Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1917 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

W. H. Barkley was down from Chicago Wednesday. Buy your'gasoline engines of the Watson Plumbing Co. ts Mrs. Fred Yeiter went to Hammond Thursday for a visit with relatives. Dr. J. Hansson was in South Bend Wednesday on automobile business. w Miss Emma Herschy, sister of Mrs. Oscar Hauter, went to Chicago Thursday for a visit with relatives. John H. Nagel of near Pleasant Ridge had a good hdrse killed by lightning while out in the pasture Tuesday afternoon. Rev. E. W. Strecker was at East Chicago yesterday visiting his son Paul, who is secretary of the Y. M. C. A. of the Second Indiana infantry. Advertised letters, week ending June 4: Mrs. G. A. Marlin, Mrs. Ruth Karp. Above letters will be sent to dead letter office Jpne IS if uncalled for. Mrs. Homer Slaughter returned to Elkhart Thursday and was accompanied by Mrs. M. Y. Slaughter, who will spend the summer there at her son’s home. Sam Duvall, who expected to sail for France on July 12, where he will join the ambulance corps, has received word to report in New York July 5, and sail July 7.

Mrs. Everal Smith and two .children of Burke, South Dakota, who had been here visiting her sister, Mrs. Charles Grant, and other relatives, departed for their home Wednesday. Miss Disa Longwell of Monon, quite well known to many readers of The Democrat in Jasper county, where she formerly taught school, was married last week to Daniel E. Fairchild, qlso of Monon. Mrs. H. L. Brown and daughter, Mary Jane, went to Lafayette Wednesday to attend the meeting of the Woman’s Foreign Missionary society of the Northwest Indiana conference. They remained for a few days’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. Walter English. Mr. and Mrs. O. K. Rainier drove to Indianapolis Wednesday afternoon in their Cadillac car to attend commencement exercises Wednesday night, their granddaughter, Miss Ruth Rainier, being one of the graduates. They expected to visit a few days there with their son, Rev. Rainier, and .family before* returning. 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.

F. M. Goff and Ancil Potts were Lafayette visitors Thursday. Tom Huston went to Roselawm Wednesday for a visit with friends. The PAIGE car is sold by the Auto Sales Co. at Remington. Why not buy one now? ts Mrs. Allen Osman and daughter of Benton Harbor, Michigan, came Wednesday to visit her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Al Timmons. We will have a carload of middlings on the track. Special pride in ton lots if taken from the car.— KELLNER & CALLAHAN. ts Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Mitchell returned home Thursday from a visit with friends and relatives at Chicago and Monmouth, Illinois. About fifteen members of the Epworth League of this city drove to Medaryville Wednesday evening to attend a group convention. Benjamin and Louis Freese of Chicago, who had been visiting at the home of Charles Weiss in Newton township, returned home Wednesday. C. B. Johnston and daughter, Miss Margaret, of Remington took the train here Thursday for Cincinnati to attend the funeral of the former’s niece. $ : - 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.

Charles Osborn has purchased tjie William Dixey property on s6uth Weston street and is remodeling same. He will move thereto as soon as completed. Among the Chicago visitors Wednesday were E. J. Randle and son Walter, Louis Davisson, Cecil Faye, Korah Potts and Miss Pauline Zillhart of Barkley township. The, Foresters baseball team of this cify, which played the college team last Sunday, losing the game by only one score, will go to Earl Park Sunday for a game with the town team of that place.

Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Parkison, companied by Mrs. E. W. Strecker, Mrs. Henry Amsler, Mrs. James Norris, Mrs. W. L. Frye and Mrs. John Medicus, drove to Lafayette Wednesday to attend a Woman’s Foreign Missionary society meeting. I. J. Coe, who has been principal of the Rensselaer high school for the past five years, left Wednesday for Chicago where he will assume the management of the efficiency department in Montgomery Ward & Co’s, mail order house. The position is a most desirable one and the many friends of Mr. Coe in and about Rensselaer wish him every measure of success. He is a very efficient and congenial* instructor and it is with genuine regret that the citizens of Rensselaer learn of his decision to locate elsewhere.

Get a hot air furnace of the Watson Plumbing Co. ts Among the Chicago visitors Tuesday were Drs. Washburn and Kresler. Mrs. JohX Davisson and Mrs. Clark of Wolcott spent Thursday here with Miss Rose Remmek. Mrs. Frank Hamilton and children of Lafayette came Thursday for a visit with .her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L- Bott. Harvey Wood, Sr., went to Dayton, Ohio, Thursday to attend the annual reunion of his regiment, the 93rd Ohio volunteer infantry. Miss Margaret Norris is home from Depauw university to spend the summer vacation with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Norris. There’s nothing too good for the Irish—or other people who’ve got the price. W. R. Brown has bought a fine new “Buick Six’’ of Andy Ropp, the local agent. We carry a complete line of bike tires and repairs and repair all kinds of bikes. Tires are sold at the old prices. We also sharpen lawn mowers.—MAIN GARAGE. Yesterday’s markets: Corn, $1.50; oats, 56c. No quotations on wheat or rye. The prices one year ago were: Corn, 64c; oats, 34c. wheat, 75c to 80c; rye, 75c. Orphie Gant, who is employed by the E. J. & E. railroad at Gary, was here Thursday visiting friends. He had not been well for a few days and was taking a little vacation.

Delos Thompson went to Chicago Thursday to see his son Alfred, who is preparing to sail for France in the near future. It is probable that he will accompany the contingent leaving this country about Juno 15. Phone 78-D, or call on DEL GILSON, located 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. Leo Worland received word yesterday that he had successfully passed the recent examination before the State Board of Embalmers with a general average of eightysix per cent and was, therefore, entitled to an embalmer's license. E. J. Randle sold two carloads of fat steers on the Chicago market Wednesday. There were thirty head in the lot and their average weight was 1,635 pounds. They sold at $13.55 per 100 pounds, or $221.50 per head, bringing Mr. Randle $6,645.

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 yon will have the world’s best. On Front street, Rensselaer.—C. A. ROBERTS. ts It is reported that the stock for the proposed new Farmers’ State bank is practically all subscribed for and that the incorporation papers will soon be filed. It is the intention to organize the bank with a capital of $35,000, it is said. It is rumored that the new bank will probably be located In the former Harris building, now owned and occupied by G. J. Jessen, and which was built- originally for a bank and has a good vault. If this room is used Mr. Jessen will seek another location for his jewelry store, it is understood. A salesman for- a large battery concern • spent a day with us recently 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 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 tar 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 OARAGE.

Miss Mabie Stocksick came over from Logansport yesterday for a few days- Visit with her mother. Mrs. Fred Stocksick, and her sister, Miss Anna. . Mrs. Alex Miller and daughter, Mrs. John Perry, and children of Columbia City came yesterday for a visit (with ;he former’s brother and sister, F. M. Haskell and Mrs. Winona Dunlap. ■ •

G D Gregory, a former resident of Rensselaer and Wheatfield, was in the' city yesterday enroute home from a visit to Wheatfield :o look after the dwelling and real estate he owns there. Mr. Gregory is now located at Waveland. He has disposed of his moving picture show there and is 'now engaged in the restaurant and farming lines, having put out fifty acres of corn this season, he says. All of the ministers of Rensselaer and Jasper county, >as well as all over the country, will take a few moments at the morning service tomorrow to explain the Red Cross, preparatory to a campaign for new members. It is hoped to Secure 1,000 members in Jasper ebunty. The peace activities as well as the work in time of war will be' explained. The campaign will continue for three days, Monday and Wednesday of next weekThe fire company was called out yesterday morning about 10:30 o’clock to the home of L. H. Higginson, who resides in the Jesse Gwin property on Scott street. The fire was supposed to have caught from the- chimney, but was discovered before it had made much headway, A call was immediately sent in by Mr. Higginson, but he climbed upon the roof and succeeded in putting it out before the fire company arrived. Not much damage was done outside of a small hole in the roof. . • Williamsport, the county seat of Warren county, was made “dry” Tuesday by a vote of 515 to 187. This was’ the first election held in the state in which the women voted-—or that their votes ,-were legal—and the “dry” vote was 205 men to 310 women. Only fifteen of the 187 “wet” votes were cast by women. Warren is the strongest Republican county in this, the Tenth, congressional district, taking its population into consideration, and Williamsport was the only wet town in the county.

Bear in mind that The Democrat has in its fancy stationery and job printing department quite a little box and correspondence stationery, envelopes, etc., that were bought the great advance in papers of all kinds, and that this stock is being sold at old prices with a small and legitimate profit added to the original cost. In other words, The Democrat is not boosting prices on goods on hand when prices advanced, but is adding only a legitimate per cent of profit to the actual cost of this stock when, purchased. And, understand, it is not inferior stock but is better, it anything, than the same brands as now manufactured at double the cost. Come in and let us convince you.