for ( Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, to spend a month with her daughter, Mrs. Frank 'Hamilton, and family. If you want a good Jersey cow or heifer, attend the Van Hook and Duggins sale one-half mile -west of .Rensselaer next Saturday, October 21. , ’ 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 Miss Florence Keeney was home from Marion the first- of the week ' for a visit with her parents, Mr. ' and Mrs. A. J. Keeney, returning there Wednesday. James Clark, Democratic candidate for county commissioner from the first district, accompanied by’ Bert Vandercar of Wheatfield, was ’ a visitor in Rensselaer Wednesday. : The Republican campaign in Jas*per county, will open next Monday with a speech at Fair Oaks in the evening. Several other speeches have been booked at intervals of every few days following. B. E. Keeney, who has been living in the John M. Knapp property on River street for the past 'several months while looking after the former Springer lands x in Walker township, is moving back to Chicago this week. Fire broke out in the storage room of the Lyric theater at Remington last Wednesday morning and before it*was put out several hundred dollars of damage was done to the storage and seats in the theater. The loss was not .covered by insurance.

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Mrs. John Kolhoff spent Tuesday in Lafayette. Several fine draft mares at the Van Hook and Duggins sale Saturday, October 21. E. P. Honan went to Indianapolis on business Tuesday afternoon, returning home Wednesday. ■ ’ x J. B. Ashby of Mt. Ayr was in Rensselaer Wednesday enroute to Monon to spend the day. Mrs. F. R. JErwin of Fair Oaks spent a few days here this week with the family of N. Littlefield. Mrs. Mattle Grant went to Lafayette Tuesday to spend . a few days with her son, Orlan Grant, and family. ' Mr. and Mrs. Nathaniel Scott visited in Indianapolis with her brother, ’Harry Barnum, and family from Wednesday until yesterday. Mrs. W. A. Shindler and Mrs. D. A. Dirst of Mt. Ayr took the train here Tuesday for Chicago to spend a few days with Mr. and Mrs. Everett Schock. Mrs. James Griswold and Mrs. George Shaw of Valparaiso came Monday to visit their sister, Mrs. William Eger. The latter returned home Tuesday evening. Rev. and Mrs. F. H. Beard and Mrs. C. B. Stewart went to Marion' Tuesday to attend the state convention of Baptists, in session there all this week. Mrs. John Meharry of near Mt. Ayr took the train here Tuesday enroute to Logansport to see her son Clarence, who is a patient at Longcliffe hospital. She reports her son somewhat improved; Mr. and E. M. Baker, who have been visiting relatives down about Frankfort for several weeks, returned home Tuesday. The former is but little better than when he left here and is still compelled to use clutches in getting about. “Aunt” Mary Janq. Hopkins went to Monticello Wednesday afternoon to visit her half-brother, Oscar Tharp, until Thursday. Mr. Tharp is in quite poor health and has lost the sight of one eye and is in danger of losing that of the other eye. David toman, Jr., Victor Yeoman, Sam Scott, E. D. Rhoades and Gborge Collins drove to" Indianapolis Thursday in the former’s car to see and hear President Wilsbn. On their return trip they stopped in ■Frankfort and heard Senator Gore. L. A. Bostwick, the civil engineer, who has been employed for more than a year past in valuation work on the M. K. & T. railroad and located at Topeka and Parsons, Kansas,—now at the latter place—is here this week on a short vacation visiting his wife. He will return to Parsons in a day or two. 1 Word was received here Saturday by relatives’ telling of the death of Irma Elizabeth, the 18-months-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Samuel N. Pullin of Townsend, Montana. The little one had been sick for several days with an attack of.cholera morbus, and this is thought to have caused her death. Mr. arid Mrfe. Pullin formerly resided here, he being a son of Mrs. Mary Pullin. On Saturday evening Miss Irene McAleer entertained several of the girls and boys of tier in school at her home in Milroy township. The following young people were present: , Misses Alice Thomas, Lenore Carr, Linnie Bird Raines, Maqdie Reynolds, and"* Messrs. Leonard Gourley, Harold Sage, Jackson Freeland and Floyd McCullough. The evening was spent in games and music, and at a late hour refreshments were served.

Mr. and Mrs. Ralph O’Riley were Lafayette visitors Tuesday. The Priscilla Sew club met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. A. L. Padgett. Thursday was “Discovery day” and a holiday so far as banks and negolable paper was concerned. - Miss Hazel Gunyon went to Frankfort Thursday to see her sister, Mrs. Doyle Brown, who was quite sick. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Brown went to Englewood Thursday to spend a week with Mrs. Brown’s mother, Mrs. A. C. Beilfuss. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Shoop and Miss Elizabeth Lee of Rockville were the home of C. Earl Duvall over Sunday and Monday. Miss L. Kistner of Chicago returned home Thursday after visiting since Sunday with Mrs. Harry Arnold and at the home of Ira F. Meader. < We have 30 barrels of those fancy sweet potatoes left, and will sell the balance of this lot at 3c a pound or $1.50 a bushel, while they last. —JOHN EGER. I Miss Gertrude Hopkins went to Winona, Minnesota, Tuesday to do some accounting work on the road contract of W. F. Smith & Co., near that place. Wise'(buyers read the ads before they go' to the store to spend their money. LT the ad ’isn’t there they don’t read it. The wise merchant will take the hint. A nice lot of Duroc Jersey hogs, brood sows, gilts and young pigs at the Van Hook and Duggins joint sale Saturday, October 21, one-half mile west of Rensselaer, on the Bunkum road. ■ Lester Gorham, son of George Gorham of the north part' of town, who has been sick for the past week, has developed a case of scarlet fever, but at this writing is getting along as well as could be expected. Parties that are in the market for a good cow, sow or other hogs including registered boars, and fine brood mare, will serve their Interests by awaiting my public sale October 21. Bills later. Terms. — •RUSSEL VAN HOOK.—Advt. The Prohibition motor brigade will visit Rensselaer next Monday, being advertised for speeches and music at 8:30 a. m. No place is designated and if the weather is fit the meeting will probably be held on the street.

John Ramp and Miss Tillie Ramp drove to Kentland Sunday and spent' the day with Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Krull, and were accompanied home that evening by their mother, Mrs. Ramp, who ha'd spent the past two weeks there. At the regular monthly social of the Methodist Ladies’ Aid society held last Tuesday afternoon at the church parlors, the following officers were elected for the ensuing year: President, Mrs. Alfred Randle; vice president, Mrs, JE. C. English; secretary, Mrs. Ross Dean; treasurer, Mrs. H. E. Hartley. The mix-up of Charles Rhoades, Jr., and a party of joy riders with a buggy and team of mules on Wednesday night of last week, near the Bedford farm, east of town, was quite an expensive one for the boy’s father. Besides having a badly wrecked auto Mr. Rhoades, Sr., paid $lB5 for the mule killed and the damage to the buggy and harness will probably be about S4O or SSO more. ’ N. S. Bates returned home Wednesday night from a two months’ visit with his daughter, Mrs; Albert Bouk, at Minot, North Dakota. He stopped over in Chicago to see his daughter residing there, Mrs. Rufus Knox, and reports that the latter’s little daughter, who was stricken with infantile paralysis a few days ago, was thought to be a trifle better Wednesday. < ■ About thirty of the neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. George Spangle gave them a very delightful surprise Tuesday evening on the occasion of their twenty-fifth wedding anniversary. An oyster supper was prepared by the visitors, to which all did justice. Mr. and Mrs. Spangle were presented with a beautiful set of silver spoons as a token of the esteem in which they are held. A most enjoyable evening was reported.

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Oren Parker was in Chicago yesterday thi business. Fifty cents for Champion X spark plugs, at the Auto Equipment Co. Elvyn Bussell went to Fort Wayne Tuesday where he expects to secure employment. Mrs. Walter Roudebush and children went to Lafayette Thursday to visit her mother, Mrs. John Bales. Mrs. Lesley Miller and children went to Kankakee, Illinois, yesterday on account of the death of her aged grandmother. When ready to start fall housecleaning don’t forget that The Democrat sells a big armful of«old papers for onjy five cents. James-Carson of Columbus, Ohio, came Thursday for a visit at the home of his daughter and husband, Dr. and Mrs. E. N. Loy. Mrs. D. E. Hudson of Broad Ripple, who had been the guest of Mrs. Emery Garriott since Tuesday, returned home Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. S. Iz. Foncanon of Wauseon, Ohio, came Wednesday for a visit with their daughter, Mrs. G. H. McLain, and family. Mrs. W. H. Beajn and Mrs. Charles Morlan went to Lafayette Thursday to visit Mrs. Beam’s daughter, Mrs. F. X. Busha. Leo Mecklenburg is opening up qn electrical shop in the Hollingsworth room on Van Rensselaer street lately vacated by Dr. Hansson.

Yesterday’s markets: Corn, 80c; oats, 43c; wheat, $1.45; rye, $1.13. The prices one year ago were; Corn, ' r c; cats, 30 c; wheat, 60c to 90c; rye, 75 c. Mrs. Jennie Cooper of Martinsville, Illinois, who had been at Zadoc visiting her daughter, Mrs. Tillie Dooley, took the train here Thursday for Indianapolis to visit a son before returning Mrs. C. A. Radcliff and children of Louisville, Kentucky, came Saturday to visit Mrs. Radcliff’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Rhoades. They were accompanied by Miss lone Zimmerman, who had been visiting at the Radcliff home. The weather the past few days lias been quite seasonable, a light rain falling throughout the day Thursday. ' Yesterday came in cloudy but gave much promise of clearing up as the day progressed. The temperature has been quite seasonable. ' Mrs. Barbara Muster of Valparaiso iame Sunday for a two weeks’ visit with her son, Louis Muster, and family. Miss Margaret Lempke also of Valparaiso came Wednesday to visit her cousin, Miss Leota Muster, for a few days. Miss Muster and Miss Helen Worland entertained for the latter at their homes on Thursday and Friday nights, respectively. W. D. Crooks, the young man who has been drawing a series of good roads cartoons for The Democrat, is acquiring considerable ability as an artist. One of the show windows 'in the Burchard variety store has been decorated with his work and is attracting a great deal of attention. He has on display there several specimens of free-hand work in black and white, and also much work in colors. Mr. Crooks is a graduate of the Rensselaer high school and is a student at the Chicago Art Institute. He has progressed so well in his work at the latter place that 'he is competent and qualified to teach art work and kt ready to accept a number of students in commercial drawing and postal work. Anyone Interested will do well to visit Mr. Crooks’ display at the Burchard store and then consult him. Subscribe for The Democrat.

GOODLAND HAS A FIRE BUG

A fire, thought to have been of incendiary origin, partially destroyed a house occupied by Mrs. Thomas and her daughter at Goodland last Tuesday evening. There seems to be a Are bug in Goodland and several citizens have received anonymous letters. The Herald says: “Rumors have been circulated that several anonymous letters have been received by Goodland people, and since the fire Tuesday night it ( has developed that Mrs. Thomas and her daughter had received a missive informing them that they were to be burned out. “Mrs. J. R.' Hazen also received a like letter and parties w*ho have read said letters state that they appeared to have been written by the same person. • “Parties who will resort to such tactics is no better than a ’dago’ who slips up behind you and sticks you in the back.“It is the general opinion over town that the Thomas house was set afire—and several mysterious things have happened and the Herald suggests that it is a good ca'se for the Indiana fire marshal. This department delights in running down such cases. “Recently the editor has been informed by persons who are implicated in anonynqous letters received and we can’t see why anyone who has anything to say don’t go to the party In person and have it out — like a man, or woman, as the case may be.’’

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Is Young Man Implicated in Theft of Wolcott Automobile. . Tn the circuit court at Frankfort last Saturday Zinn Merritt, 18 years old, of Winamac pleaded guilty to the theft of a Ford automobile in that city last Winter, and was sentenced to from one to fourteen years in the Jeffersonville reformatory. , Young Merritt was implicated in a number of automobile thefts, the authorities assert, among them being the theft of a car at Wolcott prior to the theft, of the Frankfort car. For that offense his brother, Charles Merritt, was arrested as an accomplice. Grant Merritt, an uncle of the boys, was arrested at Frankfort as an accomplice of his nephew but was released and went to a Missouri town where he is now being held on a horse-stealing charge. While in jail at Frankifort Zinn Merritt declared that his uncle planned the thefts. He denounced his relative as a flagrant thief.

NOTICE TO MOOHE MEMBERS All Moose members are requested to be present at lodge hall at 1 p. m. Sunday, October 15. The Hoopeston, Illinois, degree team will be hero to do the initiatory work.— SECRETARY.

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SEEK LAND BANK SWINDLERS

Federal Farm Loan Board Plans, Wholesale Criminal ProsecutionHeadquarters in Kansas City. Washington, Oct. 13. — Wholesalat .criminal prosecution of a number ot; individuals who are promoting land; bank swindles are being planned by< the federal farm loan board, that bodyt announced here. The headquarters of the syndicate; are In Kansas City, It 1# alleged, and, the board hay amassed a' large quantity of evidence concerning the Idea* tity and operations of the promoters. Evidence in the hands of the boardl now indicates that the country from, coast to coast is being exploited by a. land swindle trust, all under one heacL, The man at the head of the organization is alleged to be a financial wizard, whose ability the farm loan, board respects and, to a certain extent, feara. He Is keeping in the background and, operating through agents. In the state of Kentucky nearly half a million already has been taken from the farmer.