Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1917 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

Chauncey Wood made a business trip to Delphi Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth were Chicago visitors Wednesday. Mrs. ’ T. M. Callahan went to Rantoul, Illinois, Tuesday to visit her parents.

Miss Amy Bringle of Fair Oaks is spending a few days with friends and relatives here. John Braddock went to Detroit Wednesday to drive through a new Dodge car for M. I. Adams & Son. Among the Chicago visitors Tuesday were Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Arnott, A. F. Long and W. C. Babcock. Mr. and Mrs. Walter Johnson and John M. Ott and daughter of Remington were Rensselaer visitors Wednesday. Mrs. William Arnott and sons Donald and Walter went to Crown Point Tuesday to visit friends and take in the *Lake County fair.

Mrs. D. Flynn and daughter Gertrude of Kankakee, Illinois, who had been here visit a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kanne, returned to their home Monday. Oakland, Illinois, Ledger: Miss Elizabeth Morgan has returned to her home in Rensselaer, Indiana. Miss Mary Lyons accompanied her home a three weeks visit. Sanol Eczema Prescription is a famous old remedy for all forms of Eczema and skin diseases. Sanol is a guaranteed remedy. Get a 35c large trial bottle at the drug store. ts In another part of The Democrat today we print a letfer from Ralph Sparks, a former teacher in the Jasper county schools, but now with the United States marines at Quantico, Virginia.

Boyd Botts, a member of Company M, was taken to the county hospital Thursday, suffering an attack of appendicitis. He has shown some improvement and it is thought that an operation can be avoided. Alvin Snyder, who works for George Sigo, south of town, suffered numerous cuts and bruises and sprains in both wrists Thursday when he fell from a wagon of sheaf oats, the load falling on top of him. Joe Nessius’ oats on the Mrs. "Elizabeth Alter farm on the Pleasant Ridge road, the large field on the south side of the road, turned out a little better than seventy-five bushels per acre. This was one of the best fields of oats in the county. Mrs. Harry Hayes and Mrs. Denna Hays went to Indianapolis Thursday to spend a few days with the former’s husband, who was among those from Company M transferred to the artillery, and who is now at Fort Benjamin Harrison.

W. A. Lutz made a business trip to Lafayette Wednesday. Dr. A. P. Rainier of Remington was in Rensselaer on business Wednesday. Herbert L. Bozell of Fair Oaks was a business visitor in this city Wednesday. Mrs. E. Smith of Chicago came the first of the week for an extended visit with her daughter, Mrs. Vernon Nowels. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Grow returned home the first of the week froim several days’ visit with relatives in Wabash county. Lay in your supply oi nard coal now, $8.75 per ton at the bin. You will be making a good investment —FARMERS’ GRAIN CO. George Tannehill of x Blackwell, Oklahoma, has been hero the past few days visiting his sister, Mrs. John T. Culp, and husband. Don Beam and- Harry Curlin, both members of the Rensselaer band, have joined the Marine Reserve band at Grant Park, Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Henry J. Wolfrum and Mrs. John WOlfrum of Joliet, Illinois, came the middle of the week to visit Mr. and Mrs. Edward Herath. J. M. Shaffer came over from Plymouth Thursday to look after his property interests in Rensselaer. Mr. Shaffer is owner of the K. of P. building here.

Mrs. Angelia Luers is home from Milwaukee, 'Wisconsin, where she was for a week attending a convention of the ladies’ auxiliary of the Catholic Order of Foresters.

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 Mrs. Edna Rupe of Warsaw, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. W. King of this city, has been quite sick for several days with typhoid fever, ibut word received here recently was to the effect that she was improving nicely.

Sometimes we are inclined to think the high cost of living is a local epidemic, and this belief was further augmented yesterday when we read a grocery advertisement in a neighboring exchange, wherein golden rio coffee was offered at 15 cents per pound. The annual Primitive Baptist association meeting of the district of Indiana is being held at Mt. Ayr this year. The meeting opened yesterday morning and will close tomorrow night. A large number of people from oyer the state and several from Rensselaer are in attendance. Ed Booth, who has been employed by F. R. -Erwin of Fair Oaks on the latter’s dredge boat, left Tuesday evening for Aberdeen, South Dakota, where he will run an engine during the threshing season. _ He will return later and again work for Mr. Erwin on the- Hollingsworth ditch in Benton county, the construction of which will be commenced this fall. Rain has interefered considerably this week in the thrashing in the vicinity of Gifford, but it has been 'fine on as the latter was suffering in places for lack of moisture. We got a little rain again Wednesday evening in Rensselaer but there was not enough of it to wet down very deep. In north of town it fell in greater quantity, Apparently Wednesday afternoon’s rain was quite general except in northwest of Rensselaer, where little or no rain at all fell.

Today is White county’s ol<i settlers’ day at Monticello. Gail and Wasson Wilson came down from Hammond Tuesday to visit at the J. J. Hunt home. >r. and Mrs. W. H. Barkley came down from Chicago Tuesday to spend a few days with relatives. Home-grown tomatoes have been placed on the market, but at almost , prohibitive prices— : B cents per poupd. Gerald Gifford and Laura George of Barkley township went to Aurora, Illinois, Tuesday to visit Gerald’s brother. Mrs. Clara Tuterdaugh and son Loy of Piqua, Ohio, are here for a visit with her brother, Dr. E. N. Loy and family. Harry Hermansen, who resides on one of the Thompson ranches near Farr, ..is confined to his home with typhoid fever. Ross Ramey fractiired his left erm Wednesday, between the wrist ind elbow, in a fqll from the Standard Oil company wagon. The Arcade saloon at Lafayette, recently purchased by Earl Adams of Rensselaer, has been closed up and Mr. Adams has returned here. Dr. W. L. Myer left Thursday evening to join his wife at Dayton, Ohio, and from there they will go to Connersville, Indiana, for a visit with Yesterday’s Rensselaer markets: Corn, $1.50; oats 49c; rye, $1.50. (No quotations on wheat.) The prices one year ago were: Corn 80c; oats, 42c; wheat, $1.35; rye, sl. Mr. and Mrs. Edwin Long and son of near Mt. Ayr and Mr. Long’s daughter, Mrs. Ellery Hern, and little son of Texas, spent Thursday here the guests of Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Long. Charles Bohnstadt of Indianapolis came yesterday to join his wife and daughter who have been visiting Mrs. Frank Hill and Miss Ruth Ames. All will return home together Sunday evening. We have plenty or hard coal and advise you to lay in your supply now. We are selling it for $8.75 per ton at the bin, and the price is almost certain to go higher.— FARMERS’ GRAIN CO.

Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Irwin and daughter and Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Eldridge were among the Lafayette visitors Tuesday. The latter visited with Mrs. Eldridge’s brother, Ed. Webb, who recently underwent an operation and has been quite sick. A. K. Yeomah sold a load of grass fed cattle on the Chicago market Monday that brought him almost $2,500, 11 cents per pound. They had not b&en fed an ear of corn and Mr. Yeoman was very well pleased to get the price he did. II ' ■ • Rossville, Illinois, Press: Miss Maude, the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Dobelbower, has gone to Rossville, where she will visit Burt Redmon and family. Later in the week she will go to Rensselaer to be the guest of Miss Daisy Smith. She will return Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Esper McCleary and family and Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Armstrong of Arcadia, Nebraska, came Tuesday for a ten days’ visit with the former’s mother, Mrs. Sarah McCleary of Barkley township, and other relatives and friends. They report crops good all along the' way and a very large acreage of corn, but the corn is from two to three weeks behind what it usually is at this season of the year. ■ Mrs. Eli Critser was the guest of honor at an elegantly appointed surprise supper Tuesday evening at the home of her daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Lohr. Th© occasion was in honor of Mrs. Critser’s sixtieth birthday anniversary. About twenty-five friends and relatives and the affair was complete in every detail and a nnost enjoyable one for all present. Mrs. Critser received several handsome and substantial gifts.

Mrs. F. E. Reeve and daughter Hazel and Miss Crawford spent Thursday in Lafayette. v W. A. Harrington. Mike Foley and Robert Stack of Goodland were visitors in > the city yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Mose Wolfe of Bloomington spent Wednesday here the guests of Mr. and Mrs. J. D. Allman. Th omas Gordon of Spring field, Illinois, is here visiting his auni and uncle, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Reed, northwest of town. Mr. and Mrsi J. E. Winters and daughter of Wolcott visited a few days this week with Mrs. Winter's sister, Mrs. Nettie Hoover. Mrs. Robert Abraham and daughter Rebecca of Rockford, Illinois, visited former's brother, Harry Watson, and other relatives here a few days this week. Chamberlain £ Marlatt have finished thrashing on their lands in north Barkley and Walker townships. and had a little better than 7,000 bushels of grain of all kinds, rye, wheat and oats. »

Friends here have been advised of the recent marriage of Miss Nellie Stanton, a former trimmer for Mrs. W. H. Beam, to W. W. Wheatley of St. Harrisburg, Illinois, where they will reside. Notwithstanding the fact that perhaps more early potatoes were raised in Jasper county this year than ever before in its history, the price keeps up to war figures—retailing at 30 <o 35 cents per peck.

W. I. Hoover returned Tuesday afternoon from a business trip to Indianapolis. He expected to get a new Ford to drive home, but was disappointed and had to go down Thursday, when he was more fortunate. Charles Blue has secured a position as teacher in the public school at Highland, a small town in the horthern part of Lake county, and hopes to move there by September I if Mrs. Blue, who has been sick for several days, is sufficiently improved. So me ’ fine potatoes from the Scott Bros, farm in Milroy township have been coming to the local market recently, and two of them —not the smallest, understand — that tip the scales at' 2*4 pounds for the two, are on exhibition in The Democrat's front window, alongside two raised by Lesley Miller of The Democrat in his garden that weigh the same. Mrs. Elmer Gwin was called to Taylorville, Hlinois, yesterday by a despatch stating that her brother-in-law, Edward Greenwalt, was dead. No particulars were given and Mrs. Gwin did not know whether he had been sick for any length of time or not. He was the husband of Mrs. Gwin’s only sister, who was formerly Miss Florence Wood of this city. He leaves a wife and one child, a 12-year-old boy.

One of the heaviest general rains we have had for some time in Rensselaer and northwest thereof came about 1 p. m. Thursday, ft did not extend but four or five miles south of town, however. At least it barely laid the dust from there on to Remington and Wolcott, we are told. It is said to be quite dry on south from Wolcott to Lafayette and Indianapolis, and the corn is “fired"' somewhat all through that section. Following the rain it turned considerably cooler. —■/ A gentleman from the Jeffrey automobile factory was in Rensselaer" Wednesday looking over the remains of the Jeffrey car wrecked near the H. R. Kurrie farm just north of Rensselaer on Tuesday night of last week. From here he went to Indianapolis to make settlement with the owner of the car after which the wrecked ca< will be shipped into the factory and the undamaged parts used. The owner of the damaged car will be given a brand-new machine. ThiX gentlestated that Mr. Preifee, the mechanic who was driving the car when it ran into the ditching machine, had almost fully recovered from his injuries and would be able to go out on Ute Dad again next week.

T. J. Marlatt of Virgie was a business visitor in the, city yesterday. - t Miss Rose Remmek went to Gary Wednesday for a couple of days' visit with relatives. \ * Dr. H. J. Kannal made a business. trip to Laporte Thursday, returrfing houne yesterday. - Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Benbow, formerly of Parr, were down from Winamac Wednesday to attend the funeral of Little David Alter. Lieutenant Russel Thompson of Sullivan, Indiana, <left for his home Wednesday after a few days’ visit here with Miss Gertrude Hopkins. Lieutenant Thompson has orders to report at Fort Wright, Long Island. August 29. J

Little Martha Grant, who has been a sufferer from typhoid fever for the past several weeks, is now practically out of danger. The trained nurse, who had been caring for her, returned to Chicago yesterday morning.’ Thomas Padgitt, Lew Robinson. Robert Eldridge and Robert Blue left Wednesday in the former’s auto for a trip through the southern part of this state and parts of Kentucky, possibly the Mammoth Cave and other points of interest. Mr. and .Mrs. J. B. Reed of Gillam township were business visitors in the city Tuesday afternoon. Mr. Reed said that they got quite a heavy rain in his vicinity Monday but that it was accompanied by considerable wind and blew the corn down very badly. Mrs. Mary Roohlfing, accompanied by her daughter, Mrs. Bertha Col vert, and her son Frederick and daughter Louise and Miss Leatha Coen of Attica and Miss Marie Coen of Newtown, drove up Thursday evening in their Hudson Six automobile for a visit until today with the former’s cousin, Mrs. John R. Vanatta, and family and other relatives. ,

Mrs. Denna Hayes "of Rensselaer has sold her 160-acre farm in Jordan township, occupied by Mr. Grimes, to G. I. Thomas of Remington. The consideration was $20,000. She takes in on the deal Mr. Thomas’ residence property in Remington and a brick bungalow in Monterey. Pulaski county. The deal was made through G. F. Meyers’ real estate agency. Dr. H. J, Kannal of this city has been offered the professorship of Materia Medina in the Indiana Veterinary college at Indianapolis, but has not yet decided whether he will accept or not. The new position would require his removal to Indianapolis. The next term opens the last of next month, and he has until then to accept or ’ reject the place. As assistant state veterinarian and as president of the state board of veterinary medical examiners, Dr. Kannal’s ability has been brought to the attention of the college. ' Automobile drivers, when visiting towns which have street railways, should bear in mind that it is against the law to drive any motor vehicle or bicycle closer than twenty feet to any street or interurban car when such car has been stopped to take on or discharge passengers. When there is not room to pass such car at a distance of twenty feet at one side thereof, one must stop not closer than six feet of such street or interurban car until the latter has again started. Violation of this law is punishable by a fine of not exceeding SIOO. Many country drivers and those from country towns, who are naturally unfamiliar with this law, are being arrested and fined in cities where strqet cars are operated.

Mrs. Sarah Pruett, aged about 86 years, foster mother of Mrs. J. A. McFarland, suffered a stroke of paralysis Wednesday morning and is in quite a serious condition, her entire left side being paralyzed. Many people from Rensselaer and vicinity drove over to Remington Thursday to hear W. J. Bryan, who spoke at Fountain park. However, not nearly as many went over , as would have done so had not a rain came up about the time to start from here. There was a big crowd in attendance, they report. Mrs. John Eger, who has charge of the making of Hie allotment of army shirts for district, says that work is being turned in every day and it is all beautifully done. Mrs. Eger wishes tp thank the ladies for their work, and especially those who volunteered tfietr services and took the goods home with them, thus unaking the work much lighter \for her. „ J. A. Larsh thrashed out his small grain Tuesday. On his Jordan township farm, occupied by Ocie Ritchey, he got 800 bushels of wheat from fifty aers and 2,700 bushels of oats from sixty acres. On his farm east of > town, on the Pleasant Ridge road, occupied by Elmer- got 1,800 bushels of oats &om sixty acres. Some of the oats out in that vicinity were not very good. - Quite a number of people from Rensselaer and vicinity attended the Crown Point fair Wednesday and Thursday. Among the number Were Fred Phillips, W. J. Wright, Emimet Laßue, Venus Crisler, Judge Hanley and son Cope, Dr. C. E. Johnson. C. A. Tuteur, Granville Moody, Jr., Simon Thompson and wife and the latter’s mother, Mrs. Frank Hill, and her guest, Mrs. Charles Bohnstadt. and daughter Mary, Miss Luella Robinson, Clyde R.andle and wife and John Moosemiller and wife, .ft