Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1917 — The WEEKS'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEKS'S DOINGS

Charles Porter made a business kip to Delphi Saturday. George Chappell of Remington was in the city on business Friday. Mrs. Jacob Wright and son Bradford went to Frankfort Friday to visit relatives. We'pay the highest market price, -cash or trade, for country produce. —HOME GROCERY. Jesse Nowels and family drove down from Roselawn Sunday afternoon and relatives. Bert Welsh left Saturday for Larimore, North Dakota, where he will take up land agents’ work. For good work and reasonable prices, ’phone 416. —LEE RICHARDS, paper hanger and painter. Mrs. J*. J. Hunt and children, John and Sarah, returned Friday from a visit with relatives in Chicago. Mrs. William Porter of Hammond came Friday to spend a few days with her mother, Mrs. E. L. Clark. Louis R. Fcndig of Jacksonville, Florida, came Friday for a visit with his brothers, Samuel and B. F. Fendig. Hayes Preston, who travels in Ohio for the Oliver Plow company, was here the last of the week visiting his family. ’ Miss Margaret Babcock was home from Depauw university the last of the week visiting hor parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Babcock. Miss Marie Nevil, who attends the state normal school at Terre Haute, was home over Sunday visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Nevil. Miss Ruth Rainier of Indianapolis, daughter of. Rev. and Mrs. J. F. Rainier, visited here over Sunday with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Rainier. Mrs. Neal Bott of Star City, who

had been at a Logansport hospital for several weeks, is now here for jeome time with her husband’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Bott. Frank Parker, son of Isaac Parker of near Wolcott, who is employed at the Mitchell auto sac-j tory at Racine, Wisconsin, came Friday afternoon for a short visit with home folks. Mrs. M. E. Crisler of Spokane, Washington, who had been visiting relatives here, was called to Delphi Friday by the serious illness of her uncle, John English, who had suffered a stroke of paralysis. Mrs. B. T. Clark of Pueblo, Colorado, who had been visiting at different points in Indiana, came Thursday for a short visit with Mrs. E. L. Clark and other relatives here before returning to the West. Mr. and. Mrs. William Barkley and daughter, Mr. and Mrs. Frank Hoover and Mrs. Merica were among the Lafayettq visitors Friday.* The latter spent the day with her son, Stanley, who is a student at Purdue. 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 Queen Esther Circle will hold their monthly meeting Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 at the home of Barabara Randle. Lesson given by one of the members. Meeting of the day in charge of Mrs. Charles Porter. Ruth Clark presiding officer.

The PAIGE car is sold by the A.uto Sales Co. at Remington. Why not buy one now. ts Mrs. E. M. Graham and children spent Sunday at Indianapolis with Mr. Graham’s mother. Miss Marie Hamilton spent Friday at Goodland the guest of her roommate, Miss Velma Rich. A bargain for some one—Secondhand canopy top carriage, in good shape. Price O. K.—C. A. ROBERTS. Maxwells advance S3O on May 1. Orders will be filled as received at the present prices.—MAIN GARAGE. ml Mrs. W. I. Hoover and daughter Irene went to Delphi Saturday to spend Sunday with her father and family. Robert Wartena anl wife came down from Indiana Harbor Saturday to visit his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Wartena. Mrs. Austin Hopkins returned Saturday from a three months’ visit with her daughter and family at Sullivan, Indiana. J. J. Montgomery was <\t Indianapolis Sunday on business connected with the Navy League, which- he represents in Rensselaer. Among the Chicago visitors Friday were Mrs. C. C. Warner, Mrs. William Traub, Mrs. Stella Ketchum and Barney Kolhoff and son, Arnold. Floyd arrived home Saturday from their sojourn at Miami, Florida. Mr. Meyers expects to return the latter part of the month. J. A. Wright of Chicago, who had been, visiting his cousins, Randolph Wright of Newton township and Jasper Wright of Mt. Ayr, returned to his home Saturday. Chester Zea ’of near Conrad and Joe Berry of of Morocco, foremen on the Raff and Lawler ranches, respectively, were * Rensselaer Sunday in quest of men to help in the operation of these big .farms.

Billy Frye has purchased a new International auto truck at a cost of $1,500, which he will use in his bus line business. This truck is one of the best on the market. Billy expects the new car to arrive within a week. Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Harmon and Alexander Quinn were at Ottawa, Illinois, Sunday to attend the funeral of Mrs. Harmon’s uncle and the latter’s brother, W. L. Quinn, who passed away Friday evening at the age of 76 years. Miss Fern Osborne will entertain the regular monthly meeting of the Standard Bearers at her home on Friday evening at 7:30. All members are urged to be, present. Splendid program on “Love Stories of Great Missionaries.” Mrs. E. W. Strecker and son Paul accompanied by Misses Merle Harris and Florence Allman motored to Covington yesterday for a few days visit with friends, going by way of Mudlavia where they called on J. D. Allman, who is talcing treatment there for rheumatism. To demonstrate the wonderful features of the Vesta, indestructible isolators we opened up a starting battery, removed the wood separators and assembled again its insulation. It worked and tested Hire 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.

Mr. and Mrs. Ike Wiltshire spent Sunday with relatives at Fowler. C A. F. Long was in Chicago on business the first few days of the week. ( • Mrs. C. G. Spitlor went to South Bend Monday to visit her daughter, Mrs. Delos Coen. Mrs. Charles Paxton, who has been quite sick for some time, is some better at this writing. Try The Democrat’s want ad columns. You will be most agreeably surprised by the results. None quite so good as Ward’s Dainty Maid Bread, fresh every morning, at the HOME GROCERY. Jess Wi’cox was up from Indianapolis spending the week-end with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Wilcox. Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Rich of Goodland spent Sunday here the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Harry E. Hartley. Miss Nellie Biggs, a nurse at Wesley hospital, Chicago, returned to that city Monday after visiting home folks here. Mrs. Lena Tuteur Parks arrived Saturday from Oakland, California, to visit her mother, Mrs. Anna Tuteur, and family for some time. Mr. and Mrs. Dean Merica came up from Kokomo Monday to visit their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alex Merica and Mr. and Mrs. W.. H. Beam. Mrs. Rose Minick and sons, Donald and Raymond, of Logansport spent Sunday here with her nieces, Mrs. Nelson Shafer and Mrs. S. M. Haas, and families. Floyd Elder, who is confined at his home with scarlet fever, is re-l ported to be improving but slowly, I and it will be some time before he is able to be out. Dr. HL. Brown went to Chicago and thence tp Glencoe, Illinois, Sunday morning and accompanied home, Mrs. Brown and little daughter, Mary Jane, Sunday evening.

John Wilson, an old soldier of Remington, has been in quite a serious condition for the past few days with heart trouble, but is reported a little better at this writing. 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 Isaac Wells returned to his home at*Brook Saturday after visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Wells. He is employed by the National Car Coupler company at Attica and recently suffered an injury to one of his ankle which kept him from work for some time.

M. A. Gray and family, accompanied by their daughter Fleta and friend, Mrs. Strickney, of Georgia, who are students in Valparaiso university, drove over from Remington Monday afternoon in their big Paige, car and the two latter took the evening train for Valparaiso, after having spent Easter at Remington. A law is greatly needed in this country to stop the slaughter of calves for veal,and unless some measure of this kind is passed it will not be long until cattle become almost extinct. The high price of veal calves is causing thousands of farmers to butcher calves when they are but a few weeks old instead of keeping them until they grow into beef. It is said that more veals have been shipped ffom the Rensselaer station this year than was ever known before, and it is probable that there are fewer cattle in the country today than -at any time in the lastforty or fifty years.

With eggs 26 cents a dozen at this season of the year, 10 or 12 cents higher than they were last year, and the packers storing them away at probably 30 cents a dozen cost to them, what price may we expect them to reach next winter ? It 'is very probable that they will be 5 Cents each with us, and possibly reach 80 or 90 cents per dozen in the cities. The farmers are certainly making a sad mistake in giving more attention to poultry and egg production. With most of them this is merely a side issue, looked after by the wife, and is considered of very little importance by the head of the family, who is passing over dollars to pick up pennies in the uncertainty and hard labor of growing grain. There is occasionally, however, a farmer who at least helps bring the eggs to market, and The Democrat knows one who is bringing from $8 to $lO worth of eggs to town every Saturday. -

C. P, Fate was down from Crown Point Monday. T. M. Callahan and C. P, Wright were in Chicago on business Monday. Mrs. Robert Yeoman of Rensselaer, is confined to her home with sickness. - Mrs. W. S. Richards and son Lee spent Sunday with relatives at Frankfort. Lowell, the 8-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Cornwell, is quite sick with the measles. Bulk and package garden and flower seeds, early seed potatoes, onion sets, at the HOME GROCERY. Mrs. J. E. Garson of West Lafayette came Saturday to visit her mother, Mrs. E. L. Clark, and other relatives. Joseph Reeve,, Omar Osborne, Edwin Robinson and Forest Morlan were- down from Chicago Sunday visiting home folks. The Woman’s Missionary society of the Presbyterian church will meet this afternoon at 2:30 with Mrs. E. D. Rhoades. Mr. and Mrs. Peter McDaniel returned home yesterday morning from a visit over Sunday with their sons near Kersey. Yesterday’s markets: Corn, $1.24; oats, 64 c; wheat, $2; rye, $1.40. The prices one year ago were: Corn, 62c; oats, 38c; wheat, 85c to 90c; rye, 70c. Friends here have received word from Mrs. Charles Vick that she has arrived safely at the home of her Son Christie in Seattle, Washington, the latter having sent her money for car fare and berth. J. B. Lewis of Barkley township got his right hand quite badly Injured Monday while sawing wood, the saw slipping in some way and cutting his hand quite badly, almost severing one of his fingers.

Lester Rich, who has been associated with the Harrington Bros, elevator here for some years, left Monday for Indianapolis where he and his father, W. E. Rich, of Goodland, will engage in the grain commission business.' Miss Dorothy Spencer of Remington took the train here Monday for where she Is attending the state university, after spending the Easter vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Spencer, at Remington. Miss Florence Ryan, who is a student in the state university at Bloomington, returned there Monday after spending the. Easter vacation at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John P. Ryan, in Gillam township and with relatives and friends here.

A new Packard oil truck has been received for use of the local Standard Oil station, the old White truck proving too heavy for ordinary country roads. Now we hope that .the driver, Ross Ramey, will make this truck last a good long time so it will not be necessary to boost the price of gasoline to local consumers soon to buy another new one. John J. Lawler of Chicago, who owns several thousand acres of land in the vicinity of Rensselaer, believes in trying to feed the multitude, and Etas at the present time over 1,800 head of cattle on his ranches ntear Rensselaer, Fair Oaks and Roselawn. He also has several hundred head on the Pogue ranch, in northern Newton county, which he and Mr. Raff own. Carl Hamacher of near Lowell was here Monday on business. He reports that not many oats have been sown in his section on account of. the ground being too wet. The rain of March 31 was a regular 1 downpour in his -vicinity, and north of the Kankakee it is still quite wet. Wheat, he stated, was not looking nearly as well on the north side of the river as it did down this way.

Nine-tenths of all battery 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 separators which do 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 years, have placed the Vesta in a class by itself. No other battery can be like the Vesta. —RENSSELAER GARAGE.

Captain Hl B. Tuteur of Company M is expecting to receive a call at any hour ta assemble his command and report for instant duty. Contractor George Mustard is rushing work right along on Fred Arnott’s new residence in Fairview addition, and it is now ready for the plasterers. Two train loads of marines from the naval training station at Chicago passed through Rensselaer Friday evening, eproute to Norfolk, Virginia, it is understood. . J. J. Montgomery, local member of the United States Naval League, ’ reported four recruits for the navy yesterday, as follows: Charles P. Serritello, R. C. Dixey, William Tilton and James E. Barber. Mr. and Mrs. Jesse E. W’ilson and children returned to their home at Hammond Sunday evening after having spent Saturday and Sunday ■ with Mrs. Wilson’s mother, Mrs. jJ. M. Wasson, and J. J. Hunt and family. Wallace Miller arrived here Friday evening from Atlanta, Georgia, for a week’s visit with his wife. Mr. Miller is traveling for a firm in Chicago and is undecided as yet just where he and his wife will locate. Samuel E. Sparling of Demopolis, Alabama,' a former resident of i Marion township, was in the city Sunday afternoon, leaving Monday •morning for Wisconsin to buy a herd of dairy cows for his plantation in the South.

Edison Murray, who was home from Champaign, Illinois, to spend the Easter vacation, returned to Champaign yesterday, and Carl and William Eiglesbach, who were also home for the Easter vacation, will return to Notre Dame today. It would appear that the young men of Chicago are not very anxious to serve Uncle Sam, preferring wedded bliss Instead, as the marriage license clerk at Chicago did the biggest business in ' history Monday when 1,132 licenses were issued. . - Anybody wanting trees, ornamental or fruit, see Charles Pefley, Rensselaer, Indiana. Every tree or shrub guaranteed to grow and true to name. From the Guarantee Nursery Co., Rochester, N. Y. Trees replaced this fall free of charge if they die this spring. ts Bert Amsler is reported to be quite ill from blood The infection started in one of his fingers and it was necessary to remove a part of the same. Yesterday he was reported considerably better and it was thought he was out of serious danger. Mrs. Virginia Shane of Lafayette came Saturday for a short visit with Mrs. Ora T. Ross. On Sunday afternoon they went to Chicago where Mrs. Ross is spending the week with her son Thompson and family, and Mrs. Shane isf visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Austin. About fifty members of the local Court of Foresters will go via auto to Lafayette Sunday, taking with them the Forestqr band, to attend a big Forester initiation. Candidates for initiation will be present i from all over the state, about twenty of the number being from Rensselaer. The fire company was called out Monday evening to extinguish a • small blaze at the former Ed Kays -i house, now ownpd by O. K. Ritchey, a block north of the cement factory. The* house is occupied by a family named Osborne, who moved there but recently. The origin of the fire is unknown, the blaze being i discovered on the roof about twelve j feet from the nearest chimney. -The fire was quickly extinguished and I the damage was slight.