Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1919 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

20 head of horses at the Phillips sale. Mrs. Fannie Cottingham of Brookston was a Rensselaer visitor Tuesday. James Amsler of southeast of town has just recently completed a fine new barn and a new silo in connection therewith, i Mrs. Henry Paulus and son Keith, Mrs, Ray Parks and children and Miss V. Catlin were Lafayette visitors Tuesday. John W. Crist of Newland went to Chicago Tuesday to consult a specialist regarding his health, which has been quite poor of late. , The Rensselaer high school baseball team opened the season yesterday afternoon at Riverlde park. Urtien they played the Chalmers teami Mrs. Cope Hanley returned this week from- Boulder, Colo., where she had been visiting her parents, Dr. and Mrs. Libbey, for several weeks. Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wilcox and sens, Elmer and Laban, drove to Bloomington, 111., Tuesday to attend the funeral of the former’s brother, Albert Wilcox. .Misses Murriel Harris and Florence Alliman went to Boswell Tuesday to spend a few days with the Misses Gertrude Jackson and Gladys Pierce, teachers in the schools there. Vincent Eisele is hauling his last year's corn crop to market this week. He only has 3,000 bushels and is selling it for the meager sum of $1.50 per bushel. He also has several thousand bushels of oats yet to sell.

Mrs. A. S. Parcels, writing' from Thornfield, Mo., in renewing her subscription for The Democrat, says: “Have had a fine winter and spring; oats all up nice and corn planting is the order of the day now, and cattle turned out to grass.” Letters remaining in the Rensselaer postoffice for the week ended April 7: Ela Albertson, Mrs. Annie Alston, Wessely Donahoe, J. K. Thomas, Mrs. Charles Snow. If not called for the above letters will be sent to the deadletter office April 21. Mrs. J. J. Montgomery left yesterday morning for Rockford, 111., for a visit with her mother and sister. Her brother-in-law, Arthur Barnes, underwent a second operation there this week but it was thought he would now get along alright. Edson Murray had the misfortune to have the thumb on his right hand badly injured the last of the week while attempting to crank his father’s automobile. The member was caught between the crank and the license plate and was nearly severed from his hand.

50 head of cattle at the Phillips sale, Saturday, April 12, O. K. Rainier made a business trip to Lafayette Wednesday. Machinery of all kinds at Phillips sale. See description elsewhere in The Democrat. Robert Platt went to Evansville Wednesday where he will receive treatment in a hospital. Sergt. Major Joseph Reeve arrived home from Camp Taylor, Ky., Tuesday with an . honorable discharge from the service. Mesdames George Hurley and Jay Nowels, Misses lone Zkmanerman and Mamie Bever and Stanley Merica were Lafayette goers Wednesday. ' Rev. W. T. Barbre, pastor of the Christian church, went to Sheridan Wednesday to preach the funeral of a former member of his church at that place. Miss Lea Flora, teacher at the Curtis Creek school in Newton township, has finished a very successful tenrre and left Wednesday for her home at Mauckport.

Undertaker Leo Worland is driving one of the niftiest enclosed Ford cars ever seen here It is equipped with an electric starter, wire wheels and other conveniences. Miss Martha Ramp will leave Sunday for New Orleans, La., for p. visit with her sister, Mrs. Henry Regus. Paul Beam will assist’ her brother John in the Home Grocery during her absence. This season will probably see more automobile touring than ever before, and already we have noticed quite a number of tourists passing cars this week bearing Florida lithrough Rensselaer. We saw two cense plates. Ben D. McColly has rented the Nancy Rees property on north Van Rensselaer street and will move his family into same as soon as the present occupants, J. J. Eddy and family, move into their own property on Weston street. Among the Chicago goers Wednesday were Mr. and Mrs. A. Halleck, A. M. Robertson, E. J. Randle, Mike Kuboske, W. F. Ihne, Mrs. Homer Hendrickson, Mrs. John Adair, Mrs. Emma Zimmer, Mrs. Frank Miller and daughter, Mrs. Thomas Grant and daughter Hazel, and Miss Tillie Ramp. Mrs. Charles Bowers received a telegram Wednesday from her brother, Corp. Terrence Thompson, of the 329th Field Artillery, stating that he had arrived from overseas and was then at Camp Mills, but expected to be sent to Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Mich., about Saturday to be mustered out.

W. R. Brown went to Huntington Thursday to visit his sons, Clint and Everett. The former’s wife, Miss Bertha Hammond of thia city, is in quite a discouraging condition of health* She has been in the hospital at Huntington for the past two months and underwent an operation there for appendicitis. • Gilbert Dorsit of Greencastle, who was on his way home from Colorado where he had been in the hope of getting some relief from tuberculosis, and who became so bad he was taken from the train here Monday and taken to the Rensselaer (Hotel, died Wednesday morning at about 3 o’clock, and the body was shipped to Greencastle where burial 'was made yesterday.

Jerry Garland waa a Lafayette goer Thursday. The ladies of the Red Cross will “eat you” at the Phillips sale. Yesterday’s local prices on eggs and butterfat: Eggs, 35c; butterfat, 62c. Mr. and Mrs. H. Cornwell attended a social function 'given by the Rebekah lodge at Remington Tuesday night. Mrs. C. H. Dixon returned to her home at Columbus, Ohio, yesterday after a visit here with her sister, Mrs. E. N. Loy. Three registered Shorthorn bulls, 5 Angus yearling bulls, at the Phillips sale, Saturday, April 12. Thomas Davis of near Kniman had two head of cattle killed by lightning Wednesday afternoon. C. R. Weiss of Newton township returned Thursday from Ottawa, 111., where he had attended the funeral of a relative. Among the Chicago goers Thursday were Mesdames Mary MeyerHealy, Frank Hill, W. H. Beam, W. H. Hogan and Daniel Morrissey.

You can still buy a good rub-ber-tipped lead pencil for a nickel In The Democrat's fancy stationery and office supply department Ruesell Van Hook sold two of bis pure-bred Jersey heifers Wednesday to Sidney Stone of Glenbulah, Wis. The price paid was SSOO. Mike Kuboske and Earl Gundrum went to Chicago Wednesday and drove home a couple of Saxon touring cars, for which Mr. Kuboske has the agency.

Yesterday’s local markets: Corn, $1.48; oats, 62c; wheat, $2.30; rye, $1.50. The prices a year ago were: Corn, 90c; oats, 87c; wheat, $2; rye, $2.30. The Presbytery of Logansport will meet in the Presbyterian church at 7:30 p. m. Monday and hold over Tuesday. Senmon Monday evening by the retiring moderator, Rev. Ralph Cummins. The public is invited. Plans are being made to have band concerts in Rensselaer again this summer, and the matter will be taken up with the city council at its meeting next Monday night and the council asked to make an appropriation, as heretofore. Alfred Thompson, who has been sick in Chicago for several months, following an attack of influenza, was brought home at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon. While he is improving gradually the iimiprovement is necessarily quite slow. Attorney John A. Dunlap expects to leave tomorrow for Dallas, Tex., to join his wife and daughter who have been spending the winter there with her people. He expects to be gone about two weeks and will be accompanied home by his wife and little daughter.

M. Kuboske has sold Saxon-Six touring cars during the past few days, one to Thomas Davis of Kniman and one to his son, William Davis, also of Knlman, and David Stoner of Barkley township. Mr. Kuboske left Thursday evening for Detroit to drive through a Saxon “chummy roadster.” W. F. Michael of Jordan township and • daughter, Mrs. Philip Heuson, of this city went to Lafayette Wednesday to see the former’s daughter Evallne, who is at St. Elizabeth’s hospital, where she underwent an operation for appendicitis last Saturday. She is getting along as well as could be expected. J. W. Faylor sends check from Rochester, Ind., for renewal of his Democrat, “that we may receive the news from good old Jasper county another year,” he says. “We had thought we could do without your ipaper this year, as we are taking two Fulton county papers, but decided we could not do so. This leaves us all well.” The five (motor mail routes out of Indianapolis, including the one passing through Rensselaer, which were discontinued recently because of failure of congres to make the necessary appropriation, it is thought will be restored about July I,* according to Postmaster Springsteen of Indianapolis, who has just returned from Washington where he had gone to talk the matter over with the “higher-ups.”