Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

' LOCAL MATTERS. J. J. Hunt spent Sunday at Knox. Ira W. Yeoman of Remington, was in the city Wednesday. f- Monon’s big street fair will occur next week, Oct. 4,5, 6, 7. Judge Reynolds of Monticello, was here on business Saturday. J. 8. Barnes, the Remington hay dealer, was in the city Friday. Medaryville onion buyers are paying but 25 cents per onions. 1 Bates Tucker, late of the YankoSpanko war, is. teaching up in Keener tp. Mrs. S. M. Freelove of Goodland, is visiting her daughter, Mrs, F. E. Babcock. 100 cases rubber boots and shoes just received. Chicago Bargain Store. S. H. Kuster and Wm. Penwright, of Remington, were in the city Saturday on business. Fifty dozen new neckwear just received. Chicago Bargain Store. J. S. Barnes, J. W. Lock. P, Maguire and C. R. Griffith of Remington, were in the city Tuesday. We stated last week that Jasper county had an area of 580 square miles. This was an' error, we should have said 570. Clarence Kuns, of Co. I. 161st Indiana, a son of J. T. Kuns of Brookston, died in camp at Jacksonville, Fla., last Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Moorehead of Princeton tp., White county, were in the city Saturday and made The Democrat a pleasant call. Elder N. H. Shepherd has concluded his summer’s work at Chicago University and will now be here during the week as well as Sundays. Injunction proceedings have been begun m the circuit court lo restrain the collection of the costs in the Iroquois and Wakarusa ditch cases. W. L. Rich and E. F. Emery of Remington, were in the city a few hours Wednesday. They were enroute to the former’s sheep ranch, near Rose Lawn.

A four-year-old sou of Leonard Vetter, of near Goodland, got a foot cut off one day last week by getting in front of a mowing machine where his father was mowing weeds. The Monon’s Chicago excursion last Sunday was well patronized by Remington and Rensselaer people and those from the surrounding country, 233 tickets being sold at this station. Our brilliant ex-postmaster, E. P. Honan, will leave for Indianapolis Monday to enter a law college in that city. Mrs. Honan will join him shortly in the city and they will take rooms there during Mr. Honan’s stay. „ The 3-1 railroad company recorded a $3,000,000, fifty year mbrtgage with the county recorder here a few days ago. The recording fee was sl3. The mortgage was given to the Continental Trust Co., of New York, and must be recorded in every county through which the road passes. H. J. Bartoo of the Home News, Has leased the Goodland Herald and will take possession of the plant about ijae 15th of the present month. A. J. Kitt, the present proprietor, will seek a more extended field. Bro. Bartbo has our best wishes in his new venture. The Home News has been discontinued. The commissioners of Benton county have entered ah order requiring that every two years the books and accounts of all officials handling county money must be thoroughly overhauled by an expert and a report made That is an order every county in the state should have upon its records, —Goodland Herald.