Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 November 1920 — LOCAL NEWS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LOCAL NEWS

And next Thursday is Thanksgiving. If you want some good Jersey cows attend Bert Demoss’s sale, Nov. 29. n 2O Mr. and Mrs. Frank Donnelly and R. A. Parkison were among the Chicago goers Tuesday. v John Merritt of the Iroquois Roller Mills was in Monon on business Wednesday afternoon.

New carload of soft coal, $8 per ton from the bin. —LEE MYERS, Kniman, Ind. Mr. and Mrs. Delos Dean moved into their fine new brick bungalow on Home avenue Wednesday. Mrs. A. J. Hughes returned to her home in Chicago Tuesday after a visit here with the A. Gangloff family. Mrs. Elmer Humphreys of near Chalmers visited here Wednesday with her parents, Mr- and Mrs. Alfred Peters. Cope J. Hanley, Mr. and Mrs. A. A. Hoover of this city and Ormond Pruett of Brook were Indianapolis goers Wednesday. Frank Norman returned home from Indianapolis Wednesday after attending the meeting of the Grand Lodge I. O. O. F. Encampment as a delegate from the local order.

Dr. I. M. Washburn was in Indianapolis on business Thursday. Mrs. Frank Donnelly went to Indianapolis Thursday for a short visit with friends. Mrs. W. L. Bott and daughter, Mrs. Don Beam, and Mrs. F. E. Rees were Lafayette goers Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. H. S. Dorsey of Alton, 111., were guests of Mr. and Mrs. Judson J. Hunt a few days this week. Horace and Miss Irene Jeffrey of Marion visited their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Korah Jeffrey, near Parr this week. Mrs. J. S. Healey left Tuesday for her home in Toledo, 0., after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Joe Moore of Barkley township. The ladies of the D. A. R. will meet with Mrs. A. F. Long, on Park avenue, this Saturday afternoon at 2:3O.—MRS. E. P. HONAN, Regent.

Mr. and Mrs. Henry Gowland returned to their home near Buchanan, Mich., Thursday after a visit with The Thomas Redgate family of Newton. township. Their daughter Jessie accompanied them home. Mr. and Mrs. Mort Murray moved into the Korah Daniels tenant house on Milton street this w r eek. The property was recently vacated by Roscoe Sprague and wife, who moved upon a farm near Moody. Snow fell in different parts of the state Tuesday afternoon and night to a depth of a foot or more in Gary, South Bend, Greenfield and other places, it is said, and about three inches in Indianapolis. It missed Rensselaer entirely, for which we have no regrets. • Dr. Peter Pothulsje of Denver, Colo., came Tuesday to visit his mother and brother, near Goodland, and was induced to stop here and look after the little' son of Charles Fell, who is seriously sick with what has since been diagnosed as typhoid fever. Dy. Pothulsje was located for several years in the practice of medicine at Remington before going to Denver, where he has become quite prominent in his profession. ' ,

A dosen eggs are now worth 9c more than a bushel of corn. New carload of soft coal, $8 per ton from the bin. —LEE MYERS, Kniman, Ind. A Frank Kennel of Lafayette came Wednesday, for a visit with the Henry Shide family in township. Mrs. G. H. Weight of Chicago Heights, Ilk, came Thursday for a visit with her mother, Mrs. John Kohler. Grain, cattle and hog prices are still on the toboggan and it is hard to tell when the bottom will be reached.

Mr. and Mrs. T. R. Hutchinson and Harry Bell of Marlon visited here this week with Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Barber. Among the Chicago goers Thursday were Mrs. Don Beam, Miss Mary Shelley, A. O. Moore, Ralph Moore and Albert McNeil. Mrs. E. B. Allen and two children left this week for an indefinite visit with her mother, Mrs. Vondersmith, at Mitchell, S. D. We have had some nice weather this week for corn husking, something that the farmers needed, as there is lots of corn yet in the fields. Rev. J. B. Fleming and Mr. and Mrs. C. G. Spitler went to South Bend Wednesday to attend a meeting of the Logansport and South Bend Presbytery. Yesterday’s local grain prices: Corn, 58c; oats, 41c; wheat, $150; rye, $1.30. The prices one year ago were: Corn, $1.20; oats, 68c; wheat, $2.11; rye, $1.23. Mrs. H. T. Gwinn, Mrs. John Wilson and son Bernard, Mrs. Robert Randle and daughter, Mrs. Pheobe Brogan, and Mrs. H. E. Parkison were Lafayette goers Thursday.

Turkeys have been selling quite high for the Thanksgiving market, a few cents per pound higher even than last year.- Several report having received 39c per pound live weight. Mr. and Mr?. J. E. Spaulding returned to their home at Anderson Wednesday after a short visit here with the former’s sister, Miss Elizabeth Spaulding, manager of the Western Union office. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Bussell of Hammond and Mrs. Guy M. Crowder of Indianapolis were here Wednesday to attend the funeral of the infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Arnold Luers of southeast of town. The annual Thanksgiving dance will be given at the armory by the members of the Van Rensselaer club next Friday evening. The Gardner orchestra from Lafayette will furnish the music. Misses Mary and Clara Goetz left Wednesday morning for Indianapolis where they expect to spend the winter. They have closed their home here and expect to do light housekeeping and secure employment in Indianapolis. „ William Halleck Minor, age 59, died at Valparaiso Monday at the Christian hospital, after an operation. A widow and the following children survive: Mrs. Ethel Lambert, North Salem, Mo.; Merle Minor, Kirksville, Mo., and Ola and Guy Minor, Wheatfield, Ind. The body was brought to Wheatfield for burial.

Earl Easterday has moved into the Mrs. Porter house on Austin avenue, vacated by Mrs. Laura Harris, who moved Into the property on the same street vacated by Ike Wiltshire, which she recently bought. The Passons house, vacated by Easterday, in the west part of town, was sold lately to William Eldridge, who will move In from the country and occqpy same. x While jn Chicago and Detroit last week, Investigating the , fur market, Charles Pefley found that the market at present is all shot to pieces and there is absolutely no demand for raw furs at this time. He says the trappers might just‘as well hang their traps up in the woodhouse for this season, as the prices will bevery low even be any demand at all after the first of the year. The injunction proceeding instituted by seyeral taxpayers of Union township against the county treasurer, auditor and board of commissioners and the contractors of the Renck road was partially heard before Judge Berry of Fowler in the Carroll circuit court at Delphi last Friday. Several motions were filed by attorneys for the defendants and heard by the court. The case was temporarily continued and a - further hearing will be held In the same court at .some time In the near future. —Monticello Herald.

Yesterday’s local egg and butterfat prices: Eggs, 67c; butterfat, 58c. The Rensselaer Independent football team will play a return game with Kentland at the latter place tomorrow. We have a carload of Island Creek West Virginia coal, >12.75 at car, >13.25 delivered. —J. C. GWIN & SON, phone 6. —Advt. Yesterday was a beautiful November day, clear and pleasant with a balmy breeze almost like spring. The mercury at 2 p. m. registered 64 in the shade. A leap year party was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Ray Parks on the corner of College and McCoy avenues Tuesday evening by Miss Opal Hankins of Gifford, who is attending high school here and stays at the Parks home. About 14 young guests were present and spent a most enjoyable evening.

Two deer were shipped here Thursday, a doe weighing 110 pounds and a buck weighing 150 pounds, from northern Michigan. The doe was sent by James Lefler, to his son, Robert Lefler, of Barkley township, and the buck was sent home by E. F. Pullins, who with several others from here have been hunting In Michigan and Wisconsin for the past week. • Ed Ranton of just northwest of town had his hip and one arm badly Injured Monday when he fell a distance of about 10 feet from a stepladder on which he was doing some work in his corn crib. An x-ray picture of his injuries, taken at the county hospital Wednesday, disclosed no broken bones, but the members are badly bruised and he has suffered Intense pain. He was reported to be resting easier yesterday, however. A peculiar accident occurred at Wolcott Tuesday morning when a freight car jumped the track and crashed into a dwelling house near tliS station, tearing one side of the kitchen away and badly damaging the building, which was formerly used as a hotel. The car had been cut loose from the train and was being sent to the elevator. When directly opposite the house It left the track. Fortunately no one was injured.