Jasper County Democrat, Volume 20, Number 100, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 March 1918 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

Tomorrow is St. Patrick’s day. Mrs. Oren Parker went to Chicago Wednesday for a week’s visit with relatives. Robert J., Victor and D. V. Yeoman accompanied Harvey Davisson to Gloster, Mississippi, on a land prospecting trip last week.

Only a short time now to get nursery stock for spring planting. Every tree guaranteed to grow, or replaced free of charge.—See CHARLES PBFLEY, phone 475. If When you have Backache the liver or kidneys are sure to be out of gear, Try Sanol it does wonders for the liver, kidneys and bladder. A trial 50c bottle of Sanol will convince yon. Get it at the drug store. —Advt. ts

Scott Cooper of near Kniman is suffering from an attack of grip. E. E. Harshberger of Union township is confined to his home with sickness. Clover seed is now retailing at $22 per bushel, perhaps the highest price ever known. The Priscilla Sew club met Thursday afternoon with Mrs. Frank Foltz on Grace street. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Oliver returned to their home in Chicago Wednesday after spending a few days here on business. Mrs. A. G. W. Farmer of southeast Marion had the misfortune to dislocate her shoulder in a fall sustained last Saturday evening. 'Chicago goers Tuesday were Mrs. Mary Travis, Mrs. James Maloy, Mrs. Leslie Clark, Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Horton and C. P. Wright. Mrs. E. G. Perrigo of near Donovan, Illinois, visited here a few days the first of the week with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. A. Crockett. W. D. Bringle, chairman of the vacant lot gardening committee, now has several lots listed with him, and parties desiring lots to put in produce should call on him. Come to see me if you need a Buggy, a Farm Wagon or a tonic for your stock. I handle the Clover Brand tonic, and none is better. Money refunded if not satisfied. — C. A. ROBERTS. ts The worn of remodeling the interior of the old B. S. Fendig poultry house on the corner of Front and Washington streets, to turn ft, into a cream buying station, was started Thursday. Do you get up at night? Sanol Is surely the best for all kidney or bladder troubles. Sanol gives relief in 24 hours from all backache and bladder troubles. Sanol is a guaranteed remedy. 50c and SI.OO a bottle at the drug store. —Advt. ts

Mrs. Ora T. Ross returned home Tuesday from a few days’ visit in Chicago and was accompanied by her son, Captain Bradley Ross, of Camp Custer, Michigan, who is spending a short furlough here with his mother and other relatives. Fi%m here Captain Ross will go to Fort Sill, Oklahoma, to which place he has been transferred. a.

Fred Phillips was in Lafayette on business Thursday. Jefferson Smith of Newton township is suffering from a carbuncle on his neck. Harold Littlefield of Rensselaer V is here visiting relatives prior to joining the navy'.—Newton County Enterprise. Mrs. Ben Smith, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. M. Y. Slaughter, went to Elkhart Thursday for a visit with relatives. A $lO bill lost last week by Mrs. L. M. Muster was found by Mrs. Mary Meyer Healy and was returned to Mrs. Muster Tuesday. J. F. Bruner has moved to Rantoul, Illinois, where he has purchased a telephone system, paying therefor $40,000, it is alleged. Albert, the seven-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Albert Helsel of near Virgie, has been sick with heart trouble and dropsy for the past three weeks.

Gas, 22c; tires, 50c profit; standard makes only. Cash discount on everything else we sell. Maxwell and Ford livery at all hours. We never close. —THE MAIN GARAGE. m-18 Sanol eczema prescription Is a famous old remedy for all forms of eczema and skin diseases. Sanol Is a guaranteed remedy. Get a 50c large trial bottle at the drug store. —Advt. ts Mrs. Cora Peetz, widow of John L. Peetz, a former proprietor of the Monon News and who was later elected state statistician, was' married at Anderspn last week to Charles E. Pickett of that place. Her husband died two years ago. Three sisters residing in Monticello and vicinity have died in the past three weeks from pneumonia. Their names are Mrs. Hattie Taylor, Mrs. John Phillips and Mrs. Joseph Cartwright. The two latter died only about five hours apart. ■Mr. and Mrs. Vern Robinson left Thursday afternoon for Logansport for a week's visit with her people, after which they will return here, and the last of the month will leave for their future home at Los Angeles, California, stopping off en route to visit friends in lowa and in South Dakota.

Frank Haskell and family moved the first of the week to the farm owned jointly by Mr. Haskell and J. F. Bruner near Winamac, and George M. Myers, who purchased the Haskell home on Park avenu'N moved from the property on Van Rensselaer street near the light plant, owned by Dr. H. L. Brown, into the Haskell bouse. At the regular meeting of the city council Monday night not very much "business was done outside of the allowance of claims. Chairman Bringle of the gardening and vacant lot committee appointed by the county council of defense, appeared before the council and asked for the appointment of local assistants, and the council appointed the pastors of the various churches of the city as such assistants.

Ellen Reed of Virgie, who has been suffering from a badly ulecrated tooth, is reported to have fuliy recovered. \V. L. Criswell has moved from the former A. H. Dickinson farm, in northeast Carpenter, to the N. Littlefield farm east of Fair Oaks. Yesterday's markets: Corn, 95c: oats, 85c; wheat, $2; rye, $2.30. prices a year ago were: Corn, $1; oats, 58c; wheat $1.75; rye, $1.25. - ■«. Owing to the large amouint of ether necessary matter in this issue of The Democrat, the regular installment of our serial story has been omitted, but will appear next week.

Mrs. Fern Stiner of Chicago is visiting her i>arents, Mr. and Mrs. Sol Norman of near Parr, while her husband gets located on a farm they have bought near Jerseyville, Illinois. Womans friend is a large trial bottle of Sand prescription. Fine for black heads, eczema and all rough skin and clear complexion. A real skin tonic. Get a 50c trial bottle at the drug store. —Advt. ts Mrs. George Royster and daughter Betty, w'ho had been visiting relatives here for the past few weeks, left for their home at Salt Lake City, Utah, Wednesday. They were accompanied as far as Chicago by Mrs. Henry Paulus of west of town and Mrs. John A. Dunlap of this city. Isaac Saidla, who has just moved to the Charley Pullins place at the west edge of town, disposed of his equity in the former Warren Robinson property at the east side of town to R. D. Thompson, who has traded same’ to Max Kepner for the latter’s property in the northwest part of town.

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. Mrs. Marion Parks of Remington has been critically ill and her parents have been called to her bedside. Mrs. Parks was formerly Garnett McXary, and is a daughter Rev. and Mrs. J. B. McXary of Monon. The family resided here previous to their removal to Monon, where Rev. McXary is pastor of the M. E. church. —Monticello Herald Dr. G. R. Clayton of Fowler, a brother of Mrs. Firman Thompson of Rensselaer, has received a discharge from the army service, says the Benton Review. Dr. Clayton has been stationed at Hattiesburg. Xo are given, but the Review says it is presumed he failed to pass the rigid physical examination before the soldiers are sent abroad, as he had weak lungs. Rev. W. H. Sayler has recently sold his property in the east part of town to Charles Randle and with his wife will return to South Dakota, from which place they came a few years ago. They will locate at Burke. While living in South Dakota both enjoyed good health, but Mrs. Sayler has been quite poorly here and they think she will be in better health to go back to her former home;

William Richling, who purchased the 16-acre tract of ground just east of town on the south side of the Pleasant Ridge road, belonging to Hiram Day, some time ago, came Tuesday with his carload of household goods from Chicago and will occupy a part of the house on the old Bedford farm, also belonging to Sir. Day, until he can get his new bungalow erected on his own land, Mr. Richling expects to begin building just as soon as he can possibly do so. Fred Sawyer, aged fifty-one years, a sor of the late George L. Sawyer of near Brook, difed at his home in Monticello Sunday morning, following a stroke of apoplexy suffered at 9:30 o’clock the night before. He was formerly engaged in the restaurant business at Monticello but for the past two years had been employed by the Indian Oil Go. He is survived by a wife and one daughter, his aged mother, one brother, Lyman Saw-yer of near Brook, and two sisters, Mrs. M. C. Ulrcy and Mrs. H. H. Potter of Brook. Another brother, Mose Sawyer, died a few years ago while serving as sheriff of Newton Mr. Sawyer was well known to many readers of The Democrat.

Try The Democrat’s Want At column. You will be most agreeably surprised by the results. Mrs. Phoebe Yeoman, who has been spending the winter with her daughter, Mrs. Charles Hammond, at Big Rapids, Michigan, returned the first of the week and will spend the summer here. THE COMMUNITY AUTOMOBILE SUPPLY COMPANY of Rensselaer, Indiana, will sell you a guaranteed tire for $1 profit each. Any size. Also gasoline at 1 cent per gallon profit.—Advt. ts Chauncy Wood returned Thursday morning from a two weeks’ hunt after seed corn for Jasper county. He was down in the southern part of the state where he loI cated quite a nice lot of good corn I that had been recommended by Purdue, and a carload is now on the way here. We got quite a little rain Tuesday night and Wednesday, and a heavy rain Wednesday night accompanied by some lightning. Lower temperature followed, and Thursday night a heavy white frost fell. Yesterday was clear and . pleasant again, except that the air was quite cool. “Fair and warmer," is the prophecy for today.

Well, how are things coming with you? We. expect some troubles. If we did not have we would think things were coming too easy. Understand this, the Studebaker farm wagon is the best wagon put upon four wheels; the bigger the load the lighter the draft. I have one price for all, and quality is guaranteed at C. A. ROBERTS’, Front, St., Rensselaer. ts A few boxes of bond and linen finish odd size and square envelopes in The Democrat’s fancy stationery department that will be closed out at two bunches (50 envelopes) for 5 cents. This is but 1-10 of a cent each. Call in and get some of these envelopes while they last. Understand they are made of good bond paper, but are of sizes that do not sell as rapidly as some other lines. Letters remaining undelivered in the Rensselaer post office for the week ending March 1 1: George W. Brown, John Tutter, Mrs. Alice Woody, Mrs. Frances Timmons, James Lyon, Mrs. Bertha Warne, Forest Allis, Mrs. Anna Allison, Mrs. Clara Anderson, Mrs. Elsie Martin, Ella Dunniapp, Ethel Grandstaff, John C. Baker, Mrs. Hazel Stuart. The above letters will be sent to the dead letter office March 25 if not called for before that date, A campaign to increase the number of silos on Indiana farms by 10,000 this year was approved by the Indiana committee on food production and conservation at the meeting in the state house Tuesday afternoon. Maurice Douglas of Flat Rock, chairman of the special silo comlmittee, was instructed to ascertain the number of cattle and the number of silos in each county and to base on these facts a quota of silos each county is expected to get this year. John Warne, accompanied by Dick Potts, took a load of household goods to Fulton county the last of the week for M. L. Ford, who has been living on the B. Forsythe farm north of town and who has moved to the Leo Morris farm near Germany in Fulton county, near where Elizur Sage, formerly of this city, is now located. John had no trouble whatever except at one place where lie got in a bad chuck hole and had to jack the wheel up and put a board in under 1 it. to get out. He drove their new [lnternational truck on the trip.

Parmer Wiseman of west of Fair Oaks, who is preparing to move to Bole, Montana, was in the city yesterday. He will leave for his new home next Tuesday, and, to keep posted op affairs back in Indiana, subscribed for The Democrat.

Mrs. Emil Stibbe of Union township died Wednesday at about 12 o’clock after an illness of some duration. The funeral will be held today at the Genman Lutheran church and burial made in the cemetery near by. Her age was thirty-three years, eleven months and twenty-nine days, and she Is survived by a husband and ona daughter about six years old.

RENSSELAER. IND.