Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1918 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

S. Spiegel was in Chicago on business Friday. Fred Lyons of Brook was a visitor in the city Monday. Postmaster C. U. Garriott of Parr was a visitor in the city Saturday. Mrs' W. A. Shindler of Mt. Ayr ■went to Valparaiso Friday for a short visit. J. J. Ulm, wife and son of northwest of Goodland, were visitors in the city Saturday.

Mrs. John Kratli and little daugh-| ter of Knox spent Saturday and, Sunday here with W. F. Kratli and family. Mr and Mrs. Elmer Daniels have recently gone to keeping house hy themselves and occupy the Rebecca Fendig property on north Front street.

Mr. and Mrs. Noah Zeigler of north of town returned home last week from Streator, Illinois, where they were called by the Illness of a sister of the latter, Mrs. Flora Parcher.

Thomas Cox and Gerald Hollingsworth were among the Chicago goers Saturday. Charles Fox, machinist helper in the Monon shops at Lafayette, spent Sunday in Rensselaer. The ban on selling chickens for the pot is to be removed at midnight next Friday night. Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Oliver of Chicago were looking after their interests in Jasper county Friday. Scott Brenner of Mt. Ayr, who has been spending the winter in Alabama with his daughter, Mrs. Ray Adams, returned home Monday. Mrs. D. M. Yeoman and daughter of Tab, Benton county, came the last of the week for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Strong. Mrs. George E. Neil of Pittsburg, Pennsylvania, came the last Of the week for several weeks’ visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. S. Laßue. Mr. and Mrs. John Eigelsbach and Mr. and Mrs. W. I. Yates motored to Crown Point Sunday and spent a few hours with Mr. and Mrs. C. P. Fate. Mr. and Mrs. John R. McCullough of Fowler and his father, W. I. McCullough, and family, were in Rensselaer Sunday while out on a drive through the country.

Hanner Hopkins of Monticello visited here Sunday with his mother, Aunt Mary Jane Hopkins, and the latter accompanied him home Sunday evening for a few weeks’ visit. 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 Evidently that Easter shower Came too late in the day to make sure of the old adage about “rain on Easter, rain on the six succeeding Sundays,’’ for the two Sundays following have been rainless.

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 4rug store.—Advt. ts

Harry Wood went to Taylorville, Illinois, Friday, where he has secured a position as janitor of a hospital there and will make his home with his sister, Mrs. Florence Greenwait, who resides at that place. Richard A. Rice of Lafayette, a former instructor in the high school here, has been inducted into Uncle Sam’s service and is now located at Detroit, Michigan, where he has been assigned to the equipimient division of the signal corps. The 1918 graduating class of the Rensselaer high school will consist of forty-two, it is expected, the largest class in the history of the school. As it is not yet sure whether two will pass or not, we are unable to publish the names ,in this issue. Mrs. J. J. Montgomery returned home from Chicago Friday afternoon, where she had spent several days at the 'home of her brother, Fred Wemple. Her sister, Mrs. A. Stanley Barnes, and little daughter of Rockford, Illinois, who had also been visiting at the Wemple home in Chicago, accompanied Mrs. Montgomery home and visited here until Monday.

S. S. Barnes and. Benjamin Ladd of Fowler vrere Rensselaer visitors Monday. James George ot Chicago spent Sunday here with his mother, Mrs. Lottie George. Paul Miller and C. A. Tuteur went to Indianapolis Sunday to spend a few days. Mesdames J. H. Holden, Eldon Hopkins and Floyd Robinson spent Monday in Lafayette. Ernest Prouty of northwest of town received a fractured arm Saturday while trying to crank his automobile. Mrs. J. D. Babcock returned to her home in Bluffton Saturday after a few days’ visit with relatives and friends here. Rev. J. B. Fleming went to Chicago Heights Monday to preach the funeral sermon of a former member of his congregation. Among the Chicago goers Monday were John E. Robinson, Rice Porter, George Reed, Mrs. Ora T. Ross and Ruth Wood.

Mrs. Ida Benjamin received tw© letters Monday from iher son Ross, who is in the mail service in France. He states that he is nicely situated and is feeling fine.

George Maines of Rich Hill, Missouri, came Saturday (for a visit with his mother, Mrs. S. A. Maines. George has sold his farm near Rich (HSU and is looking for a new location, and may decide to buy in Jasper county. Mrs. Tnomas F. Brusnahan of Gordan, Wisconsin, and her daughter, Mrs. Mary Richardson of Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, came the last of the week for about ten days’ visit with the family of S. A. Brusnahan of Union township. B. G. Tilton, wiho has been located at Camp Merritt, Maryland, with the 128th field artillery for some time, but who has been spending a short furlough with his parents at Wheatfield, came to Rensselaer Monday for a short visit with relatives here. Now every 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

W. J. Wright and Ray Parks left Monday night for Ravena, Ohio, to drive through a fine new motor ambulance Mr. Wright had bought at the factory there. ,They hoped to leave Ravena some time yesterday afternoon and will probably reach Rensselaer tonight or tomorrow forenoon. The club women of the country have stepped into the breach and will do their “bit’’ toward winning the war by divorcing women from fashion’s rule. They want it understood that “it is no longer fashionable to be stylish.” This is a sensible decision, and they might add that it is no longer sensible nor patriotic to be stylish. Accompanying the Jackies’ band is a crack drill squad which gives an exhibition of marine maneuvers at each appearance of the band. These men, fully equipped with rifles and other accouterments are in Charge of Cdxswain A. L. Anderson. The members of the drill squad include George Roach, C. Y. Wilson, A. B. Flow, L. A. Robinson, J. Akers, C. A. McGoughey and C. D. Wilson. James Lefler came down from Hammond Saturday to spend fftnday with his son Robert and family and old friends. Mr. Lefler is day watchman at the Hammond Beach Inn, on the lake front, and all he has to do is put in the time and draw $5 per day. Squire C. W. Bussell of Hanging Grove, who recently moved to Hammond and with whom Mr. Lefler boards, has charge of a gang of men in a munition plant and draws $6.50 per day, which beats hunting prairie wolves or rounding u*p the malefactors of Hanging Grove and vicinitv.

Ed.. Long of Mt. Ayr was a visitor in the city yesterday. George Ade was’ over from his farm near Brook yesterday afternoon. / Fred Phillips is preparing to move onto his farm at the west side of town. Mrs. Peter May has rented her property in the east part of town to John Warne and will move in with her daughter.

A very light shower of rain fell, here Monday night, barely enough ; to lay the dnst, but more showers * are prophecied for today. Yesterday's local markets: Corn. 90c; oats, 84c; wheat. $2; rye, < $2.30. The prices a year ago were: , Corn, $1.35; oats, 66c; wheat. $2.20. Gerald Hollingsworth, who enlisted in the merchant marine service some time ago, Ihas received orders to report at the municipal pier in Chicago tomorrow for training. Miss Lucy Van Hook of west of town, who has been quite sick for some little time and has been at the county hospital Jor several days, was taken to Wesley hospital in Chicago yesterday' for treatment and examination.

It is said that Worth McCarthy of this city and Guy Minor of Wheatfield, who are supposed to be among the number included in the twentyfive men taken from this county by the draft call on April 26, will take the automobile mechanics course at Purdue university instead of going to Camp Taylor. William Richling, who recently purchased the 16-acre tract of ground of Hiram Day just east of town on the south side of the Pleasant Ridge road, and moved here from Chicago, has the basement excavated and the material on the ground for the new bungalow he is going to build' thereon. Wlhile the temperature has risen to a more agreeable point, rain is needed badly for vegetation of all kinds, especially for wheat, oats and grass. We need a good twenty-four hours’ rain, as we have had comparatively little rain thus far this spring and the snow, going off when the ground was frozen, did not help out in the way of urjoisture.

Mrs. David Berns, who had been with her husband at Casnip Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, since last fall, returned home yesterday morning. A large number of the troops at Camp Shelby, including the 137th field artillery, of which her husband is a member, went into a tendays’ quarantine Monday, and it is probable that at the end of that time they will be sent to France. William Eigelsbach caught a strange looking bird near the Eigelsbach slaughter house Monday afternoon which is said to be a sea gull. The bird had evidently been shot ( at, as one wing was broken, which rendered its capture easy. These birds are very rarely seen in Jas- j per county, and its presence here' may possibly have been caused from its following up the “raging Iro-j quois” in search of new bodies of water. Want to buy a typewriter? The, Democrat has made arrangements, to handle rebuilt second-hand type- ( writers—which are practically just, as good and will wear as long as brand-new machines —and can secure for you almost any standard make of machine desired at a saving of ( from 40 to 75 per cent. A, few ma-' 'chines will be kept on harjd for im-| mediate delivery and others can be secured in a few days’ time. Don’t’ buy a typewriter until you see how i much we can save you on a rebuilt machine.

In W. H. Blodgett’s daily letter frotai Camp Shelby, Hattiesburg, Mississippi, in Saturday's Indianapolis News, a list of men transferred to different camps is given, and among the number is Orville B. Maxwell of Remington, now of headquarters company, 137th field I artillery, w*ho is transferred to, Camp Gordon, Atalanta, Georgia.' Mr. Blodgett also said that “Jink’’. Brenner, a former landlord of the Makeever hotel of Rensselaer, but who has been located at Winchester.! Indiana, for several years since leaving here, is at Camp Shelby for a two weeks’ visit with his son, Lieut. Ivan E. Brenner, of the sanitary detachment, 130th infantry.

W. H. Postill has moved from north McKinley avenue into th. 1 former D. Hollister property on Weston street, recently purchased by MiSs Agnes Platt, and Kenton Blankenship has moved from the John M. Knapp property on Park avenue into the property vacated, by Mr. Postill. With the Jackies' Band is Charles B. Young, a famous A enor s » n Ser. who gives solos at various points where the band gives concerts, He sings ' "Indiana,’’ “What Are You Going to Do to Help the Boys? ' "Over There," "Somewhere in France There's a laity.” "Long Boy," and other popular war songs. Local soloists at the various towns and cities where the band appears in Indiana will sing with the band accompanying. Mrs. O. K. Rainier and daughter, Mrs. M. D. Gwin, went to Oshkosh, Wisconsin, Saturday—Mr. Rainier having gone there Friday—to attend the funeral of little Sonnie Barnes, aged about’ ten months, a grandson of Mr. and Mrs. Rainier, who died after a few hours' illness at that place Friday morning. Private funeral services were held at the home in Oshkosh Sunday afternoon. which were also attended by Dr. M. D. Gwin of this city, who went up Sunday morning. All returned home Monday, accompanied by Mrs. Barnes and little daughter, who will spend several weeks here.

There was more booze in Rensselaer last Sunday than ever before in the past dozen years at least. A couple of truck loads of whisky, wine and beer, alleged to be from Logansport and on the way to Peoria, Illinois, spent Saturday night and the greater part of Sunday here. Under the new prohibition law dealers had until midnight last Friday night to remove their stocks from Indiana, and it was a violation of the law, punishable by a heavy fine, to have more than one gallon of whisky or twelve quarts of beer in one’s home after that date. The booze brought here by these trucks could have been seized by local officers under the law.

RENSSELAER. IND.