Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 July 1919 — LOCAL NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOCAL NEWS

Walter English of Lafayette epent the week-end with relatives here.

Austin Shew of Elkhart came Saturday for a short visit 'with the C. V. May family. Leo Reeve went to Parr Saturday where he held an examination for a postmaster at Newland. Lesley Miller of the Morocco Courier was a business visitor in the city a few hours Friday evening. Dancing at the new Gayety Wednesday night, July 2. Everybody invited. Dance tickets |I.OO, gentlemen spectators 10c. Miss Gladys Jackson returned to Chicago Sunday after a two weeks visit here with her aunt, Mrs. Milt Roth, and other relatives. Dr. G. R. Clayton of Monon was visiting his daughter, Mrs. Firman Thompson the last of the week. He has almost fully recovered from his recent accident. Place your orders now for nursery stock for fall delivery. All trees guaranteed to grow or replaced free of charge.-r—CHARLES PEFLEY, phone 475. tsAmong the Chicago goers Saturday were Mrs. C. A. Ross and daughter Virginia, Miss Esther Lonergan of this city, Mrs. Jennie of Mt. Ayr, and L. W. Higginson of Remington. Harry Ross .of Kentland had an almost new Ford touring car stolen from his garage early last Friday morning. Mr. Ross heard the thieves as they were making their getaway, and in company with the sheriff followed them as far as Crown Point, where all trace was lost.

The Democrat office will be closed all day July 4. H. R. Kurrle came down from Chicago Saturday to spend Sunday with his little sons. George M. Babcock went to Indianapolis Saturday afternoon, returning Sunday afternoon. Squire Gaffield of Milroy township went to Chicago Sunday on business, returning Monday night. William Traub returned home Friday from a week's outing spent at Tomah and other points in Wisconsin. Mr. and Mrs. John Sizo of New York City are visiting the latter’s parents, Rev. and Mrs. J. B. Fleming. J. J. Lawler was down from Chicago Saturday and Sunday looking after his Interests in Jasper and Newton counties. B. D. Richardson left Friday for bis hpme at Manitowoc, Wisconsin, after a visit here with his sister, Mrs. John Hayes. W. J. Wright returned home Friday afternoon from Grand Rapids, Michigan, where he attended the national furniture dealers’ meeting. William A. Thompson and daughter Mary returned to their hpme at Sullivan, Indiana, Friday, after a visit with Mrs. Frances Hopkins and daughter Gertrude. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Postill and Mr. and Mrs. Will Postill and baby went to Greencastle Saturday via auto to see their aunt, Mrs. Margaret Modrell, who is very seriously ill. S. C. Irwin returned Monday evening from a business trip to the eastern part of the state, and he says that nowhere did he see crops of all kinds looking as well as they do right here in Jasper county. Wheat was good most every place along the route, but their ccfrn over east is generally very poor.

D. J. Babcock spent Sunday in Lafayete. Mina Freda Simpson of Springfield, Ohio, is spending the week with the F. E. Babcock family. Joseph Paxton of South Bend was visiting Mr. and Mrs. <H. E. Parkinson, the last of the week. Mrs. Thomas Brownson of Longmont, Colorado, came Monday to see her mother, Mrs. W. R. Nowels. Miss Alice Christie of Champaign, Illinois, spent the week-end here with Mr. and Mrs. C. Earl Duvall. Mrs. M. A. Ryan returned to her home in Indianapolis Saturday after a week’s visit here with Mrs. E. P. Honan. • Mr. and Mrs. Roy Stephenson and little daughter of Toledo, Ohio, came Saturday evening for a visit with relatives. Granville Moody, W. C. Babcock, “Frenchy’’ Deschand, John Marlatt and Lee Branson were among the Chicago goers Friday. Fourth of July celebrated at the new Gayety. Everybody Invited. Come and have a good time. Good music and a good dance floor, 10c a dance. Mrs. T. M. Jallahan bought the David Blltstein farm of 200 acres, 11 miles northeast of Rensselaer, last Friday, paying therefor 1100 per acre. We now have another carload of Armour’s Stock Food on track. Save money by taking off the car. —IROQUOIS ROLLER MILLS, phone 456. * Among the Chicago goers Monday were C. A. Ross, W. J. Wright, Dr. J. Hansson, Roy Stephenson, John Rush. Mrs. Elizabeth Carmen, and Mrs. A. H. Hopins. Mr. Hayner, expert piano tuner and repairer from Chicago, will be in town about July 10. Patronage respectfully solicited. Leave orders at Clarke’s Jewelry store. —AdvL • l£rs. A. E. Wallace and two children, who have been living In Chicago during the winter, wnere the little daughter was attending school, have returned home to spend the summer. Mrs. W. C. Majors of Indianapolis is visiting her sister, Mrs. D. S. McConnehay. Mrs. Chester Miller of McCoysburg also spent Tuesday with Mr. and Mrs. McConnehay—her parents, i

Thieves entered the smokehouse at the home of J. W. Smith, on the Dr. Kresler farm east of town Friday night and carried off three hams .and one piece of side meat. Mrs. Smith was awakened between 1 and o’clock and on getting up saw two men going around the corner of the house and make through the orchard west to a waiting automobile. Kentland defeated the Hoopeston (Ill.) “Independents,” all salaried players, 7 to 6 in a stirring 1 flinning game at Kentland Sunday. Charles Whiting, for Kentland, and “Red” Kivell, for Hoopeston, were both in fine form and pitched great ball. Each registered 9 strike-outs, and Whiting held Hoopeston to 5 hits while Kivell was touched up for ten. Kentland has a strong team this season, having won six out of nine games played so far. The highest price ever paid for hogs on the local market was received Saturday by Geyer and Berninger of Buck Creek. They had a consignment of 77 hogs that averaged 200 pounds. The hogs were sold for $21.25 per hundred by the Lafayette Livestock Commission company to Mansfield & C<f., for Joseph Stern and Son of New York. The consignment netted the owners $3,258.48. —Lafayette Journal. The attorney general and not the war department will have to advise President Wilson when demobilization of the emergency forces has been completed, military experts said Sunday when their opinion was sought as to the date of rescinding war time prohibition. The present composition of the military establishment is so complicated, it was said, that a decision by the highest legal authority would be necessary. Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Duvall received a letter from their son, Carl, of . Grand Rapids, Michigan, the ■first of the week, in which he states that he has been promoted to traveling auditor for the John Hancock Insurance Company, and which will necessitate his moving to Detroit. Carl has been district agent for this company for the past two years and his many friends here will be glad to learn Of his promotion, which, of course, meang quite an increase 'in salary also. 7

There will be no rural mall de* livery Friday W. B. McNeil of Wheatfield was a visitor in the city Friday. Yesterdays local prices on eggs and butterfat were: Eggs. 37c; butterfat, 52c. Miss' Luella Harmon spent the week-end In Remington, the guest of Miss Dorothy Spencer. Mr. and Mrs. Bruce White went to Lafayete yesterday where the latter will enter a hospital for treatment. Mr. and Mrs. Orlan Grant of Lafayette spent the week-end here with the former's brother Van and family. Earl Duvall, Vern Nowels, George Collins and Cal Cain went to Bruce Lake yesterday on a fishing expedition. Willette Hili arrived homo yesterday morning from Camp Custer, Battle Creek, Michigan, where he received his discharge from the service. Mrs. Lawson Meyer returned to her home at Gary M onda y after a visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Nowels. Mrs. Nowels who has been quite sick, is reported better. Word hrfs been received here that Horman Lauge, a former resident of Rensselaer but prior to his entering the service a resident of Laporte, had arrived safely from overseas and was stationed at Camp Merritt awaiting his discharge. W. F. Smith and Delos Thompson have been awarded a contract for 12 miles of concrete road near Collinsville, Illinois, for which they are to receive 333,000 per mile. The road is to be 16 feet wide and the concrete to be 7Mi inches thick. Mrs. W 1. Spitler received a telephone message from her husband, Lieut. Spitler, Monday evening from Camp Merritt, N.J„ where he- had arrived on the Von Stuben from overseas. Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Spitler left yesterday afternoon via auto for Detroit, Michigan, to meet Wood whose unit was to parade in Detroit July 4. Mrs. W. I. Spitler and son. Woodhull, Jr., will leave today for Camp Custer, where Lieut. Spitler will be mustered out.

Dr. A. H. Davison returned to hie hqme at, Hume, Illinois, yesterday afternoon. Cleve Eger is driving a new Ford sedan, having traded in bls old car on the deal. • Mesdames E. W. and W. » Mathens were called to Anderson Monday by the death of the former's brother-in-law, John Bishop. Dr. and Mrs. Bruce Clymer and babe of Lafayette spent Saturday and Sunday here, the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Simon Thompson. Yesterdays local markets: Corn, 31.68; oats, 62c; rye, >1.25, The prices a year ago were: Corn, fl; oats, 71c; wheat, 32; ry®, 31.25. The weather for the past week nas been free from rain and considerably cooler —In fact, ideal weather for the wheat and oats and much more pleasant for working in the fields. The farmers are all very busy now with their rye and wheat harvest and will barely get it out of the way before oats harvest is upon them. Boyd Spalding of Lafayette, aged 28 years, fell dead of organic heart trouble in a saloon at Westville, Illinois, Saturday night while standing at the bar with several companions. He served overseas in the late war as a truck driver and was seriously injured by driving his truck into a shell hole on a dark night, and was in a hospital for three months, returning to this country last March. He is survived by his parents, Mr. and Mrs. James Spalding of Lafayette, five brothers and two sisters, one of the brothers, Jasper Spalding, residing at or near Remington. The American Rescue Workers, Adjt. Edward Minton and wife, district officers of the State of Indiana, were here over Sunday, looking after the Interest of the work of the American Rescue Workers. They wish to thank the good citizens of Rensselaer for their free donations for the support of their work. Their work is something like the Salvation Army, preaching the gospel on the street and helping the poor, in fact, went under the name of the American Salvation Army for years. The district headquarters ar®’ at Huntington, Indiana, and general headquarters at Philadelphia, Pa.

The first drowning of the season at Cedar Lake occurred last Friday and was that of Charles Lyle of Chicago. The young man with some companions put out in a boat and when but a little way out slid Into the water. None could swim very well and young Lyle was drowned before help could reach him.