Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 April 1917 — The WEEKS'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEKS'S DOINGS

Charles Shriver of near Mt. Ayr was in the city on business Thursday. Mr. and Mrs.* Edwin Harris of Mt. Ayr were Rensselaer visitors Thursday. We pay the highest market price, cash or trade, for country produce. —HOME GROCERY. B. F.„ Fendig was at Fair Oaks Wednesday helping the tenant on his farm plant potatoes. Frank Kresler has the basement excavated and foundation put in for his new house on Front street. For good work and reasonable prices” ’phone 416.—LEE RICHARDS, paper hanger and painter. Mrs. G. H. McLain visited at Indianapolis from Tuesday until yesterday with her aunt, Mrs. J. L. Leist. Maxwells advance S3O on May 1. Orders will be filled as received at the present prices.—MAIN GARAGE. ml Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Williamson moved back to Rensselaer this week alter having lived for . several months at Conrad. Miss Helen Murray has been acting as domestic science teacher in the city schools during the absence of Miss Atwood, whose mother died recently. Mrs. J. E. Milliron came down 5 from Chicago Wednesday to visit her son, W. C. Milliron, and wife a few days before leaving for California. She was accompanied here by her niece," Mrs. H. Rf Madorf, and daughter. 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 insulation. It worked and tested liKe 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 some-thing.-RENSSELAER GARAGE.

Attorney S. C. Irwin was in Lafayette on business Wednesday. Mrs. W. ‘H. Beam spent Wednes-. day in Lafayette at the home of her daughter, Mrs. F. X. Busha. J. L. Babcock of Parr went to Lafayette Tuesday to visit his daughter, Mrs. Walter English. A bargain for some one—Secondhand canopy top carriage, in good ‘shape. Price O. K. —C. A. ROBERTS. Mrs. Addie Adams and daughter of Franklin were here Tuesday to attend the* funeral of Joseph I. ’ Adams. The old reliable Hayes fourwheel corn planter is still superior 'to all. Ask your neighbor.— WARNER BROS. . H. B. Brown of Kniman went to Indianapolis ; Tuesday on business connected with an estate of which he is administrator. John O'Connor lowered the large flag at his home to half mast Wednesday in memory of Richard Olney, who passed away late Monday. About fifteen couples attended a very enjoyable dance at the armory Tuesday evening. Music for the occasion was furnished by Horton ’ and Healy. Ruth Comer, 10-year-old daugh- ’ ter of Mr- and Mrs. Shelby Comer, I had her tonsils and adenoid growths removed at the county hosapi tai Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Lambert Bertha spent the week-end with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harvey, of Rensselaer. —Wednesday’s Lafayette Journal. i The iron pipe for the new water -main on Home avenue arrived this week after a long delay and the main will be laid as soon as possible, This has been holding back the work of grading and macadamizing the street. The new bungalow on south Van Rensselaer street, being erected by J. C. Beckman, is nearing completion and will be occupied, we understand, by F. D. Buchard, who now lives in one of the A. Leopold ■ tenant houses on Rutsen street.

John O’Connor was in Brook on business Thursday. ■ ' The Priscilla, Sew club met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Alda Parkison. , Granville Moody and R. A. Parkison were among tjie Chicago visitors Wednesday. The PAIGE car is sold by the Auto Sales Co. at Remington. Why not buy one now. ts Charles, the 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Gtow, is reported quite sick. The Hayes four-wheel corn planter is the best on the market. —WARNER BROS. '»■ None quite so good as Ward’s Dainty Maid Bread, fresh every morning, at the HOME GROCERY. R. Q.. Hufford of Gosport, a former operator at the Monon depot, was here Wednesday spending the day with friends. C. B. Spang spent Wednesday of this week at Rensselaer, Indiana, looking after business interests. — Georgetown (Ill.) News. William Babcock arrived home Tuesday from the Wisconsin university at Madison to spend a week or more with his parents. Louis Schreeg of Chicago returned home Monday after spending a few days with his daughter, Mrs. Harry Thomas, and family of Surrey. President >H'. R. Kurrie of the Monon has returned from Chicago with his family and taken up their summer residence in the Kurrie home here. Rev. J. S. Rainier and , son Paul , of Indianapolis, who had been here visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Rainier, returned home Wednesday evening. ' C. E, Lohr moved Wednesday from one of the A. Leopold houses on Harris-an street into the former Orson Lewis property on the north side of the railroad. ' . \ .- j .'J. ■ , - E. R. Eisenberger, who was here the first of the week with his wife, went to Chicagd Wednesday and from there to southern Michigan to resume his work as a traveling salesman. ■ Mrs. George W. Hopkins, Mrs. M. D. Gwin, Mrs. J. A. Dunlap and Mrs. R. D. Thompson entertained the members of the Bridge club and their husbands at dinner at the home of the former Wednesday evening. Fred McColly, who now occupies one of the Leopold tenant houses on south Front street, will move to his fine new brick bungalow on Jackson street, which is now near-j ing completion and is one of the prettiest and best built homes in Rensselaer.

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 C. P. Fate, who had been here several days visiting his mother and friends, returned to Crown Point Wednesday. He was accompanied by his cousin, Miss Laura Herrod, of Altoona, Pennsylvania, who with her mother is visiting Mrs. Laura Fate at the Makeever House.

The scarlet fever quarantine on the home of W. C. Kincaid on north College ayehue was raised Wednesday. Mrs. Kincaid and youngest daughter were both afflicted with the disease, and a few days earlier in the week Mr. Kincaid was quite sick with stomach trouble, but all are now qiiite well again. Mrs. William Warren of Tefft returned the first of the week from an extended visit in western Kansas with her'“sister, Mr's. Augusta Dumond, and on her way home visited with her niece, mrs. Bertha Scott, and family near Morrill, Kansas. She says they have had no rain and very little snow in western Kansas for two months and that the wheat Was about al! killed. She had a most enjoyable trip and left her people all quite well. The Monon Railroad company yesterday took extraordinary precautions to safeguard its property. At every viaduct, bridge and trestle along the route an armed guard has £een. put on duty, both day and night. It is feared that attempts may be made by German sympathizers to wreck the bridges and impede traffic when troops begin to move. Similar action is being taken by all railroads entering the city.—Wednesday’s Lafayette Journal.

Yesterday was “Friday, f the 13th.’’ : Mrs. Charles V May was an Indianapolis visitor Thursday. An armload of old papers for five cents at The Democrat office. The interior of the College Inn restaurant is being redecorated this week. I. W. Bozell of Edinburg was in the city a few hours Thursday, going on to Fair Oaks to visit friends. Bulk and package garden and flower seeds, early seed- potatoes, onion sets, at the HOME GROCERY. John Webber was a business visitor in Wheatfield Thursday in the interests of the Mackey monu j ment firm. Mrs. Vern Jacks and son are spending the week-end vwith her mother, Mrs. John .Wolseifer, and family at Lafayette. Another son of Mr. and Mrs. S. H. Cornwell has taken down with the measles, making two Of their children thus afflicted. George Mauck came down from Hammond Thursday evening for a few days’ visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Lee Mauck. J. B. Ashby and daughter, Mrs. Loma Miller, of Mt. Ayr took the train here Wednesday for Gary to look after some property there. Edward Barkley is quite sick with typhoid fever at tho home of his daughter, Mrs. Clyde Davisson. Miss McGorry, a trained nurse of Chicago, is caring for the patient. A windy March and a wet Apiil are said to augur well for a good crop year. A warm and dry May and June always mean much for corn growers. In the past two years these months have been wet and cold. Use a Grabler Check Protector on the checks you issue and you need have no fear of the amount being ra'ised. Nicely nickle-plated, sfm’ple and convenient. Only 20 cents each in The Democrat’s fancy stationery department. ts Mr. and Mrs. Ephriam Hughes, who spent the winter here at the home of their daughter, Mrs. Frank Horsewood, left Thursday for Spencer, Wisconsin, where they will visit relatives a few days before proceeding on to ’ their home at Frankfort, South Dakota. The funeral of A. J. Abbott was held at the Methodist church at 2 p. m. Thursday, Rev. E. W. Strecker preaching, tho sermon. The services were in charge of the G. A. It., of which order the had long been a member. Interment was made in Weston cemetery.

Friends and relatives gave Mrs. John Scott quite a surprise Sunday when they walked in with wellfilled baskets to remind her that it was her birthday, it being her sixty-first anniversary, a,nd also her and Mr. Scott’s sixteenth wedding anniversary. All departed at a late hour wishing her many more happy returns of the day.—One Who Was Present. Len -Lefler and wife of Lafayette, who had been living at Medaryville for several months while Mr. Lefler was making some improvements on his farm west of Medaryville, instructed us to change the address of their Democrat back to Lafayette, to which city they returned Wednesday. They will again have charge of the Tippecanoe Trail resort near the soldiers home this season.

A writer in the Saturday Evening Post recently referred to a small town where they still had hitching posts for farmer customers. Well, Rensselaer, Indiana, has hitching barns for their, customers and the boys. Now, Mr. Farmer and boys, just think o? this and ■ hitch to one of Roberts’ Wagons or 'Buggies and you will have» the world’s best. On Front street," Rensselaer.- —C. A. ROBERTS. ts Nine-tenths of all battery trouble is due to short Circuits in the battery itself. Eliminate the short circuit and you have lengthened the i life of your battery two or three times over. Vesta plates are locked apart, which prevents short circuits; Biit 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.

Mrs. E. P. Lane was a Chicago visitor Thursday. Mrs. Mary D. Eger went to‘ Thayer Thursday to sipend the day with Mrs, Joseph Kight. . a _ Little Marguerite Werner, who attends the school for the blind at Indianapolis, came home Thursday on account of illness. Mrs. John App returned to her home near Lafayette Wednesday after visiting here with her daughter, Mrs. Samuel Roth. Mayor C. G. Spitler, Don Warren and Mr. Speigel of the Columbia Furniture company w’ere among the Chicago visitors Thursday. Yesterday’s markets: Corn, $1.27; oats, 65c; wheat, $2.. The prices one year ago were: Corn, 62c; oats, 38c; wheat, 90c; rye, 75 c. ... e* Messrs. Elmer Daniels and Omar Osborne and Misses Leota Muster and Alice Daniels expect to spend tomorrow in Chicago and take in Ringling Bros, circus. Seed corn is high priced and you want the most accurate planter made. This is the Hayes fourwheel planter. Ask your neighbor.—.WAßNEß BROS. Argentina and Brazil have severed diplomatic relations with Germany and will the ajlies in bringing the German empire to time for its lawless acts upon the high seas. v Viola, the little 9-ytear-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Cox, has been quite sick for the past few days with pneumonia, following a severe case of measles. She is reported to be doing quite well, however, at this writing. Miss AlVerta Simpson of the Monnett school entertained the finance committee at a 6 o’clock dinner Thursday evening, and plans for continuing the campaign were discussed. Dr. G. W. Switzer of Lafayette, a member of the committee, was among those present. Samuel of Canada, who was called to Indiana on account of the serious illness of his father, Jphn English, of Brookston, was in Rensselaer a few hours Thursday visiting friends. He returned to Brookston that evening where his father is lying at the point of death.

The Purdue class of 1917 gradI ‘ - ■ ■ I uating in pharmacy visited in Indianapolis Thursday where they inspected the leading pharmacies, wholesale houses and drug manufacturing plantsp There are fourteen in the class, among which is Victor Hoover, son of Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Hoover of this city. Wade Jarrette, son of B. J. Jarrette, went to Chicago the first •of the week to enlist in the United States navy, but because of a slight physical defect he was rejectefe... However, this defect was overcome a minor operation pof formed Thursday evening and he was accepted through the local 'recruiting station yesterday.

National guardsmen who have families dependent on them must leave the service, regardless of any desire to remain on duty, according to an order issued by Major General Thomas IL Barry, commanding the central department, United States army, Wednesday. This order supersedes the previous One, which made retirement merely a privilge.

Mrs. E. M. Graham, who, with her mother, Mrs. Mary Washburn, [occupies one of the A. Leopold tenant houses' on south Front street, will move the first of the month into A. F. Long’s tenant house on Park avenue, now occupied by Dr. Loy, who will move to the former John Werner property on McCoy avenue, which he has purchased. For several months past The Democrat, has been publishing the ' temperatures as recorded by the j government thermometer at St. Joseph college, but an order has just been receivd at the local station from the war department at Washington not to give out any more reports so long as this country is at war. What connection the weather reports have with the war is hard to see, but the order will of necessity be obeyed.

The civilian drills being conducted at the armory each Wednesday night by Captain H. B. Tuteur, are proving more popular than was really hoped or expected. Besides the large number of high school boys enrolled there are also many other young men and a few married men in the ranks. A special meeting was held Thursday evening to elect officers, which resulted in Don Beam being chosen first lieutenant and Edward M. Honan second lieutenant. . ' „

In the tropics there are snake® that fly, or, more properly speaking, that make, flying; leaps of eight feet. ' Mr. and Mrs. Aden D. Rupe *f Warsaw came Thursday for a few days’ visit with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. W. King, and Fred King of 4 Winona came yesterday. ’ Mr. and Mrs. King will move today into their new cottage, immediately south of their, present residence, and Mrs, Downs, living on the north side of ..the Monon railroad, will occupy their old home. Mrs. L. E. Wass came up from Greencastle Thursday, and yesterday joined her husbabd in Chicago, to which place they are moving a part of their goods which have been stored here since Mr. Wass was relieved from duty .as manual training teacher in the Rensselaer schools recently. Mr. Wass has secured a position with an electrical company in the Windy City, it tn understood. Dr. H. J. Kannal drove to Indianapolis Tuesday on business connected with the State Veterinary association and was accompanied by W. C. Babcock and wife and son William. Mrs. Babcock stepped in Lafayette and spent the day with Mrs. Walter English. Mr. Babcock and son returned the same evening with a gentleman from Roselawn, who was driving a new car through, and picked up Mrs. Babcock at Lafayette, who returned with them. Eli Cowger says he sold dressed hogs at $2.50 per 100 in 1863, when the civil war had been in progress two • years. He recalls also that the same year, Denton Moore took a load of dressed hogs to Star City and sold them at $1 per 100. The roads were bad and it required four horses to pull the load. Steers sold there at sls per bead. Soon after, however, meat priebs advanced rapidly, as well as other food stuffs, wheat quotations reaching s2.so.—Monon News.

Miss Josephine Thomas, the 19-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Thomas of Surrey, is very Sick with scarlet fever. Miss Mary Luther of New Middletown, Indiana, teacher of the Surrey school, boarded/ at the Thomas home. County Health Officer F. H. Hemphill and the township trustee, John Rush, / went out to the school Thursday to investigate the situation, but decided as the teacher ha<r Secured a new boarding place to continue the school for the present at least, as it was not believed that the teacher would either contract the disease or carry it to others. ■

While the days have been quite bright and sunshiny for the past week, a cold raw air, like a breeze oil an iceburg has prevailed every day and at night the mercury has hovered near the freezing point. At 7 o’clock yesterday morning* the thermometer in front of The Democrat office, in the shade, registered 3 degrees below freezing, and at noon it had only risen to 3€. It has been too cold for any vegetation to grow, and the hods on the trees, which started rapidly to develop more than two weeks ago. are at a standstill. It is not thought that oats have suffered any that Were in the ground, because of the generally dry condition of* the fields.