Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 October 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Sheriff Reed was in Fair Oaks serving papers Thursday. Benton democrats will hold their county convention today. Mr. k. Chipman has our thanks for a basket of fine Concord grapes. Mr. and' Mrs. Simon Fendig of Whijjatfield, spent Sunday here. John Weise of Goodland, was in Rensselaer on business Wednesday. Cash buys more at Judy and The Lief Buggy Company than anywhere else. The veterans of the 128th Indiana will bold their reunion at Monticello, pet. 5 and 6. The greatest shoe bargains ever now at the Chicago Bargain Store, has been confined to the louse this week by injuries receivej'from a serious fall. Mrs. €. W. Hanley entertained the O. 18, and O. F. E. C. Wednesday gfte moon and evening. , . _ •»' ■■ 1 • Walter Tharp of this place, now a memljer of the 161st Indiana, is sick with typhoid fever at Jacksonville, Fla. Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, a cabinet officer under the Cleveland administration, died at Dedham, Mass., on Wednesday. F. A. Woodin, the hustling Foresman real estate agent, is doing a rushing business these days. Several deals have been closed up this week. The spools at McCoysburg are closed this week on account of a pupil, a daughter of Jas. McDonald, having taken down with diptheria. Curfew will ring to-night for the first. The school bell will be used to tap the warning for all kids and old maids to vamoose to their homes. Harry Holderman, a former teacher in this county, now a member q£ the Ist Illinois, is visiting His regiment is to be mustered out Oct. 18. Now is the time to get your chimneys clean before putting up your heating stoves. Any body wanting work done in that line, call on Harry Wiltshire, the chimney sweep. Mr. anti Mrs. W. B. Austin went to Lafayette Monday and brought home their daughter Virgie, who has been sick for some time at the home of her grandparents, Judge and Mrs. Hammond. Readers of The Democrat will confer a favor by patronizing its advertisers as much as possible. They are wide-awake business men and appreciate the trade of a democrat as well as that of people of other political faiths. The case of John Reed, jr., of Jordan tp., vs the Home Insurance Co., of New York, which was begun in the Jasper circuit court over a year ago and taken to Newton on change of venue, and there won by Reed, but in which a- rehearing had been granted defendants, has been finally settled. We are not informed as to the exact terms of the settlement. Mrs. G. B. Ward who is attending her son, John, at Jacksonville, writes back that she visited the camp of the 161st, and especially Co. I, and found that camp life, climatic and other influences were gradually undermining the health of the boys and but little of their former J*im and vigor was left. Private Fox who accompanied Stuart Fox home, rejiorts the same conditions existing. Monticello Journal. , Rev. Peter Hinds of Milroy tp., has sold his fine farm to Mr. Geo. E. Hosmer. Mr. Hinds has resided in Jasper county for sixteen years, and has been an honorable and upright citizen, as mflny of our business men know. He intends to locate south of Louisville, Ky., while his son Malilon will occupy the twelve hundred acre farm he has lately purchased in Tennessee, where Hinds & Son intend to deal in stock. *