Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 May 1917 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

Buy your gasoline engines of the Watson Plumbing Co. ts — X William Johnsonof near ML Ayr was in this ctiy on business Saturday. “ H. W. Kiplinger came down from Gary to visit over Sunday with his family. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Welsh of Jordan township were Monon visitors Monday afternoon. 1 Howard Clark and August Moore took in the White Sox-Wash-ingtop baseball game in Chicago Sunday. Sam Fendig, Delos Dean and C. E. Garver were at Indianapolis Sunday visiting the Rensselaer boys at Fort Benjamin Harrison. Mrs. Pauline Burris of Billings, Montana, who had been visiting relatives here, went to Atlanta, Indiana, Saturday to visit her hus* band’s mother. Mrs. Arthur Cole of Lafayette, who was here the last of the week the guest of her sister, Mrs. E. L. Clark, went to Chicago Saturday to visit friends. Mrs. Charles Warren and children of Louisville, Kentucky, who had been visiting her sister, Mrs. G. B. Parkison, of Pleasant Ridge, departed for their home Saturday.

Dr. E. C. English and Dr. I. M. Washburn were at Goodland Friday evening attending the regular meeting of the Jasper-Newton Medical society, which was held at the home of Dr. Kennedy. The senior class of the Rensselaer high school, accompanied by two of the teachers. Misses Harmon and Phillips, enjoyed an auto trip to Cedar Lake and a picnic dinner there Saturday. J. F. Bruner of Morocco was here Saturday looking for a house and will move his family back to this city. He recently traded his farm near Morocco for another six miles east of Winamac. Mr. and Mrs. L. N. Chupp of Surrey went to Crawfordsville Saturday to visit their son Charles, an instructor at Wabash college. Next year tbe latter will become a member of the faculty of Cornell university at Ithaca, New York. The contract was let last Friday for a new school building at Mt. Ayr, the total cost of which will be about $28,000. E. D. Rhoades & Son of this city secured the plumbing and heating work at $6,770, and the building went to the iHodshire Construction Co. of Monticello, at a trifle over $21,000. 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.

T. M. Callahan was in Chicago on business Saturday, Dr. J. W. Merry of Mt. Ayr took the train here Saturday for Chicago j on business. Jesse Welsh of Chicago is spending his spring vacation here with his brothers and sisters. Alfred Hickman and family came dovyn from Hammond Saturday to visit relatives over Sunday. Mrs, Thomas Bissenden and two children went to Kankakee, Illinois, Saturday for a visit with her 'mother. Earl Reynolds is here this week looking after his property, which was recently quite seriously damaged by fire. ' \ 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. Miss Nelle Meyers, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. G. F. Meyers, who taught in the high school at Kennett, Missouri, the past term, returned home last week for the summer vacation. Sopiers & Cornwell moved their plumbing shop yesterday from the Leopold room west of the court house to the Robert White room recently vacated by H. R. Lange, on north Van Rensselaer street.

Phone 78-D, or call on DEL GILSON, locatedj at Mark Schroer’s, one door east of Republican office, for service in auto repairing. Expert and guaranteed workmanship. Local agent for Studebaker cars. Demonstration at any time.—Advt. Devere Yeoman, who is in the engineering corps of the officers training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison, spent Saturday evening and Sunday with his family here. He reports that the training is quite strenuous but also quite thorough and valuable. The Rensselaer Foresters’ baseball team won from Lowell at the latter place Sunday by the score of 11 to 3. Feldhaus pitched for the Rensselaer team and was very effective, while the Lowell twirler proved an easy mark. A return game will be played in three weeks. An invitation has been extended to the Rensselaer Odd Fellows and Rebekah lodges, by the same lodges at Remington, to join with them in their memorial exercises to be held at Remington next Sunday. It is quite, probable that if the weather is agreeable a large number will go over from here. There will be a change in cashiers at the State bank June 1, Delos Thompson, who has been the cashier for several years, will retire and James H. Chapman, vice-presi-dent, will take his place, while Mr. Thompson will take Mr. Chapman’s place as vice-»president. Mr. Thompson will continue his office, to look after his outside business, at the bank, it is understood.

Get a hot air fdrnace of the Watson Plumbing Co. ts B. T. Lanham of soulth Marion was a Lafayette visitor Monday. Mrs. George Mohlman and children were at Lafayette over Sunday visiting her mother. Miss Marguerite Irwin spdnt Saturday night and Sunday with Miss Clara Fisher at Hammond. Mrs. Jesste Purden of Forest, Indiana, came Friday evening to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Maxwell, and others. We will have a carload of middlings on the track. Special price in ton lots if'taken from the car.— KELLNER & CALLAHAN. ts Andrew Ropp, the Buick auto agent, drove to Chicago Sunday and expected to drive back one or two new cars yesterday if he could get them. Ralph Sprague visited several; towns on the Monon and C. I. & S. railroads Monday in the interests of the products of the Iroquois Roller mills. Mrs. Lyman Zea and son Ernest returned Sunday evening from a visit with George Zea and family, who live on one of the Lawler farms near Dyer. 1 Mrs. T. J. Conley and two sons, Thomas and Henry, of Chicago visited here over Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan and Miss Bertha Brunneman, superintendent of the hospjtal. Mr. and Mrs. M. Quinn of Chatsworth, Illinois, and Mr. and Mrs. F. J. Quinn of Strawn, Illinois, parents and brother of Mrs. L. A. Harmon, drove here and spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Harmon.

B. N. Fendig was o,t Indianapolis Sunday visiting his' brother Sol. He found the Jatter getting along fine and improving nicely from his recent nervous breakdown. He will probably be able to return home within another week. Mrs. Clarence Bowman of near Newland, who was bitten by the same dog that attacked the little Bowman' and Smith boys, reported in our last issue, went to Indianapolis Monday and will also receive the Pasteur treatment.

Mr. and' Mrs. Delos Thompson, son daughter Emily and Mrs. Ora T. Ross and son Livingston drove to Chicago Saturday in the former’s car to visit Bradley Ross, who is stationed at Fort Sheridan, returning home Monday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Fred iHicks and the latter’s mother, Mrs. Ira. Yeoman, of Remington visited here Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Grant. Mr. and Mrs. Hicks returned home Sunday evening but Mrs. Yeoman remained until Monday evening and visited other friends here. Ed Oliver, known as the Newland onion king, has been indicted by a United States federal court along with eighty-seven other onion men for hoarding onions to boost the price. The indictments are a result of the nation-wide food inquiry begun last winter (by United States Attorney G. W. Anderson of Boston. L. A. (Harmon, driving north on Front street in his new Ford, and Stewart Moore driving east r on Washington street, operating Firman Thompson’s Maxwell, had a slight collision at the intersection of the two streets shortly after 9 o’clock Sunday night. Neither car was apparently damaged to any extent, although the Maxwell struck the Ford almost broadside. Neither driver hhd seen the other in time to avoid the collision.

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 oh dissatisfaction. To enjoy a healthy business our customers must be satisfied, both with th© 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.

Today is Decoration day, and the banks will be closed. ■ ( - Ralph Zeigler made a business trip to Chicago Monday. i Drs, Ivresler, English and Washburn were in Chicago yesterday attending clinics, N. Osborn and daughter, Miss Nellie, of Gillam .township were visitors in the city Saturday. John Worland left Monday for Montana, 'where he expects to spend the summer on a ranch. A new supply of vegetable parchment butter wrappers just received at The Democrat office, 30c per 100. Yesterday’s* markets: Corn, $1.45; oats, 58 c. The prices one year ago were: Corn, 62c; oats, 23c. < Dr. Rose M. ■ Remmek went to Peru last evening to be gone over Memorial day. Both her parents are buried at Peril. Mrs. Don Beam and Mrs. F. D. Burchard and little daughter Winifred spent Sunday with their husbands at Fort Benjamin 1 Harrison. The two daughters of Mr. and Mrs. John McGlinn of Union township, who have been suffering with ■scarlet fever, are reported to be getting along nicely, now out of danger. Abe Martin in Indianapolis News: “Who remembers when you used t’ git a pair o’ suspenders free with a hand-me-down suit? Elocutionists have t’ be self made, for nobuddy ever boosted one.”

John L. Clark of south of Lee was a visitor in the city yesterday. He said there was quite a little white frost over in the edge of White county yesterday morping, but he thought no damage was done.

Mr. and Mrs. John E. Paxton, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Pavey, Mrs. Edward Beach and Joseph Paxton drove down from South Bend Sunday, the latter to visit Mr. and Mrs. Ed Parkinson and the others to visit with the families of B. F. Fendig, Dr. I. M. Washburn and Mrs, Kate R. Watson. Mrs. Henry Ropp of Union township returned home yesterday from Milford, Indiana, where she had been for a few * days with her daughter., Mrs, Earl Gross, who had been very sick. A daughter was born to Mrs. Gross last Thursday and Mrs. Ropp reports her to be doing nicely at present. ■ -

Mr. and Mrs. Harry Arnold, Mr. and Mrs. David Stoner and Mrs. Bud Lewis of Barkley township went to 'Camden, Carroll county, Saturday to attend the annual convention of the Old German Baptist church, which closes today. Delegates were present from all over th© country and it f was estimated that nearly 10,000 were in attendance. A writer in th© 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 orBuggies and you will have the world’s best. On Front street, Rensselaer. —C. A. ROBERTS. ts

Mr. and Mrs. George Peters and two children of Lafayette spent Sunday with the former’s parents, Mr., and Mrs. Alfred Peters, of south of town. They made the trip via auto. Their; little daughter Virginia remained- for a few weeks’ stay with Grandpa and Grandma Peters. Mr. and Mrs. Peters’ other children, Mrs. Harry Dewey and children, Mrs. Elmer Humphreys and Lyman Peters and wife, also spent Sunday with them, making the family circle complete. Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Long, Mr, and Mrs. J. F. Hardman, George Long and Miss Rucile Phillips drove to Indianapolis Sunday in the former’s auto and visited the Rensselaer boys at Fort Benjamin Harrison. The trip was made by way of Monon, Monticello, Lebanon and Noblesville, returning by way of Crawfordsville. Pleasant weather favored them except for a brief downpour while enroute from the fort to Indianapolis. The roads were exceptionally good the entire distance, 274 miles, with th© exception of near their destination where considerable road building and repairing is under way.