Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 June 1917 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Dr. Johnson went to Detroit Monday to drive homo his Chalmers roadster which ho has had., at the factory being overhauled and repainted, but when he got there they talked him., into trading it for a brand-new roadster, and he drove same homo. Gerald, the 10-year-old son ot Mr. and Mrs. John Clark of Lee, passed away at 1 Sunday afternoon. The boy bad been a sufferer with heart trouble most of his life and was never very strong. Funeral services were held at the Lee church at 3 o’clock Monday afternoon, and burial was made in the Osborne cemetery in Hanging Grove township.

A card sent home by A. F. Long Monday morning and arriving here yesterday morning, said that they stayed Sunday night in Napoleon, Ohio. Tho roads were quite rough In (places but they had got along very nicely, although not making tho distance they had expected the first day. They had expected to drive through to Niagara Falls, some 500 miles, in two days. W. H. Ritchey, accompanied by his niece, Miss Carrie Welsh, left yesterday .afternoon for Billings, Montana, where they -k will visit the former’s daughter, Mrs. Edna Joranger, going from there to Burlington, Wyoming, to (Visit John Michaels and family and other friends there, thence Some by way of Little River, Kansas. Mr. Ritchey expects to be gone about a month, but Miss Welsh will probably spend most of the summer visiting relativs at different points.

NEWS OF COUNTY HOSPITAL Mrs. Alfred Randle, who underwent an operation for appendicitis at the hospital about two weeks ago, was able to return home Saturday. Miss Jennie Comer is enjoying a two weeks’ vacation from her duties at the hospital, and on Saturday went to Chicago for a few days’ visit wtith friends. NOTES FROM MONNETT SCHOOL The students of Monn'ett school gave, a cantata in the M. E. church last evening at 7:30. An admission fee of 10c and 5c was charged. The graduation exercises will be held in the church this evening at 7:30 o’clock. Dr. E. C. Wareing will give the address. The public is invited to attend. No admission fee will be charged. Miss Lena Wilcox, a former teacher in the school but now engaged in mission work among the Indians in Colony, Oklahoma, is the guest of the school this week. Dr. Strecker gave a very interesting illustrated description of his travels in Palestine at the school Monday evening. An armload of old papers for five cents at The Democrat office.