Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 66, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1917 — LOCAL NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOCAL NEWS

Mrs. Orla Clouse spent Wednesday in Lafayette. Roy C. Stephenson is here from Bonesteel, South Dakota, for a visit with relatives. R. A. Conn and Gaylord Brown of Kniman were in Rensselaer on business Wednesday. Once used, always used, “Minnetonna Brand’’ butter, 45c a pound. —J. C. HARRIS & SON. Miss Nina Thurlow returned home Wednesday after a few days' visit with her brother Dale at Lafayette. I. O. McGuillough of Chicago, former owner of the Elizur Sage farm west of town, was in Rensselaer on business Tuesday. Mrs. B. K. Zimmerman returned home Wednesday from a two weeks’ visit with her brother, A. C. Rhoades, at Blue Island, Illinois. Mr. and Mrs. John Nowels left Wednesday for Hattiesburg, Mississippi, to spend some time there near their son, Lieutenant Jay Nowels.

Mrs. Richard D. Wangelin went to Goshen the first of the week for a few days. Mr. and Mrs. Wangelin will reside in the L. C. Sage cottage on Cullen street, which they have rented already furnished. John Bill of southwest of sold twenty-two head of March farrowed shotes this week, he informed us, that brought him $8 66. Mr. Bill fed up the greater part of his soft corn to this bunch of hogs and has now bought a bunch of cattle to feed the rest of his corn to. Mrs. E. >. Clark went to Lafayette Thursday to spend the winter with her daughters, Mrs. J. E. Carson and Mrs. R. P. Johnson, it is understood. Her youngest daughter, Miss Eva, is now employed in Gary. Mrs. Johnson suffered a fall recently in which one of her ribs was ffractured.

Mrs. J. W. Childers of Conrad was in Rensselaer Tuesday. Claude May of near Remington was in Rensselaer on business Thursday. Fresh ground new corn meal. AsX your grocer or phone the mill. Phone 456. Clark Short,has left for Hattiesburg, Mississippi, with George H. Healey’s Maxwell touring car. Roscoe Halstead, who recently injured his knee quite severely, is still obliged to get about on crutches. Mr. and Mrs. Aden D. Rupe Gs Warsaw came Wednesday afternoon for a week's visit with the latter's parents, Mr. and Mrs. John King. W. E. Fidler returned to his home at Newman, Illinois, Tuesday after visiting his sister, Mrs. Charles Hemphill, and brother, E. L. Fidler, of Jordan township. The Rensselaer and Kentland high school football teams are to play a curtain raiser to the Wa-bash-Purdue game at Lafayette today. The town of Remington has just purchased a new chemical fire truck at a cost of $2,100. This, together with the efficient waterworks system, should give Remington excellent fire protection. Joseph Nagel went to Dunnington via auto Thursday and brought his daughter Lucille, who has been attending school there, home with him. She has been ill >for the past two weeks and came home to recuperate.

E. M. Parcels received a telegram yesterday morning from his son, Dr. Rue P, Parcels, of Amarillo, Texas, saying that a son was born to them Thursday and had been named Edgar Alfred, in honor cf his two grand athers. If you have a member of your family or an employe now in the U. 'S. service, at The Democrat office and purchase a Service Flag and hang it in the window of your home or place of business. At present we have three sizes of Service Flags in stock, 15c, 25c and 75c, respectively. A. J. Harmon of Mitchell, South Dakota, arrived here Wednesday for a short visit with relatives. He had come to Chicago with three, cars of stock, and took advantage of the occasion to visit his old home. Mr. Harmon says that while there is considerable "Soft corn in North Dakota, they have a better crop there than here. Two of L. E. Barbers valuable pointer dogs died from poisoning Monday evening. Just when or how they got the poison is not; known. Mr. Barber and some friends had just returned from a hunting trip and he prepared some feed for the dogs and in a short while two of them died. A third refused to eat and is still alive. -

Mr. and Mrs. George F. Meyers were Lafayette visitors Tuesday. Among the Chicago visitors Wednesday were Frank Hill, W. S. Lowman and Orla Clouse. Patronize your home creamery and get better butter at better prices. This week 4 5c. —J. C. HARRIS’& SON. Rev. F. L. Hovis, pastor of the M. E. church at Monticello, will make an address before the local Epworth League next Thursday evening. Yesterday’s Rensselaer markets; Corn (new), 90c; oats, 60c; wheat, $2; rye, $1.60. The prices one year ago were: Corn, 85c; oats, 52c; wheat, $1.65; rye, $1.15.

What is perhaps the highest priced hog ever sold in Jasper county for market, was purchased Wednesday by John Zimmer of Floyd Robinson, who lives on the S. S. Shedd farm east of town. The hog weighed 740 pounds and after being docked forty pounds brought $lO5. Tuesday’s Indianapolis Star contained an announcement by Mr. and Mrs. David Elder of the forthcoming marriage of their daughter. Miss Maude Elder, to Elbert Long of Selina, Missouri, formerly of Indianapolis. The wedding will take place during the holidays. Miss Elder,is a graduate of the Rensselaer high school. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Davisson were in Chicago Monday and while there purchased a fine sleeping bag and sent same to their son Vern, in France, he having recently written them and asked them to secure such a bag for They also purchased one at the sam^ J time for Ed Rose of Barkley township and had it sent to him likewise. After several! days of cloudy weather—in 'fact since Sunday—the skies cleared up Thursday aft-, ernoon, and yesterday dawned bright and clear. There was quite a heavy frost Thursday night but it does not get cold enough to dry cut the corn as it should. However, there is some little satisfaction in the fact that, the weather has been extreiriely favorable, it Is said, for wheat and it is all looking fine. We do need some cold dry -weather -badly for the corn though. Walter Lynge returned Monday evening from a business trip to Huron, South Dakota, where he sold a quarter section of land for $35 an acre. On his return he stopped off in lowa to visit a brother, and reported that the latter had just sold 3,000 bushels of old corn for seed for between $7 and $8 per bushel. He had been offered $2 a bushel for the same .corn in August but did not sell because of his inability to make delivery, but it proved quite profitable to him in the end.

J. M. Witham, .. who recently moved from near Parr to Keener township, was in the city on business yesterday?

Peter McDaniel, while putting in a sewer across Rutsen street near Weston one day this' week, cut a telephone cabfte, thus cutting off telephone communication with the southeast part of town most of the day. «>

Very little corn in Starke county will be fit for cribbing, and none of it at all until late in the year. The feed question will be serious before another crop is grown. Many farmers are pasturing their cornfields.—Starke County Republican. Cyrus Brown, aged 8 3 years, died Thursday afternoon at the home of his daughter, Mrs. A. K. Yeoman, in Newton township, after an extended illness, and the body was shipped yesterday to his former home at Frankfort, Ohio, for burial. “Commodore” O’Connor was •down from Kniman yesterday. They had a good farmers’ club meeting at Kniman Thursday night, and after the expert’s talk on liming the affair was turned into a Y. M. C. A. meeting and some $3 0 taken up by subscription.

Letters remaining in the Rensselaer postoffice for the week ending November 12: F. E. Buckley, Rena Blume, Ruth Vick, Edison Brown, Cecil Coffell, Mrs. Otto Hopkins, Ed Morrison, Elmer Potts, Lesta Woods, James Hardesty, J. A. Latter (2), Joe Salrin, Gladys McGlinn, Myrtle Warne, Edna Christenson, Pauline Lewis, Esther Allen. The above letters will be sent to the dead letter office November 2(5 if not previously called for. Aileen, the little 4-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Judson Maines of Three Forks, Montana, die.l on Friday of last week at a hospital in Butte, Montana. The child was operated on about three weeks previous for appendicitis and is understood to have died from the affects. She is survived by her father and mother, two brothers and one sister. The funeral was held Monday and burial made at Three Forks. George A. Williams recenty traded his brick residence property on Cullen street to Mrs. Eva Myers for the latter’s 200-acre farm in Barkley township, a<nd it is Mr. Williams’ intention to build a new residence of the bungalow type in another part of the city, we understand. He wifi occupy his present home until he gets his new house ready to move illto. The deal was made through G. F. Meyers’ real estate agency.

Friends of The Democrat are again urged to phone us the particulars of their comings and goings, and other items that will be of interest to our family of readers. We have no complaint to make on the attitude of our friends in the past in this regard, for they have been very considerate, which is indeed a great help in making a newspaper. But once more we urge you to either phone or write us without delay when you know of any item of news of interest to our readers. Mr. and Mrs. William Richland of Chicago came down Tuesday and closed up the deal Wednesday for the sixteen acres of ground just east of town which they recently contracted for from Hiram Day, mention of which was made ..in The Democrat at the time. Mr. Richland paid all cash for this ground and he expects to build a nice new bungalow thereon the , coming spring, something after the style of E. P. Lane’s bungalow on north Cullen street. They have no children —and are moving here on account of her health, she being troubled considerably w’ith asthma in the city, and to take life easy the rest of their days, they having accumulated enough worldly goods to keep them in comfort. They own their residence property in Chicago, which they will retain and rent out the same. ■

A Y. M. C. A.' meeting will he held tonight (Saturday) at the German Lutheran church, northeast of Parr. Rev. Krohn and W. L. Wood will be the speakers. Miss Susie Zehr of Elgin, Illinois, took the train here Wednesday for her home after attending the funeral at Remington of the 8-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Levi Zehr, who live near the latter place. The babe was found dead in bed last Friday afternoon. The little one was sleeping and in some manner became tangled in the bed clothing and smothered. Carl Hopkins, a former Monticello boy. now a sergeant in the 151st field hospital, stationed at Camp Shelby, is visiting his father, Homer Hopkins, head miller at Loughry Brothers’ 'Milling & Grain company. Sergeant Hopkins enlisted in the hospital corps while a resident of Lafayette.—Monticello Herald. Carl is, a grandson of “Aunt” Mary Jane Hopkins of Rensselaer. For some unknown reason the package of Democrats for our Surrey and vicinity subscribers failed to reach there either Wednesday or Thursday morning, and a duplicate package was sent up Thursday afternoon after we had been notified of their failure to arrive. They were mailed here as usual Tuesday evening and the postoffice clerks say the package went out on Wednesday morning’s milk train mail.

The grand larceny charge which was preferred against Victor R. Keeler of Monon last week was dismissed on motion of the prosecuting attorney when 'it was-called for trial in Justice Smith’s court Monday afternoon. The motion set forth the fact that sufficient evidence could not be obtained to secure a conviction. Mr. Keeler had employed counsel and was ready to fight the case.—Monticello Herald. Hanvey Graves, one of the pioneer residents of Morocco, died Thursday, aged about 80 years. He had not been well for several months and hist death was expected. His wife died several years ago and he had since made his horpe among his children, there being six surviving/hs follows: Attorney M. E. Graves, Benjamin Graves, Claude Graves, Thomas Graves and Mrs. John Nichols of Morocco, and Mrs. Edward Bell of Galveston, Indiana.