Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

$^ r ernon Nowels is visiting at Toledo, Ohio. MarkYPeterson, of Morocco, was in the city Tuesday. The Rensselaer schools will open Monday, Sept. 5. O. B. Mclntire of Indianapolis, was in the city Monday. F. J. Gant of Kniman, was in the city on business Wednesday. G. K. Hollingsworth and family are spending a few weeks at Oden, Mich. A pension of $6 per month has been granted James DeWolf of Morocco. The town ,pf Lowell has let the contract for a waterworks system to cost $17,430. Miss Carrie Irwin of Sheldon, Ills., is visiting the family of J. F. Irwin this week. Thos. Harris of Remington, was in the city Tuesday advertising the Remington fair. Ross Grant, a clerk in the Seigel & Cooper store at Chicago, spent Sunday at his home in this city. Sheldon 3, Rensselaer 1, is the way the score stood at the close of the ball game at Sheldon last Friday. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Osborn of Remington, were the guests of their daughter, Mrs. W. S. Parks, over Sunday. Mrs. Thomas Parker is now able to be about, after a short but very dangerous attack of inflamation of the bowels. James Gardner, the new proprietor of the Nowels mills, has moved into the Sears property on the west side of the river. Hon. John Ross, democratic candidate for congress from this district, was in the city a few hours Wednesday morning.

Miss Lena Washburn, who has been spending the summer with her sister Mary, in Chicago, returned home Wednesday night. Watch The Daylight Clothikg House for the finest line of clothing, shoes, hats, caps and Seat’s furnishings ever shown in asper county. Elmer Bridgeman and family of Morocco, were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Royster, last Sunday. Mrs. Geo. Royster, who had been visiting here for the past few days, returned home with them. O. P. Taber and F. R. Curtis of Remington, are down in Jennings county this week. They think of purchasing considerable real estate there if favorably impressed with the country. The twenty-four annual fair of the Remington Fair Association will be held this year as usual on the beautiful shady grounds of the association, £ mile north of Remington, on Aug. 23 to 26 inclusive. Four thousand dollars in cash premiums are to be distributed. The fifth annual mid-summer festival of the Indiana courts of the Independent Order of Foresters of America was held at Crown Point last Saturday, attended by several thousand people. Fifteen courts were represented and the day’s entertainment was lavish in its profusion. Elias Kislter, a Logansporter, lately returned from the Klondike, says Dawson city has about 75,000 people. Thousands of men are out of work, and those without prospects are leaving as rapidly as possible. Wages have fallen from $1.50 an hour to 80 cents an hour, and with but seven hours work a day the ordinary laborer does not make enough to pay his board at $2 per meal. A man has discovered the reason that an engine is called she and the argument is that they wear a jacket and apron, have shoes, hose, and drag a train behind them; they have a lap, need guides, ride wheels, will not turn out for pedestrians, foam and refuse to work; theV attract men, are very contrary and it always takes a man to manage them.