Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 April 1918 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

E. S. Sternberg of Chicago was in the city on business Tuesday. » John Bicknell and Sherman Biggs were ini. Frankfort on business Tuesday. Louis Raider of Indianapolis is here visiting grandparents, Mr. and “Mrs. O. K. Rainier.

Mesdames E. T. Harris, Harry Hartley and Mrs. Almira Stockton were Lafayette visitors Tuesday. Among the Chicago goers Tuesday were W. J. Wright, Judge Hanley, B. D. McColly and Conrad Kellner. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Wood, Sr., ■went to Crawfordsville the first of the week for a visit with their daughters, Mrs. Loma Bruce and Mrs. MgJjel Rishling. Only a short time now to get nursery stock for spring planting. Every tree .guaranteed to grow, or replaced free of charge.—See CHARLES PDFLEY, phone 475. ts Walter Porter, Jr., who'has been employed in a munition factory at Detroit, Michigan, for the past two years, came the first of the week for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. V. Porter. Womans friend Is a large trial bottle of Sanol 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 Dr. J. Hansson, local agent for the Overland automobile, accom--phnied by County Agent Learning and a number of others, left for Toledo, Ohio, yesterday and will drive through a number of these papular cars. One of the new cars, a Country Club, is for Mr. Learning.

Simon Thompson was in Chicago on business Thursday. J. N. Leatherman was in Indianapolis on business Tuesday. Mrs. Bert Hopkins, who had been at Miami, Florida, for the past nine weeks, returned home Sunday. Mrs. Aaron Hickman went to Lafayette Wednesday fr a few days’ visit with her son, E. W. Hickman, and family. Mrs. C. Earl Duvall is spending the week with relatives at Rockville. Mr. Duvall will go down this evening to visit over Sunday. A number of Rensselaer, Otterbein and Oxford visitors attended the- dance at the I. O. R. M. hall Monday night.—Benton Review. S. P. Haskell of Wolcott was over the first of the week to see his brother, Frank, who underwent an operation at the county hospital Tuesday morning.

Rev. H. F. Krohn of Union township attended a meeting of the Lutheran teachers and preachers of northwestern Indiana at Logansport the first of the week. ' 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 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 A big shipment of automobile tires just arrived. Ford sizes at a big reduction. Don’t buy inferior tires when good quality costs you no more. Overland Salesroom. — DR. J. (HANSSON. a-13 Among the Chicago goers Wednesday were Mesdames C. C. Warndr and W. C. Milliron, Misses Mildred Harris and Gertie Leopold, and Mayor C. G. Spitler, C. Wright, Granville Moody and J. A. Dunlap. In addition to*our large stock of Ford parts, we recently purchased the entire stock of Ford repairs of W. I. Hoover, and have since augmented this with orders from the Ford Motor company, so that wo have an almost unbounded stock of genuine Ford parts.—THE MAIN GARAGE. ♦ a-13

Ben O’Connor went to Columbus, Ohio, Thursday where he has a job helping construct a drain for a coal mine. Wallace & Baugh* of Lafayette will be at the Makeever hotel on Friday, April 12, for the making of loans on chattel property.—Adv. Yesterday’s local markets: Corn, 85c; oats, 86c; wheat, $2; rye, $2.30. The prices a year ago were: Corn, $1.23; oats, 64c; wheat, $1.95; rye, $1.40. Mr. and Mrs. Franks Harding an! daughter, who have been visiting their daughter, Mrs. Frank Kanne, returned to their home at Pontiac, Illinois, Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. William Childers have moved back to Rensselaer from Conrad, Frenchy Deschand bringing their goods over in his moving van Wednesday night. Clifford Ham, who is a ground man in the aviation service at Camp Sevier, South Carolina, came Tuesday for a short visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. B. Ham. I shall finish the course in Normal Piano Methods at Northw*estern University School of Music the second week in June, and should like pupils in piano and theory.— FLORENCE ALLMAN.

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 W. T. Thomas, who had been spending a few days his faimdly, returned to Michigan, where he is employed as foreman of a wrecking crew on the Wabash railroad, the first of the week. 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 you,, Get it at the drug store. —Advt. ts Among the late purchasers of Overland automobiles through the Dr. J. Hansson agency are Lowe Bros, of Medaryville, Henry Albert of Remington, John L. Jay of Jordan township, and August R. Schultz of Union township.

The report that Ed Gaffield, who is selling out his depot restaurant stock, will take charge of the Makeever hotel, is* incorrect, Mrs. C. P. Moody, in whose name the present lease is made out, informed The Democrat yesterday. Now every e Wednesday we ship Felt, Velour, Panama, Leghorn. Bangkok Hats to be dyed, cleaned and reblocked the new styles. They come back to you as good as new. IT PAYS. Bring your’s at once to the Home of Good Clothes.—WILLIAM TRAUB, Rensselaer, Ind. ts A meeting of the committees of the women’s activities of the county council of defense, and of the township chairmen of women’s activities, is called for Saturday, April 6, at 1:30 in the Red Cross headquarters. ORA T. ROSS, County Chairman Women’s Activities. Omar Day, son of Mr. and Mrs. William S. Day of this city, and who for the past few years has been the manual training instructor in an Indianapolis high school, has been appointed assistant instructor of vocational education at Purdue university, and will take up his new duties about the 15th o«f this month.

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 Mrs. J. R. VanAtta received word Wednesday of the death of Everett Foskett of Chicago, who died in that city Sunday afternoon following a few days’ illness from pneumonia. Mr. Foskett’s wife was formerly Miss Ethel Ferguson of this city, who has many friends here who will regret to learn of her bereavement. The remains were taken to his old home at Logansport for burial on Tuesday,

Mirs. J. N. Leatherman, who has been visiting her daughter, Miss Helen, at Nashville, Tennessee, where the latter Is attending the Ward-Belmont school for girls, for the past six weeks, returned home Thursday. Daniel iWaymire has announced himself as a candidate for the Republican nomination for trustee of Marion township, making two Republican candidates for the place to .date, Rev. C. W. Postill being the other candidate. Mr. and Mrs. Loren Sage and little son, who have been living in South Bend for the past few months, have returned to Rensselaer and taken up their residence in their home on Cullen street, recently vacated by R. D. Wangelin. 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

Saturday will 'be the last community sale for Parr this ,season. There wil be a good supply of milch cows, springers and stock cattje, also brood sows, shoats, chickens, farm implements, etc., on sale. Remember the date, Saturday, April 6. The Tenth congressional meeting of federated clubs held at IHlammond Thursday was attended by the following ladles from this city: Mesdames J. D. Allman, G. E. Murray, E. P. Lane and L. A. Harmon, and Mesdames W. E. Johnson and William Ott of Remington. Mrs. J. R. McCullough has received word that her brother, Glenn Lucas, has enlisted in the aviation corps of the ariny and is stationed at a training camip in Texas. He is a former Gilboa township boy who has been living in South Dakota and Minnesota for the past seven years.—Benton Review.

The dance and entertainment given in the armory Tuesday night for the benefit of the Red Cross was quite well attended and brought in a neat sum to be added to the funds of the local chapter. $53 was realized from the dance tickets: $lB from the sale of carnations donated by J. H. Holden, and the cafeteria lunch amounted to $35.96 and $6 for-*’ punch sold, amounting in all to $118.36.

Don’t buy cheap, shoddy goods when you can buy the best grade of everything for your automobile at the lowest prices. We sell for cash, with discount, only on some of our lines. We carry a full line of genuine Ford parts, new and used bicycles and bicycle tires. Gas 22 cents; tires 50 cents profit. Expert mechanics day and night. Also agents for Maxwell and Oakland cars. —THE MAIN GARAGE. a-13 Ralph Sprague, proprietor of the Iroquois Roller Mills, is preparing to build an addition on the south of the main building to contain a grain dump and storage room, «and late’t on he expects to build on the west equal in size to the present building, with a big, roomy basement. This mill has been doing a very large and constantly growing business under Mr. Sprague's man-, agement, and the need for more room is imperative.

Miss Edith West is quite ill.

David Alter of Union township ' moved to Rensselaer Thursday into the Mrs. Mark Hemphill property on south Front street. Except for the temperature continuing rather cool and reaching the freezing jpoint or a trifle below each night, we are still having fine weather and bright sunshiny days. A little higher temperature and warm showers are needed more than anything else now. According to a Washington dispatch -in Thursday’s Indianapolis News, Governor Goodrich, who was in Washington at the time, had stated that he saw no way out of calling an extra session of the Indiana legislature to provide funds for some of the state institutions, which were running x short of finances. * George E. Hershman of Crown Point has filed his declaration as Democratic candidate for the nomination for congressman from the Tenth district for the coming primary. George was the candidate two years ago and made a strong race against overwhelming odds. It is hoped the vote will be different this time and George, who is an old Jasper county boy, will be elected by a comfortable (majority, although this is the strongest Republican'* district in the state. He has no opposition for the nomination so far as we have learned, and probably will not have.

RENSSELAER, IND.