Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1917 — The WEEKS'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEKS'S DOINGS

Buy your gasoline engines of the Watson Plumbing Co. ts Thomas Grant and daughter Hazel made a trip to Monticello Saturday. The PAIGE car is sold by the Auto Sales Co. at Remington. Why not buy one now. ts Kenneth Allman was up from Indianapolis Sunday visiting his. parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Allman. C. P. Fate of Crown Point was in the city a short time Friday, enroute to Indianapolis on business. Robert Milliron was up from Franklin Sunday fop a short visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Milliron. The old reliable Hayes fourwheel corn planter is still superior to all. Ask your neighbor.— WARNER BROS.

Mrs. James Norris was at Greencastle over Sunday visiting her daughter Margaret, who is a student at Depauw university. C. F. Tillett, John Ryan, Jerry Shea, Mead Rayburn and Miss Anna Leonard were among the Gillam people in town Friday afternoon. Shipments to be made every Wednesday of Panama hats to be cleaned and re-blocked. —THE CLOTHING HOUSE OF WILLIAM TRAUB. If your Willys-Knight starts hard when it’s cold, take it to the Vesta station. They will clear up your trouble in about one hour’s labor. —RENSSELAER GARAGE. Mrs. B. G. Oglesby and two daughters went t<j Gary Saturday where they will make their future home. Mr. Oglesby has been employed there for some time. The little 7-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Albertus M. Yeoman of Newton township was operated on for appendicitis at the hospital Saturday and is doing nicely. Sanol Eczema Prescription is a famous old remedy for all forms of Eczema and skin diseases. Sanol is a guaranteed remedy. Get a 35c large trial bottle at the drug store. —Adv. , ts

The Pythian Sisters district convention will be held at Galveston, Indiana, May 18. is the delegate__fiern^TGelocal temple Haus is alternate. Mrs. Elizabeth Griswold and daughter, Mrs. Della Luston, of Washburn, Illinois, mother and sister of Mrs. J. M. Rains, came the last of the week for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Rains. Mr. and Mrs. George F. . Schaull and Mr. and Mrs. M; N. Bunnell and children of Wolcott spent Sunday here with the former’s daughter and husband, County Treasurer and Mrs. Charles V. May.

Miss Winifred Ledger of Rockford, Illinois, spent Sunday here with her classmate, Miss Aileen Allman. She was accompanied here by her little sister, who is spending the week at the Allman home. James Sprague of St. Petersburg, Florida, came the last of the week for a visit here with his brother, Ralph Sprague, and family. From here he will ,go to Williamsburg, lowa, to visit his daughter before returning home. Mrs. W. W. Miller of Mt. Ayr took the train here Sunday for Pueblo, Colorado, on account of the serious illness of her daughter, Mrs. Harry Hufty. Mrs. Hufty underwent an operation the last of the week and reports received since then are quite encouraging.

Grant Culp of Carpenter township was a business visitor in the city Saturday. ■ Miss May Dunlap of Chicago spent the week-end here, the guest of Mrs. C. C,, Warner. Mrs. K. T. Rhoades, Miss Jane Parkison and Miss Marion Parker were Lafayette visitors Friday. Mrs. Theodore Snow was at Chicago Heights over Sunday visiting Mr. Snow, who is employed there. Harold Clark and Herbert Hammond were in Chicago Sunday to see the White Sox-Detroit ball game. . Misses Ruth McKinzie and Helen Warner visited over Sunday with Miss Frances Ryan at the latter’s home in Gillam township. Antong the Rensselaer people going to Chicago Saturday were Mrs. W. C. Babcock and Lem Harrison of the Roth garment factory. G. F. Meyers arrived home Friday from Florida, where he had spent the winter. Mrs. Meyers and son Floyd returned home about a month ago. Seed corn is high priced and you want the most accurate planter made. This is the Hayes fourwheel planter. Ask your neighbor.—WAßNEß BROS. Mrs. Addie Tupening, formerly of Remington, died 'the latter part of last week at Denver, Colorado, where she was spending the winter. The remains were brought to Remington for burial. Woman’s friend is a Large Trial Bottle of Sanol Prescription. Fine for. black heads, Eczema and all rough skin and clear complexion. A real skin tonic. Get a 35c trial bottle at the drug store. —Adv. ts Milt Roth and family, who have been in Florida since he was so seriously sick with pneumonia, returned home Saturday. Mr. Roth is enjoying very good health now and has resumed work in the meat market.

George Babcock, accompanied by Miss Pauline Hordeman of Rensselaer and Miss Gertrude Russell of Frankfort, spent Saturday in Chicago, where they visited the Ringling circus in the afternoon and a -theater at night. Stanislaus Brusnahan, son of- S. A- Brusnahan of Union township, has been appointed rural mail carrier at Parr, and began his duties yesterday. Clyde Gunyon and Otto Schreeg have been carrying the mail on this route since the resignation of W. A. Witham. W. W. Sage went to Lafayette Friday to have some new parts made for a manure spreader which will enable him to scatter manure in the corn rows after planting. Because of the extreme shortage of potash this year farmers are endeavoring to utilize all manure obtainable, ,

Mr. and Mrs. Lee Adams, the newlyweds, have rented the furnished home of Mr. and Mrs.., L. C. Sage on north Cullen street for the summer. Mr. Sage is traveling for a Chicago wholesale house and Mrs. Sage and baby expect to spend the. summer with her folks at Geneseo, Illinois. Luther Burbank made two blades of grass grow where only one grew before, which was a great thing for the farmer. Vesta makes one battery last the life Qf two, a saving of 50 per cent for the auto owner. If you need hay see Luther, hut if you want a battery as good as the rest of your car, let the Vesta man explain to you the difference in batteries. RENSSELAER GARAGE.

' Get a hot air furnace of the Watson Plumbing Co. ts Mrs. Frank Hoover of southwest of town is reported to be quite sick. I. N. Best of Roselawn was a business visitor in tho city yesterday. H. E Remley of Wheatfield was a business visitor in the city Saturday. Among' the Chicago visitors Friday were William Traub and Delos Thompson. The Hayes four-wheel corn planter is the best on the market. —WARNER BROS. Mrs. Eva K. Gregg of Greencastle came Saturday for a few days’ visit with Miss Helen Lamson.

Mrs. G. M. Lowrie of Monticello came Friday for a visit at the home of her brother, J. H. Carson. Maxwells advance S3O on May 1. Orders will be filled as received at the present prices.—MAIN GARAGE. ml C. C. Starr and wife moved last week from the flat over Warner Bros, store to the James H. Ellis property on Front street, vacated by W. H. Barkley. , Yesterday's markets: Corn, $1.45; oats, 66c. No quotations on wheat or rye. The prices one year ago were: Corn, 67c; oats, 39c; wheat, 90c; rye, 75c. L. C. Sage, who has been employed as traveling salesman with Arbuckle Bros, of Chicagb for the past few months, has now been fortunate enough to secure the addition of his home territory in addition to that already covered by him. When you have Backache the liver or kidneys are sure to be out of gear. Try Sanol, it does wonders for the liver, kidneys and bladder. A trial 35c bottle of Sanol will convince you. Get it at the drug store.—Adv. ts

City Clerk Morlan went to Chicago Saturday to meet his mother, Mrs. Amanda Morlan, who was re-, turning from North Dakota where, she had spent the winter with her daughter, Mrs. Nora Anderson, atFargo and her son Frank at Edmore. Our Fair Oaks correspondent informs us that his items were mailed The Democrat last week as usual —and this correspondent is one of our oldest and most reliable country writers- —but up to date the letter, has failed to reach this office, we are sorry to say.

! John Groom, who has been visiting here’ for a few days with his aunt, Mrs. Jesse Nichols, returned to Gary yesterday and left there • last evening with other young men who had enlisted in the army service for Ft. Wayne and thence to [Columbus, Ohio, where they will be * stationed for the present. John ' has enlisted in the hospital service. J. J. Eigelsbach & Son recently ■purchased a dozen nice yearling j steers —last spring calves —of Elmer Jacks of just southeast of town at 10 cents per pound on foot. Six of them were driven in yesterday and they brought ’Mr. Jacks S4BO. They were nice. animals and Eiglesbach & Son’s customers are assured some mighty fine meat even though .it does taste •quite strong of money.

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 of 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

Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Hagins returned home Friday evening from a visit with friends at Frankfort and Indianapolis. At the former place they were guests of Mrs. Hagins’ nephew, Dr. Robert C, Johnson, lieutenant of Ambulahce company No. 1, Indiana National Guard. Dr. Johnson has seen service with the U. S. army in China and the Philippines, and in the event of actual warfare with Germany he would be a valuable man to the war department. '. Announcement has been, made by the United States Civil Servide commission that eitaminations wilt be held every Tuesday in 400 of the principal cities of the country to provide a large- number of typewriters and stenographers made necessary by the war emergency. Appointments will bp made as soon as eligibles are secured, and the pay for such services ranges from S9OO to $1,200 per year. Anyone desiring further information may consult their postmaster..

Mrs. Ivan Carson is suffering from infected tonsils. Patil Norgor is confined to his home with rheumatism. T. F. Warne of Parr was a business visitor in the city Monday ernoon.Mr. and Mrs. W. 11. Barkley and little daughter were down from Chicago Monday. Granville Moody of Barkley township is confined to his bed with an Attack of auto-intoxicatiOn. Mrs. D. B. Comer and daughter Marie have moved into their own home at the corner of Weston and Rutsen streets. Do you get up at night? Sanol is surely the best for all kidney or bladdpr troubles. Sanol gives relief in 24 hours from all backache and bladder troubles. Sanol is a guaranteed remedy. 35c and SI.OO a bottle at the drug store.—Adv. ts Anybody wanting trees, ornamental pr 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

Mrs. Michael Eger observed her eighty-fifth birthday anniversary Saturday, not with any pretentious celebration, however. “Grandma” Eger is one of the oldest residents of Jasper county and for sixty-five years has resided at her present home on Van Rensselaer street. Samuel Bass, a former resident of Rensselaer, died Friday evening? at his home in Lafayette where for the past nineteen years he and his brother Abraham had operated a hat factory. Mr. Bass was 54 years old and had been sick for several months. The funeral was held Sunday and burial made in the Jewish cemetery at Lafayette.

Mrs. Charles Comer of near Monon died Saturday from a general breakdown. The death of Mrs. Comer is a peculiarly® sad one as she literally wore her life away caring for her children. She was the mother of eight children and when they were recently taken sick with the measles she was untiring in her devotion and attention to the . One of the children recently died, and in her exhausted condij tion Mrs. Comer could not stand the shock. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Montgomery drove to Rockford, Illinois, Sunday in their Maxwell runabout, a distance of abou,t 220 miles, where I Mrs. Montgomery will visit for a ■i couple of., weeks with her mother, Mrs. Eugene Wemple. Mr. Mont■gomery returned home via train : Monday, leaving the car there for his wife’s use. Mr. Montgomery states that they found the roads quite bad from Chicago on, on account of heavy rains, and from Elgin they drove through a rain most of the way.

C. W. May and Charles Meadel of Carpenter township were business visitors in the city yesterday. Mr. Meadel is feeding $1.50 corn to about seventy-five head of hogs which he is fattening and will no doubt realize nearly 20 cents per poundrJor themby the time he puts 'them on the market. But little corn remains in the country in his locality, he states, most of that remaining after the early winter sales having been sold at $1 per bushel. 'Hall Zimmerman, however, two miles west of Rerhington, sold 2,000 bushels Monday at $1.50. Mr. Meadel will also have a little to sell after he markets his hogs. A salesman for a large battery concern spent a day with us last week advising us to put in a service station for their battery. His main argument was that we wouldn’t get enough battery repairing to keep us alive with the Vesta line. We don’t want a big repair business for wer figure such a business woijld be founded on dissatisfaction. To enjoy a healthy business our customers must be satisfied, both with the action of their battery and the service we render. This does not mean we do not repair batteries, for we do, and we do It right, but when every car is equipped-with a Vesta battery there will tbe very little repair work needed on the battery itself. We figure we will be busy keeping the motors, generators, regulators, wiring, etc., in perfect condition.— RENSSELAER GARAGE.

Miss Bertha Ivepner left last week for Indianapolis where she will ‘ visit her sister, Mrs. Nell Warner, for a couple of months. Miss Kepner has been employed in the Fendig Fair store for a number of years and is taking a muchneeded rest. ■

The cement curb for thft, improvement. of Grove street is nearly completed at this writing, and the work of .putting in the curb on Home avenue ,is well under - way: The improvement of these two streets will open up some very desirable residence lots, as this is destinAl to bb one of the prettiest locations in Rensselaer, and Home avenue will be one of the Very best streets in the city, with sewer, water mains, etc., already laid. The Comforts committee of the Navy League w,as agreeably surprised Monday to receive the sum or sls, the result of a collection taken Sunday at St. Augustine’s Catholic church. The donation came as a surprise to? the committee as it was entirely unsolicited.. Mrs. Mary E. Drake, a prominent member of St. Augustine's church, is also a member of the Comforts committee and it was probably through her efforts that the fund was originated.

The state convention of Modern Woodmen in Indiana, which is held every three years, is in session at Hammond today. John O’Connor of this city is a delegate and Frank W. Fisher of Kankak.ee township is alternate delegate to this convention. Twenty delegates will be elected to represent Indiana at the national conference at Chicago June 19-23. The Chicago meeting will be held 3,500 feet out in Lake Michigan in the auditorium of Chicago’s new municipal pier.

John Quinn, oldest son of Mrs. Ida Quinn of this city, was united iin marriage to Miss Margaret East; | erday of Rensselaer at noon Satur- ’ day at the St. Joseph Catholic rectory by the Rev. E. E. Boccard. Only the immediate family of the bride and groom were present. Immediately after the ceremony a three-course dinner was served at the home of the groom’s mother. The young couple left Saturday for Fort Wayne, where Mr. Quinn is employed in a Fort Wayne electrical shop.—Delphi item in Journal.