Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Next Wednesday is the day of the big circus. Northern Jasper will harvest a bountiful crop this year. J. M. Ott and family of Remington, were in the city Tuesday. Four drownings have occurred at Cedar Lake in the last sixty days. Frank Babcock is making a good paper for a Democrat. —Fowler Leader. The White county republican convention will be held at Monon, Aug. 10. The4owu»hip4w6teeß will make their annual settlement with the county commissioners next Monday. McCray, Morrison & Co., of Remington, have purchased the O. P. Taber & Co., grain elevator at that place. The Monon News savs the stone crushing plant at that place is running day and night to keep up with orders. At latest accounts nothing had been heard from S. H. Petrie, the Wheatfield man who mysteriously disappeared early in the month. “Honorably Conducted, Truthfully Advertised,” is the motto of The Great Wallace Shows, and it makes good this boast. At Rensselaer, Wednesday, Aug. 3. Mort Goodwin, son of Rev. E. A. Goodwin, a former resident of Remington, was wounded at the battle of Santiago and is now at Key West, with several hundred other wounded soldiers. Chalmers held her first corporation election last week, and the entire democratic ticket with one exception was elected by large majorities. Matt Ream, formerly of Remington, is one of the councilmen elected. Rain fell all around us again Wednesday afternoon, but not enough reached us to lay the dust. At Morocco a heavy shower fell, also six or eight miles north of Rensselaer and a few miles south, they had a good rain. The Democrat moved its big news press over to our new quarters last Saturday. The Home News, which has for some time heretofore been printed on our Sress, will, after this week, be reuced to its former size, Thursday evening, of last week, the bam and sheds at William Cooper’s, Boswell, were destroyed by fire. “Warsaw,” the great English Shire stallion, was burned., The loss was about $1,200 with a small insurance. The fire is thought to have been of incendiary origin.—Oxford Tribune.