Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 May 1917 — The WEEKS DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEKS DOINGS

Buy your gasoline engines of the Watson Plumbing Co. ts Jerry B. Garland made a busi"riess trip to Chicago Wednesday. When you have a blowout, blow into MILNER’S TIRE SHOP. m2O Mrs. W. p Beam was the guest of at Reynolds Tuesday, Miss Marguerite Irwin and Miss Eva Maines were Lafayette visitors Thursday. James H. of Remington was a business visitor in the city Wednesday. Mrs. A. E. Shafer went to Logansport Wednesday for a ‘few days’ visit with her daughter. Mrs. Ray D. Thompson went to ! Gary Tuesday for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Lawson Meyers, and family. A. Beasley, formerly of Remington, took the train here Wednesday for his home at Gary after a short business visit here.

Mrs. Virinda Barnes of Oshkosh, Wisconsin, who had been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Rainier, returned home Tuesday. . John G. Hayes has been appointed carrier on rural route, No. 2, to succeed W. A. Davenport, who resigned several months ago by request. Shipments to be maGt, every Wednesday of Panama hats to be cleaned and re-blocked. —THE CLOTHING HOUSE OF WILLIAM TRAUB. Among the Rensselaer people goingto Lafayette Tuesday were Mrs. Bert Hopkins, Mrs. M. V. Brown, Miss Jane Parkison and Ransom McCurtain. r*' 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.

Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Wood, Sr., Mrs. B. D. McColly, David H. Yeoman and Nathaniel Eldridge went to Indianapolis Wednesday to attend the state encampment of the G. A. R. . r Mrs. Alex Merica was hostess Tuesday afternoon to about twenty ladies, members of the Christian Women's Board of Missions of Francesville and of this city. The afternoon was most pleasantly i spent by all present. Mrs. Charles H. Park of Oakland, California, who has been visiting 1 her mother, Mrs. Anna Tuteur, and family, left Wednesday for a visit' ■with relatives at Indianapolis and Cleveland, Ohio. She will return here again before departing for the West. Miss Viola Glazerook received a card a few days ago announcing the arrival of Thomas Bradford Glazebrook, weight 10 pounds, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Paul I. Glazebrook at Nashville, Tennessee. Paul is a former Rensselaer 6oy y I and a son of Mr. and Mrs. Lee E. Glazebrook of Tefft.

| Guaranteed tire and tube repairing at MILNER’S TIRE SHOP. I .. . Dr. C. E. Johnson went to Chicago Thursday afternoon, returning yesterday. , Mrs. Bert Brenner of Valparaiso 'was visiting friends here a few days this week. The PAIGE car is sold by the Auto Sales Co. at Remington. Why not buy one now? ts Yesterday’s markets: Corn, $1.52; oats, 6 6c; The prices one year ago were: Corn, 67c; oats, 38c; wheat, 90c; rye, 75c. The Ladies’ Aid or the Parr church will hold a bazaar Saturday afternoon and evening, May 12, in the basement of the church. Refreshments served, ml 2 Dr. Gwin has bought a lot of Dr. 11. L. Brown, on Home avenue, in the first block south of Maple street. It is not probable that Dr. Gwin will build on the lot this season.

If you are going to plant any | late potatoes—we will unload a car 'of round, white Rurals, the best late potato grown, Friday. 2y> bushel bags at $3.25 a bushel.— JOHN EGER. ml 2 Mary Coen, youngest daughter of ' Mr. and Mrs. William Coen of north of town, was” operated'on at the county hospital Thursday afternoon for the removal of her tonsils and adnoids. William Cooper of near Brook was a business visitor in the city Thursday afternoon. lHe states that 'planting is going on briskly in his locality but he has not yet started; has thought it was too cool.

George Parker of Hanging Grove i township received a telegram Tuesday announcing the death of his nephew, Walter Parker, a son of j Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Parker of !Mitchell, South Dakota, but formJerly of Jasper county. i Frank M. Coovert of Tulsa, Oklahoma, formerly of Mt. Ayr and at 'one time treasurer of Newton ‘ county, was in Rensselaer Tuesday enroute to —Monon to consult a physician. Mr. Coovert has been afflicted with rheumatism for several months and treatment at the 'springs failed to give him any relief. The first band concert of the season will be held here next Wednesday evening, weather permitting. The band has been practicing faithfully all winter and is more efficient as well as larger than ever before. Prof. Wolfe will be here again next Monday and definite announcement as to the first concert will be made in the next issue of The Democrat. 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.

R. A. Parkison of Rensselaer shipped a carload of Hereford steers to Chicago this week from his farm in Barkley township that averaged 1,485 pounds each and brought him 13 cents per pound, or $193 per head. This is the highest price ever received by a Jasper county cattle feeder, and it is certainly a mighty nice thing for one’s pocketbook to have something to sell these days of of high prices. 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

Get a hot air furnace of the Watson Plumbing Co. ts The sewer pipe are on the ground for the new west Washington street sewer. Among the Chicago visitors Tuesday were S. 0. Irwin and Floyd Hemphill: Mr. and Mrs, J. W. Smith of near Kniman were Rensselaer visitors Wednesday. -

Don't pay a big price for new tires—get your old ones fixed up at MILNER’S TIRE SHOP. • m2O We will unload next Friday, May 11, a carload of Wisconsin round, white Ruyls for late seed in 2% bushel bags, at $3.25 a bushel.-—• .{JOHN EGER. ml 2

R. W. Sprague, proprietor of the Iroquois Roller Mill, has; recently purchased 1,200 bushels of wheat and con now furnish . flour mope promptly. ,He bought 800 bushels of J. J. Hunt and 400 bushels from the county farm, paying $2.65 per bushel for each lot.

There was quite a heavy frost Wednesday night and ice formed on vessels containing water standing outdoors. Many early tomato plants were killed and it is feared that some fruit has been damaged, although in this immediate vicinity the fruit had not gotten a very good start as yet.

Mrs. W. S. Parks, who visited her brothers in Lafayette the latter part of last week, was called from there to Monticello by the sudden death of her sister, Mrs. Rosa Osborne Brown, who died Saturday and was buried at Monticello Monday. Mrs. Brown was a native of Pennsylvania and her age was 66 years. She is survived by a husband and six children. Her death followed a brief illness from erysipelas.

[ Don’t drift—anchor to MILNER'S TIRE SHOP for your needs in vul,canjzingland rubber Phone 218. m2O Tho weather continues quite cool and, while yesterday was bright pleasant for most part, the air cool and the mercury stood at 5 1 degrees’at 2 x p. In - Mrs. May Levernz, insane, of Thayer, aged 23, was brought here and placed in jail Tuesday night and is held at. Newton county’s expense pending her acceptance at Longcliff.

W. S. Parks, whp bad been complaint ng for a few days with neuralgia or similar trouble in his head, was taken home from his work Thursday morning and a physician palled. lie was much better yesterday and was up and about again; ’■■■■- > ' Among the recent purchasers of Maxwell autos are William Baler of Remington, John Lane and Earl Adams of Rensselaer. A. E. Shafer, accompanied by two Remington gentlemen, went to Detroit Wednesday after another consignment of new cars. Letters remaining undelivered for week ending May 7: Wayne Lindburg, W. O. Nash, Edward Heinz, Rev. W. A. Settle, Rubin Snow, Mrs. Louis Cresler, Mrs. Emory Pool, Mrs. Stella Prichord. The above letters will be sent to the dead letter office May 21.

A large touring car driven by a daughter of W. I. McCullough of Benton county smashed into the light post at the corner of Washington and Front streets Wednesday afternoon and broke both the light and globe. Miss McCullough stated that the accident was due to the brake failing to work properly, but that they would pay the damages, which amounted to about sls.

I J. E. Makeever of. hear Mt. Ayr I was in the city on business Thursday. Th« Tenth district meeting of the Federation of Women’s clubs will be held at the Fowler hotel in Lafayette Tuesday, May 22. - Paul Norgor. who has been suffering from a complication of diseases the past few weeks,, seemed a little better the last of the week Al Timmons, who resides in the northeast part of town and who has been in poor health for some time from stomach trouble, was reported yesterday to be in Quite a critical condition. It. is reported . that Sherman Parks, youngest son of Mr. 4hd Mrs, W. S. Parks, was married a few days ago, but if the report is true we have been unable to substantiate it from any members of tho family.

Mrs; Asa Elliott of Barkley township died Thursday afternoon after a lingering illness with cancer of the face. She was 32 years old and is survived by the husband and four children. Funeral services will be held at the Barkley M. E. church at 2 o’clock Sunday afternoon, Rev. Cramer ‘ preaching the sermon. Burial will be made in the Brown cemetery. Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Thornton were called to West Chicago, Illinois, Thursday morning by tho death of their son-in-law, Orlo Abbott, who died at his home there at 1 a. in. that morning. No particulars at this writing. He leaves a wife and six children. The body was brought here on the 7:30 train last night and the funeral will be held at' l o’clock today.

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 we figure such a business would be founded on dissatisfaction. To enjoy a healthy busi-

ness 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 wa 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. Wa figure we will be busy keeping tha motors, generators, regulators, wiring, etc., in perfect condition.—■ RENSSELAER GARAGE.

The editor of The Democrat was in* Indianapolis on business Wednesday afternoon. While as a general thing the season down that way is quite a little in advance of this section of the state, they have noth- \ ing on us this year. In fact, oats, wheat and grass is looking better here than down near the capital city, while there is much more plowing to be. done for corn dOM(n that way than here. No planting had been done and we saw but one planter at work any place along the road, but the farmers were $1 luisy plowing and disking. It is only at rare Intervals that a good or even fairly good field of wheat is seen south of Delphi. Most of it is very thin on the ground, and is spotted. Apparently many fields 1 that had been seeded down to clover last year are being plowed up and put into corn because of the seeding having been winter killed so badly. There has been much more rain down in that section than with us, which accounts for the farmers being so far behind with their work. \