Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 August 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

J. J. - Hunt is away on a pleasure trip. « Jesse Bennett and family of near Remington, were in the city Tuesday. Chase Kelley has purchased P. H. Smith’s interest in the Rensselaer laundry. Many people saw the “tiger” at the Wallace shows last Wednesday, to their sorrow. ~l—,-A-Ed Seward, a former Rensselaer resident, now of Oil is visiting here this week. The Jasper County Democrat is the only straight democratic newspaper in the county.

Geo. Fisher of Lake City, lowa, was in town Thursday. He is visiting his parents at Remington. John Finn, one of Kankakee township’s solid democrats, came in Monday with Trusteee Kaupke, Mrs. Geo. Royster and son Carl, of Morocco, are the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Sigel Royster • of this city. Miss Maude Reed and brother, N. J., of Rantoul, 111., are visiting their uncle, Sheriff Reed, this week. Judge and Mrs. S. P. Thompson, and Mrs. Alfred Thompson returned the first of the week from tljeir Ohio visit. The game of ball at Riverside Park Wednesday afternoon between the band boys and clerks, resulted in victory for the former by a score of 14 to 11. Wils Porter deposited six mammoth ears of corn upon our table Thursday, with the remark, “I've got 70 acres that will average up about as good as that.” A party of 102 people left the southwestern part of Tipton county last Tuesday for Uniontown, Wash., where they will form a colony to engage in fruit farming. Miss Maggie Huff.ofCrawfordsville, who has been under the care of her brother W. A. Huff, of this city for a few weeks, was taken Co the asylum at Long Cliff last Monday.

C. H. Peek and Homer Hardy of Remington, were in the city Tuesday night and took the early train for Chicago the following morning to transact business in the Windy City. Let every reader of The Democrat make an earnest effort to .extend its circulation until it reaches every democrat in the county. Your republican neighbors can also glean much information from its columns. Trustee J. C. Kaupke, of Kankakee tp., was the first of the township trustees to arrive Monday morning, to make his annual settlement with the commissioners, Mr. Kaupke had to drive over 30 miles to reach here. “Its almighty hard” says an exchange, “for a paper to keep telling the people that our town is the j best place in the world to trade, when a good many business men in the town never expend a penny in advertising.” Miss Minnie Sampson, who has been visiting the family of A. J. Hoy, southeast of McCoysburg, for the past three weeks, returned to her home in Ohio last Tuesday? She was accompanied home by Miss Ethel Hoy, who will visit there for a few weeks. Messrs. Mann Spitler and Rene Hasper, of Thayer, Newton county, were in Rensselaer on business Tuesday. Mr. Spitler says the great prosperity wave has not struck his locality as yet. They have fairly good crops about Thayer, but the prices are what’s worrying the farmers thereabouts. S. B. Nickum, the Logansport perpetual light fake, has been arrested by a United States marshal on the charge of fraudulent use of the mails in selling territory, for the sale of his lights. It is alleged that he has secured several thousand dollars by sale of rights. His perpetual light, however, still remains in Egyptian darkness.