Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 95, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 February 1918 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

Miss Madeline Warren spent Saturday with friends in Chicago. . Miss Marie Comer went to Chicago Sunday for a few days’ visit with friends. Prof, and Mrs. Leo Havorka went to Chicago Friday for a few days' visit with friends. J. N. Leatherman was at Keswick, lowa, the last of the week attending a Hampshire hog sale. Mrs. Angella Luers went to Kouts Friday for a short visit at the home of her son, Joseph Luers. Miss Leona Kolhoff was hostess to a number of young lady friends Friday afternoon at the Kolhoff home south of Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. Lambert of Elwood, Indiana, came Friday for a short visit with their son, Orville Lambert, and family, north of Rensselaer. Forest Morlan came down from Chicago Friday to visit home folks, and especially to see his new niece born earlier in the week to Mr. • and Mrs. Jay Nowels. Misses Catherine Bates, Rena Mendelson and Virginia Thompson of Chicago, students at the Monnett school, spent the week-end with relatives at their homes.

Mr. and Mrs. W. E. Rich of Indianapolis, who visited friends here the latter part of the week, went from here to Remington for a short visit with relatives and friends there.

Charles S. Preston, clerk of the White circuit court and publisher of the Monticello Herald, has announced his candidacy for the Republican nomination for clerk of the supreme and appellate courts.

Mrs. George Heuson and little daughter of Lafayette came Sunday to spend the week with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. Heuson, of north of town. George has just moved from Waynetown, Indiana, to Lafayette, and is employed at the latter place in the Monon railroad shops. Have you secured your motor license for 1918? If not, better delay it no longer. Miss Mabel Nowels, notary public at The Democrat office, has all the necessary application blanks and will fill out and send in the application for you without expense to you aside from the fee to the secretary of state and 25 cents notary fee.

W. C. Latta of southeast Milroy was a business visitor in the city Monday. Cr B. McLain of Wauseon, Ohio, was here over Sunday for a visit with his brother, G. H’. McLain, and family. W. M. Pullin of Fairfield, Washington, who had been here visiting relatives for some time, departed for his home Monday. Mrs. W. R. Coverston of Goshen came Friday for a visit with her daughter and husband, Mr. and Mrs. Richard D. Wangelin. William Gant of Camp Shelby, formerly a member of Co. M of this city, is here on a thirty-day furlough on account of ill health. Mrs. F. W. Tobias accompanied her father, William Dixie, to Chicago Saturday, where the latter will undergo an operation for his eyesight.

J. B. Sprague, who had been visiting here with his brother, Ralph Sprague, and family, left Monday for Williamsburg, lowa, to visit other relatives before returning to his home in the South.

Louis Zillhart, who is in the quartermaster’s department of the remount service at Camp Taylor, came up Friday on a five-day furlough, returning to Camp Taylor yesterday. His department is located some five miles from Camp Taylor proper. Mr. and Mrs. H. E. Parkinson and R. A. Parkinson and daughter, Miss Jane, were called to Kingman, Kansas, Saturday by the death of Mri A. O. Yeoman, formerly of Jasper county and a daughter of the late William E. Moore. Her age was about sixty-six years. Auctioneer W. A. McCurtain reports that Clarence Garriott’s sale Monday was one of the best this season, notwithstanding another large sale north of town on the same day. Thirteen head of cows sold for an average of $lO3 a head, and the sale totalled $2,900. Mrs. Charles Harbrecht of Francesville, a sister of Charles Schleman of northwest of Rensselaer, died at her home Friday afternoon from pneumonia, having been taken sick only the day previously. Funeral services were held at Francesville Sunday afternoon and burial made in the Francesville cemetery.

Miss Marie Hamilton, was home from Butler college over the weekend. She was accompanied by a classmate, Miss Cordia Higgins of Lebanon, and Saturday afternoon entertained a number of young lady friends at the Hamilton home on Van Rensselaer street in honor of her guest. '

Lieut. Jay Nowels came up from Hattiesburg, Mississippi, Friday night to see his wife and new daughter. Dr. Wade Laßue was up from Indianapolis for a week-end visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Laßue. Mrs. W. L. Bott has been confined to her home for the past few days with a severe cold, bordering on pneumonia. Mrs. E. J. Kays of Hinsdale, Montana, arrived here Monday and will spend some time with relatives and friends. Mrs. Eugene Kirk of Barkley township went to Chicago Saturday to see her father, John Dooling, who is quite sick. Miss Gladys Reeve, Joseph Reeve and Miss Bertha Daniels came down from Chicago Saturday to spend Sunday with home folks. Cecil Potts was down from the Great Lakes Training station near Chicago Friday for a visit with his mother, Mrs. John Potts.

Mrs. F. D, Burchard and little daughter Winifred, expect to leave today for Jacksonville, Florida, for a visit with her husband, Lieut. Burchard, who has been in training there for some time. Drill Master J. M. Sauser will go to Remington Friday evening to organize a company of Liberty guards at that place. They have some six-ty-five men ready to join the organization, it is understood. | Dr. and Mrs. E. C. English went to Danville, Illinois, Monday night to attend the funeral yesterday of his brother, C. L. English, president of the First National bank of that city, whose death occurred Saturday.

John Eger spent Sunday and Monday with Mrs. Eger at the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago and reports that the latter is getting along fine, doing as well as they could possibly expect, which will be gratifying news to Mrs. Eger’s many Rensselaer friends. John MeKivinen, while splitting wood at Mrs. Scott’s, on Park avenue Saturday, struck his left thumb with his ax, practically severing the member from the hand between the first and second joints. Dr. Washburn the severed member back on the hand and hopes to save it. On the basis of No. 1 northern spring wheat and its equvalent. President Wilson has fixed the price of wheat at $2.20 at Chicago. This is really the same as set for last year’s crop, except the differentials differ to some extent from those now operative and range from a minimum of $2 to a maximum of $2.23, the latter price being in New York.

The Rensselaer basketball teams emerged victorious from two games Friday. In the afternoon the grammar school team defeated the quintet from the Marion Consolidated school 34 to 21,, but the palyers from out of the city must be given credit for a good game. In the evening the high school team defeated the Lowell high school team 17 to 15/ Miss L. Waive Mallory, teacher of mathematics, and Miss Anfia Harman, teacher of mathematics and botany, in the Rensselaer high school, resigned last week to take similar positions in larger cities at substantial increases in salaries, it is understood. Miss Mallory goes to Missoula, Montana, and Miss Harmon to Superior. Wisconsin. Their places have already been filled, MisCarolyn Taylor of near Janesville, Wisconsin, taking Miss Harmon’s place and Miss Miss Agnes Faye Hart of Bloomington succeeding Miss Mallory.

Saturday and Sunday were both fine warm days, and most of the automobiles that had been in disuse all winter were brought out Sunday afternoon for spins about town and over the country roads, the stone roads being in very good condition. Monday was cloudy and at night the mercury fell to several degrees below the freezing poin» while a gale that was almost a hurricane blew about an hour during the early part of the evening, doing some damage, no ddhbt, in some parts of the county. Yesterday whs bright and pleasant again and the mercury had risen to 34 at 2 p. m. Forecast of today is “fair.’’

Yesterday’s markets: Corn, $1.05; oats, 86c; wheat, $2; rye, $2. The prices a year ago were: Corn, 96c; oats, 55c; wheat, $1.65; rye, $1.25. Womans friend is a large trial bottle of Sanol prescription. Fine for b|ack heads, eczema and all rough skin and clear complexion. A real skin tonic. Get a 35c trial bottle at the drug store. —Advt. ts Robert Loy, son of Dr. and Mrs. E. N. Loy of this city, who has been attending a military preparatory school at Marion, Alabama, for several months, arrived in Rensselaer Monday night, having finished the course there, and will remain here with his parents until June, when he expects to enter the naval academy at Annapolis. Mrs. Dan Reed of Dayton, Ohio, spent Saturday night with her uncles, the Carr brothers, of west of town. Mr. and Mrs. Reed are moving to Mitchell, South Dakota, where they expect to go oq a farm and Mrs. Reed stopped off here for a short visit while en route to that place. Her father, John A. Knowlton, formerly of Jasper county, resides near Mitchell.

There is no war news of especial interest at this writing. Minor activities are going on, especially on the western front, and the German forces in Russia are still pressing on toward Petrograd, despite the fact that the panic stricken Bolshevikians have abjectly surrendered to all the “peace’’ demands of the German government, and these forces are meeting with very little resistance. Unless Germany is finally conquered the great Russian empire is a thing of the past.