Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 November 1920 — LOCAL NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOCAL NEWS

Have you got your tickets yet? Robert Loy of Chicago spent the week-end here with his parents. Dr. and Mrs. E. N. Loy. Miss Gladys Minch, teacher in the Rensselaer schools, spent the weekend with her parents at Chalmers. Mrs. John Rhind of Remington went to Chicago Friday for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. T. G. Bradley. a Among the Chicago goers Friday were Capt. J. L. Hagins, Stewart Moore, W. I. Hoover, A. Halleck and Mrs. W. C. Babcock. z N. C. Shafer received a check for SSO from J. J. Lawler of Chicago to add to the fund for the Armistice day celebration tomorrow. John B. Hemphill of North Platte, Neb., came Friday for an indefinite visit with his sister, Mrs. E. .« P. Honan, and other relatives and old friends. Dr. and Mrs. J. L. HUI returned to their home at Lowell’Triday after a visit with the latter’s sister, Mrs. A. C. Pancoast, and family of Newton township. Rev.- W. H. Sayler, W. D. Sayler and Mrs. Jeff Smith returned home Friday from Marion, 0., where they were called by the death of their brother, Ben L. Sayler. Abe Martin says: “Workman Ike Moots talks some o’ buyin’ an automobile while ther Is yit time. Well, it’s all over but satisfyin’ th’ farmers, a separate peace with Germany, fifteen dollar suits, reduced taxes, an association o’ nations, high wages an’ cheap livin’. Mrs. Carrie Dayton has accepted a position as housekeeper in the family of F. E. Lewis, superintendent of the northern division of the Monon, and will go to Lafayette Sunday to commence her duties. She will store her household effects here and her two daughters will remain here and attend school, Josephine staying with her grandparents, Mr- and Mrs. Ancil Woodworth, and Myrtle with the family of her uncle. Sheriff Woodworth.

Get your tickets, please. Mrs. G. F. Meyers was a Lafayette goer Saturday. Mrs. John Merntt and Miss Hattie Grant spent Monday and yesterday in Chicago. Miss Herschel Collins left Friday for her home near Guy Mills, Pa., after a several weeks Ivlslt here with relatives. Mrs. Fred A. Phillips and daughter Grace Augusta of Dane, Wis., came Saturday for a visit with Rensselaer relatives.

. Russel Strawbridge and family of Laporte drove down and spent Sunday with Mrs. Strawbridge’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Fi Long. City Light and Water Superintendent C. S. Chamberlain and Jay W. Stockton went to Indianapolis Saturday on coal business. Miss Grace Cain went to Chicago Friday to spend a few days with her sister. Miss Mabel Cain, who is employed as nurse at the St. Mary’s hospital. Following his retirement from the bench Judge Hanley will engage in the practice of law with his son Cope and they will open offices in rooms on the second floor of the Forsythe building which were recently vacated by Joe Jeffries. George MJarkln, who has been living on Dr. Turfler’s farm, four miles north of town, will move back to' his town property on £he west side, vacated by C. G. Green, who moved into the Jay W, Stockton property on Matheson avenue, vacated by Eugene Hasty, who moved to the Tom Grant tenant house on McKinley avenue. John Marlatt of Rensselaer and Ernest Comer of Union township left Sunday in the former’s Ford for Limestone, in the upper peninsula of Michigan, on a couple of weeks hunting trip. Emmet Pullins of Barkley township and Harry Randle of Paxton, 111., left for the same place Sunday via rail. Two of Emmet’s sons, William and Albert, are also, up there, having went -|p' last week. ~ : . . :. i. . . * - . l - 11

Get your tickets, please. V - Armistice Day celebration tomorrow. I Yesterday's local egg and butterfat prices: Eggs, 64c; butterfat, 58c. M. A. Gray was over from Remington Friday afternoon and Saturday. j Mrs. F. M. Abbott went to Montl- , cello Monday for a short visit with relatives. ! Forest Morlan and Joseph Putts of Chicago spent the week-end here ' with their relatives. j Mrs. J. D. Babcock returned to her home at Bluffton Monday after a few days’ visit here with relatives. Miss Zera Smith went to Indiana Harbor Monday for a visit with her , sister, Mrs. George Constant, and .husband. Leon Lamson came in Monday night from California for a visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Lamson. - - | Miss Luella Robinson left Monday for Dickinson, N. D., for an extended visit with her uncle, Harve Robinson, and family. 1 Jacob Moore returned to Racine, Wis., where he is employed, Sunday after a week’s visit here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. J. Moore. Leo McConahay of Indian&polis and Miss Mary McConahay of Monon spent the week-end here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. McConahay. I Dr. F. H. Hemphill returned home ' Saturday evening from Altamont, Kas., where he had spent the past few months with, relatives taking a much needed rest. Yesterday’s local grain prices: Corn, 63c; oats, 46c; wheat, $1.80; rye, $1.40. The prices one year ago were: Corn, $1.25; oats, 67c; rye, $1.23; wheat, $2.11.

The woolen mills in Massachusetts have gone to a four-days-arweek schedule, instead of the regular sixday schedule. Lack of orders for their products is given as the cause. Considerable rain fell again Saturday night, Sunday and Monday night, and yesterday the mercury was down several degrees and the indications were favorable for considerably cooler weather. There will be a dance on what is known as the Dr. Moore farm, three miles north of Aix, on Saturday night, Nov. 13. Good music. Everybody Invited. —ASA ELLIOTT. D. J. Babcock, who has been in North Dakota, Canada and Washington for several months, will arrive home today, It Is expected, and take up a position as linotype operator on The Democrat.

Letters remaining in the Rensselaer postoffice for the week ended Nov. 6; Mr. Loyed Florence, August Felton, Mr. Leon Loy, M. M. Zobel. If not called for above letters will be sent to deadletter office Nov. 22. Perry Gwin left Saturday for Denver, Colo., where he will be employed as assistant salesman for the Sinclair Refining Co., after a visit with his parents here. He was joined In Chicago by his wife, who had been visiting with relatives at Elkhart. Mr. and Mrs. Roscoe Sprague of this city will move upon the A. S. Freeman farm near Moody this week. Mr. Sprague has been employed for some time in the W. J. Wright furniture store. Mr. and Mrs. Freeman, who are the parents of Mrs. Sprague, are moving to

No further word has been received from the war department regarding the body of John Knox, recently brought from overseas, and the friends do not have any idea as to when it will be shipped from Hoboken, N. J., in response to Mr. Knox’s telegram to send, the body on to Rensselaer.