Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 April 1920 — LOCAL NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOCAL NEWS

See Turner exhibition at Collegeville, April 21st and 25th.- —Advt. If you have poultry for sale, call C. H. LEAVEL for prices.. Phone €47. ts Mrs. Isaac Leopold visited relatives in Hanuniond and Chicago the first of the week. Mrs. George Smith of Waukegan, 111., came Wednesday for a visit with' her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. D. McColly. Among the Chicago goers Tuesday were A. F. Long, Vern Nowels, Gerald Hollingsworth and Miss Luella Robinson. H. L. Warne of Laurens, la., who was called here by the death of his stepmother, Mrs. T. F. Warne, of Parr, returned home Tuesady. D. F.~ Maish came up from Frankfort Thursday on business and from here went to his farms in Union township to look after matters there. Rev. E. W. Strecker of Rensselaer has been appointed financial campaign director of the Methodist centenary movement in Jasper county. Sam Fendig is having the upper part of the front of his store building torn down and remodeled or made more modern and relaid with new brick. Mrs. Walter English and little daughter of Lafayette visited Dr. and Mrs. E. C. English of this city and her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James L. Babcock of Parr, this week. John C. Maxwell of Barkley township was in Chicago Wednesday to' meet his daughter, Miss Laura, who was returning from an extended visit with relatives at Mitchell, S. D. Jay Makeever was over from northwest of Mt Ayr Wednesday evening. Thus far this leap year Jay has escaped the machinations of designing females and is still single, hut whether heart whole or not we are unable to say. x

William Traub was a Chicago goer Thursday. Archie Lee was in Chicago on business Thursday. R. M. Johnson went to Indianapolis on business Thursday. Follow the crowd to the Turner exhibition, April 21st and 25tL. — Advt Mrs. R. I?. Wangelin went to Indianapolis Tuesday for a visit with relatives. Mrs. E. B. St. Clair of Birmingham, Ala., is visiting her sister. Mrs. B. Forsythe. Mrs. F. M. DeFrees left Wednesday for her home at Berkley, W. V., after a visit here with Mrs. Ora T. Ross. Roger Sullivan, prominent for many years in Democratic politics In Illinois, died Wednesday of bronchial pneumonia, aged 59 years.

Among the Lafayette goers Wednesday were Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Randle, Mrs. M. D. Gwin, Mrs. L. E. Barber and Mrs. H. B. Murray. Mrs. Myra Beaver returned to her home at Steger, 111., Thursday after a visit here with her uncle, W. V. Porter, and family and other relatives. Many of the city papers are hard hit by the railroad slrike and the print paper shortage, and some ot them are issuing only four and eight-page papers as a result. Mrs. Jesse Hammond, who has been visiting her brother, W. V. Porter, for several months, expects to leave for her home at Coates, Kas., the first of the week. Among the Lafayette goers Thursday were Mrs. G. W. Knfiur and daughter Daisy, Mrs. R. A. and Kenton Parkison, Misses Florence and Ruth Gorham and Charles Rowen. Miss Helen Maloy of Chicago, who had been visiting her grandmother, Mrs. James Maloy, and other relatives here, went to Lowell Wednesday for a visit with her uncle, Frank Maloy, and family before returning to her home.

Miss Helen Purviance, an Indiana girl, fortnerly of Rushville, was the girl who fried the first doughnut that made the Salvation Army famous among the doughboys. Miss Purviance has been decorated by Commander Booth for signal service performed during the war. W. R. Nowels has sold his prop-> erty on the corner of Cherry and Webster streets, the old David Nowels property, to W. W. Sage, who since last fall has occupied the George Healey property on south Cullen street. ,Consideration is understood to have been about $3,500. The weather has been quite cold and disagreeable all week, although it moderated somewhat Thursday aftn ernoon and at night we got quite a heavy rain, which started the grass and will also start the oats that have been sown. Yesterday was quite cool again and a drizzling rain fell at intervals. Mr. and Mrs. Thomas A. Jones of St. John were in Rensselaer nesday to close up the sale of the latter’s property on Front street, Immediately north of the Iroquois Roller Mills, to Deßoy Kurtz, linotype operator on the Rensselaer Republican. The' consideration was $2,850. Mr. Kurtz has been living in the ptoperty for the past few months.

F. M. Parker has purchased a new Franklin touring ear. B. N. Fendig went to Chicago on business Thursday evening. Miss Elizabeth Witham is confined to her home with sickness. Yesterday's local egg and butterfat prices: Eggs, 35c; butterfat, 63c. Nifty Nippons, nervy by nature: Turners at Collegeville, April 21st and 25th. —Advt Mrs. Max Schwartz of Chicago came Thursday for a visit with her sister, Mrs. Vern Npwels. Among the Chicago goers Wednesday were G. W. Royster, Donald Beam and Miss Ruth Ames. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Hufty and Mr. and Mrs. A 7 J. Hufty of Mt. Ayr were visitors in the city Thursday. William Dunlap of near McCoysburg recently moved onto the former Fred Phillips farm at the west side of town.

Mrs. George Corbin returned to her home at Mt. Ayr Thursday after a visit here with Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Witham. While the Woocl forces carried, Cook county in the primaries held In Illinois Tuesday, Lowden carried the state by nearly 100,000. Mr. and Mrs. Zern Wright and little daughter were in Chicago Tuesday consulting with a specialist regarding the latter’s eyes. Mrs. William Huffman returned to her home at Indianapolis Wednesday after a visit here with her daughter, Mrs. David McConnahay. Four cars of soft coal arrived in Rensselaer Wednesday, two of these for the city, one St. Joseph college and one for a local retailer. Mr. and Mrs. Louis Mathew of east of Pleasant Ridge attended the funeral of the latter’s uncle, Charles Dluzak, at Remington Wednesday. Stewart Moore drove a new Ford roadster through from Indianapolis Wednesday which will be used by State Highway Superintendent Folsom. Yesterday’s local grain prices: Corn, $1.58; oats, 96c; wheat, >2.50; rye, >1.75. The prices one year ago were: Corn, $1.48; oats, 63c; wheat. 32.30; rye, 31-50. Mrs. Helen Goodman and little daughter, accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Eldon Hopkins, of this city end Mrs. Ida Hopkins of Goodland, left Thursday for her home at Redlands. Calif. Mrs. Eldon Hopkins expects to make her home there with her daughter. ———■■ I ■■■ ' » Mrs. George Crockett went to Lafayette Wednesday morning where she entered St. Elizabeth’s hospital for an examination and possibly an operation. v A card from her yesterday morning stated that she was feeling quite well although quite nervous over the trip. She was accompanied to Lafayette by her husband and Dr. Washburn, the trip being made in the latter’s car. > Mrs. A. J. Bellows sends The Democrat a copy of the San Diego (Calif.) tTnion of April 8, containing an extensive account of the wel* come accorded there the previous day to H. R. H., the prince of Wales, which was played up extensively by that paper, the entire front page being taken up with pictures and features of the welcome, including an aerial photograph of the big stadium where the exercises were held.