Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1917 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

Buy your gasoline engines of the Watson Plumbing Co. ts C. W. Littlefield of Remington ■was a visitor in this city Wednesday. - The PAIGE car is sold by the Auto Sales Co. at Remington. Why not buy one now. ts Mrs. R. P. Benjamin went to Otterbein Wednesday to visit her brother, C. S. McGee. Mrs. Marceline Snorf of Chicago came Wednesday for a visit at the home of _ her grandfather, !H. O. Harris. The old reliable Hayes fourwheel corn planter is still superior to all. Ask your neighbor.— WARNER BROS. The stone front for the new First National bank building is being placed in position and is nearly half completed at this writing. Mr. and Mrs. Everett Myers have moved from near Roselawn to this city. He is employed as a hauler on A. S. Keene’s stone road contracts. Shipments to be made every Wednesday of Panama hats to be cleaned and re-blocked. —THE CLOTHING HOUSE OF WILLIAM TRAUB. Mr, and Mrs. A. J. Bellows attended the funeral of John Wilson at Remingtons Wednesday. Their son Edward married a daughter of Mr., Wilson.

Mrs. F. D. Burchard and daughter, accompanied by her sister, Miss Margaret Jones, went to Redkey, Indiana, Thursday to visit their parents. 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. Frank Hoover, who had been sick for some time, is much better, and Mr. and Mrs. William Hoover, who had been out to the farm with their son, have returned to town. Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Hunt spent Thursday in Winamac while the former was attending to tome" matters in court connected with the Hosmer estate, of which he is administrator. Mrs. Fred Rhoades returned to Chicago Tuesday after a few days,' visit with relatives and friends here. Fred has. rented a flat on Michigan avenue and they will establish their home there.

Paul Norgor, who has been confined. to his bed with rheumatism for several days, is making practically no improvement. iHle suffers a great deal of pain and it may be necessary to remove him to the springs for treatment. Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bellows, who had been spending the winter in Florida, returned home Monday. They returned from the South about a month ago, since which time they have been visiting their daughter, Mrs. Charles Murphy, of 'Berwyn, Illinois. Rev. W. G. Winn, former pastor of the Christian church in. this city and now pastor of the Firsts Christian church at Irving Park, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, has accepted an invitation from the local G. A. R. to deliver the Memorial day address in Rensselaer Wednesday, May 30.

Mrs. Hester Boyes is having a new porch built onto her residence on Van Rensselaer street. Joseph Lehe of Jordan township purchased a new Maxwell auto of the Shafer garage Wednesday. Venus Crisler returned Wednesday from /Fort Smith, Florida, where he had bqen to look after some lands there. Joseph Kight of Thayer, who had been here visiting at the home of his son-in-law, Dr. A. G. Catt, returned home , Thursday. Mrs. Bernice Davisson of Chicago came the first of the week for a visit until Sunday with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. S. Rhoads. Mrs. James Coffel and grandson of Francesville capa§ Thursday for a short visit with her daughter, Mrs. Leo Worland, and family. Mrs. Frank Hill entertained the Priscilla Sew club Thursday afternoon out at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Simon Thompson, just north of town. Seed corn is high priced and you want the' most accurate planter made. This is the Hayes fourwheel planter. Ask your neighbor. —WARNER BROS. W. E. Rich of Indianapolis and T. J. Harrington of Lafayette were here Tuesday mhking the transfer of the Harrington elevator to the Farmers’ Grain company.

G. J. Dean returned Wednesday night from a few days’ business trip to Chicago. He says the fore part of the week was cold and rainy in the “Windy City.” Piper City (Illinois) item in Bloomipgton (Illinois) Bulletin: Miss Hazel Kiblinger returned on Wednesday from a ten days’ visit with friends in Rensselaer, Indiana.

Rev. W. E. McKenzie of Lafayette, district superintendent of the Methodist church, was here Wednesday the guest of Rev. and Mrs. E. W. Strecker. Wednesday evening Rev. McKenzie drove Mo Mt. Ayr and attended a meeting there. 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 jtepfafed this fall free of charge if they die this spring. ts

S. O. Penrod of Chicago, who is interested in the Columbia furniture factory, has moved to Rensselaer and is occupying one of the A. Leopold tenant houses on south Front street. Mr. Penrod will be associated in the management of the furniture factory. The carnival company that moved over from Remington Sunday has been holding forth in the east part of town this week. They were accompanied by the usual carnival crowd. Joe Clark, the cowboy, has joined the aggregation to be a part of their “wild west’’ show. Monticello will be honored with their presence next week. 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 of two, a saving of 50 per cent for the auto owner. If you need hay see Luther, but 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 Isaac Wiltshire has been confined to his bed since Sunday with sickness. V C. A. Tuteur went to Madison, Indiana, Tuesday for a week’s visit with The Hayes four-wheel corn planter is the best on the market. —WARNER BROS. Miss Maggie Hallagan jmd Mrs. A. E. Delouest, who had spent the winter in Florida, returned home Thursday. Joseph Luers and little daughter drove down via auto from Kouts -Thursday on business, returning home yesterday. T. F. Clark and niece, Mrs. Elmer Sink, of Battle Ground were in Rensselaer Thursday enroute to Morocco to visit his sister, Mrs. George Stoner. Among the Lafayette visitors Thursday were Mrs. R. D. Thompson, Mrs. James Parkjson, Mrs. Vernon Nowels, Mrs. John Moore and Mrs. Victor Moore.

John Snodgrass of southeast of town suffered a stroke of apoplexy Tuesday afternoon and is in quite a serious condition at this writing. He is about 52 years of age. markets: Corn, $1.48; oats, 67c; no quotations on wheat or rye. The prices one year ago were: Corn, 68c; oats, 38c; wheat, 75c to 95c; rye, 75c. ’ Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Sears of Wat-, seka, Illinois, came Wednesday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Long and other relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Long drove over to Rem-j ington in their Paige car and met them there. •

— Th© home of Jo© Thomas of Surrey, which had been under quarantine, for scarlet fever, a daughter, I Miss Josephine, having the disease, 1 was released from quarantine Wed- j nesday. None of the other members of the family contracted the disease.

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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 bifest. On Front street, Rensselaer.-—C. A. ROBERTS. ts The triangular track meet between the high schools of Rensselaer, Monticello and Delphi“frill be held at St. Joseph college this afternoon, if the weather permits. The Rensselaer athletes/have been doing some hard training work and are hopeful of carrying off the honors. The oratorical contest between representatives of the same schools will be held this evening. The representatives for the Rensselaer school are Miss Mamie Bever and Pa.ul Beam.

A salesman for a large battery concern spent a day with us last week advising us to put in a service station for tbeir 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 we figure such a business would 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 be 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.