Jasper County Democrat, Volume 21, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 March 1919 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

R,alph Sprague made a business trip to Lowell Tuesday. Miss Helen Dunlap went to Lafayette Wednesday for a visit with her sister. Mts. W. 0. Rowles went to Valparaiso Tuesday to spend a few oayß with Mrs. Bert Brenner, Lawson Meyer returned to his home at Gary Wednesday after a short visit with relatives here. Mts. Ellen Oram of Chicago is visiting her sister, Mrs. Maria McElfnesh, and niece, Mrs. Leslie Clark. Mr. and Mrs. Harmon Clayton went to South Bend Wednesday where they "expect to make their future home. '* Miss Zelah iHiuston, who had been visiting her uncle, Lem Huston, and wdfe, left Wednesday for her . home at Berwyn, Illinois. . Mrs. Laura Harris of Jordan township is moving to town today and will occupy the Mrs. Porter property on Austin avenue.

Samuel English left Wednesday fur his home at Rowleau, Canada, after a visit with relatives and '■looking alter some business matters here. Ike Wiltshire informs The Democrat he expects his wife home today from Town Creek, Alabama, where she has been visiting her mother and other relatives for the past four months. Ajmeng the Indiana soldiers in Thursday’s casualty list were the names of “Private John R. Baker, Ban ' Pierre, slightly wounded”; ‘ Private Dan Ensley, Medaryville, wounded, ' degree undetermined”; “Private John Flannagan, Medaryville, slightly wounded.” - S. E. Kershmer and son left Wednesday evening with their car of goods for their new home at Bryan, Ohio, and Mrs. Kershner will follow in a few days. T. J. Prouty pf Newton township, who purchased thp Kershner farm Just west of the poor farm, has moved upon same. Friends of the Kershner family here wish them well in their new home.

Tone up the system" by taking The One Day Doctor. —Advt. Mr. and Mrs. Carl Hamacker of near Lowell we’-e visitors in the city Thursday. Otterbein Item: Miss Flossie Burns of Rensselaer is visiting her sisters, Mrs. A iR. Sherlll and Mrs. John Price. Mr. and Mrs. J. B. Reed and Sam Brandenburg of the east side of the county were in the city Thursday. Alfred Peters of southeast oftown has moved to RensselaeT and occupies the old J- C. Gwin property in* the east part of town. Benjamin Knapp has been recommended for re-appoinbment as postmaster at Wheatfield, and L. J. Callahan for postmaster at Oxford. The cafeteria supper at the Methodist church Tuesday evening was largely attended and everybody got a good supper. The total receipts were over S2OO. "■ "g The Democrat this week printed the catalogs for Chauncey Wood’s Shorthorn cattle sale, which will take place at the Wood fawn southeast of Rensselaer on Tuesday, March 18. W. C. Kincaid, International Harvester agent, moved his family to Monticello the first of the week where they will imiake their future home. *S. Karnowskyi who purchased the property recently that they vacated, has moved into same.

H. E. White and family moved Wednesday from -the old Ralph Fendig property on the corner of Van Rensselaer and Harrison streets, now owned by the city, into the J. R. Hazen tenant house on the corner of Cullen and Rutsen streets. Mesdames Charles V- May, S. H. Cornwell and Carl Somers went to Remington yesterday .afternoon to attend thq funeral of Mrs. Eleanor Ford, an old resident of Remington, who died Thursday morning at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Jacob Hensler, after an extended illness. President Wilson signed the new revenue .bill Monday and same was operative beginning Tuesday morning. All stocks of cigars, tobacco, cigarets and. spirits in the hands of wholesalers or retailers on February 25 ore subject to the new tax, and dealers are required to make an inventory of the amount on hand at that time. Mrs. Alberta Spencer, wife of B. F. Spencer, the Remington Jeweler, died at her home in that city Sunday morning after an extended illness from bronchial trouble, ©he was about 61 years of age and is survived by her husband, one daughter, Dorothy, and one son, Keith Spencer, all of Remington. The funeral was-“held Tuesday and burial .made in the Remington cemetery.

(February ended yesterday with a dark rainy day, but Thursday was a beautiful day with the temperature up near the 50 degree mark. The coldest of the month waß Tuesday night, when the mercury got down to about 10 above zero. It was a nice month all the way through, and we hope that March will treat us as well. There is no snow at all on the ground now, and we have not had over three or four Inches at one time during the entire Winter, ,

Yesterday’s local prices on eggs and butterfat were: Eggs. 83e; butterfat, 63c. Thousands are saying, The One Day' Doctor is the most marvelous medicine ever taken. —Advt. % ____ Charles Saidla of Syracuse, Indiana, came the first of the week for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Isaac Saidla. Mrs. Robert Michal of Reynolds was in 'the city Tuesday to see her son Gail and family who were all at the county hospital suffering from influenza.

Yesterday’s local markets: Corn, $1.18; oats, 63c; wheat, $2.11; rye, SL2I. The prices one year ago were: Corn, $1; oats, 87c; wheat, $2; rye, $2.25. the Chicago goers Tuesday were Henry Kolhoff and sons, Joseph and John Kolhoff, Mr. and Mrs. Van Grant, E. L. IHolllngsworth and F. E. Babcock. The Rensselaer high school basketball team went to Wolcott Wednesday evening and played the high sehool team there, which resulted in a score of 47 to 32 in favor of Rensselaer. The Unique club of the Pythian Sisters was entertained last evening by Mrs. F. D. Burchard at her home on south Van Rensselaer street, assisted by Mesdames Leslie Clark, <5. W. Duvall and George Collins. Mrs. C. P. Moody, proprietor of tihe Makeover hotel, will retire from the business on March 14, at which time (her lease expires, and will return with her husband to the Moody farm in Barkley township. It is understood that the hotel has been leased to anotherparty but we are unable to learn « lis writing the name of the party.

Thirty members of Canton lodge No. 18 of Lafayette came up Thursday night and conferred degree work on two candidates of the Rensselaer I. O. O. F. A fine supper was served by the Rebekahs before the degree work and at its conclusion coffee and cake were also served. The candidates were Glen Baker of Barkley township and Wallace Miller of Union township. The fire company was called out Thursday shortly before noon, when the old hotel building just east of where the told Monon depot used to stand caught fire. The building was occupied by Ed Booth and family and is owned by A. H. Hopkins. The entire roof was burned off and the building otherwise badly damaged. The fire is vpposed to have caught from a spark from a passing train. The primary election to nominate candidates for mayoi\ aldermen, etc., was held in Chicago Tuesday, and present Mayor “Big Bill” Thompson won *the Republican nomination hands down, while Robert M. Sweitzer, Democrat, outdistanced his opponents. The latter was defeated by Thompson in the last mayoralty campaign, hut it is not believed by friends of the Democratic candidate that he can turn the trick again. While the Democratic candidate bears a German name, he is only of German descent. and it is alleged that all the pro-Germans in Chicago supported his opponent In the primary. Thompson was voilently assailed for alleged pro-German acts and 'utterances during the war. There is a prospect of Judge Olson, one of the defeated Republican candidates, and others running Independent.