Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 November 1916 — Page 3

NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS ITEMS

REMINGTON. (From the Press.) REMINGTON R. R. TIME TABLE No. 318 Bast bound 7:38 a.m. No. 331 West bound 9:01a.m. No. 340 East bound 5:09 p.m. No. 319 West bound 5:33 p.m.

The new flag pole for the school grounds was raised into position Saturday afternoon. Paul Blake had the misfortune to have his collar bone broken while playing football at school Monday. Charley Brand is spending a few days with his family here. He has been busy at the ranch northeast of Morocco for some time. An infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Howard Castor of south of town was buried Tuesday. Services conducted by Rev. Hawkins, and interment made in Gilboa cemetery. Mr. E. Peacock, who was injured In a fall at the Press office last week, is getting along as nicely as could be expected. He is getting about on crutches at present. Mrs. Charles Elmore took her little son John to Ft. Wayne on Saturday, where she entered him in school for the coming winter. They were accompanied by Mr. Elmore as far as Logansport. Miss Grace Washburn of Kentland, sister of J. A. Washburn of this place, has been in a very critical condition of late from an abscess on her neck. She is somewhat improved today, we learn. It is currently reported that Geo. Hemphill has leased the corner of the lot south of Knockle’s barn and will erect a shop thereon, and do blacksmithing. This will make the sixth shop for Remington. Dr. and Mrs. Elmer Bull of Wabash came Monday for an indefinite visit with his mother, Mrs. T. B: Markin. Dr. Bull has sold his dental business and will move on his recently purchased farm in February. The Rice pool room was sold last week to Messrs. Davis and Shell of Buffalo, Indiana, who are already in possession of the same. Mr. Rice thinks that he will go back onto his farm which he drew in the Rosebud drawing some years ago. Mrs. Ella Parks underwent an operation at Lafayette Tuesday. Reports from there this Thursday morning are to the effect that she is just doing fine and has excellent chances for complete hecovery. Remington people will be glad to know this. A child of George Woods, who lives on the Goodland road west of town, is reported to be sick with scarlet fever. The county health officer, Dr. Hemphill, of Rensselaer was over and pronounced it scarlet fever. This week it is reported that George himself has the disease. Miss Olive Graham returned to Remington Saturday, but not as Miss Olive Graham, but as Mrs. Curtis, having been married since leaving here. She will resume her chiropractic practice in partnership with her husband, Dr. Curtis. They will occupy rooms in the home of Prof. Wildrick.

THERE’S A REASON Why so many Overcoats are being sold by Hilliard & Hamill throughout the county. .The store that sells the largest quantity can sell the cheapest—that’s the reason. Think it over. It will pay you to buy your Overcoat from Hilliard & Hamill.

. FRANCESVILLE. (From the Tribune.) Mrs. Margaret Hill was in Niles, Michigan, Wednesday and Thursday. Charles Brown went to Detroit, Michigan, Saturday where he will later move his family to stay permanently. James W. Yerion of Wichita Falls, Texas, was here a few days this week looking after his farm interests where N. E. Pearson now lives. Mr. and Mrs. Albert T. Patty and daughter of Vicksburg, Michigan, •were the over Sunday guests of Mrs. Margaret Hill and daughter, Miss Alice. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stansbery have moved to Gary where Roy is employed in the garage business. Mrs. Stansbery is spending a few days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Culp. A fire that started from an unknown origin destroyed the Wobith building at North Judson, which was occupied by a clothing store, early last Friday morning. The

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loss was near $16,000 and $12,750 insurance was caffried on the building and stock. _ Mr. and Mrs. James Culp and family, Mr. and Mrs. John Culp and family, Miss Mabel Frey and Mrs. Roy Stansbery of Gary spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Culp west of Francesville. Arthur Combs, who has been at Davenport, lowa, for the past -six months taking osteopathic treatments, was in Francesville Tuesday calling on friends. He intends to winter at Brazil, Indiana. Miss Zora Tillett was hostess to the Merry-Mix-Up club at her home in Gillam Thursday afternoon of last week. Games were played and an unusual dandy time was reported by all present, Misses Nellie Osburn, Kate Ashler, Dica Freeman, Alta Robinson, Marie Logan, Virg and Myrtle Stevens, Alice and Nell Rhyan, Goldie Turner, Mesdames Harry Saltwell, Benjamin Swing, Leslie H. Tillett, True Robinson. 'The club meets today at the home of Miss Kathryn Ahler. Mr. and Mrs. John C. Engle received an announcement this week of the marriage of their daughter, Miss Gladys Rngle, to Mr. Fred A. Duke of Detroit, Michigan. They were married in Detroit Saturday and will make their home at 38 Erskine street, Detroit. Mrs. Duke was a graduate of the Francesville high school in 1914 and took a summer’s course in teaching at the Terre Haute normal; following that she went to Detroit, where she took a short-course in stenography, after which she became a competent stenographer in- an insurance office in that city. Mr. Duke is manager of one of the leading cafaterias of Detroit.

i THE HUNTING SEASON Is on—but you needn’t hunt farther for that new Suit. Head straight I for Hilliard & HamilL They have the largest stock and sell the cheapest because they sell the largest quantity. Ask anybody—or step into their store and see for yourself.

GOODLAND. (From the Herald.) Miss Carrie Green of Remington was a Sunday visitor at the John Carpenter home. Miss Velma Noland left Monday morning for a ‘ visit with her parents at Center, Indiana. Miss Edith Buher of Montmorenci visited here this week with Mrs. William Fleming and family. George Bringham of Montmorenci visited here this week with his niece, Mrs. A. P. Hawn, and family. Miss Anna Mclntyre of Ambia, who taught in the Goodland schools last year, was an over-Sunday guest of the Alexander sisters. I Miss Odelle Louette of Kankakee, Illinois, came Monday evening for a short visit with •her parents, Mr. and 1 Mrs. Joseph Louette, and others. Philip Million returned Tuesday afternoon from Geddes, South Dakota, where he visited several weeks iWith his uncle, Wm. Rufing, and i wife. [ Eugene Purgett, who resides on a farm southwest of Goodland will move to Wisconsin in the spring, | having purchased a quarter section there. On his return from Rensselaer C. F. Dunkel reported that the barbecue at Rensselaer was a huge success, a large crowd and the two steers were baked just right. Mr. and Mrs. Ben ErzingeY came last week for a visit with the former’s sister, Mrs. Clark Griffin, and family. Ben has a bake shop in a railroad town near Moline, Illinois. Mr.- and Mrs. Henry Butler returned last Friday evening from a three week’s visit at Columbia City and Avilla, Indiana, where they visited their (sons), Wesley and Thomas, and families, and Mrs. Harry Butler and son Harry. It is rumored that young Harry is soon to wed.

Mr. and Mrs. Edward Hoover, who moved last year to a farm near Morley, Michigan, shipped their car of goods to Star City, Indiana, this week where they will farm A. P. Hawn’s large farm near there. Mr. and Mrs. Hoover came to Goodland Thursday to visit a few days before going to Star City. This has been a strenuous week for Editor C. M. Davis of the Newton County Enterprise. He bet Hughes would be elected—if not he was to rake the autumn leaves off Supt. W. O. Schanlaub’s large

lawn. This explains why he has been busy this week. W. L. Wood, our joint-representative, has been hauling prominent citizens of Parr over the main streets in a wheelbarrow since the election.

FULL-BLOODED BOYS Need clothing that will give lasting ■wear. Hilliard & Hamill have Suits, Overcoats, Mackinaws, Shoes, Stockings, etc., that are for boys that wear their clothes hard—the prices are right, too. *

BROOK. (From the Reporter.) Born to Mr. and Mrs. Glen Harper of Ade on November 11, a girl. Miss Catherine Carmody of Rensselaer visited her sister, Mrs. John O’Reilly, this week. Miss Madeline Ramp of Rensselaer was a guest at the Lawrence home over Sunday. Mrs. Mustard oT Goodland came on Thursday to be with her daughter, Mrs. Otto lHerath. Archie McMullen of Forrest, Illinois, was here this week visiting his daughter, Mrs. Howard Myers. As to Utah, will someone kindly tell us why William Howard Taft could and Charles E. Hughes couldn’t? Rev. A. M. Snyder was over to Potomac, Illinois, on Tuesday to preach the funeral sermon of an old-time friend.

John .Kern, the C. & E. I. agent at Foresman, had a relief man arrive on the night of November 10. Mother and son are doing fine. District Chairman Lyons and Fred went to Indianapolis the first of the week to congratulate the winners and sympathize with Uncle Charley Fairbanks. Mr. and Mrs. Lester Agate entertained Mr. and Mrs. John Lawrence and family and Mr. and Mrs Everette Hess and family and Miss Madeline Ramp on Sunday. Word came on Sunday that Rev. MacDonald had located at Bellville, Ohio, and his goods were shipped there this week. His daughter, Miss Ethel, will keep house for him. Rev. Snyder and Uncle Isaac Sell motored to Mt. Gilboa on Sunday to attend the home-coming at that place. Rev. Snyder delivered the address, but Uncle Ike assisted with the fried chicken at its close. The Frank I. Mann corn on the Harry Warr place made 41 bushels per acre with 8 bushels to spare. The balance of his corn run slightly under this and Harry had what was supposed to be the best corn in this section. Word came from Foresman on Sunday morning that the church was on fire and asking for help. Fire Chief Myers made the same run that he did when the mausoleum was reported on fire and with the same results. The pipe in the garret of the church had become unjointed and the smoke issued from the roof in such volume as to alarm the town. Finally When no blaze appeared someone climbed into the garret/and found the condition of the pipe.

MEDARYVILLE (From the Journal) Frank Hart of Demotte transacted business here last Monday afternoon. Fred Hall, Fred Timm and J. R. Miller made a business trip to Wheatfield Wednesday. Mrs. John Tillet of Francesville spent Saturday and Sunday with Mrs. Charles Sprague. Robert Able, who had been here' the past week, returned to his home at Fair Oaks Monday. Eber Long, who had been working at DeSmet, South Dakota, returned here last week. Abe Young and Roy Comer left Monday morning for Gary where' they expect to be employed. Mr. and Mrs. John Sebring spent Sunday with the* former’s sister, Mrs. Washburn, in Rensselaer.

Mrs. Laura Cannon of Chicago visited with her aunt, Mrs. T. L. Smith, from Tuesday until Sunday. Mrs. D. Prevo spent Tuesday and part of Wednesday with Mrs. N. H. Harris and Mrs. Frank Kimball of Michigan City. Frank Rowe made a trip to Chicago Wednesday to visit his wife in the St. Elizabeth hospital. Mrs. Rowe is rapidly improving. Mr. and Mrs. Michael Robinson gave a birthday dinner Thursday for Mrs. Ed Faris and Walter and Howard Faris and Mr. and Mrs. Ed "Robinson, it being Mrs. Faris’ and Walter Faris’ birthday anniversaries. Mrs. Joe Long of Rensselaer, a niece of the late Mrs. W. !H. Ramey, arrived at the home of her aunt Saturday evening just a few hours before Mrs. Ramey wag claimed by death. Last Saturday the real estate belonging to the Calvin Coppess estate was sold to the highest bidder by Commissioner Ralph Horner from the Medaryville bank. The purchasers were M. W. Coppess, Mrs. J. S. Daughetee, James W. Stevens and Mrs Calvin Coppess. The consideration amounted to something like SB,OOO. Last Friday Miss Emilie Emma Selmer was claimed by death after suffering for many months from tuberculosis. She was born May 10, 1884, and was 32 years, 5 months and 21 days of age at the time of her death. The funeral was conducted Tuesday from the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Selmer, and burial was made in the St. John’s Evangelical cemetery of Cass township, Rev. Brenion officiating. The deceased is survived by her mother, father, two sisters and four brothers.

Sale bills printed while you wait at The Democrat office.

Story of a Lady Killer

By GERALD GREEN

Having passed through a siege of typhoid fever, when I became convalescent my hair began to come out I at once had my head shaved and ordered a wig. The wlgfnaker, a Frenchman, measured my and before departing asked: “Blond, noir or rouge?” I understand nothing of any language except American and did not know what he was talking about. But there is a dislike in all persons to acknowledge that they do not understand do not bear or cannot see. I looked at the man as though I was deliberating on what he said, then replied: “Oul, rouge.”

This seemed to satisfy him, for he bowed himself out without another word. “I wonder what he said to me?” 1 mused after he had gone. ’“Was it the price he was speaking of or the time it was to be finished ?” I found out what he had said when the wig came in. It was a beautiful red. I abused him for having made a wig of such a color, and he expostulated with the usual French shrug and gesture. “Monsieur, I ask you if you have it blond, black or red. You say I make him red.” Seeing that I had authorized the color, I said no more, but paid for the wig like a man. The price being $25, I could not afford another one and subjected myself to wearing it till my own chestnut locks should reappear. It was about this time that I received an anonymous note written in a woman’s hand. The writer said that she bad seen me on a sickbed tn the hospital and had been impressed with my appearance. She plastered the communication over with a lot of stuff about my intellectual, pale brow and other features. What her object was 1 did not know, but I did know that there were emotional women in the world who are silly enough to do just that sort of thing. • However, since she gave me no clew to her identity, I paid no attention to her letter, tossing it into the fire and thinking no more about it When I had forgotten it a married lady friend of mine told me that she desired to introduce me to a friend of hers. “I think,” she said to me “that, to use a slang phrase, you have made a mash. I think the lady admires you.”

“Has she ever seen me?” I asked. “Of course. How could she admire you without having seen you?” “Oh! Her admiration doubtless only exists in your imagination.” Nevertheless I was flattered. This was the second case of admiration of which I was the subject, and I began to feel quite Adonis-like. It seemed to me, after this last conquest, that every girl who came near me was struck with me. I waited impatiently for my friend to introduce me to my victim, but nothing came of it, and I was beginning to settle down to the opinion that I was not, after all, a lady killer when another woman friend of mine said to me one day: “I would like to know whether or not you carry a love potion about you.” “Why do you say that?” I asked, my finger ends tingling and, my heart increasing its beat “Oh, nothing. A friend of mine”— “Well?”

“A of mine was going into raptures over you the other day.” “What .did she have to say about me?” “I don’t think that the flattering things said of persons should be repeated to them any more than the disagreeable things.” That is all I could get out of her. By this time I felt sure there was something about my appearance that attracted the fair sex. I stood before a mirror trying to discover what it was. It seemed to me that if my own black locks decorated my head I woujd be passably good looking, but my sorrel top, I considered, spoiled the whole. Then it occurred to me that' these “mashes” bad been-made since I had donned it, and it struck me that this must be the secret of my success. One evening at a dinner the hostess came to me and said she would introduce me to the lady who was to be my companion at table. She took me to one who the moment she saw me started and shrank away from me. I noticed that her eyes were fixed on my wig. The hostess looked at her in astonishment, but the other, recovering herself, took my arm. and we marched together to the dining room. Passing a mirror, I saw that my face and my wig were both very red. My dinner companion, when seated, turned from me for an animated conversation with a man sitting on the other side of her. She scarcely spoke a word to me during the dinner. This .treatment brought me to my senses, and I resolved to make an investigation. Before I got through J knew more than I wished to know. All these women who admired me were one—my demure companion. She had seen me in the hospital and, being aggressive instead of retiring, had written me the anonymous letter. She had seen me with black hair falling over white temples. Meetifig me at the dinner party, she saw my sorrel wig. The effect was not only disenchanting, but irritating. Months later I appeared before her in my own natural hair. She had by this time recovered from the shock occasioned by the wig. and I had little difficulty in completing my conquest

TRANSFERS OF REAL ESTATE

Harvey Davisson et ux to Lois D. Upjohn, September 8, 1915, lot 20, block 33, Rensselaer, Weston’s addition, sl. Anna Carmichael et baron to John E. Allen, November 17, s% lots 12, 13, 14, 15, block 30, Rensselaer, Weston’s second addition, $1 q c d. William Polsel et ux to John H Stephens et ux, November 6, lots 8,9, 10, 11. 12, 13, 14, 15, block f, Kersey, Sigler’s addition, sl.

NO RAISE IN PRICE

On Sweaters at Hilliard & Hamill’s. There will be no raise as long as their present stock lasts. (Have you your sweater yet? If not don’t fail to see Hilliard & Hamill right away. They have them, all colors, 50c to 18.

A VERY DESIRABLE PROPERTY

On River Street for Sale at a Bargain. Desirable and well located 'residence lots or properties in Rensselaer at a reasonable price, or what heretofore has been considered a reasonable price, are becoming very scarce. The extensive building operations on the west side of the river during the past two years has practically exhausted most of the well located lots and has made this section of the city the desirable residence district by reason of its cleanliness, its ample drainage and the high class of residences that have been erected there. It Is entirely free from the smoke nuisance of some other parts of the city and it is a quiet, peaceful neighborhood, where most of the residents own the property they occupy. _

The Improvement of South street from Washington to Kannal avenue is opening up a small section containing a number of quite desirable lots and it is probable that within a year or two both sides of that street will be completely built 'up. This street is to be macadamed and have cement curb and gutter, contract having already been let.

The writer has for sale the former John Bill property fronting on River street and located on the corner of River and Odell streets, seventy-five feet on River street and running west 300 feet to South street. There Is a good substantial house now on the east seventy-five feet with private sewer, fine shade and one of the very best and prettiest locations in the city. River street is the widest and one of the best improved streets in Rensselaer, while Odell street on the north side of this property is also macadamed. This property can be bought at the present time for much less than it is worth, taking into consideration its splendid location and its advantages otherwise. We will sell this property entir§ x>r either seventy-five foot lot separately as desired. If you want to secure one of the most desirable properties in Rensselaer at a reasonable price, come and see this at once. Possession can be given March I.—F. E. BABCOCK.

Winamac Democrat-Journal—Miss Susie Saylor of Enderlin, North Dakota, Frank Elijah and family of Brook and Delos Adams of Rensselaer were guests Sunday of Mrs. J. W. Louderback and family.

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if,1 j nn n a CT The official returns from Minny sota complete gives Hughes a plurality of only 396 votes. Mrs. A. D. Babcock of Goodland is a patient in the St. Vincent hospital in Indianapolis where she recently underwent an operation. Kentland Democrat: William Rice of Remington, an experienced blacksmith, has taken employment at the K. C. McCartney shop. (Hie is a married man and is to move here, as soon as he can procure the rental of a suitable house. John B. Bachelder, aged 22, of Morocco, and Miss Ola' Zacher, aged 23, daughter of Henry Zacher of Newton township, were married on Tuesday of |pst week at Kentland by Squire Mock. The Democrat Joins with the friends of the bride here in extending congratulations. Claude Perrault was one of the rare geniuses who turned from the profession of medicine to that of art. He was born in 1613, being the brother of Charles Perrault, the noted barrister, through whose influence he became architect of the Louvre. The colonnade of this building, which he erected, is regarded as one of the finest creations of its kind of the seventeenth century.