Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1918 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

A fine chicken dinner Sunday at the College Inn, 50c. John- Webber was in Hammond on business Wednesday. Harry Newman was a business visitor at Crown Point Wednesday. Mrs. H. W. Kiplinger visited friends in Lafayette a few days this week. F. W. Fisher and Henry Hunsicker were down from the. north end Thursday. Miss Thelma Martindale went to Terre Haute the first of the week for a visit with relatives. A couple of U. S. Red Cross am.bulancg trucks passed through Rensselaer yesterday, southbound. Robert Wartena of Chicago Heights attended the funeral of Mrs. Edgar Duvall here TJuesday.

M. A. Gray and family of Remington were visitors in the city Wednesday afternoon and remained over for the band concert. Among the Chicago goers Tuesday were George Long, C. E. Prior, Granville Moody, Jr., Orlie Clouse and Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth. Elias Arnold, little son David and two daughters, Miss Bethel and Mrs. David Stoner, of Barkley township, ■went to Peru Tuesday for a several llays’ visit with friends. City Marshal and Teamster Ellis Thomas and family went to Attica Wednesday for a few days visit with relatives. During his absence Roy Lewis is acting as marshal. Mrs. C. A. Rosenbrook, who has been visiting her brother, Harry Dewey, of southeast of town, and other relatives near Remington, returned to her home at Madison, ■Wisconsin, Wednesday.

C. A. Tuteur was a business visitor in Delphi Wednesday. Mrs. Randolph Wright of Newton township spent Tuesday in Monon. Go to the College Inn for your dinner next Sunday. A fine chicken dinner, for 50c. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Ballard of Lebanon visited this week with Mrs. Jennie Jessen and family. I • - John Sanders, who is now a government policeman at Hammond, spent Wednesday in Rensselaer. Misses Florence and Aileen Allman and Marion Parker returned home from Northwestern university Thursday. Rev. E. W. Strecker will preach tomorrow afternoon at 2:30 at Medaryville at a patriotic mass meeting. Dr. and Mrs. E. C. English, Mrs. C. H. Porter, Mrs. Cordelia Williams, W. J. Wright and S. Speigel were Chicago goers Wednesday.

Manley Price, who has been attending Purdue university, came Wednesday and will he employed during the summer vacation at Vera Newels” restaurant. Mort Murray, who is employed in the steel mills at Gary, spent a fewdays here the first of the week and was accompanied back on Wednesday by his wife and little daughter.

Letters remaining in the Rensselaer post office for the week ending June 10: M. D. Karr, Mrs. Orveal Wilson, Miss Lydia Sharp, Mrs. Otis Phillips, Mrs. A. B. .McComb. If not called for the above letters will be sent to the deadletter office June 24. Those who attended the Indiana State Sunday School convention at South Bend the- past “week were J. N. Leatherman, Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Spitler, J. J. Hunt, Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Gwin, Misses Helen Leatherman. Lucy Uhn and Marie Moore. They made the trip via auto.

“Commodore" O’Connor was down from Kniman Wednesday. Miss Irene Hoover went to Delphi Wednesday to visit relatives. Devere Yeoman is now stationed at Camp Humphreys, Virginia, near Washington. . Dr. Rose M. Remmek visited friends in Chicago from Sunday until Wednesday. Mrs. E. M. Graham and children went to Indianapolis Thursday for a visit with relatives. The frame is all up and enclosed for the large new addition to the Iroquois Roller Mills. Dr. E. C. English attended a medical convention in Chicago Wednesday and Thursday. The Van Rensselaer club hung out a handsome Service Flag yesterday containing twenty-one stars. Racine and Revere automobile tires, all sizes, at M. J. Kuboske’s garage, opposite Worland’s furniture store. Mrs. - Harry. Watson will leave this morning for Chicago Heights, Illinois, for a couple of weeks’ visit with relatives. Miss Mildred Harris attended the State Sunday School convention at South Bend this week, returning home yesterday. a Rev. R. H. Hume, who had been visiting his daughter, Mrs. C. Ross Dean, returned to his home at Springfield, Ohio, Thursday.

Henry Platt visited his brother Robert at the Great Lakes Training station Wednesday. He also saw several of the other Rensselaer boys there. Mrs. Alex Merica, daughter Marjorie, and her mother, Nirs. Louise Boyer, went to Hume, Illinois, Wednesday to visit with another daughter of the latter, Mrs. O.’ O. Wil. Hams;

Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Milligan of Garrett, Kansas, visited the latter’s sister, Mrs. W. V. Porter, and family here this week, the doctor returning home yesterday, but Mrs. Milligan remained for a longer visit. Dr. and Mrs. George C. Thompson and sons, Luther and Dale, are here for a few days’ visit with Mrs. C. W. Duvall. Dr. Thompson was born here, but moved with his parents to Elk Falls, Kansas, when three years of age. Miss Elizabeth Yeoman of Barkley township, who J had been attending college at Bloomington, returned home Thursday. She saw and heard Theodore Roosevelt there Wednesday, at which there were about 10,000 people present. A light rain, just about enough to lay the dust, fell here Thursday night. While rain fell in the past two weeks all about us, in. the immediate vicinity of Rensselaer we have had scarcely none. A good rain is needed here for the gardens and lawns. Mr. and Mrs. A. B. Ro wen and son Roy of Otterbein visited here the first of the week with their daughter, Mrs. Carl Romers, and family,' the two former returning to their home at Otterbein Wednesday and Roy Rowen going from here to Washington, D. C., where he is in the employ of the government.

The Monticello Herald says of Miss Geraldine Kindig, daughter of Rev. H. L. Kindig, a former pastor of the Methodist church of this city: “Miss Geraldine Kindig, who has just camipleted her work as teacher in the high school at Elmhurst, Illinois, is at home for the summer vacation. She has accepted a position in the high school at Kankakee, Illinois, where she has been chosen to teach mathematics. This is a splendid position, one which Miss Kindig will fiill With credit.”

Car washing at Kuboske’s garage. ■ ' '* '• •. - " ■ ■ * ' ■ ■ Miss Harriett Shedd entertained the Girls’ Hiking club Wednesday evening. Miss Pearl Dunn of Jordan township went to Chicago Wednesday afternoon. Perry Marlatt has bought a Dodge touring car from the local agents, W. I. Hoover & Son. Yesterday’s local markets: Corn, $1; oats, 70c; wheat, $2; rye, $1.25. The prices a year ago were: Corn, $1;55; oats, 58c. Miss Alice Witham, who is employed at Gary, spent . a few days here this week with her mother, Mrs. May Witham. Mrs. Mary E. Ames and daughter Ruth of Massillon, Ohio, are here for an extended visit with the former’s niece, Mrs. Milt Roth. Master Kennedy Ross, accompanied by his nurse, came down from Chicago Thursday to visit his grandmother, Mrs. Ora T. Ross. Mrs. Charles Grow and son; Charles, Jr., returned home Wednesday after a visit with her parents and other relatives in Wabash county. Lee Myers, who went to Gary last week to work in the steel mills, came home Wednesday night, returning to Gary Thursday forenoon. Miss Josie Dexter returned from the state, university at Bloomington Thursday to spend the summer-vaca-tion with her parents ini Union township.

W. L. Bott went to Goshen Thursday to attend a telephone convention held there yesterday and at which he had been invited to make an address. Henry Amsler has eighty, acres of nice wheat all -in one field, just at the northeast corner, of town that looks as though it might yield thirty bushels'or better to the acre. Among the Chicago goers Thursday were Mr. and Mrs. T. ,M. Callahan, Dr. I. M. Washburn, Dr. and Mrs. A. R. Kresler, Mr. and Mrs. Ffank Kresler and Roscoe Halstead. Miss DJris Larsh, who had been visiting friends in Chicago for the past week, returned home Thursday, accompanied by. Miss Clara Frantz, who will spend a few days here.

Harry Wood, who has been over at Taylorville, Illinois, for some time with his sister, Mrs. Florence Greenwait, came Monday night and will remain, here for the present with his otner sister, Mrs. Elmer Gwin.

Mrs. Owen Barker of Hanging Grove township died about 10 o’clock Thursday night after an extended illness from tuberculosis, aged about thirty years. She leaves a husband and two children. The funeral arrangements had not been made at this writing. Harvey Wood, Sr., son Paul and granddaughter, Frances Wood, went to Dayton, Ohio, Thursday to attend the former’s regimental reunion. Miss Frances Wood will remain there for an extended visit with her grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. John T. Murray, who live just at one side of the Wilbur Wright aviation field. Among those from out of town here to attend the commencement exercises at St. Joseph’s college Wednesday were: Ms. C. J. Holthouse, Decatur, Indiana; Mrs. W. P. Pfeiffer, Mrs, M. Stener,. Mrs, T M. Lause, Dayton, Ohio; Mrs. M. Lear, Wilmette, Illinois; Miss Verona Haag, Crown Point; Mrs. Henry Nieae, Leipsic, Ohio; Mrs. J. B. Bremiller, Glandorf, Ohio; Francis Hunt, Miss Betty Hunt and Mrs. J. Hunt, Greenville, Ohio. It is reported that former Mayor Thomas W. O’Connor of Monticello will be a candidate before the Democratic state convention for state treasurer, and that Samuel L. Calloway, former clerk of the White circuit court and who has been deputy in the, office of the clerk of the supreme court will be a candidate for the latter nomination. Both are well and favorably known to the Democrats of Jasper county and of the Tenth district, and should receive the solid support of the delegates from this section of the state.