Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Sheriff Reed and family were at Remington Tuesday. J. H. Jessen was in Morocco on business Wednesday. L. F. Hopkins of Chicago spent Sunday at his home in this city. A. G. W. Farmer’s son Worth, in Milroy tp., is reported quite sick. E. P. Honon was called to Delphi on Wednesday by the death of a cousin. B. F. Fendig and Bert Hopkins were over to Kentland last Sunday. F. A. Woodin, the Foresman real estate man, was in the city Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Jones of Redkey, syent Sunday with the Journal editor, Ernest Lamson is home from Terre Haute, where he has been attending school. Mrs. E. T. Harris and little daughters of Remington, are visiting friends here this week. Seven new names were added to The Democrat’s rapidly growing subscription list on Tuesday. J. W. Phelps of Remington, purchased several fine draft horses at and near Rensselaer this week. Mrs. Newton and daughter of Houston, Texas, are visiting the former’s uncle, Chas. Roberts. Best rarities of strawberry plants for sale, at 50 cents per hundred. Call early. John Schanlaub. Ernest and Claude Oram, and sister Myrtle, of Goodland, were guests of the Journal man this week. Mrs. \V. H. Coover and son left Monday for a few weeks stay at Bay View, Mich., for the former’s health. S. E. Sparling will talk at the F. W. Baptist church to-morrow evening on “Some Asjjects of Our Present Politics.”

The Rensselaer ball club is billed to play the Raub dub at the Remington fair on Friday of next week for a purse of SIOO. Ike Leopold and wife of Wolcott, and Mrs. Nathan Fletcher of Frankfort, were guests of the family of A. Leopold last Sunday. A big delegation from the Rensselaer Sunday schools attended Fountain Park last Saturday. Over three thousand people were on the grounds that day. It is stated that the dog tax law, which requires owners of dogs to pay the tax when the assessor makes his rounds, is to be contested in the supreme court. The new war revenue law even catches the country fairs. Nobody seems to be exempt except express, telegraph and other monopolies. As usual, the poor man and the man *in moderate „ circumstances has to pay nearly the whole thing. Mrs. Acenath M. Ford nee Johnson, of Remington, has applied fora divorce from her husband, Lewis A. Ford, alleging abandonment and failure to provide. The parties were married Nov. 24, 1896, and have one child, a girl one year and four months old. The mother asks the custody of the child.

Rensselaer Post No. 84, has made a contract with the Citizens’ Committee of the 32d annual National encampment, G. A. R. for accommodations for lodging and shelter for thirty men in Camp Sherman, Chester Park, Cincinfiati, free of all cost to parties occupying them, and mattresses will be placed in each tent ready for occupancy not later than Sept. 5. The Monon excursion’to Chicago, last Sunday w§s a hummer. Two trains of fifteen cars each were loaded to the bottom steps, and about 3,000 people all told were on board. At this station 205 tickets were sold, and at Monticello 107 were sold. It is said that 300 people were left at Lafayette for lack of cars to accommodate them.