Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 May 1897 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

GRADUATING EXERCISES. Graduating exercises will be Laid ns follows: Newton Township, at Sayler- \ die school house, Saturday evai nng, May 22, 1897. 7:00 p. m. Barkley, Union, Hanging (Srove Mid North Marion, at Valma, in Barkley township, Wednesday,June 9. 10:30 a. m. Bring dinner. Carpenter, Jordon, Milroy and Fouth Marion, at Fouutain Park, uaar Remington, Thursday, May 27. 10:30 a. m. Bring dinner

Gillam Township, at Independ euce Chapel, June 5. 8:00 p. m. Wheatfield and Kankakee, at Whea‘fiel!. Juue 2. 10.30 a. m. North eud soluol rally. Everybody invited. By order of Board of Education. J.F WARREN, Pres. J. A. Lambokn, Soo’y. A Grant county jury recently punished u 16-year-oM fcoy who s*olo a soda fountain cylinder full of gas, by disfranchising him for two vears. . The prettiost Hats ever shwon for Ladies and Children. ’Call at the MEYER SISTERS. Brown—lsn’t there a blue room in the White House? Smith—l think so. I believe it’s the room -in which the president expresses his private opinion of the offloe-seekerß. The Loganaport papeis report that the new oigarette law has al. ready had a marked effect on the consumption of the “devil sticks,” and the attention which the law has drawn to those who sell and smoke them tends to make them unpopular.

Judge Healy’s is the placb for shoes—Gents', Ladies’ and Child* ren’s. Don’t forget it. The sohool boar 1 at Peru concluded that they were paying the teachers more than the times justified aud last week ordered a out of from 25 to 60 per cent. There is muoh dissatisfaction among the teachers, but eighteen of them will retaiu their positions. The fire department was called to the engine house connected with the RR., water tank, Monday. The fire was extinguished, and but little damage sustained. The new arrival joined tbe crowd “Muy 1 ask what is going on?” he inquiied of a native. “You may. We’re hangin’ a feller fer stealin’ awheel." “But don’t you think that’s a pretty! tough punishment for a rather simple crime! ‘•Why, good Lord, Btr anger, it was a ’97 model!” Engineer Bostwiok will get you up plans and specifications for building. Gnarges reasonable.— Office up-stairs, in Forsythe building.

For about one week after the ebctioL gold bug papers blustered and swaggere ! over the resumption of a few factories that had been shut down for a campaign scare. Then they quit and began announcing ihat prosperity would come after the holidays. The holidays passed, and then it was announced that prosperity was waiting for Cleveland to get out McKinley to get in. And now we are waiting • n something else.— Indianapo.is Sentinel. The Cun.pviUe Torchlight gives way to the following burst of woe: “Alas, this is indeed a world of kickers. One man kicks because the paper runs an occasional bit of sensational news, another because it don’ 4 . One inan roars because the departure of bis wife for i visit is not noted, while another cl. ws the air because notice is taken of visitors at his house, giving as a reason that he “don’t want no newspaper notoriety.” The sweet young thing comes m ana states that Mamie is BDelled Mavmc, and she tho’t a “man as smart as an editor ought to have known better,” and thus it goes.”

Bill ye often spoke his witti cisms laden with the greatest tru*» isms. AmoDg the most noticeable, most Nyeish. and most app opos is the following—“A man may use a watt on the back of his neck for a collar button; ride on the back coach of a train to save interest on his money until the conductor ".omes around; stop his watch nights to save wear and tear; leave his ‘i’ and ‘t’ without a dot or cross to save iuK; pasture his mother’s grave to save corn; but a man of this kind is a gentleman compared t> a fellow who will taka"a newspaper, and when ! aßked to pay for it, puts it in the 1 office and haß it marke 1 ‘refused.’” WAN IED—FAITHFUL MEN OR womesto travel for responsible established hhuse in Indiana. Salary S7BO and expenses. Position permanent. Reference. Enclose self-addressed stamped envelope. The National. Star Insurance l Bldg,. Ohioago.