Democratic Sentinel, Volume 21, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1897 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Hear Bask! Jnd, J, liuut visited Frankfort i oil business, this week . Anothe class in German is being organized by Dr. Johnsou. •James W. Douthit visited Kuox Wednesday, on legal business. Harne Kurrie visited Monticello, Wednesday, on business. December term of Commission., ere conrtwill begin next Monday. Ira A. Kiueliart has moved back to Delphi. Johp Eger and Granville Moody returned from their Nebraska jnp Fliilay of Inst week The Rensselaer Lecture Club announce as their third number, Dr. Rusk on Abraham Lincoln. Jas. jjl. S. Ellis and wife gave hanks in Chicago, Thanksgiving Day. John H? Thatcher and wife, of Chicago,are visiting at M. L. Spit* ler’s. Busk on Abraham L neoln, at Ellis Opera House, Wednesday Dec. 8. Charfie .Jouveuat, of Chicago, visited relatives and frienos in this city tins week. Heats on sal.* at Fendig’s Drug Htore for the u..k Lecture, Dec. 8. Secure thsm early. Scholars of Rensselaer Public Schools will be admitted so 10c. to the address of Abraham Lincoln by John Rusk. John and Ike Kepner think of movn g to Sheldon. 111., in the spr ug, an have sold their residences in this city. A gray pagle, measuring 0 feet 8 inches from tip to tip, was shot by Emmet Pullins, of Barkley to mix hi , Friday of last week.

Don’t fa 1 to hear l)r. Rusk, the eminent Oritto and Divine, deliver his famous address on Abiaham Lincoln. Opera House, Dec 8. Miss Bel e Chambe lain, of Kentland, was the guest of her cousin Miss True Yeoman, in this city, Thanksgiving Day, Treasurer Gwin substituted venison for turkey, for thanksgiving dinner. Mis son Lacy shipped him a “saddle” from Wisconsin. Advertised Letters—Mrs. Susan Allen, Mrs. Agnes Brookman, Lincoln Plake, U. A. Sekermerhorn, Philip Smith, Miss Della Turner, Jay White. At the residence o' Dr. Washbum, Monday evening, a reception was given Elder and Mrs. W. O. Moore, on the eve of their departure for Indianapolis. President Burroughs, of Wabash College, attended the Teachers’ Association in this city, and was the guest of W, B. Austin and family. The Jasper County Farmers’ Institute will be held in Rensselaer January 14th and loth. Prominent speakers will bs iu a f ten»!«« anoe. If all the resto! the towns along t: e proposed routes of the new elec trio railway are as enthusiastic as Rrnsselaer there will e no question ot its b ing built right quickly.— Winamac Republican. Edwin A Shepherd of Chicago and Miss Jenn e Gwin, daughter of Peter Zea formerly of Hanging Grove township, were married at the home of the bride’s parents at Shelby. Thursday of last we?k. Rensselaer gets a waterworks plant with seven and one half miles of mains and con'esp ndinglv larger in every way than that of this city for very little more money than the Winamac plant cost.— Why, the wherefore? Does it take less money over thereto promote plant than it does in some other places?—Winamac Republican. Our frieud Nat. S. Bates, accom panied Mr. McKee to Remington, Wednesday, in the interest of the projected new paper. We remember Mr. Bates to k the same interest in the Siekel’s & James enterprise in 1888, when the Republicans scored a majority of over 600 against tbe Demociucy.

The Monon is to have 260 fl >*• i cars forty feet long. The car.. j are to be built e clusivelv to L : j die c*r sills, which are thirty-niao | | feet long as a rule. The o dinar v | flat car is thirty feet lojg and a l .shipments of car sills must he made on two cars. The hiUjber ) busmens handled by the Won u j from the south is per'•‘a sas larg' as that of any road m the couu*ry.