Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1917 — The WEEKS'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEKS'S DOINGS

Mr. and Mrs. M. I. Adams spent Sunday afternoon with J. S. Brenner at Mt. Ayr. / Turner Merritt was over from Remington Friday visiting his son John and family. The PAIGE car is sold by the Auto Sales Co. at Remington. Why not buy one now. ts ■rhe'- Eastern Star social was held at the home of Mrs. S. C. Irwin yesterday Charles Kersey of Kewanee, Illinois, was here on business a few days the last of the week. H. B. Tuteur was in Indianapolis Sunday and Monday on business connected with the national guard. .7 • —“— ——- £----- --- - —- —•- A bargain for some one—Second- 1 hand canopy top carriage, in good shape. Price 0. K. —C. A. ROBERTS. Among the Chicago visitors Friday were Mrs. Alda Parkison and Mr. Speigel of the Columbia Furniture factory. The old reliable Hayes fourwheel corn planter is still superior to all. Ask your neighbor.— WARNER BROS. Mrs. W. L. Bott and daughter, Mrs. Don Beam, spent Friday in Lafayette with the former’s daughter, Mrs. Frank Hamilton. Mr. and Mrs. Van Grant and Mr. and Mrs. Rice Porter returned home Friday evening from a few days’ visit with friends in Chicago. Mrs. L. H. Hamilton went to Indianapolis Friday to spend a few days with her daughter, Miss Marie Hamilton, a student at Butler college. Miss Addie McGlinn, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John McGlinn, who live on th\e Richard Grow farm northwest of town, fell Friday and ■* broke her arm. Miss Gwendolyn Kannal went to Greencastle Friday to attend a house * party given by Miss Margaret Babcock, who attends Depauw university in that city. The Marion township consolidated school closed Friday. Appropriate exercises and a sumptuous dinner marked the occasion, one to be remembered by the large number of pupils and patrons present.

Don’t forget The Democrat’s fancy stationery and office supply department when in need of correspondence cards, stationery, typewriter ribbons and papers, the better grade of lead pencils, ink erasers, etc., etc. Solomon Lohr of Mt. Carroll, Illinois, came Saturday for an over Sunday visit with his son, C. E. Lohr, foreman of The- Democrat’s mechanical department, and wife. He left Monday- for Chicago and thence, to Michigan to visit awhile before returning home. Mrs. Violet Pollard and son OrTie left Saturday for Colorado Springs, Colorado, for a stay of indefinite length with Mrs. Kate Toops, formerly of near Rensselaer, for the benefit of her son’s health. If benefited by the change it is probable they will remain in Colorado permanently. 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 liae 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 fix the world can do it. T “. When we say “double life” we mean some-thing.-RENSSELAER GARAGE.

Dr. A. R. Kresler was a business visitor in Chicago yesterday. Mrs. E. E. Malone spent Saturday and Sunday with her husband at* Logansport. Mrs. Ben Oglesby was at Gary over Sunday visiting her husband, who is employed there. J. A. Little of Glasco, Kansas, came Friday to, visit his nephew, Henry Nevil, and family. Mr. and Mrs. Matthew Nesius and son spent Saturday and Sunday with friends in Chicago. Victor Hoover was up from Purdue to spend Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Hoover. For good work and reasonable prices, ’phone 416. —LEE RICHARDS, paper hanger and painter. 'Mrs. F. F. Wilson went to Chalmers Saturday for a short visit with her daughter, Mrs. Albert Wolfe. < __ ; < The price of gasoline was boosted another cent a gallon Saturday, making the price to dealers now ah even 20 cents. Miss Ida Fleming, who teaches in the Lafayette schools, visited here over Sunday with her parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Fleming. Mrs. Ida Pierce and daughter. Miss Gladys, the latter a teacher in the Dana school, spent Saturday and Sunday here with relatives and friends. Seed corn is high priced and you want the most accurate planter made. This is the H«yes fourwheel planter. Ask your neighbor. —WARNER BROS.

The Industrial society of the M. E. church will hold an apron sale and market on Saturday, April 28, commencing at 10 o’clock in the room formerly occupied by Bever & Eiglesbach’s bakery. a2B Walter White of Colorado Springs, Colorado, who had been at Wilmington, Illinois, to attend the funeral of his father, Robert White, came ot Rensselaer Saturday to look after some property interests here.

The ■work of placing the street signs at all intersecting points in the city is progressing’ and will probably be finished this week. The signs are neat and easy to read and add quite a metropolitan appearance to Rensselaer. The Indianapolis News has recently increased its yearly subscription rates $1 per year. Please bear this in mind if you desire the News in connection with The Democrat, as we can no longer furnish it at the same old price. 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 A. M. Bringle was down from Fair Oaks' Monday on business and made this" office a pleasant call. He stated that the depot there caught fire early that morning from sparks, from a passing engine, and but for a timely discovery would have bebn destroyed. T. F. Brusnahan, formerly of Union township, who has been residing in North Dakota for the past several years, 'directs us to change the address of his Democrat from Lakota; North Dakota, to Gar don, Wisconsin, - where he states he has moved upon a farm and likes the country very much. He is located forty-three miles south of Lake Superior, he wjftes.

Miss Elizabeth Lee of Rockville came Sunday for’ a few days’ visit with friends here. The Hayes four-wheel corn planter is the best on the market. —WARNER BROS. . - L. R. Eisenberger was down from Chicago Saturday and Sunday visiting his wife. A .'7; Miss Myrtle Auerbach of Chicago was an over Sunday guest of the Misses Fame and Grace Haas. Larkin Potts, who is ■employed in the Monon shops at Lafayette, spent Sunday with relatives here. A new supply of vegetable parchment butter wrappers just received at The Democrat office, 30c per 100. Philip Kistner was up from Lafayette Friday on business connected with his farm near McCoysburg. ’ • Maxwells advance S3O on May 1. Orders will be filled as received at the present prices.—MAlN GARAGE. ml Mr. and Mrs. David Book and son of Mt. Ayr look the train here Saturday for Kewanna to visit his people. . - . Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Mauck are preparing to move to their farm in Newton township and will rent their city residence. Rev. J. Budman Fleming was at Gary Friday in the interests of the home missionary work of the Presbyterian church of that city. Bert Hopkins, A. G. Catt and G. J. Jessen were at Indianapolis Saturday attending the closing session of the'Scottish Rite assembly. William Nowels and daughter, Miss Mabel, spent Saturday night and Sunday at the home of Jesse Nowels and family at Roselawn. Shipments to be made every Wednesday of Panama hats to be cleaned and re-blocked. —THE CLOTHING HOUSE OF WILLIAM TRAUB.

Omar Osborne came down from Chicago Monday night and left yesterday for several • points in the central part of the state, where he will gather data for the Monon railroad. Mr. and Mrs. Milt Roth are expected home in a few days from their sojourn in Florida. G. F. Meyers, who has also been in Florida for the winter, will arrive home the latter part of the week. Miss Lena Blume of Wolcott and Miss Myrtle Warne of Reynolds, both of whom had been teaching in the Marion township • consolidated school, which clos d Friday, departed for their respective homes" Saturday. Eggs now 40 cents per dozen in the cities and promise to reach i unheard of prices next winter. In Rensselaer the stores were paying: 32 cents per dozen for eggs' yesterday, a pride double that usually paid at this season of the year. - Walter M. Blackman of San Francisco, California, visited here over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. ' Loren Sage. Mr. Blackman is a' brother-in-law- of Mrs. Sage and is; engaged in the brokerage business. J He had made a business trip to Chicago and run do-wn here for an < over Sunday visit.

Anybody wanting trees, ornamental or fruit, see Charles Pefley, 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 —"■ - 1 •' <• Joseph Reeve and Omar Osborne, accompanied by Miss Olive Cline spent Sunday here with relatives and friends. Miss Cline is a nurse who . attended Mrs. F. E. Reeve during the time the latter was a patient in a Chicago hospital. Miss Laura Ponton of Remington was al§o a guest of Joseph Reeve Sunday, the latter accompanying her homp to spend the evening with her.

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.

Elmer Daniels went to Lafayette Monday on business, returning home last evening. Paul Miller came up from Indianapolis Saturday for a few days’ visit with old friends. Yesterday’s markets: Wheat, per bushel, $2.25; rye, $1.40; corn, $1.30; oats, 63c. The prices one year ago were: Wheat, 85 c to 95c; rye,' 7ac; corn, 65c; oats, 38c. Dr. J. pansson, \ local Overland agent, went to Toledo, Ohio, Sunday to get several new cars. He was accompanied by Williafn Babcock, A. E. Sticknoth, Don Wright, H. A. Lambert, * “Frenchy” Deschand and William Eldridge. The Watson Plumbing company and Somers & Cornwell have purchased the plumbing stock and supplies of Eph Hickman, and the latter expects to go to Gary to work. He will not move his family there at present, but may do so later. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Montgomery expect to leave early Sunday morning via auto for Rockford, Illinois, where Mrs. Montgomery will visit relatives for a couple of weeks, Jack returning via rail Monday and leaving the car there for his wife’s USe.

Mrs. Clarence Watson of Valparaiso came Sunday evening to visit her sister, Mrs. Frank Webber. On Monday she went to Waynetown to visit another sister, Mrs. George Heuson, and will return here again before returning home.

Dr. Brown, who owns property at Palatka, Florida, and receives a paper from there, finds that a party who owns land near his has sold his potato crop—which is just now being harvested —right in the field for $28,01)0, and he Thinks this beats pulling teeth.

Otto Braun of Lowell, formerly instructor of the Rensselaer band, has been accused of being a German sympathizer and it was recently reported here that he had been taken in custody by federal authorities.,, But in a recent statement Mr. Braun proclaims his'Americanism to be without stint or hindrance. •

| Mrs: Mary Condit of Boston, Massachusetts, was here over Sun- „ day visiting her sister, Mrs. John Mann. This was their first meeting in more than twenty-five years. Mrs. Condit left Monday for Elgin, Illinois, to visit a brother, being i accompanied as far as Chicago by ■Mrs. Mann. Mrs. Condit will then visit another brother in Oklahoma before going tb her summer home at Denver, Colorado. R. W. Sprague fears that he will have to close the Iroquois Roller I Mills? because of his inability to ■ buy wheat and corn to keep it go- ! ing. There is very little wheat or | corn remaining in the hands of the farmers of Jasper county, and what there is 'can not be bought at hardly any price. The largest holdings of wheat remaining in the county are said to be 800 bushels owned by Judson J. Hunt and 400 bushels out at the county farm. A special train? of twelve passenger coaches and bearing about 1-1,500 soldiers and sailors passed through Rensselaer , Saturday eve- ; ning. The train was preceded by ' a lone engine, running between a i quarter and a half mile ahead of the train, to assure the safety of (the right-of-way for the train fol- , lowing. The train was enroute (from Chicago to Newport, Rhode i Island. It is quite probable that Raymond Dixey was on this train as F._ W. Tobias received a card from him Monday stating that he was enroute to Newport. The card and dancing party given by Otto Schreeg of Parr was very much enjoyed. Those present were: John Densfort of Chicago, Mr. and Mrs. John Bachelder, Mr. and Mrs. Harry Thomas, Louis and Stanley Lane, Ruth Murphy and Esther Zacher of Surrey; John Healy, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Murphy, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Hermanson, Mr. and Mrs. John Lakin, Elige Cunningham, Floyd Sanders, Cecelia and Aileen Lakin, Lula and Orval Rowen, Wallace Moore, Cecil, Hazel and A. Fay, Ross and Ralph Lakin, Ed Gilmore, Edwin Brusnahan, Lonny, Violet and Hazel Davisson, William Randolph, Vibert and Roxie Gunyon, Ernest, Neva and Nellie Garriott, W. Farley, Hazel and Ruby Gunyon and Crock Henry.- ••

J Another new supply of calling cards just received in The Democrat’s fancy stationery and office supply department. (jWreet sizes for “Mrs.,” “Miss” and “Mr.’’ in either kid or linen finish. We sell ’em either plain or printed. And if you want copper-plate engraved cards we can supply you on short notice and at lower prices than you would pay elsewhere. • * Roy Donnelly and Gaylord McFarland were given third degree work in the Masonic lodge Monday night, the first third degree being given by Mr. .Blake and Mr. Nichols of the Remington lodge Who, in company with Mr. Merritt and | another Mr. Nichols, came over to' visit the Rensselaer lodge. The second candidate was initiated by the Rensselaer lodge. Refreshments were served after the work. A writer 'in the Saturday Evening Post recently referred to a town where they still had hitching posts , for farmer customers. Well, Rensselaer, Indiana, has hitching barns for thfbir customers and the boys. Now, Mr. Farmer land boys, just think of this and hitch to one of Roberts’ Wagons or f Buggies and you will have the ; world’s best. On Front street, Rensselaer. —-C. A. ROBERTS. ts I

Saturday and Sunday were nice warm days, but Monday and yesterday were quite a bit cooler and more or less cloudy. We need more rain for the wheat and grass but oats are coming up very nicely indeed and .the ground generally is in fine condition for plowing for corn. SJmde trees are beginning to leaf put and a warm rain or two would bring them out in a complete new spring garb. The rain and warm weather last week caused vegetation to start nicely, ’ and everything is looking fine in the country.