Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 October 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL MATTERS. Quail may be shot after Nov. 10. Get your sale bills at The Democrat office. Simon Fendig of Wheatfield, was in th.e city Thursday. 22 pounds “C” sugar for SI.OO. Chicago Bargain Store. W. H. Coover went to Indianapolis Wednesday after election supplies. Cash buys more at Judy and The Lief Buggy Company than anywhere else. G. M. Robinson and Mrs. Thos. Thomposon have returned from West Baden. Mrs. S. Lucas of Carpenter tp., was the guest of Mrs. F. E. Babcock Thursday. A. J. Kitt, late of the Goodland Herald, is temporalily connected with the Kentland Enterprise. The finest line of fur collarettes, jackets, and capes. Chicago Bargain Store. Mrs. Margaret Lewis of Barkley tp., has been granted a widow’s pension with about S9OO back pay. The event of the season in the show business will be Faust next Thursday at Ellis’ Opera House. The Chicago Bargain store has unloaded a car of the finest Michigan apples here this week ever brought to the city. J. A. Lamborn of Remington, and Chas. Fraser of northern Benton county, were in the city on business Monday. Joe Reynolds, who is working for the Coukey Printing Co. at Hammond, spent Sunday at his home in this place. The Rensselaer foot ball team played at Crown Point last Saturday and met their first defeat in two years. Score 16 to 6. Capital to do business is furnished by the Union Business College, of Lafayette, Ind. Send for catalogue and samples of writing. Harry F. Bennett, a cigar and confectionary dealer at Monticello, succumbed to too much “prosperity” and closed his doors last Monday.

Maj. Thos. B. Carter, the noted secret service detective of Indianapolis, was found dead in his bed at Louisville last Monday morning. Heart disease. Mr. John W. Iliff and Miss Fannie Jonas were married at McCoysburg last Sunday, at the residence of the groom’s father, Elder J. C. Brady officiating. Geo. Kepperliug, a member of Co. I, 161st Indiana, who was home on a fuHough, died at the home of his sister, at Chalmers, last Sunday, from typhoid fever. C. H. Porter, of the late firm of Porter A Wisliard, has secured a position with the wholesale grocery firm of Reid, Murdock <fc Co., of Chicago, and will move to 1 that city. * • Miss Leila D. Middleton left yesterday for Washington City, D. C. where she will enter the Lucy Webb Hayes Training School for Deaconesses. She will be gone for two years. I have a complete line of ladies’ and childrens’ millinery in trimmed hats, caps, walking hats and sailors. Miss Thompson as trimmer. Come early for good selections. Mrs. C. E. Hershman. A two-story brick addition is being built in the rear of Laßue Bros, store, the lower floor to be used by them as a warehouse, while the upper floor will be used as a stage dressing room for the opera house. Strayed ;- T From my pasture 7 miles, southeast of Rensselaer, on or about Oct. 7th, one red yearling steer, marked with hog ring in under part of left ear. Any information leading to the recovery of said steer will be reasonably rewarded. A. G. W. Farmer-