Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 January 1919 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

Get you sale bills printed at The Democrat office. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. 'Fendig spent New Year’s x day with friends in Chicago. Jasper County Poultry and Corn Show next week, beginning Tuesday and ending Saturday. Mrs. Mary E. Drake and daughter Nell returned Tuesday from a few days visit in Chicago. John . Merritt of the Iroquois Roller Mills, was in Kankakee, Illinois, Tuesday on business. Mrs. Harry Shumaker left New Year’s day for Independence, Kansas, for a visit with her mother. Miss Esther Leopold of Chicago came Tuesday for a visit with her grandparents, Mr. * and Mrs. A. Leopold. '■ ' " - > Mr. and Mrs, Fred Rhoades and baby of Chicago spent New Year’l here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Rhoades. Duplicate order books, Fairbanks scale books, etc., c rried in stock in The Democrat’s fancy stationery and office supply department. Mrs. R. W. Mitchell returned to her home in Indianapolis Wednesday after a visit here with her brother, Floyd Simpson, at Mt. Ayr.

Mrs. John Copsey< and children returned to their home in Lafayette Wednesday after a visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Monroe Carr. • Mrs. Arthur Bailey returned to her home in Hanging Grove township Wednesday after a visit with her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Sayler, fit Wheatfield. Mrs. A. Elb of Barkley township is sick with influenza, and as a result her daughter, Miss Alice Eib, was unable to return to her school work at Elwood this week. We pay the top of the market for your cream and eggs. Highest test on cream. We are located first door south of, the Worland urnlture store. —SCHLOSSER BROS. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Hardman received a letter the first of the week from their son, Lieut. Frank Hardman, who is with the American forces in France, stating that he was well and now had charge of one of the largest auto truck camps in France. Charles W. Burbage, a former resident of Jasper county and a member of the Rensselaer I. O. O. F. lodge, died at his home near Chalmers on Thursday afternoon of last week of apoplexy, while In the woods near his house chopping wood in coippainy with his eldest son, William. Deceased >was a native of Point Isabell, Ohio, and was nearly 54 years of age. He leaves a wife* and three sons, William, Roy and Stephen.

Pefley pays the highest prices for raw furs.—PHONE 475. ts Charles Karch, James Smith and Harry Neier of Wheatfield ’Were visitors in the city Thursday. Simon 'Hostetler went to Elkhart county Wednesday for a few days visit with (his aged father. T Louie Misch and mother, Mrs. Andrew Misch, werb down from Wheatfield Thursday, visiting at L. P. Shirer’s. George D. .Knaur, now located at Detroit, Michigan, came New Year’s day on a short furlough to visit his Lon Healy has recovered from his attack of influenza and went on duty again in the Rensselaer postoffice Tuesday. Louis Hoppe of Waterford, Wisconsin, done Tuesday for a visit with his uncle, Joseph Nagel and family of southwest of town. Among ther Chicago gOers Wednesday were John Baker and Miss Mary Mulcahy of Mt. Ayr, and F. L. Hoover of southwest of town. Mrs. Leo Reeve returned home Wednesday afternoon from a several weeks/visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Bruner, at Rantoul, Illinois. Mrs. Vern Hopkins returned to her home at Kouts Wednesday after a visit here with her husband’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. George Hopkins. ' Try some of our new pound paper, “Thistle Linen,” carried in stock in The Democrat’s fancy stationery department. Envelopes to match are also carried.

Lowell is to have a motor truck factory, and the contract has already been let and work started on same, says the Tribune. The building is to be 61x145 feet amd is to be of brick and concrete. Try Schlosser Bros, with your next batch of cream. They pay the top of the market. They buy eggs also. You will find them on north Van Rensselaer street, a half block north of Washington street. J.-4 Kentland Enterprise: Mrs. Robert Randall and Mrs. M. C. Brogan ’and son of Parsons, Kansas, Mrs. Benjafl&in Forsythe and Walter Randle of Rensselaer were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. H. B. Crawford and Miss Gladys Coover Saturday. Influenza and pneumonia caused the deaths of 6,011 persons in Indiana in the three months ending December 1, according to statistics completed Thursday by H. M. Wright, statistician of the state board of health. Of this number 3,258 were males and 1,701 of the total number were between twenty and thirty years old. Among the soldiers returning to the various training camps Thursday after spending furloughs with home folks were: Willette Hill to Camp Custer, Michigan; G. M. Babcock, Wilbur Wright Field, Dayton, Qhio; George Knaur, Detroit, Michigan; Harold Fidler, Camp Taylor; Phul Healy to Boston, Massachusetts.

Among the Chicago goers Thursday were Miss Catharine Watson, Mrs. Myra Beeler, Misses Marion Parker, AHeen Allman and Pauline May, Firman ’Thompson, Russell Leah, Charles Qrow, R. A. Parkinson and 1 Cope Hanley of this cjty, and Misses Martha and Georgia Dickinson of Remington, and John Roadruk of Morocco.

Ralph O’Riley is confined to his home with Influents. The Russell Martin family, residing In the northeast part of town, are all down with Influemaa. Oome to The Democrat office and see the style, of sale bills we print, and get prices before placing your order. Will Harding left for his home at Tuscania, Texas, Thursday after a visit here with his sister, Mrs. J. A. Grant. The Democrat received a New Year’s greeting from Dr.. M. D. Gwin, who is with the A. E. F. in Vichy, France. Mr. and Mrs. Otto Schwanke returned to their home at Hammond Thursday after a visit with relatives here and at Demotte. Call phone 537 for dates and terms as clerk for safes. Satisfaction guaranteed. Outlet for notes f desired. —E. P. LANE. ts Yesterday’s local markets: Corn, $1.30; oats, 65c; wheat, $2.11; rye, $1.45. The prices a year ago were: Corn, $1; oats, 76c; wheat, $2; rye, $1.60. > Beet test, highest price pgld for cream. We buy eggs'at the top of the market aIso.—SOHLOSSER BROS., first door south of Worland furniture store.

A. S. Laßue reports the sale of 40 acres of the J. J. Lawler land southwest of town’to Joseph Kolhoff, whose farm it adjoins on the north. Consideration $l2O per acre. Dr. I. K- Lewis left Thursday for Austn, Texas, where he is of the biology department in the Texas university, after a few days visit with his brother, John R. Lewis of Barkley township.

Misses Lucile and Mildred Nagel and their cousins, Mary and Mildred Eberle returned to Dunnington, where they are attending school, Wednesday, after spending the Christmas vacation with the former’s father, Joseph Nagel and family. _ Misses Elsie and Zera Smith, the former employed at Jarrette’s Variety store and the • latter at the O’Riley bakery, are both down with influenza. Yesterday morning we were Informed that Zera was improving but Elsie seemed quite a little worse. Lieut. Russell H. Thompson of Sullivan came New Year’s day to visit his grandmother, Mrs. Frances Hopkins, and yesterday went to Gary for a f6w days visit with the C. C. Warner family, after which he will return here for a few days longer visit. Mrs. Edward J. Parkinson, who had been taking a nurse’s course at Cleveland, Ohio, was called home by the illness of her brother, George Daugherty, who is in the county- hospital suffering frouni influenza. Mrs. z Parkinson expects her husband 'home from France soon, and for that reason will not finish her course in nursing.