Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1917 — LOCAL NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOCAL NEWS

Subscribe tor The Democrat. Every grain buttered on. the Buttm -Ki. t machine at the News fetand. J. .J. Hunt and J. N. Leatherman went over to Gamp Taylor, while away this week attending the State Bankers’ association meeting at Evansville, and called on the Jasper county boys. They took dinner with the boys and report them all well and that the government is taking tine care of them. James Hemphill, formerly of Broken Arrow, Oklahoma, brother of Mrs. E. F. -ilonan of 'this city, who had been at Indianapolis for about three weeks taking treatment for Cancer, was brought to this city Wednesday evening and is now at the county hospital. Mrs. Hehipliill and son, James, Jr., ea who had. been here for several days, left yesterday, the former to join a daughter- in' Chicago and the latter to return to Fort Sam Houston, Toxas, he being a member of the Hl'inois national guard. Hon. A. F. Knotts, former mayor of - -Hammond and who has been engaged for several months in compiling a history of the Kankakee region, was in Rensselaer yesterday .gathering further data for his work. Mr. Knotts hoped to arrange for a historical meeting-in this city for tonight at which local people would be appointed to compile historical events of the county, with a view to binding the original manuscripts and placing same on file in the public library. Mr. Knotts felt that such a work would be of inestimable value in future years, and stated that -such would also probably be of use to him as a reference in his work. Untouched by human hands(clean) Butter-Kirst corn at the News Stand.