Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 April 1917 — The WEEKS'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEKS'S DOINGS

Tomorrow is Easter Sunday. B. Forsythe made a business trip to Streator, Illinois, Thursday. Miss Marjorie Vanatta is visiting relatives in Chicago during the Easter vacation. The PAIGE car is sold by the Auto Sales Co. at Remington. Why not buy one now. ts Floyd Elder has been confined to his home for the past several days with scarlet fever. r - J. P. Ryan, former trustee of Gillam township, was in the city on Give us your order for garden i and flower seeds, onion sets and seed potatoes.—JOHN EGER. Mrs. J. Harve Robinson went to Lafayette Tuesday to visit her mother, Mrs. J. J. Robinson. 1 . Mrs. H. L. Brown and daughter, Mary Jane, went to Glencoe, Illinois, Wednesday for a few days’ visit. If it’s anything in cardboards, cards, envelopes or papers of any kind The Democrat undoubtedly has it. Louis O. Rainier of Indianapolis was here this week visiting his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. O. K.' Rainier. 4 Mrs. Smith Newell went to Crown Point Wednesday to spend a few days with George E. Hershman and family. Carries-Lee Criswell, son of Lafayette Criswelh-of near Remington, and Miss Daisy May Mansfield of Brookston were married at Monticello Tuesday.

Rolland Hall, the little son of Ralph Hall, who recently moved here from Illinois, died at a Chicago hospital Tuesday night. Burial was made at Oakland, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. S. G. Speigel and baby went to Chicago Thursday. Mr. Speigel returned the same evening but Mrs. Speigel and baby will visit relatives there for a week. O. K. Rainier’and W. D. Bringle went to Lafayette Tuesday, the -former to secure a new Cadillac auto which he purchased recently and which they drove home that evening. W. R. Jones of Francesville was here Tuesday to see his granddaughter, Miss Margaret Jones, who has been very sick at the home of her sister, Mrs. F. D. Burchard.),. r Williams & Williams, chiropractors, have succeeded Mr. Jeffries in Rensselaer and occupy the rooms over Rowles & Parker’s store, In * the Forsythe building, lately vacated by him. We invite our friends, the public, to call, alO Mrs. Lena Tuteur Parks of Oakland, California, is expected to arrive in Rensselaer today for a visit with her mother, Mrs. Anna Tuteur, and brothers and sister. This is Mrs. Parks’ first visit to Rensselaer since she left here six years ago. I have opened an office on Harrison street and am prepared to do surveying of all kinds. I have maps of Jasper county and Rensselaer and have ditchers’ staffs for sale.—L. A. BOSTWICK, Rensselaer, Ind. Phone 549, and have a. car. . ml The annual Easter dance of the Van Rensselaer club has been called off on account of the uncertainty of obtaining the use of the armory, as it may probably be occupied by the militia. There will be a smoker at the club room Monday night instead.

Mrs. H. E. Parkison and Mrs. t R. A. Parkison were Lafayette visitors Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Brand of Remington were visitors in the city Tuesday afternoon. Mrs. L, H. Hamilton and daughter, Miss Marie, were Chicago visitors Wednesday. We pay the highest market price, cash or trade, for country produce. —HOME GROCERY. Miss Lorine Malone is visiting relatives in Monticello and Logansi port during the Easter vacation. A bargain for some one—Secondhand canopy top carriage, in good shape. Price O. K. —C. A. ROBERTS.

Charles Marlin went to Hammond Wednesday to visit his brother Everett, who is working there. ... \ • Z / ' ' Mr. and Mrs. James H. Chapman, Grant; Warner and Lyman Peters were among the Chicago visitors Tuesday. Mrs. Bert Brenner of Valparaiso 'came Sunday evening ,for a visit at the home- of her brother, Boyd Porter, and family. _ ■■■ I. , q Mrs. L. B. Wasson and daughter to their home at Lafayette Tuesday after a visit here with her aunt, Mrs. Noble York. John R. Gray, whose health has not been good for some time, left Tuesday for Gloucester, Mississippi, hoping that a change of climate will prove beneficial. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Irwin and daughter “TJettevieve went to Chicago Tuesday, the latter two to visit friends a few days. Mr. Irwin returned Tuesday evening. Msr. Catharine Morrisey, who had been here visiting her son, Dan Morrisey, left Tuesday for her home in New York, Mr. Morrisey accompanying her as far as Chicago. Thursday’s - Lafayette Journal: Gerald Rhyan, who attends St. Joseph college at Rensselaer, has come for a week’s visit with his aunt, Mrs. P. F. Freel, of State street.

Mr. and Mrs. Estle Price, accompanied by a local physician, went to Chicago Thursday where Mr. Price entered Wesley hospital to have an abscess removed from his tongue. ■ ' Mrs. B. D. Comer and daughter, Miss Marie, who had been in Paxton, Illniois, for several months, returned to Rensselaer last’ week and expect to rent rooms and make Rensselaer their home. Dr. E. N. Loy returned Thursday from Finley, Ohio, where he had been to attend the funeral of his. sister-in-law, Mrs. W. H. Loy. Mrs. Loy was about sixty years old and her death was caused by Bright’s disease. The advisory , board of Jackson township, Newton county, last Saturday appropriated $20,000 for a new school building at Mt, Ayr. John A. Bruck of Kentland was employed as architect and work on the new structure will commence within the next month. To demonstrate the wonderful features of the Vesta indestructible isolators we opened up a starting battery, removed the wood separators and assembled again minus its insolation. It worked and tested litre any new battery. Think of it, a battery that will light your lamps and crank your engine without insulation between the positive and negative plates. No other battery in the world can do it. When we say “double life” we mean something.- RENSSELAER GARAGE.

Mrs. G. P. Daugherty is confined to her home with a severe case of branchitis. Mrs. David Hines of Rockfield came Thursday to yisit her daughter, Mrs. Robert Smith. ! Mrs. J. A. Larsh and Jack and Doris are visiting the latters’ grandparents in Kokomo. ” None quite so good as Ward’s Dainty Maid Bread, fresh every morning, at the HOME GROCERY. Mrs. Sinlon Thompson, who was operated on recently at the county hospital, was taken to her .home yesterday. . . - Ed Gaffield of Lafayette, a son of W. P. Gaffield of Milroy township, has leased the' depot restaurant and moved his family here. Russell Willi tts and family of this city spent Wednesday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W- R. litts, of Hanging Grove township. Miss Jane Parkison had her tonsils removed at the county hospital Wednesday afternoon, the operation being performed .by a local physician. . ‘ / Miss Glen Day went to Indianapolis Thursday to visit at the home of her brother Omar and help care for her new nephew born there this week. Mrs. Rollin Stewart and daughter of Hanging Grove township visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Robert Drake, of south of Lafayette Saturday and ’Sunday. We have a big stock of new garden and flower seeds; also “Early Rose,” “Ohios,” Six Weeks,” “Burbanks,” “Kings” and “Rurals.”—JOHN EGER. Mrs. Fred A. Phillips and daughter, Grace Augusta, were in Monticello Thursday to attend the funeral of a friend, the 13-year-old son of Mrs. Harvey Lowe. Carl Yeoman, son of Mr. and Mrs. Devere Yeoman, 4s visiting at the home of his uncle, Dr. Frank McCarthy, in Terre Haute, accompanying the latter .there Thursday. Paul S. Strecker of Detroit. Michigan', who' is employed in the Fond plant, came home Wednesday night; for an over Easter visit with his- parents, Rev. and Mrs. E. W. Strecker. ‘ \ Joseph Turner, of Remington, who had been a sufferer from, a cancer on his face for some years, died last Saturday as a result of the ravages of the disease and was buried at Remington Monday afternoon. v George McColly, .who was forced to leave here about five years ago on account of asthma and who has been at Liberal, Missouri, is here for a visit with relatives and friends. He hopes to remain throughout the summer.

The epidemic of measles sweeping over White county brought a double portion of grief into the home of Mr. and Mrs. William Tomlinson of Cass township Sunday when two daughters, aged 2 and 6 years, succumbed to the disease. Among the -■ Chicago visitors Thursday were Dr. and Mrs. A. RKresler, Mrs. P. W. Clarke and daughter Ethel, Mrs. F. A. Turfler and son and W. L. Frye, the latter going to the city to purchase a new ten-passenger Studebaker auto bus, Robert C. Johnson, son of Robert P. Johnson, the well-known Western Union operator at Lafayette, and a grandson of Mrs. E. L. Clark of this city, has enlisted in the U. S. cavalry and is now at a training camp “somewhere” in Kentucky, Mr. and Mrs. George Long and baby, Mrs. A. F, Long and Mrs. J. F. Hardman drove to Chicago Tuesday via Gifford, Wheatfield and Valparaiso, and returned Wednesday via Crown Point, Shelby and Morocco. The roads are much better the latter route, Mr. Long states.

F. L. Wildrick, superintendent of the Remington school, took the train here Wednesday night for Chicago to see his brother, Nelson Wildrick, who was at a hospital there being treated for blood poisoning and whose condition had become suddenly alarming. He returned Thursday, leaving his brother slightly improved. John O’Connor, C. W. Spencer, W. D. Bringle, C. W. Platt and JF. Osborne of this city and Simon Fendig, F. W. Fisher, Joseph Hilliard and Louis Jensen (St Wheatfield were at Remington Wednesday attending a county meeting of the Modern Woodmen of America. Mr. O’Connor was elected delegate and Mr. Fisher alternate to the state convention to be held at Hammond May 2.

I Harry English, who attend- Indiana university, is home for the i spring vacation. , ’ , |, p • James, the little son of Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Wallace, is quite sick with acute . indigestion. % ■ • Try The Democrat’s want ad columns. You . will be most agreeiably surprised by the results. Bulk and package garden and flower seeds, early seed potatoes, onion sets, at the HOME GROCERY. ' : “ I Miss Ethel Clarke underwent an operation in a Chicago hospital, j Thursday for the removal of her tonsils. , Little Elizabeth Lamson, daughter of County Superintendent and (Mrs. Ernest Lamson, is sick with . measles. W. R. Willitts of Hanging Gfove ? township lost one of his best horses ■; Wednesday, making the sixth of his horses to die in the past four years. Miss Catherine Jarvis, who is With the family-of H. R. in (?ffiicago, came Thursday to visit her sister, Mrs. George Borntrager. r Yesterday’s markets: Corn, $1.23; oats, 64c; wheat, $1.95f rye, $1.40. The prices a year ago were: Corn. 61C; oats, 38c; wheat, 90c; rye, 75c. II f - - »■' Mrs. Frank Burch and son Arthur of Oak. Park/ Illinois, have been guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Duvall since Tuesday. They will go to Lafayette today to visit an- ' other son at Purdue, but will stop off here for a few days on their return. A Rev. Strecker and son’ John 'autoed to -Knox Wednesday, going via Gifford, Wheatfield, Tefft and North Judson, and returning via Winamac and Francesville. They drove a total distance of 135' miles and report they found the roads in Jasper county much better at this lime than in either Starke or Pulaski counties. «?> Mrs. J. E. Harrod and daughter, Miss Laura, of Altoona, Pennsylvania, accompanied by J. A. Sheedy of the engineering department of the Pennsylvania railroad, came Wednesday ,to visit Mrs. Harrod’s sister, Mrs. Laufa B. Fate. Mr. Sheedy is a graduate of Purdue . and spent a few days there this (week attending a fraternity reunion, ( Miss Leona Weiss, 20-year-old daughter of Charles R. Weiss of Newton township, underwent a successful operation for appendicitis at the. county hospital Wednesday afternoon. The operation was performed by a Chicago specialist, assisted by local, doctors. Miss Weiss had been troubled with appendicitis at times sos the past three years. She went through the operation nicely and it is thought ■ will make rapid gains to complete 'recovery, her many friends will be ‘ pleased to learn. • A district meeting of the Pocahontas lodge was held at Fowler Monday afternoon and evening, representatives beifig present from I every lodge in the district. Among those from Rensselaer attending we re Mr. and Mrs. C 1 iffo r d Payne, Mr. and Mrs. Mel Haas, Mrs. Louis Robinson, Mrs. Wilbur Ritchey, Mrs. Orla Clouse, Mrs. Charles SimpsOn, Mrs. John Webber and Mrs. Jesse Snyder. The past chief’s degree was conferred on fourteen ladies, among them being Mrs. Webber and Mrs. Snyder. “Uncle” John Casey, formerly of ! Fair Oaks, in renewing the subscription for The Democrat for his ’sister, Mrs. Martha J. Dickinson, writes from the National Military (Home at Marion, Indiana, under 'date of April 4 and said that they were having fine weather there and that both he and Mrs. Dickinson were enjoying excellent health. The latter nursed at tfie home of W. W. Johnson in Gas City from January 20 to March 20, but is now at home, living at 1116 West Fourth street, Marion, where they are perImanently located in a good neighborhood and in a pleasant part of the city.

Nine-tenths of all batten' trouble is due to short circuits in the battery itself. Eliminate the short circuit and you have lengthened the life of your battery two or three times over. Vesta plates are locked apart, which prevents short circuits. But Vesta goes still further. They are impregnated separatprs which db not rot nor turn to. a soft wood pulp and fall apart —On top of this the lead plates are hardened by the use of titanium, which almost eliminates sediment, and gives much longer life. These three patented Vesta features, the only important automobile battery improvements in yeats, have placed the Vesta in a class by itself. No other battery can be like the Vesta. —RENSSELAER GARAGE.

Robert M.’ Vannatta, formerly of Rensselaer but now judge of the (>rant superior court, held it ,to be the inalienable right of a woman to misrepresent her age, in ruling in the divorce case of Otto Rosenthal against Minnie Rosenthal. One of the allegations of Rosenthal in trying to prove his wife treated him cruelly 'was that she had given her age as fifty w’hen they obtained a marriage license, last November, that she was fifty-six. The court held this was not cruel treatment, and that while Rosenthal had been abandoned by his wife, he must wait two years' to "be divorced 'under such a charge. Playing before the largest crowd that ever witnessed a baseball game on Stuart field the Boston Red Sox defeated the Brooklyn Robins at Lafayette Wednesday afternoon, S to 5, giving the victors the edge Oft the spring series. Brooklyn used folir pitchers, Mails, Dell, Appleton and Dunning, and they were clouted hard. Jones and Wykoff worked for the champions and showed good form, the two runs oft being unearned. Among those' from Rensselaer attending the game were Charles P. Moody, G. M. Babcock, Wood Spitler, Percy Hauter, Rayx,Wood, Herbert Hammond, Vern Davisson, Howard Clark, Sherman Parks, Gravelous Hansson and others, most of them going by autq.