Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1898 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Virgie items again received too late. Try The Democrat for job printing. Ernest Middleton came home yesterday. Three weeks from next Tuesday is election day. Wade & Wood have consolidated their two barbershops. James Duvall of Illinois is visiting relatives in Jasper. Peter Hordeman has returned from his Wisconsin visit. Mrs. G. W. Gautheir of Remington, visited Mrs. W. A. Huff this week. * ■y— Owing to the cold, raw air, no "band concert was given Thursday evening. I. S. Wade, a prohibition orator of Lafayette, spoke here Tuesday afternoon and evening. Rev. W. H. Sayler will preach at Vaughn Chapel, Sunday (tomorrow) at 10:45 a. m. Geo. M. Robinson and sister, Mrs. Thos. Thompson, are taking treatment at West Baden Springs. The Democrat and Indianapolis Sentinel one year, $1.35. Democrat and Cincinnati Enquirer, $1.50. Bill N. Jones is shipping considerable of his prepared roof paint these days to Chicago, Kansas and other points. William Ott, a son of J. M. Ott, of Remington, was married last week to Miss Clara Farager of near Forest, 111.

Rev. and Mrs. Fritts, Mrs. C. B. Steward and Miss Frankie Porter attended the state convention of the Missionary Baptist Association at Peru this week. Attorney George Dunn, of the law firm of Chilcote & Dunn, has abandoned the legal profession and entered into partnership with his brother in the wholesale queensware and crockery business at Wichita, Kan. During the seven days ending Oct. 13, there were filed in the recorder’s office of Jasper county 6 real estate mortgages, aggregating $1,267; 17 chattel mortgages, aggregating $8,585; 2 mechanics liens, aggregating $195; and 2 crop liens, aggregating S4O. During the same period 5 releases, aggregating $9,309.53 were placed on record. A number of oil and gas leases in Gillam, Wheatfield, Walker and Kankakee townships have recently been filed in the recorder’s office. They are given to the Inter-state Petroleum Gas and and Oil Co., who are to pay oneeighth of the oil product and SIOO per year for each gas well utilized. The leases are made for a period of five years. Geo. Sapp writes his wife and Earents from far-away Alaska that e has built a home and is prepared to spend the winter. Himself and a companion are all that are left of the large party hat left Seattle, the others having returned to the States. He says they have put up enough hay to feed their horses and are encamped in the timber where fuel is plenty. —Goodland Herald. The apple harvest throughout Central New York will be one of the lightest in years. This is owing partly to the prevalence of the caterpillar, but principally to the blight of the blossoms. Western New York will produce about onefourth of an average crop. Notwithstanding the marked shortage of apples in this State’ one of the heaviest apples dealers in the Unied States, Mr. Thore of Philadelphia, who has just completed a tour of inspection reaching from Maine to Oregon, states that there will be more apples in the United States and Canada than there will be market for.—New York Ex. Luce Bond, who has spent the summer in the famous Klondike gold regions of Alaska returned home Tuesday looking hale and hearty. Luce says there is plenty of gold there but it is not on claims now accessible. His party were not successful in locating a “find” and all returned save two. He left Dawson August 25th and readied Chicago Sept. 29th, without seeing a sick day, and estimates thatljy disposing of his outfit at the price he did, his entire trip cost him less than §3OO. This is surely a cheap summer’s outing and one filled with enough hardships, excitements and hairbreadth escapes to satisfy the most fastidious. On the same boat with his party were 300 men and three women, and only one man in the lot had found gold. This man had about SIOO,OOO with him.—Remington Press.