Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 February 1919 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

J. H. Culp and .son Glen of Lee ■were business visitors in the city Wednesday. Miss Flora Potter of Converse is visiting hes brother, H. H. Potter, and family. If you have that all gone feeling and want to feel young again, take The One Day Doctor. —Advt. M. R. Halstead of St. Cloud, Mississippi, came the first of the week for a visit with relatives. Miss Viola Glazebrook went to Tefft Tuesday for a visit with her brother, Lee Glazebrook, and ilyMrs. Walter English and little daughter came up from Lafayette Tuesday for a visit with Dr. and Mrs. E. C. English ' W. C. Baker of Deerfield, Wisconsin, came Tuesday for a visit with his brother, 0. G. Baker, and other relatives in Barkley township?

Among the Chicago goers Tuesday were Harold Wickstrom and W. I. Hoover of this city and Mr. and Mrs. A L. Carpenter of Remington, Among the Chicago goers Wednesday were Emmet Pullin, Floyd 'Amsler, John Marlatt, Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Babcock and son William and Bert Abbott. Miss Ada Florence is spending a few days with her parents near Virgie, after which she will go to SulliVan where she will be employed in a millinery store there. The Hammond Country club building was destroyed by fire Wednesday morning, entailing a loss of $50,000. The building was but six years old. Fire started in the boiler room. Steps have already been taken toward rebuilding the structure. The Matinee Musicale will be held at the Presbyterian church Friday afternoon, February 28, instead of Sunday, February 23, at previously announced. This will NOT be an open meeting. Besides the program, important business will be transacted. All members of the club are urgently requested to be present. ‘

Allen. M. Robertson was a Chicago goer yesterday. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Harrison of Indianapolis are visiting Mr. and Mrs. H. H. Potter this week. The Priscilla Sew club meets next Thursday afternoon with Mrs. G. H. McLain on McCoy avenue. E. E. Smith, the carpenter, is again able to get up town after his recent serious illness from pneu-' monia. French Crooks received his discharge from the navy and returned home the first of the week. He is now employed in the McFarland grocery. * Mrs. Arthur Gosnell and little daughter returned to their home at Hammond Wednesday after a visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. IHienry Nevil.

Among the Lafayette goers Tuesday were Mrs. Henry Paulus and son Keith, James Cavinder, Ed Ranton and his mother, Mrs Ed Ranton, Sr, and Mr. and Mrs. Simeon Wells. % Leo Geyer of near Goshen went to Lafayette Tuesday to arrange for entrance in Purdue university\He had been visiting his sister, Miss LaVerne Geyer, here for several days. Nathan Welsh, son of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Welsh of Jordan township, received his discharge from the navy at the Great Lakes Training station and returned home Wednesday.

Paul Brady, a son of the late John Brady of Roselawn, was kicked on the head by a his home near Crown Point on Thursday of last week, and died a few hours later as a result. Mr. and Mrs. William Dunn and two little . sons left Wednesday for their home near Larimore, North Dakota, after a several weeks’ visit here with the former’s brother, Jesse Dunn, and family and other relatives and friends. Virgil Dennison of Foresman, formerly a barber in the Calvin Cain shop of this city, but who for the past year has been in the U. S. navy, has been discharged and came to Rensselaer Tuesday Ifor a visit with old friends. Letters remaining uncalled for in the Rensselaer postofflce for the week ended February 17: Orville Sidney Johnson, Mrs. B. F. Ferguson, W. H. Pearl, Fay Bowser, Miss Ball Summer, James T. Alhutt, O. J. Rowe. If not called for, the above letters will be sent to the deadletter office March 3. The Democrat was in error in Wednesday’s issue in saying that John Schroer was going to take over the active management of his farm in Barkley township*, and had hired a irnhn from Monticello to work for him. Mr. Schroer’s son Frank will work the farm and the Monticello man will be employed by him, rather than by bls father.

Those Republican Bolshevlkis who have been howling their heads off ever since the U. S. entered the world war about the southern states not furnishing their proportion of soldiers, should read the official figures of the soldiers furished by states, which appears in another column of today’s Democrat. They prove,, the same as in all the fault-finding of these political "reds,” that all their mouthings ,were without any foundation in fact.' * l

Meadames R. A. Parkinson and Warren Robinson spent Thursday in Lafayette. John Merritt of the Jroquota Roller MlMs made a business trip to Lowell Thursday. Captain Jerry Garland and wi/fe went to Pine Village Thursday for a visit with relatives. If you want to do your bit and haven’t time to get sick, take The One Day Doctor. —Advt. ‘The Eastern Star club will meet Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Charles V. May on College avenue. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Pearson of Chicago Heights spent Thursday here the guests of Mr. and Mrs. B. D. McColly. The banks will all be closed and there will be no rural or city mail delivery today, on account of its being a legal holjday. (Considerable moving has been going on this week, and next week will see most of the farmers located who have made changes for year. Mrs. M. D. Gwin received a cablegram l from her husband Tuesday in which he stated that he was well and would probably be home by the first of April. Now is the time to buy tires before the war tax goes on. We have a large stock of standard and blemished tires at $1 profit. Gas at 24c. —THE 'MAIN GARAGE, best in Rensselaer. f 26

Mrs. James H. Beckman received a telegram Thursday from her son, Sergt.-Major James W. Beckman, stating that he had arrived safely from overseas and was then at Camp Mills, Long island, New York. He will probably be mustered out soon. Mr. and Mrs. W- S. Parks received a telegram Wednesday morning from their son Lloyd, stating that he had just arrived from overseas and was then at Newport Newd, Virginia. He will probably receive an honorable discharge and return home in a few days. C. W. Duvall, Leo Reeve, John Robinson, Carl Somers and some six or eight other local K. of P.’a drove over to Remington Thursday night and attended work In the third degree ini the Remington lodge. Following the work a banquet was given, and all report a fine time. Following the fine weather of practically all -of the past week—really of the past two months—we got about two or three Inches of snow Thursday, the heaviest snowfall of the winter, but rising temperature and rain Thursday night had caused most of it to disappear by noon yesterday. George Faylor of near San Pierre, a brother of W. C. and J. W. Faylor, died in a Chicago hospital at 1 p. m. Thursday of cancer of the throat. He leaves a wife but no children. The Ifuneral will be held' at San Pierre tomorrow at 1 p. m., and Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Faylor of Union township will go to San Pierre tomorrow morning to attend same. < Private Harry Beebe arrived in Rensselaer Thursday morning (from Camp Sherman, Ohio, where he received his discharge from the service. He continued on to his home at Hebron Thursday evening. Private Beebe was wounded by being hit on the forehead by a piece of shell and was in a hospital from November until January, when ‘he wak sent to the U. S.

Harvey Davisson expects to spend some little time in Texas on his present trip there and will superintend the planting of a 12-acre grapeifruit and orange orchard on the 63-acre farm which he and D. S. Makeever purchased near McAllen a few months ago. He has purchased 1,000 trees, which are now there ready for planting, and will also plant one-half mile of palms. Mrs. William Warren of Walker township received a letter Saturday from her sister, Mrs. Augusta Dumond, of Parke City, Montana, telling of the birth of twins, boy and girl, on February 7 and 8, at 11:12 p. m. and 12:20 a. m. to her youngest daughter, Mrs. Minnie Bodin. Mrs. Dumond formerly resided in Jasper county, and she and her daughter will be remembered by many residents here and in Walker township.

Yesterday’s local prices on eggs and butterfat were: Eggs, 32c; butterfat, 4 Bc. The Priscilla Sew club mot Thursday afternoon with Mrs. True Woodworth at the sheriff’s residence. • Mrs. James Clifton of Fair Oaks came down Thursday for a visit with her brother, Arthur Powell, and family. Mrs. J. L. Hagins went to Wolcott Thursday to see her sister, Mrs. E. A. Powers, who is reported very poorly indeed. Yesterday’s local markets: Corn, $1.17; oats 54c; wheat, $2.11; rye, $1.15. The prices a year ago were: Com, $1; oats, 85c; wheat, $2; rye, $2. Leave orders now for fruit and ornamental treee, shrubbery, etc., for spring dellv ry. All trees guaranteed to grow or replaced free of charge.—CHARLES PEJFLEY, phone 475.

Mrs. Stella Ketchum and little daughter and Mrs. A. G. Work came down from Detroit Thursday. Mrs. Ketchum and daughter had been spending the winter there with Mrs. Work. Edwin Robinson, son of Mr. and Mrs. Warren Robinson of this city, has landed from overseas and a message received by his parents Thursday stated that he was at Norfolk, Virginia. Mr. and Mrs. , bamuel Fendig returned home Thursday afternoon from their honeymoon trip to diN ferent points in the east, and have taken up their residence in the Bert Hopkins house on College avenue. Rev. J. T. Abbott left Thursday morning for his home at Portland, Oregon, after an extended visit here with his sisters, Mesdames B. D. McColly and Korah Daniels of this city and Mrs. Bowman Switzer of Barkley township. Ediward Catt, son of Mr. and Mrs. Allen Catt of this city, was expected uere today from Billings, Montana, for a visit. "Kitty” left Rensselaer some seven years ago and took up a claim near Billings, and this will be his first visit back home in that time.

Wilbur Lyman of Greenfield, new wire chief of the Jasper County Telephone company, has rented the George W. Hopkins tenant house on the corner of Washington street and Park avenue and will move his family, consisting of a wife and one child, here within the next few weeks. "Uncle Bill’’ Irwin suffered a light stroke of paralysis yesterday morning while in the judge’s room on the third floor of the court house. His right arm' is paralyzed, but it. is thought he will soon overcome this and soon be about again. He was taken to the home of Wilson Shaeffer in the west part of town, where he was attended by Dr. E. C. English.

The John R. Lewis Hampshire hog sale held here Tuesday totaled nearly $13,000 the average being sl6l per head for the 80 hogs sold. The top-notch price, $1,650, was ■paid by Will Essig c*f Tipton for the sow "Illinois Beauty for Me.” The sale was attended by buyers from all over the country, and was the most successful pure-bred sale ever held in Jasper county. County Auditor J. P Hammond and wife and Mrs. D. E. Grow of this city, and Mr. and Mrs. A. D. Washburn of Kentland left yesterday for the Lower Rio Grande valley In company with the local land agent, Harvey Davisson. Mrs. Davisson also accompanied her husband again on this trip. All went to Chicago Thursday evening and were to leave there yesterday morning.