Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1917 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

Ralph Sprague made a business trip to Chicago Monday. Postmaster C. U. Garriott of Parr •was a visitor in the city Saturday. Mrs. Bruce White has been confined to her bed since Saturday with sickness. Mrs. Isaac* Saidla has been confined to the house by illness the past several days. Mrs. J. W. Douglas and children of Oxford, who had been here visiting her brother, John Sanders, returned home Friday. Miss Louise Hildebrand returned Sunday from a few days’ visit with her uncle, Peter iHordeman, Jr., and family of near Parr. “Minnetonna Brand” butter is a permanent thing. Price and quality guaranted lowest and best. This week 45c.—J. C. HARRIS & SON. The Hammond high school football team defeated the locals Saturday by a score of 13 to 0. It was a listless game from start to finish. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Watson drove to Chicago Heights, Illinois, Saturday afternoon for a short visit with relatives, returning. Sunday afternoon. Something doing all the time at our MAJESTIC RANGE DEMONSTRATION week of November 12 at our store. Better not miss it. —WARNER BROS. Mrs. G. A. Hopkins of Mt. Ayr and sister, Miss Mary Clark, of Brook took the train here Saturday for Lafayette to visit their sister, Mrs. Charles Miller.

Albert Walter, son of Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Walter of Barkley township, and Miss Marie Logan of Gillami township are to be .married today at the home of Rev. Father Daniel. Mrs. N. G. Halsey and daughter have come from Kankakee, Illinois, and will remain here this winter with Mr. Halsey. For the present they will make their home at the Makeever hotel. W. H. Hogan has moved from the Tom Grant tenant house on McKinley avenue to -the Nelson Randle property, just across the street, and Mr. and Mrs. Grant Wynegar will move into the property vacated by Mr. Hogan. Mrs. Fred Shhultz, formerly Miss Ethel Holmes of this city, and little daughter Evlyn came last week from Bismarck, North Dakota, for an extended visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Holmes, just north of town, and other relatives. Her husband will join her here about Christmas.

Dr. Emil Besser of Remington was a Rensselaer visitor Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Karnowsky visited over Sunday with relatives in Chicago. Among the Lafayette visitors Saturday were Miss Nellie Grant and Paul Donnelly. Mrs. Lee Myers and two daughters spent the week-end with her mother at Demotte. E. J. Randle has traded his Apperson car for a Dodge touring car with enclosed body. Mrs. E. J. Duvall returned home Thursday after a few weeks’ visit with relatives in Chicago. Rev. V. H. Krull of Collegeville went to Ottoville, Ohio, Friday to conduct mission services there this week and next. Among the Chicago visitors Friday were Mrs. E. S. Rhoads, C. G. Spitler, Fred A. Phillips, Venus Crisler and Thomas Knox. Mr. and Mrs. Fritz Zard left Friday for their home at Mitchell. South Dakota, after a few weeks’ visit here with relatives and friends.

W. C. Milliron was at Franklin the first of the week visiting his son Robert and wife and looking after his picture show business there. Miss Helen Wolfe came down from IHlammond Friday to visit her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Leopold and take in the football game Saturday. Thomas Padgitt and Harry Waymire, who recently applied for places on the Grant Park Naval band at Chicago, have been accepted and ordered to. report for examination. MrSo G. E. Murray spent Saturday in Chicago with her son Edson, who was there to witness the Illi-nois-Chicago football game. The latter accompanied his mother home to spend Sunday. In the mention of the sale of Mrs. Alice Woody’s farm in Jordan township in Saturday’s Democrat, we stated that Mrs. Woody would return to her former home in Montana. We should have said Wyoming.

Mr. and Mrs. B. S. Fendig and daughter Miriam went to Chicago Saturday to spend a few days with relatives before going South for the winter. Mrs. Fendig and daughter will go to New Orleans this week and Mr. Fendig will join hem there later. The offer of a set of kitchenware FREE to every purchaser of . a MAJECTIC during demonstration week is genuine. It is an out-and-out gift to every purchaser of a MAJESTIC range and the price of this range with a reputation remains the same. See this demonstration during the week commencing November 12 at our store. — WARNER BROS. So far November is giving us a much better brand of weather than October did, and if the clear, warm days will but continue for a fortnight it will work wonders in drying the corn and also mean thousands of dollars to the onion growers about Newland. Saturday, Sunday and Monday ’were very pleasant days, with the thermometer hovering about 60 degrees throughout the day time and falling to about 32 to 38 degrees at night. J

Rev. E. W. Strecker, accompanied by Charles Halleck, Willis Wright and Lawrence McLain of this city and Paul Washburn of Remington, were at Indianapolis Friday aitending a state Y. M. C. A. meeting. An effort is being made to enlist several thousand young men to help raise about $50,000 in this s + ate for the Y. M. C. A. war fund. Jasper county’s quota is S6OO, and contributory have the privilege of paying their donations in weekly installments. -

Harry Kiplinger and Jake Moore were down from Gary Sunday visiting home folks. Mrs. Daniel Way mire went to Englewood Saturday to visit her sister, Mrs. Van Dusen. Mrs. E. C. English went to Glencoe, Illinois, Saturday for a few davs’ visit with relatives. \ Mr. and Mrs. A. C.j Rhoads of Chicago were here over Sunday the guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. K, Zifn.merman. F. E. Reeve, wife, daughters, Misses Hazel and Gladys, and sons. Joseph and Robert, spent Sunday in Lafayette. Mrs. J. J. Montgomery went to Rockford Illinois. Monday for a week's visit with her mother, Mrs. Eugene Wemple. J. W. Smith of Walker township returned Monday from Boone county where he was called by the death of a cousin. Earl Clouse is acting manager of the bus line for the new proprietor, Peter Nomenson, of Dwight, Illinois. Mr. Nomenson may move htre later. J. N. Leatherman left Monday for Macon, Georgia, where he and John R. Lewis will have a number of Hampshire hogs in a big sale there today. Yesterday's markets: No price on corn; oats, 55c; Wheat, s2;rye. $1.65. The prices one year ago were: Corn, 76c; oats, 49c; wheat, $1.60, rye, $1.15.

Dr. John P. Hale of Lafayette, superintendent of the home missions of the Presbyterian church in Indiana, was the guest of Rev. J. Budman Fleming Monday. Mrs. Stephen Kohley returned home the first of the week after spending a couple of weeks with her daughter, Mrs. Frank Wagner, and family near Wolcott. The Democrat’s supply of Service Flags is going fast. Better come in and secure one before they are all gone, as we shall get no more after the present lot is exhausted.

Have you seen Mr. Jay Hedgesthe MAJESTIC range demonstrator? He will be here all week of November 12. Have him show you the greatest improvement ever put on a- range.—WARNER BROS.

Mrs. Alice Woody gave a dinner last Friday at her home in Jordan township in honor of her nephew, Victor Michaels’, twenty-fifth birthday anniversary. A bountiful dinner was served to about fifteen guests. Among those present were John Teter and family, Mrs. Laura Harris and niece. Miss Luh» Keister, Mr. and Mrs. Riley Tullis and W. F. Michael' and family.

B. N. Fendig has received word from his brother, Sol Fendig, that might be interpreted to mean that the latter is now enroute to France. Some time ago Sol joined an engineering corps at Spokane, Washington, as storekeeper, and was recently transferred to Boston. A few days later he sent a card from New York city saying “Good-bye, until you hear from me,’’ and by this it is presumed that he is either enroute abroad or will go soon. W. L. Wood was down from Phrr Monday and stated that the school there had been obliged to close because of a lack of fuel. Reports have also reached this office from reliable sources that the Monon yards at Hammond and Lafayette are congested with loaded coal cars, consigned to wholesale dealers, who for . some reason or another fail to move same- but continue to pay demurrage and add to the final cost to the consumer. This matter should certainly be investigated.

Sale bills printed while you wait at The Democrat -'Simon t'endig, the Wheatfield druggist, was a visitor in the city yesterday. J. M. Shafer was over mouth yesterday looking after his property interests here. About fifty people from this city went to Lafayette Sunday to witness the Hammond-Pine Village football- game. ; Otmar Osborne and Miss Alice Daniels were among the Chicago visitors Monday. The latter pMt in the day shopping. ( Ray Yeoman, head of the ‘civil engineering department of the Valparaiso university, spent Sunday with relatives here. Mrs. C. M. Sands was at Indianapolis over Sunday visiting her husband, a member of the second officers’ training camp. Mrs. R. A. Parkison, Mrs. K. T. Rhoades and Attorney John A. Dunlap were among the Lafayette visitors from this city Monday. .Mrs. W. T. Shaw of northwest ot town took the train here Monday for Martinsville, where she will take treatment at the sanitarium there. The city election was passing off quietly as The Democrat went to press. A light vote ■was being cast and very little interest was being manifested. The results will be published in Saturday’s Democrat.

The writer drove up to Newland and Gifford Sunday afternoon and at the former place everyone was taking advantage of the weather and were working in the onion fields, sorting, crating and sacking onions, while one car was being loaded. There were thousands of bushels yet to take of. A. M. Robertson of Morocco was in Rensselaer on business Monday. Mr. Robertson conducts moving picture shows at both Morocco and Lowell and was here looking over the situation with a View to starting a picture show here. He has been in the business for several years and is an experienced man. C. E. Hatch & Son’s annual sale of O. I. C. hogs, held at Pleasant Home Farm, one mile north of Kentland on October 25, was a success in every way. A large crowd of buyers were present from Indiana and adjoining states, and .he hogs sold well. A two-year-old sow, Bonnie Belle No. 86266, topped the sale at $221. Forty-two head sold at an average of S6O. Harvey Williams of Remington cried the sale.

John O’Connor moved his household goods to Kniman Monday and he and Mrs. O’Connor went there yesterday to make their home, Where Mr. O’Connor will engage in the grain business. Both Mr. and Mrs. O’Connor have been respected and esteemed residents of this city for several years, coming here first when Mr. O’Connor was elected county sheriff. It is with genuine regret that we see them depart, but we wish them every success and happiness back at their old home. _____ . Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Reeve and daughter Clara returned Friday evening from a two months’ visit with their son Clyde and family near Masonville, New York. Clyde is doing well there and likes it fine. He had good oats and buckwheat and will have about 100 bushels of potatoes to sell. Potatoes are about $1.45 per bushel there at' present. He has made considerable money this fall on cider apples, which have been bringing him S2O per ton, an unprecedented price. He sold several hundred dollars worth. They are building some “state roads’’ in his locality now and both Clyde and his oldest son—who is now a young man and has a team of his own — have worked with their teams on these roads the past summer, when they could spare the time from the farm, and have got good pay for the same.