Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1920 — LOCAL NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOCAL NEWS

James K. Garrlott of Fayette, Ala., is visiting realtives here and in Union township. W. I. Hoover went to Detroit, Mich., Tuesday to drive home a new Dodge touring car. _ I Miss Elsie Brookfield of Chicago eame Wednesday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Philip Weuson. We pay the highest market price for good, sound milling wheat. —IROQUOIS ROLLER MILLS, phone No. 456. a 7 H. W. Gilbert of Remington took the train here for Connersville Tuesday to drive home a new Lexington automobile. Ernest Rank and Miss Sadie Tuteberg of Chicago came Tuesday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Parks of Milroy township. Mrs. Wilson Bussell and daughter of Hammond, who had been visiting here with Mrs. W. E. Jacks, went to Brazil Tuesday for a visit with tier mother. Granville Aldrich has temporarily succeeded Gilbert Albin as driver of the city garbage wagon, Mr. Albin having resigned and taken a job with the Jasper County Telephone Co.

Roe Yeoman went to Danville, 111., on business Wednesday. Drs. E. Besser and A. P. Rainier of Remington were visitors in the city Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. C. M. Shotts of Chicago are the guests of the E. D. Rhoades family. Miss Jane Parkison went to Chicago Wednesday where she will enter Chicago university. Mrs. Charles Jacks and brother, Russel Ward, went to Frankfor* Wednesday to visit relatives. Sidney Peters went to Crawfordsville Wednesday afternoon where he will be employed with a Western Union construction crew. Mr. and Mrs. Floyd Cavinder and children returned to their home'at Springfield, 0., Wednesday after a visit with relatives in northern Jasper. According to our Fair Oaks correspondent, F. M, Goff, the well-known Republican politician of Union township was married last Saturday to Mrs. Rose Call of Roselawn. Bert* Vlant of Lowell came down from that city Wednesday In an airplane which had been at Lowell for a few days. It is understood the plane went from here to Brook. Miss Frances McCarthy, superintendent of a hospital at Wyandotte, Mich., returned to her work in that city Wednesday after a visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George D. McCarthy.

Yesterday’s local egg and butterfat prices: Eggs, 40c; butterfat, 56c. Miss Aileen Allman returned home the first of the week from a visit with friends at Rossville, 111. R. A. Parkison, W. C. Babcock and Gerald Hollingsworth were among the Chicago visitors Wednesday. Mrs. R. H. Mardoff and daughter Mary of Chicago came Thursday for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. W. C. Milliron. Mrs. James A. Irwin, son and little daughter of Bradley, 111., came Wednesday to visit with the Robert Yeoman family. Mr. and Mrs. Al Konovsky of Demotte and Mrs. Polly Konovsky and two sons of Chicago were visitors in the city Tuesday. Miss Lillian Janeway returned to her home at Hillsborough, Ind f , Wednesday after a visit with the Frank Morrow family of south of town. The Democrat’s job printing department turned out 100,000 butterwrappers and 10,000 checks for the Jasper County Creamery this week. The carpenters work this week on Delos Dean’s neV house on Home avenue, and have the frame up and partly enclosed at this writing.

Rev. and Mrs. W. T. Barbre will leave Tuesday on a month’s vacation of the former, which they will spend with realtives at Edinburg and other points in that vicinity. Yesterday’s local grain prices: Corn, |1.30; oats, 65c; wheat, 32.25; rye, 31.60. The prices one year ago were: Corn, 31-90; oats, 73c; wheat, 32.11; rye, 31-50. There will be a meeting at the John Fenwick home Sunday afternoon, Aug. 1, at 2:30 o’clock and also in the evening at 7:30 o’clock. There will be ministers to preach the word. Everybody welcome. —Advt. Rev. Father Daniel left Thursday morning for his new pastorate at Sedalia, Mo. While very loth to see him leave Rensselaer, the best wishes of his many Jasper county friends go with him to his new home. James Hayworth of Francesville stopped off hefe between trains Wednesday on his way home from a hospital at Rochester, Minn., where he had recently undergone an operation, and visited his sister, Mrs. Orla Clouse. Bet to restore to the suitcase the Icles that had been taken from It ,s l lie he could not find. Ie dressed himself in the suit so 7 0 lly tailored by old Tillie, and tel ■iced around the room, preparatory c j losing the suitcase. The hairbrush, t on the floor where he had a * sed it eei’cht. i eve. He picked M The following local Masons attended the funeral of J. K. Davis at Wolcott Thursday afternoon: George W. Hopkins, C. V. May, W. J. Wright, G. J. Jessen, J. A. Dunlap, Dr. A. G. Catt Fred Arnott, Arthur H. Hopkins, Charles Sands, Alfred Peters, John Medicus and James Barber. Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Nowels left Thursday for a few weeks’ visit with their daughters, Mrs. Floyd Wheeler at Flora, Carroll county, and Mrs. Delma Alter at Forest, Clinton county. Mr. Nowels will also attend Baptist association meetings in Grant, Wabash and Hamilton counties before returning home.

Mr. and Mrs. F. L. Hoover and little son left via auto Thursday morning for Battle Creek, Mich., where Mr. Hoover will enter the sanitarium for a month or six weeks treatment for the benefit of bis health, which has been quite poor again of late. His brother Alf drove them up to Battle Creek, returning home via rail. ! Mr. and Mrs. A. F. Patzschke and children of Kniman left Wednesday afternoon for Lisbon, /N. D., where they will assist Mrs. Patzschke’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Brown, with their harvest, which is the best they have ever had since they have been in North Dakota. They will remain until after the latter’s sale when all will return to Jasper county and take up their residence here once more, a, John P. Ryan of Gillam township will leave today on a four or five weeks' outing, during which he will visit at different points in the east and will probably call on many former Hoosiers who are now located In and about Sugar Grove, Pa., Panama, N. Y., Montgomery county, N. Y., and in Maryland. He also expects to visit New York city, Washington and Baltimore. Mr. Ryan has earned a good vacation and The Democrat hopes that he will enjoy It to the utmost.

J. R. Hasen was over from Goodland Thursday, Attorney E. B. Sellers of Monticello was In Rensselaer on business Wednesday. I Among the Chicago goers Thursday were A. Halleck, John Ramp, Mrs. Simon Thompson and Miss Ella Best. Mrs. C. G. Newby and Miss Grace Haas expect to leave next week for Pittsburg,,Pa., for a visit with their sister. We are still having it quite hot and dry. The corn on some of the higher ground is beginning to need rain quite badly, It is said. Mrs. W. L. Schroeter and baby returned to her home in Union township Thursday after a three weeks’ visit with her parents at Allamond, 111. ». 11 * »। Mr. and Mrs. T. C. Fleming and daughter of Franklin, Pa., came Thursday for a visit with his brother, Rev. J. B. Fleming, and family. Mrs. William Steiner and three sons of Jerseyville, 111., came Thursday for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Sol Norman, of Union township. ♦ The Gangloff wheat was being threshed yesterday, just east of town. This was perhaps the best wheat in the county, and we will be able to give the yield In Wednesday’s issue of The Democrat.

J. H. Sappington, who had been employed at the O’Riley bakery for the past few months, ha® accepted a position in the Elmore bakery at Monticello and will commence his duties there Monday. Mrs. John E. Alter of Union township and daughter, Mrs; A. W. McAulley, and son Keith of Pennsylvania, who are visiting there, went to Chicago Heights, 111., Thursday for a visit with, realtlves. Mrs. H. L. Brown and daughter Mary Jane went to Chicago Wednesday for a visit with the former’s cousin, Mrs. W. R. Stewart. They were accompanied by Mr. Brown, who returned home that evening. The Indiana Democratic Editorial association will hold its mid-summer meeting at South Bend next month. Both Governor Cox and Franklin D. Roosevelt, Democratic candidates for president and vice-president, respectively, will be present at this meeting. Among the bills passed by the present second special session of the (legislature is one regulating priority of coal shipments and prices, placing this authority In the state board of accounts. It is «hoped that this law will greatly reduce the outrageous prices now being charged the consumer®. for coal in Indiana.