Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. Geo. Casey of Aix, is reported quite sick. Simon Leopold is in Chicago this week purchasing more new goods. Mr. and Mrs. Bryant Cawley of Remington, were in the city yesterday. For Sale:—Two lots in Newton’s addition to Rensselaer. Enquire at Democrat office. Mesdames G. W. Goff and Jack Montgomery are taking treatment at the Indiana Mineral Springs, near Attica. After reading your copy of The Democrat hand it to your neighbor and ask him to subscribe, if he likes the paper. Dr. S. E. Sparling left Tuesday morning to resume his duties as instructor of Science and English in a college at Madison, Mrs.

Will Schanlaub has been visiting friends in Sheldon this week. He will begin his school near Morocco one week from Monday. Mr. and Mrs. Alex Lardner and Mrs. Geo. Jenkins, of Goodland, and Mrs. C. A. Perkins of Mishawaka, visited Will Wishard and family Thursday and Friday. Elswhere will be found call for democratic township conventions to nominate justices of the peace and constables to be voted for at the Coining election in November. Last week Was about the hottest week of the season. This week an overcoat has not been none too heavy a greater part of the time to keep a man from shaking with the chills. The largest melon so far heard from this season was raised by Berl Richardson of the Gifford district. It weighs 58 pounds. The melon is on exhibition in Moody <fc Roth’s window. Dr. H. J. Becker of Dayton, Ohio, will deliver his famous lecture, “Five Hundred Miles on Horseback Through the Holy Land,” at the Presbyterian church to-night. Admission 25 cents for adults, children 15 cents. Rev. and Mrs. Middleton are attending the meeting of the Northwest Indiana M. E. Conference at Plymouth this week. They will also visit friends in Michigan ere their return, therefore there will be no preaching at the M. E. church for the next two Sundays.

But two car loads of hay have ' 1 been shipped from the station at < 1 this place so far this season, which * is by far the smallest amount ever , shipped from here during the same ( < length of time since the railroad ! ( was built. Hay is worth so little i ( that dealers do not care to handle i i “• 11 Wednesday morning a spark :' from a threshing engine set fire to j a stack of oats at Oscar Hauler's, 1 1| miles southeast of town, and in 1 a few moments the stack and sev- 1 eral others with it was a mass of ' flames. It is estimated that the 1 grain consumed was about 1500 bushels. )' It is said that workmen, while ; digging a cellar at Cedar lake unearthed a quantity of human bones.; and on going deeper into the •, ground, discovered they had' opened an immense Indian mound, where the Pottawatomie Indians buried their dead nearly one hundred years ago. It is understood that the supreme court has made an order that the fines in the contempt cases must be in no way enforced until their status can be determined by that court, and that the lower court desires to make a confession pf error and dismissal of the suits without trial.—Fowler Leader. The Hennessy Leroyle company in “Other People’s Money” at EUis opera house last Monday evening gave universal satisfaction, and the large audience in attendance were kept in a roar of laughter I from beginning to end. The comginy is a good one and “Other eople’s Money” as given by them is a guaranteed cure for any case of the blues.