Jasper County Democrat, Volume 22, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1919 — LOCAL NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOCAL NEWS

Dr. I. M. Washburn was In Indianapolis on business Wednesday. Isaac Kight of Fair Oaks was a business visitor in the city Wednesday. Conrad Kellner returned home Wednesday from l a business trip to Coldwater, O. Among the C-hieago goers Tuesday were Mre. E. L. Hollingsworth and Kirs. Harry Wiltshire. A. O. Moore was in Chicago Wednesday where he had a carload of fat cattle on the market. Mrs. E. J. Morris went to Otterbein Wednesday for a visit with her brother, John E. Timmons, and wife. * Fred Arnott, son Carl and daughter Hester* went to Buchanan, Mich., Tuesday for a visit with his sister, Mrs. Will Whittaker, and family.

William I. Erwin returned Wednesday from Lafayette where he had been in a hospital for several weeks. 'He is much improved in health since undergoing an operation. A. R. Hopkins, B. N. Fendig, Dr. A. R. Kresler, Leonard Rhoades, W. C. Babcock, John Marlatf, Don Wright and Miss Helen Leatherman were Chicago goers Wednesday. Mrs. George Healey received a telegram Wednesday from her husband stating that he had just arrived from overseas and would go to Camp Dix and be mustered out of the service. Mrs. Eugene Wemple, who had been visiting here with her daughter, Mrs. J. J. Montgomery, for the past couple of weeks, left Thursday for her home at Rockford, 111. She was accompanied home by Mrs. Montgomery, who will visit there for a couple of weeks. Mrs. C. L. Eggleston of Fair Oaks has purchased the Harry Kresler property on Cullen street and will move here to make her home. Consideration is, understood to have been $2,100. W. F. Kratll, principal of the Rensselaer schools, has been occupying the property for the past coUple of years.

Today is Carroll county Old Settlers’ day at Delphi. A. D. Hershman and son were down from Gillam township Thursday. Delos Dean, Lynn Parkison and Charles Shaw were Lafayette goers Tuesday. ißay Laßue left Wednesday for Oklahoma, where he expects to secure employment. A. T. Keiper, Barney Kolhoff and Arnold Kolhoff made a trip to South Bend Wednesday.

Mrs. A. J. Brosier of Dayton, 0., who had been visiting her sister, Mrs. W. L. Myer, went to Frankfort Wednesday for a visit with her parents. H. H. Potter, manager of the Farmers’ Grain company, was employed for another year at the meeting of the Tuesday evening. H. V. Childers and daughter, Mrs. Cecelia Mahanna, returned to their home at Delphi Wednesday afternoon after a visit here with th'e former’s son, William Childers, and family. \ - Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Warren of Oklahoma City, Okla., are attending the camp meeting at Battle Ground and are expected here in a few days for a visit with relatives and old friends.

C. E. Tyner, who had been manager of the Standard Oil Co. for this district for several months, and recently resigned his position, after taking a vacation will probably take another job with the company at Lafayette. Louis Leopold of Chicago apd Mrs. Leo Wolfe of Hammond rcK, turned to their homes Tuesday after a visit with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Leopold. Mrs. Louis Leopold and daughter remained for a longer visit. Hildred Pefley, son of Mr. and Mrs. Charles Pefley, arrived home Wednesday evening after just a year spent in the U. S. naval service. He received his discharge at Pittsburg, Pa. Hildred Is looking fine and gained 32 pounds In weight during the time he was in tne service. S. M. Vader of Monon, baggageman on the milk train, had his right foot badly mashed Wednesday by a large cylinder head, which he was loading, falling on the member. He came to Rensselaer and an X-ray picture taken of the foot showed that the large bone was badly broken.

At last we have received our long expected car of old wheat Aristos flour. You can not go wrong- by putting away some of this old wheat flour, as this will be the last car we will have made out of old wheat, and the new wheat flour will not be good for at least sixty days.—EGER’S GROCERY. and Mrs. Ed Brandt, newlyweds, of Morocco visited the former’s sister, Miss Mabel Brandt, here Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Brandt were quietly married at the bride’s homie in Morocco Wednesday evening by the Rev. C. R. Smith of the\United Brethren church. The bride before her marriage was Miss Leatha iMiller, a school teacher of Newton county. The groom is an operator at the tower house on the C. I. & S. railroad at Morocco.

John SChanlaub is confined to his home with sickness. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Culp of Lee were Rensselaer visitors Thursday. Yesterday’s local prices on eggs and butterfat: Eggs, 3»c; butterfat, 55c. Mrs. Alex Elijah and daughter Blanche of Mt. Ayr spent Thursday in Lafayette. Mrs. Frank Cochran of McCoysburg has been confined to her home the past few days with sickness. The weather was quite a bit cooler yesterday, the mercury at 2 p. m. registering 78 degrees in the shade. Excavating is practically completed for the basement of the Jesse Nichols new bungalow on Weston street. About enough cain fell in Rensselaer Wednesday evening to lay the dust, but east, west and north of us they had a very good rain indeed. Trevor Wilcox returned to his home at Springfield, 0., Thursday after being called here to attend the funeral of his wife’s mother, Mrs. W. H. Beam. DeVere Yeoman returned to Indianapolis Wednesday to resume his duties with the state highway commission after a few days spent here with his family. Frank Fox of Detroit, Mich., is the guest of the Mrs. George Gorham family of the north part of town. Mr. Fox only recently returned from overseas. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Walker and daughter, £etty Gray, and Mr. and Mrs.'Chester Anderson returned., to their homes at Greenfield yesterday after a few days’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Lyman. Vern Nowels has recently pur-, chased of Zern Wright the building just west of the Rensselaer Garage, and is talking of establishing a soft drink bottling works therein, it is understood. Well, The Democrat is in pretty good shape to withstand the big railroaders’ strike, so far as print paper is concerned, having just got in 10 tons yesterday. This is enough to last us for 10 months, and no doubt the strike will be settled ere this supply is exhausted. Mrs. N. Osburn of west of town was called to Grass Creek, Fulton county, Thursday by the birth of another grandson, born to Mr. and Mrs. Ammen Osburn Wednesday, making the second son born to them. Mrs. A. Osburn was formerly Miss Anna Hermansen of Gillam township. The B. D. McColly new bungalow on Rutsen street is now ready for the plasterers. This is going to be a very comfortable home, modern in every respect and consists of six rooms and bath with a fine basement which is connected with both city and cistern water, has furnace heat, etc. John Duvall and Frank L. Hoover are two Jasper county men at least who sold corn early this week at $2 per bushel. Each sold to the Iroquois Roller Mills, which paid a small bonus to get a few hundred Next day after they sold the bottom dropped obt of the grain market and corn went off about 25 cents a bushel. Evidently “Boss” Chatles Murphy, late of Brookston and former Democratic district chairman, is still a power with the Democratic officials at Washington, as his old henchman, P. M. Kent, of Brookston,. has been appointed census supervisor for the Tenth district and will have the appointment of the census enumerators in all parts of this district.

Russell Warren, son of Mr. and Mrs. I. N. Warren of just north of town, arrived home from the Great Lakes Naval Training station, Where he was discharged, Wednesday night. Russell had been in the naval service for the past two years, most of which time he was stationed on a U. S. destroyer, but for the past eight months he had been a member of Col. House’s staff at the peace conference in Paris. Wednesday’s Lafayette Journal: The Monon shopmen met last evening in Trainmen’s hall at 6:30 o’clock. No special action was taken regarding a walkout by the men. It is stated that the men took no action beyond that no strike would take place unless the men were , ordered out by their su-> preme officers. The blank ballots for the national referendum vote are expected to arrive today. The votes are to be submitted by August 24 and that vote will decide whether or not a fcation-wide strike is to take z place.

And Nero (congress) Addled while Rome was burning. Orla Clouse, Edson and Miss Helen Murray were Chicago goers Thursday. Carl Somers, Jr., la now employed as day clerk at the Makeever hotel. Mrs. George Stoudt and daughter, Miss Ruth, of Remington wdte Rensselaer visitors Thursday. Yesterday’s local markets: Corn, >1.75; oats, 64c; wheat, >2.11; rye, >1.27 and >1.30. The pricesone year ago were: Corn, >1.25; oats, 60c; wheat, >2.08 and >2.11; rye, >1.43. J. (*. Kresler has sold his tenant house on Webster street to Jeff Smith of Newton township, who will move to town and occupy same about March 1. The house Is now occupied by Ross Knickerbocker. A new supply of that pdpular Thistle Linen correspondence paper In ruled, unruled and pound boxes, just received In The Democrat’s fancy stationery department. Also Thistle Linen correspondence cards. J. J. Hunt and family motored to Battle Ground Thursday and attended the camp meeting. Mr. Hunt returned home Thursday evening but Mrs. Hunt, daughter Sara and her mother, Mts. J. M. Wasson, remained for the balance of the week. Corp. Harold Fidler, son of Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Fidler of just east of town, arrived home from Camp Taylor Wednesday morning with his discharge from the service. Corp. Fidler spent 15 months in the service, all of which time he was at Camp Taylor, Ky. ~lf you want* to buy a well located residence property in Rensselaer it will pay you to investigate the property advertised in The Democrat’s want ad column, situated on the corner of Park avenue and Grace street; splendid shade, two large lots, each 75x150, fruit, well, cistern, etc. Will sell lots together or separately, as desired. —F. E. BABCOCK. Michael Kanne is tearing down the barn In the rear of his city residence and fronting on Cornelia street, and will use the lumber In erecting a building on one of his farms. On Its site he will erect a two-story concrete block building 32x40 for a laundry for James McCullum of Monticello, who will start up business therein as soon as the building is completed. Jack Cooper, who farms the E. P. Honan farm In Barkley township, had some of the very best wheat that has been brought to the W. C. Babcock elevator, and Mr. Babcock says it ought to have been saved for seed. He had 17 acres out and it went 23 bushels to the here, tested 60 pounds to the bushel and brought top of the market price. Last Sunday about 40 neighbors and friends gathered at the old Zick homestead In Walker township and spent the day with Mrs. William Warren, who, with her husband, will soon move to Rensselaer where they have purchased a home. A bountiful dinner and supper were served and all report a most delightful time. Those from' a distance present were: Mrs. F. Menkie and two children of Indianapolis, George Ketchmark and family of Kouts and John Schrleber and family of Lacross.