Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1917 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

Buy your gasoline engines of the Watson Plumbing Co. ts John Mann went to, Sheridan Tuesday to visit relatives for a few days. —' / Mose Sigo of near Remington was a business visitor in the ci:y Tuesday afternoon. G. J. Jessen was in Fort -Wayne a few days this week attending a convention of Indiana jewelers. Russel Warren and Leonard Shedlebowner went to Indianapolis Tuesday to take, the naval examination. '■ Mrs. Clara Andrus and Miss Tillie Malchow spent Tuesday in Reynolds with Mrs. Ethel Cooper., formerly Miss Ethel Sharp. “Comrade” Fox was up from Lafayette Tuesday greeting his friends about the city. “Comrade” is still employed in the Monon shops. Anrong x the Chicago visitors Wednesday were Mr. and . Mrs.. Sam Roth, Walter Randle, John Eger, Roy Bristow and Edward Ames.

Thomas J Blake of Remington and * Cora Tyler of Gilboa township, j Benton county, were granted a ‘ marriage license in that county a; few days ago. Nellie Teague came home to. spend the summer vacation. She had been attending the Monnett School for Girls at Rensselaer. — Monticello Herald. Mrs. Leonard Elder of Mason City, lowa, who had been visiting her husband’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Elder, other relatives, has returned home. . Cream is high, save the lossbuy a DeLaval separator, the world’s standard, with speed indicator, on easy payments at KELLNER & CALLAHAN’S. The Misses Fairy and Opal Pollard of south of town went to Lafayette Wednesday to visit relatives, and will also visit at Indianapolis before returning.

W. J. Wright returned Wednesday afternoon from attending a meeting of the Indiana Furniture Dealers’ association at Lafayette. He reports a very interesting meeting. If your auto is not working properly, call on C. A. Roberts and feed it some “Gas Peps.” They are a wonderful tonic for healthy machines and work like a dose of physic on a “sick’’ one. ts 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. R. Erwin was down from Fair Oaks on business Thursday. Home-grown strawberries for sale at RHOADS’ GROCERY. j3O

Miss Cecelia Kennel of Lafayette is visiting the family of Conrad Kellner and other relatives here for several days. ■ ’ . ' t J. M. Shafer, owner of the K. of P. building here, came over front Plymouth Thursday to look after his interests. ./Last call for late seed potatoes. Have just received a small shipment of late Hurals for late planting.—JOHN EGER.

MisSi/Fdfn Davisson, daughter of Mr. Mrs. Josiah Davisson; went to Desplaines,lllinois,. Thursday to spend a few days.. with friends; E. J. Randle shipped two cars of cattle to the Chicago market Tuesday night. The animals averaged 1,340 pounds each and sold for $13.25 per cwt. John Q. Alter, who has been quite feeble for several months, is now confined to his bed and is perfectly helpless. It is doubtful if he -ever. gets up again. 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. O. K, Rainier went to Oshkosh. Wisconsin, Wednesday to make the acquaintance of a grandson, born Tuesday to her daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Barnes.

Rossville (Illinois) Press: Mrs. Charles Parker of Remington, Indiana, who was the guest of her sister, Mrs. Theo. Babel, left Sunday for her home. Mr. Parker and two sons spent oyer Sunday here. Eyes examined and glasses ground by optometrist of years of practical experience in one of the best equipped exclusive optical parlors in the state. —DR. A. G. CATT, Rensselaer, Ind. Over Long’s drug store. ts A stAwberry festival and ice cream social will be held at Virgie Saturday evening, June 30. Proceeds for the benefit of the Virgie church. Everybody welcome, come and enjoy the evening.—COMMITTEE. ■ I Among the Chicago visitors Tuesday were William Traub, W. C. Babcock, J. H. S. Ellis, E. L. Hollingsworth. Drs, Gwin and Washburn qf this city and Rainier of Remington, Herbert Hammond, Paul Healy and Mrs. Leslie Clark.

Parker Childers, who had been in Kansas and Colorado for the past year, for the past few months employed on a farm near Colorado Springs, returned Tuesday to Conrad, Newton county, where his par-ents•-■now-reside- and on Wednesday came to Rensselaer and enlisted in Company M. On Thursday he went to Lafayette to visit a sister residing there, and today expects to re? urn to Conrad and will enter the employ of Mrs. Jennie M. Conrad, where he expects to remain until Company M is called out. Q The rain Tuesday afternoon was most severe in south Marion and Jordan townships, right in a section of country that had been getting more rain right along than any other part of the county. The rain fell in torrents for an hour and a half or more and acres of corn were covered a foot deep with water. It was by far the heaviest rain they have had in that section for a long time, and only the Friday they had gotten the biggest rain of the season. The rain possibly did not extend very many. iniles southward but seemed to .be heaviest over a strip a few miles' wide, both east and west. The rain extended as far east at least as Logansport where it was, quite heavy.

Don’t forget tije Lincoln Chautauqua dates—July 6 to, 12. Mrs/ Jphn Kolhoff of Jordan township went to Lafayette Thursday to visit relatives. Yesterday’s Rensselaer markets: Corn, $1.60; oats, 5Sc. The prices one year ago were: Corn, 68c; oats, 34 c. ■ Robert Sheets of Chicago came Wednesday to visit his mother, Mrs. James Ennis, going on to Lafayette Thursday to visit friends there. The world’s standard DeLaval separators, speed indicator, fewer parts, larger capacity, sold on easy payments.—KELLNEß & CALLAHAN. J 5 Mr. and Mrs. Simon Fendig of Wheatfield, accompanied by Mr. Luce, owner of the Luce ranch near Wheatfield, drove down in their auto yesterday. J. W. Fat Tor of Union township recently run a splinter into one of his hands, which caused infection and . for several days has been giving him considerable pain.

Harry Moore, who was recommended some time a'go for admission to the naval academy at Annapolis, Maryland, was at Lafayette ■Wednesday taking a preliminary examination. Mrs. H. E. Hartley had as her guests Thursday her mother, Mrs. C. A. Wood, and sisteT. Mrs.' R. C. McCain, and two daughters of Kentland and Merrill Wood, a nephew, of Pasadena, California. The business [houses of Rensselaer will practically all be closed next Wednesday, affording both employer and employe an opportunity to celebrate the Fourth. Several neighboring towns wilt celebrate.

Dr. Isaac Lewis, head of the botany- department of the University of Texas, is the guest of his brother, John R. Lewis, of Barkley township. Dr. Lewis will go to New York next week to spend the summer at Columbia university, doing special work. E. M. Graham, who has for some time been a member of the officers’ training camp at Fort Benjamin Harrison and who was recently transferred to the national engineers’ training camp at Fort Leavenworth, has just received a commission as first lieutenant. “Jack” Sheffer of Des Moines, lowa, son of B. F. Sheffer of Parr, was brought to the latter’s home Wednesday in quite a critical condition from Bright’s disease, we are told. He was accompanied here by his wife and brother-in-law, and his father met them in Chicago. I During the storm Tuesday afternoon lightning struck a tree at the corner of Front and Angelica streets, tearing off considerable bark. The bolt was an unusually severe one and affected many people in that vicinity. ", This was probably the same bolt that burned out the fuses in The Democrat’s press room and gave the workmen there quite a shock. New iron traffic signs have been erected at the inter-sections of Washington and Front, Wjishington and Van Rensselaer and 'Washington and Cullen, Washington and Weston and Van Rensselaer and Harrison streets, replacing the old flower-box signs which have done done duty in the past. Both sides of Washington street were also marked yesterday for the parking of automobiles according to the new order, which requires autoists. to drive in with the front of the machine against the sidewalk, being at a slight angle. ■

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 tnat 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, a'nd 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. — I RENSSELAER GARAGE.

Mrs. E. A. Lewis and Mrs. E,. iB. Smith went to Servia, Indiana, Thursday to attend* the funeral of the former's niece, Mrs. Frank Littlefield. Mrs. Joseph Hallagan spent Thursday in Logansport and was accompanied home by her' niece. Marie Healy, who had been visiting there at the home of Frank Medla.nd. Thomas Florence of .Virgie returned home Wednesday from South Charleston, Ohio, where he visited his brother Edward, ' Mr, Florence reported that crops along the route were looking very good. Miss Rose Keeney, daughter of Mr. and. Mrs. A. J. Keeney, left Thursday for Great Falls, Montana, to spend the summer with her sister, Miss Jane Keeney, county superintendent of schools, and brother, George Keeney. ' .•'?' ■ ■■ '' 7' r ■ ■ ' : ', .

Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Tryon left Wednesday for West Baden- to spend a couple of weeks belore going to New York, where they , will make, their future home. -Mr. and Mrs. Tryon leave many warm friends here who wish them well.

Sergeant, Ernest C. Moore of Company M has been transferred to Frankfort where he becomes a member of field hospital No. 2. Notification of the transfer was received here Thursday, but Ernest will not report there until further call. Mr. and Mrs. Simon Thompson, Miss Maurine Tuteur, H. B. Tuteur and C. A. Tuteur of this city and their guests, the Misses Helen Johnson and Madeline Laidley, oi Madison, Indiana, enjoyed a pleasant auto trip to Lafayette Wednesday afternoon, returning that night, A family reunion and picnic dinner was enjoyed in Jackson park, Chicago, last Sunday by Mrs. John M. Wasson of Rensselaer, Irer four daughters and husbands and their children. Those present besides Wasson were: Mr. and Mrs.’ Judson J. Hunt and children, of this city, Mr. and Mrs. Jesse E. Wilson and children of Hammond, Mr. and Mrs. Albert Coen and children of Chicago, and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur S. Nowels and children of Columbia City. A strange, coincidence appeared in the presence of Mrs. Wasson's four daughters, four sons-in-law, four granddaughters and four grandsons. The occasion was a most enjoyable one for all and especially- for Mrs. Wasson.

Charles Baker returned Wednesday afternoon from a visit to his half-brother Frank, who was probably fatally injured a little over two weeks ago in the Pennsylvania railroad yards at Logansport, where he has been, employed for a number of years as chief car inspector, as mentioned in Wednesday’s Democrat. He found Frank in a very critical condition indeed and it is not probable that he can survive very long. Besides the three fractures of the vertebrae,, his chest was crushed and he suffered other severe injuries. The lower part of his body is paralyzed and he can only utter a few words at a time. He is being cared for in the St. Joseph hospital pin Logansport. Russel Morton of Goodland, who has the state agency and rights for the Jubilee Spark Intensifier, was in Rensselaer Saturday. He is doing a land-office business. The Jubilees are Tightly named —auto owners who have them on their motors have easy sailing. It solves the problem of the poor grade of gasoline, we are forced to use at this time. They burn all the gas —including the petroleum and water that accidentally slips in, and therefore keep your valves clean and free. If you are interested, write or see R. E. Morton, who will be pleased to equip your car, whether it is a Ford or a Packard. They are put out on a positive guarantee and money refunded if not as represented.

"Through the Valley of the Shadow”; “Life’s Golden Threads'’; “Beautiful Isle of Memory,” this latter being her favorite song, and numerous others. Mr. Harriott has been gone from Jasper county since” 1908. He was in Dakota for three years and has since been in Montana, where he operates a stock ranch and is engaged in the raising of cattle and horses.