Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1919 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

Ed Long of Mt. Ayr was a visitor in the city Wednesday. W. I. Hoover t the local agent, unloaded a carload of Dodge cars Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Al Konovsky of Demotte were visitors in the city Wednesday. 10% potash and all mixed formulas in 66 2-3-pound bags.—KELLM£R & CALLAHAN. $5 Stetson Hats, $5.00 and $6.00. All the latest shades and blocks. — DUVALL’S QUALITY SHOP. * Rheumatism —if you have it, get a box of One Day Doctor today. It is doing wonders everywhere. For sale by your Druggist Fendig. H. H. Potter of this city and H. W. Gilbert, Frqd Hicks and Roy Bujok of Remington were among the Chicago visitors Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. O. G. Spitler have ■moved from the rooms over the Trust & Savings bank into one of the Earl Reynolds houses on West Washington street. Among the' recent pensions granted to Indiana widows of soldiers we note those of $25 per month to Sarah C. Lang, widow of Joseph Lang of Goodland, and $25 per month to Isabel Pumphrey of Columbia City, widow of George O. Pumphrey, formerly of Rensselaer.

W. L. Bott was In Indianapolis on business Wednesday. Roe Yeoman was in Monticello on business Wednesday. - -g- - - John Jones of Wheatfield took the train here Wednesday for Indianapolis. 10% potash and all mixed formulas in 66 2-3-pound bags.—KELLNER & CALLAHAN. a 5 Mrs. H. J. Kannal went do Indianapolis Tuesday to spend a few days with her husband. Mrs. Mary D. Eger, Mrs. Cleve Eiger and Miss Helen Dunlap were Lafayette goers Tuesday. A. T. Keiper of southeast of towin spent a few days the first of the week at his farm near South Bend.* Mrs. W. L. Bott and daughter, Mirs. Don Beam, spent Wednesday afternoon/ in Monon with the latter’s husband. Mrs. William Salvage returned to her home at Loda, 111., after a visit here with her parents, Mr.' and Mrs. A. D. Lee. A preliminary Victory loan meeting was held at the Trust & Savings bank Tuesday evening by County Chairman C. G. Spitler.

Mrs. Homer Slaughter returned to her home at Elkhart Tuesday after a visit here with relatives, and was accompanied home by Mts. M. Y. Slaughter, who will visit there for some time. An error was made in Wednesday’s Democrat regarding the birthday anniversary of Emerald Aidrich. We stated it was his 43d birthday when we should have said 53d. Just think, 3,000 samples to choose your Suit from! Better get busy and pick your Suit at once so it will be here for 'Easter. $16.00 to $70.00. —DUVALL’S QUALITY SHOP. Letters remaining uncalled for in the Rensselaef 'postoffice for the week §nded March 31: Chas. Bowen, Mr. McGill, John Jackson, Mrs. Roy Maxwell, W. Tilton, Mrs. 1. S. Morrison. If not called for the above letters will be sent to the deadletter office April 13. r The new refrigerator counter for the Co-operative Meat Market came in Tuesday afternoon and was put in place th® same evening, so that the niew market opened in nice shape Wednesday morning with a very attractive shop indeed. While no advance notice had been given as to the time of opening, a very satisfactory day’s business is reported, ."

I Walter Lynge was in Lowell on business Tuesday and Wednesday. Mr. and Mr®. Gall Michal of Knlman were visitors in the city Thursday. 10% potash and all mixed formulas in 66 2-3-pound bags.—KELLNER A CALLAHAN. ®5 George Haskell and W. C. Smalley of Remington were vlaitors In the city Wednesday. The Priscilla Sew club will meet next Thursday afternoon with Mrs. J. D. Allman on McCoy avenue. Charles Casto directs us to change the address of ibis Democrat from New Orleans, La., to West Point, Miss. Among the Chicago goers Thursday were Lee Ramey and W. J. Wright of this city and Dr. R. H. Robinson of Remington. Robert Michal returned to his home at Reynolds Tuesday after spending a few days with bls sons, Gail and Verne, at Kniman. • Among the Chicago goers Tuesday were Mrs. Delos Thompson, Miss Fame Haas and John' Eger of this city and Ed Harris and L. E. Ponsler of Mt. Ayr. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Barton of Detroit, Mich., came Wednesday to attend the funeral of the latter’s father, William Garland, which was held Thursday afternoon. . You should, see the number of we are fitting out in Stein Block Suits. They all like them and they fit perfectly.—DUVALL’S QUALITY SHOP. The Democrat is Informed that Mrs. Stella Ketchum purchased a tract of land and also a city lot in her recent visit to McAllem, Tex., paying about $9,000 therefor. An informal reception was given at the Mrs. Ross (home on Park avenue Thursday evening for Mr. and Mrs. Samuel O. Duvall by the Marion Township War Mothers.

Ernest • Gowland of Omaha, Neb., visited his parents, Mr. and Mrs. "Henry Gowland, a few days the first of the week. Ernest is employed by the Swift Packing Co. Omaha. The committee appointed to see what could be done about having a market in Rensselaer this summer will meet at the library auditorium Saturday, April 5, at 1:30 p. m.—By Order of Chairman. * Mrs. Lesta Wasson Long received a telegram Thursday morning from her husband, who had been overseas since last spring, saying that he had arrived in the "good old U. S. A.,” and was then at Newport News, Va. It will soon be Easter and we now have the famous Stein Block CO. Suits on display. They ard fine, and we can fit you all, no matter how slim and tall or short and fat. $25.00 to $50.00. —DUVALL’S QUALITY SHOP. A state meeting was held by breeders of Polled Hereford cattle at Muncie last week for the purpose of organizing a state association. The meeting was well attended from a.U parts of the state and O. S. Bell of Parr was elected vice-president of the organization. Mr. and Mrs. Omar Day and two children of Anderson, who had been visiting the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Day, left Thursday for Lafayette for a visit with friends before returning home. Miss Glenn Day and Miss Elizabeth Hemphill,. teachers in the Anderson schools, also s>pent the week here. Mrs. J. W. Crooks has received word from her son, Doris Crooks, who is in the U. S. navy, saying that he was in a hospital in New Orleans, La., suffering from an injured hip. He had ajso,Jhad his right hand injured 9 quite badly some time ago, which necessitated the amputation of his little finger. Christopher Funk, aged 63 years, died at the home of his brother-in-law, P. B. Downs, in the north part of town Wednesday evening at 7:30 from apoplexy. Mr. Funk’s home was at Battle Ground and he was here for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Downs. The body was shipped to Battle Ground Thursday evening and burial made there yesterday.

Parker Childers, who started in working for Floyd Amsler north of town, has been compelled to give up his job and enter the hospital for another operation. He underwent a severe operation for appendicitis last spring, while in camp at Hattiesburg, Miss., and was in the hospital there for a long time. He is in a pretty bad shape now, probably from complications arising from the former operation, and will be able to do little if anything all summer.

Yesterday's local prices on eggs and butterfat: Eggs, 35c; batterfat. 65c. Mrs. Harvey Dexter of Union township left Wednesday for North Hampton. Man., for a visit with her daughter. Michael Jungles of Walker and Ed Etits of Union township were in Chicago the first of the week buying some cattle. Miss Ella Ritchey left yesterday for Baton Rouge. La., after an extended visit here with her. sister, Mrs. Kate R. Wasson. Howard Mills and Miss Eva Maines have both been away from their places in the Trust & Solvings bank all week on account of the “flu." Mrs. John N. Zimmer and children left Thursday morning for Los Angeles, Calif., to join her husband and where they will make their future home. Jacob Scbanlaub returned to his home at North Manchester Thursday after a visit with relatives and looking after his real estate Interests near Mt. Ayr.

Mrs. Harley Bruce and two dhndren returned to her home near Crawfordsville Thursday after a visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Harvey W. Wood. Under the new auto license law trailers m<ust pay a tax equal to half the tax paid on the truck to which they are attached. This does not apply to trailers attached to autos proper. One more lot of >4.00 Kingsbury Hats for Saturday specials for >1.98. We have fitted and suited 100 customers on these Hat bargains. Have you purchased yours? —DUVALL’S QUALITY SHOP. Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Wood returned home from North Liberty Wednesday where they had attended the marriage of their son Chauncey to Miss LaVerne Geyer. They were accomipanled home by Mr. and Mrs. E. G. Geyer, parents of the bride, who visited here until Thursday. —■ A dispatch from Russia states that the Bolshevik foreign minister informs the new Hungarian government that “The revolutionary movement certainly Is gaining in America," and Indiana is one of the five states named as being "especially Impregnated with Bolshevism." Evidently some of* the Republican papers of Indiana have gotten, over Into Russia. The funeral of Linton Carter, who died of pneumonia at the county hospital Tuesday morning, and which was to have been neld at the home north so Mt. Ayr Thursday afternoon, was postponed uAtil yesterday morning at 11 o’clock on account of a friend of the young man from away being unable to reach there until yesterday. The funeral services were In charge of Rev. E. W. Strecker of this city and burial made in the North Star cemetery.

Miss Nelle Thompson of Sullivan is visiting the G. E. Murray family. John V. Leah of Union township Is suffering from a slight attack of influenza. • Yesterday’s local markets: Corn, 11.46; oats, 61c; wheat, *2.11; rye, 11.50. The prices a year ago were: Corn, 85c; oats, 86c; wheat, >2; rye, >2.30. We now have the swellest line of boys’ and children’s Sults on display In our city, from ages 6 to 18, in waist-line coats, |6.00 to >15.00. —DUVALL'S QUALITY SHOP. A citizen of the east part of Rensselaer Is alleged to have taken a small dose of strychnine Thursday afternoon, with suicidal Intent, but a doctor was calleo and it was thought no serious, results would follow. Family trouble is said have been the cause. Mort Murray, who underwent an operation Monday at a hospital at Waukegan, 111., for the removal of about two-thirds of his foot which was infected with gangrene poisoning, is reported to be getting along nicely now. Ord Yeoman returned from there Tuesday and said that he rallied frojn the operation nicely.

Elmer Gwin, local representative for the W. E. Stewart Land company, left yesterday with a large party of prospectors and sightseers for the lower Rio Grande valley, hear Mercedes. Among the number were Mr. and Mrs. Robert Yeoman of Newton township, Marrs Ott and sister, Miss Blanche Ott, John W. Sage, H. E. White and Mrs. M. E. Drake of Rensselaer; Mr. and Mrs. Charles Harrington of Virgie, Frank Smith of near Wheatfield, Mrs. Charles Madlung of Monon, Frank White and Charles Baska of Francesville.

George Stoudt, the well known Remington’ painter and paper hanger, is reported very sick with pneumonia at this writing. Mrs, F. H. Hemphill is at the bedside of her mother at Roann, Wabash county, this week. The latter Is in a critical condition, suffering from a cancer. * While it has quite cool all week, the mercury reaching the freezing point a few nights early in the week, it had warmed up considerably yesterday and the mercury at 2 p. m. registered 58 degrees Ln the shade. The 6-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Iliff of Jordan township is suffering from empyema,' a pus or poison formed tn the pleural cavity, and caused from a recent attack of Influenza and pneumonia. Harvey Davisson left yesterday morning on another land trip to the lower Rio Grande valley. He was accompanied from here by C. G. Spitler, who will go as far as Houston, Tex., it is understood, on private business. Some parties from Newton county were also to Join them in Chicago. D. C. Lees a Mercer county (Pa.) man, is saving for seed a pock nf potatoes he grew last year from a single tuber. When the potato, which weighed more than two pounds, was cut up it furnished seed for fifteen hills.