Jasper County Democrat, Volume 19, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1917 — Page 3

The WEEKS'S DOINGS

Miss Charlotte Kanne was a Chicago visitor Friday. Mrs. Robert Smith went to Boswell Saturday to visit relatives. Mrs. Simon Fendig was down from Wheatfield Saturday for the day. Charles Bonner, Jr., of Remington took the train here Saturday for Hobart.

The PAIGE car is sold by the Auto Sales Co. at Remington. Why not buy one now. ts

D. E. Hollister is just getting out after a six weeds’ seige of 'bronchial pneumonia. *Mrs. Winona Dunlap was at Mt. Ayr Sunday to attend the funeral of a' friend, Mrs. Otto Bengston. > - Charles Saidla of Syracuse, Indiana, who had been visiting relatives here, returned to his home Friday evening. • Mrs. Mallie Clark and baby of Wheatfield visited herg over Sunday with her parents," Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Spitler. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Bentley and daughters and Miss Sarah Raynor of Brook spent Sunday here with Mr. jfcnd >Mrs. C. E. Lohr. W. F. Goss of Remington, wfio has a farm near Parr, went there Saturday to unload a car of cattie which he had purchased in Chicago.

William Holmes, who had been confined to his home for some time, was able to be up town Saturday for the first time in seven weeks. Mrs. Margaret Hill McCarter of Topeka, Kansas, came Friday afternoon for a visit with Mr, and Mrs. G. E. Murray and Mr. and Mrs. C. C. Warner. Mr. and Mrs. Eugene Kirk of Barkley township left Saturday for their former home at Reddick, Illinois, to spend a few days with friends and relatives. Lawson Bruce went to Crawfordsville Saturday and on Sunday was accompanied home by his wife and children and Mrs. E. L. Bruce, who had been visiting there. z Harvey Davisson has purchased the J. W- Hammerton,, eighty-acre farm in Walker township, the latter taking the residence at the corner of McKinley avenue and Elm street In on the deal. Mr., and Mrs. B. ;H. Smith, former residents of Jasper county, but now living at Valdosta,, Georgia, where Mr. Smith is manager of a plantation, arrived here Friday evening for a visit. Frank Welsh of Jordan township reports having seen a flock of forty or fifty robins out near St. Joseph college when coming to town Saturday. It is very evident that the robins consider spring is due at least. B. Forsythe was up near Tefft Saturday looking after the clearing of the land he purchased some time ago. About 80,000 feet of good lumber was procured and a quantity of mine props and railroad ' ties are now being cut. There will also be a great, deal of stove wood cut.

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H. O. Harris was in on business Saturday. . ■” ■ Otto Schrader of Tefft .was ip Rensselaer on business Friday. ' The Misses Grace and Fama Haas were Chicago visitors Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John I. Gwin returned Friday from their trip South. Mrs. * Nora Phillips went to Rossville Friday to visit Mrs. John Porter, .who is quite ill. Miss Pearl McConahay spent the week-end at Fair Oaks, the guest of Miss Gertrude Faylor. My phone number is, 416, and I don’t care who knows it.—LEE RICHARDS. Phone 416. m-3 Mrs. Ida Pierce, who had been at Dana, Indiana, with her daughter Gladys, came to Rensselaer Thursday. H. O. Timmons is moving onto the J. T. Randle farm near Moody, from the Dan Waymire farm in Jordan township. Mrs. M. E. Travis and daughter, Mrs. Bert Welsh, went to Marion Friday to visit another daughter of Mrs. Travis, Mrs. Wade Loop. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Peregrine, who had been visiting relatives here and at Plymouth, left Saturday for their home at Mitchell, South Dakota.

C. P. Fate returned to Crown Point Saturday and was accompanied by Mrs. H. R. Wood and Mrs. Ralph O’Riley ’ for a visit with Mrs. Fate. B. j. Moore has purchased a dredge machine at Lacrosse and after completing a mile of ditch there expects to commence work on the Zimmer ditch.

I have 5,000 samples of wall paper for yon to select from at lowest prices. Phone me to show them to you.—LEE RICHARDS, painter and paperhanger. Phone 416. \ f 24

The bell from the old M. P. church at the corner of Van Rensselaer find Clark streets was taken down Monday and will be placed in the Rosebud church in Union township. Mr. and Mrs. R. P. Howell of Butte, Montana, came Friday evening to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. V. Brown. Mr. Howell went on to Marietta, Ohio, on business Saturday. According to Sunday’s Indianapolis Star C, H. Peck of Remington is among the ten leading amateur trapshooters of the country, his place being eighth and his record 2,364 broken targets out of possible 2,460. The present winter is said to have been very hard on wheat in Jasper county, of which perhaps the largest acreage was put out last fall in the history of the county. Farmers report that it looks very bad indeed.

President H. R- Kurrie of the Monon came down from Chicago Friday noon on business. He intended to return that evening with the 6:50 train, but the same being delayed by a wreck at McCoysburg he remained here over night. John Price has rented the William Parks residence at the corner of McCoy and College avenues, to be vacated this week by Harvey W. Wood, Jr., who will move into the former Mrs. Healey property on College avenue, recently purchased by *Mr. Wood’s father, and vacated by E. E. Smith, who moved into one of ‘Hiram Day’s houses in the east part of town, vacated by 6* L. Calkins. C. A. Lefler was dyer from Lee Monday after another load of hard dal. All the people in that section have come to Rensselaer this winter for their hard coal, the single dealer in Monon being’ unable to get in more than enough ‘osupply the Monon people. Here, with six dealers, there has been very little difficulty in securing plenty of coal at all times. If some dealers were temporarily out, other dealers were not, and: consequently all demands have been met most of the time.

Mrs. Rice Porter went to GoodV ■ • .» 0 land Friday to visit relatives. . «a , 1 Guerney Jessen has been suffering from a severe case of tonsilitis for the past few days. S. L. Wells and family moved Monday to the J. M. Chizum ■ farm between Morocco and Ade. Mrs. John Rush of Newton township is confined to her home With a severe attack of grip. * Miss Cora Bruner is suffering from a severe case of quinsy at the home of her sister, Mrs. Leo Reeve. - • Miss Celia Keiper of Plymouth, who had been here visiting her aunt, Mrs. William Beck, returned home Friday. Mrs. Homer ’Slaughter left Monday for Elkhart to join her husband and where they will establish thdir new home. \ . Miss Alice Eib, who teachers in the Elwood schools, visited over Sunday with her parents, Mr-.-’and Mrs. A. Eib, of Barkley township. Miss Hulda Jensen of Chicago, who had been here for a few days, the guest of her cousin, Mrs. J. P. Hammond, returned home Monday. ■

Among the Chicago vis’tors Monday were Elmer Gwin, Miss Bertha Brunneman, superintendent of the hospital, and Mrs. Richard Shirer. . Carl Cleaver of Anderson, a former manual training teacher in the Rensselaer school, spent the week-end here with Mr. 'Coe r and other members of the high school faculty. C. A. Roberts has been confined to his room in the Nowels House block for the past ten days with a severe case of the grip. Ed Reeve is looking after his wagon and buggy business. Dr. T. S. Tynn of New Orleans, a brother-in-law of Mrs. J. A. Grant of Rensselaer, died Thurshy and was buried Saturday. Mrs. Grant has been in New Orleans at his bedside for the past two weeks. The Democrat has on hand a few hundred small scratch pads, made from scraps of bond and flat papers, suitable for use in making memorandums or figuring on. Only 1 and 2 cents each while they last. Emmet Fidler of Jordan township went to Milwaukee F riday and on Sunday was accompanied home by his sister, Mrs. Charles Hemphill, who underwent an operation in a hospital there about three weeks ago.

- The Rensselaer high school basket-ball team defeated the Wolcott high school team on the local floor Friday evening by a score of 22 to 16. The team did good work throughout the game and at no time were they in danger- of defeat. The young people of Virgie will give their play, “A Kentucky Belle,” a three-act comedy, Wednesday night, February 28, at Aix. Admission 20 cents. Proceeds to go toward getting a church at Virgie. Everybody invited to come out and assist in a good cause.—Advt. W. R. Brown, accompanied by his little grand-daughter, Charlotte Brown, who had been staying here with her grandparents for the past month, went to Huntington yesterday to visit his sons Clint and Everett, and their families and to make settlement for the farms he bought near that city several months ago. J. M. Yeoman of Newton township, who went to Sun Dance, Wyoming, recently with the expectation of locating there and moving his family, returned several days ago and will move into the A. G. W. Farmer property on south Scott street, vacated by Joe Cain and family, who wilL move onto one of Overton farms near Pleasant Ridge now owned by J. J. Lawler. "Mr. Yeoman did not find anything at Sun Dance to suit him. His brother Charles is located in the government service at Sun Dance. < Ulysses Kellogg, a former resident of Brookston and agent for several Canadian land schemes, at which time he is alleged to have swindled several Rensselaer ■- ’ a people ouc of various sums, was arrested at Laporte last week and, taken to Monticello to answer charges preferred by Hilda Cochran of Brookston, 10 years old, and a niece of Kellogg. The latter is about 50 years old, and the crime for which he was arrested was said to have been committed last Julyt and repeated on several occasions. Kellogg at one time served a prison term for swindling.

The babe of Mr. and Mf®. Harvey Harshberger of Union township is quite sick with pneumonia. !»- —t /’ ' ! - ■ • Mrs. F. E. Babcock has been suffering for the past few days with a recurrence of her old bronchial trouble. > Mrs. Ida Benjamin entertained the Eastern Star club yesterday afternoon at her home on Austin ayenue. . Fairbanks scale receipt books are kept -on sale in The Democrat’s fancy stationery and , office supply department. L. H. Potts, who had been visiting here, left Monday for Waynetown where he makes his home with his daughter, Mrs. George Heuson. Jake -Gilmore, who has been quite seriously sick with pneumonia for the past week, is reported improving and able to sit up some each day. Mr. and Mrs. Hurley Beam, Edwin Robinson, Omar Osborne, Joe Reeve Herman .Lange and Fred Rhoades were - among those down from Chicago Sunday to visit home folks.

Miss Margaret Steele of Chillecothe, Ohio, was a guest over Sunday of the Spitler family, she having been a classmate at college of Mrs. Coen and has visited here before. Tom Cain of south of town had a pitchfork run through the calf of? his leg Saturday while at work. The wound was a bad one but was given prordpt attention and Tqm expects to be around as usual in a short time. “ L. B. Eisenberger, brother-in-law of B. N. Fendig and who makes his home with the latter, went to Michigan Monday to look after business. He is sales manager for southern Michigan fdr the Rex Typewriter Co. Mr. and Mrs. Alfred Hickman of Hammond spent Sunday with relatives here. He is employed as foreman in a chemical works and says the orders are coming in faster than they can fill them, even by working day and night. Two basket-ball games have been scheduled by the Rensselaer high school for this week. « Thursday afternoon the girls’ team will play the Monon high school girls’ team, the game to be called at 3:45. Friday, evening the regular team will meet the Kentland 'high school team. Both of these games will be played in the high school ■gymnasium. Mrs. H. E. Parkinson, who returned Saturday from South Bend, where she had been with her sister, Mrs. Mattie Moore-Paxton, who had been in poor health, received a message Sunday evening that Mrs. Paxton was very low. Mr. and Mrs. Parkinson and Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Moore went to South Bend Monday morning- Word received by relatives here yesterday was that Mrs. Paxton was still very low and her condition unchanged.

Monon train No. 37, due here ■at 11:17 a. m. was delayed about an hour at Surrey Sunday forenoon when one of the trucks of the mail car left the track because of a broken flange. The accident happened near a siding and by transferring the mail to the baggage car the train was enabled to 'proceed. The mail car was left behind for the wrecking crew to replace on the track. No one was injured and the damage was slight. Mrs. B. J. Moore was hostess Saturday evening to th§ members of the Rensselaer high school football squad of 1916 at a 6 o'clock dinner. Members of the .higu school faculty and others interested in the football squad were present. Following the dinner a business meeting was held and Leonard Gourley was chosen captain for 1917, and Harry McColly was elected assistant. Five members of the squad last season will not be with the team this year, namely: Harry Moore, Barber, Crooks, Guild and Snow. Word was received here Monday of the death at Washburn, Illinois, of Ames A. Griswold, a resident of this county many years ago. He had a number of relatives residing here, including a daughter, Mrs. J. W. Raines, and a brother, Abner of near Remington. He was also a brother-in-law of Mrs. W. M. Hoover, M. I. Adams and Joseph Adams. Mr. and Mrs. Griswold had been married for sixty years. The funeral will be held at 10 o’clock today. Mr. and Mrs. Raines, who have been there for several days, are the only ones from this city attending. Mr. Ames would have been 1-92 years of age next month.

J .A taSHOES= < I I '' p Owing to the increasing cost of shoes, we think this is the opportune time to offer the trade the ad- | vantage of some shoes we have in j! stock at a remarkable cut-rate price. I; Several lots of shoes consisting of \ Black and Brown Nubuck, Patent Leather and Russia Calf, button I* and lace, exceptional quality and good styles in All these shoes, good values" as marked at $3 to $4, on sale for a few days at the JSUI.49 and $2 jl ■ You make a mistake not to see ;< these shoes. Seeing is convincing. I THE G. E. MURRAY GO. 1

A young daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John F. Hurley, who reside in the west part of town, is sick ith scarlet fever. Yesterday’s markets: Corn, 96c; oats, 55c; wheat, $1.65; rye, $1.25. The prices a ago were: Corn, 56c; oats, 35c; wheat, 95c; rye, 75c. Charles Schwanke and family of Milroy township left Monday for their new home in Hammond. He and his son Floyd have both secured good positions there.

HERE THERE and EVERYWHERE

The Brook basket-ball team was defeated at Montmorenci Saturday night by a score of 62 to 15 by the Montmorenci team. 'The schools at Brookston have ■been ordered closed because of smallpox and other contagious diseases. The condition, however, is not serious. , E. B. McQuiston, Porter county, raised 907 bushels of potatoes on seven acres of ground last year and has most of them yet to market. A few days ago he sold 50 bushels to a Valparaiso grocer for $l3O. A dispatch from Kokomo states that two carloads of potatoes, consigned to a local commission house, arrived there Saturday under a special guard. Each car contained 600 bushels and the consignment was valued at $3,800. The civic department of the Marion Department club, backed by the Association of Commerce, is behind a plan for vacant lot cultivation in Marlon. Mrs. Nesbitt, an expert landscabe-\gardener of Fort Wayne, will be brought there in the near future. .. The Pine Village basket-ball team, composed of some of the best basket-ball players in the country, and which has already won a reputation equal to that of heir football team, was defeated it Indianapolis Sunday afternoon by the Buffalo, New York, Orioles, he score being 34 to 19. Harry Reazan of Hoopeston, Illinois, was instantly killed and Tames Kert of the same place was probably fatally injured at 5:30

Removal Notice I have removed my REAL ESTATE and FARM LOAN office from the First National Bank building to the ground floor of my own building, south of State Bank corner in Leo Mecklenburg’s Electric Shop. I have a supply of money to loan on mortgage at lowest current rates* Remember the new location, west side court house square. Regular office days, Friday, Saturday, Monday. Phons 109 Emmet L. Hollingsworth

Monday evening when the Ford automobile Reazan was driving turned over and went down a small embankment when the driver lost control of the car in attempting to jmll out of a rut near Carbondale, Warren county. Reazan’s neck was broken and Kert was terribly crushed about the chest and abdo“then. Plans are under way to have every person in Hartford City who can put in a garden this spring, that the high cost of living may be defeated. Persons who never in their life stuck a spade in the garden plot, or manipulated a hoe in a truck patch, are enlisting for the campaign. The soil of many back yards will be turned under this spring, treated with fertilizer, and planted with potatoes, cabbage, beans, peas and other vegetables. Jt is estimated that more ground will 1 Ibe utilized for gardening in Harti ford city this year than ever before in the history of the country.

NOTICE TO THE PUBLIC. Following is a letter received by Mr. Kohley, agent for the Hubbell fertilizers: p Cincinnati, Ohio, Feb. 23. 1917. Mr. Stephen Kohley, Rensselaer, Indiana. Dear Sir: I We are Just in receipt of a telegram from Mr. L. W. Hubbell stating that your competitors say our goods are made from Lake Potash. | and not water soluble, nor available. i We are absolutely surprised that any intelligent* man would make any such statement. You know that Dr. W. J. Jones, Jr., State Chemist, demands that we live up to the analysis of our goods as registered with the State Depart- | ment. We have registered the 5-5 goods as 5 per cent Available I Phosphoric Acid and 5 per cent actual potash soluble in water. | Even if it was not our intention 'of making this Potash content soluble in water. Dr. Jones would see to it that we did do so. We have never tried in any way, shape or form to evade the laws of In- » diana, and do not propose to do so . this season. Our goods are going !to run up to guarantee, in fact Mr. Hubbell should have in his i possession now an analysis certifl- ' cate showing that our 5-5 goods run almost 1 per cent over in actual Potash. l It is hard to understand why your trade are so foolish to listen to talk of your competitors on such lines when they know that : the State Agricultural Department 'will fully protect all consumers on brands of fertilizers used in the State of Indiana. Yours very truly. I INTERNATIONAL AGR'L CORPORAtion. By W. C. Geoghegan, Sales ‘Manager. CC: Mr. L. W. Hubbell; I ■ ■ ~ ... - —Advt.