Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 November 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Get your sale bills at The Democrat office. Eugene Tyner, the Monon water pumper, has moved to Cedar Lake. Read the stock sale ad of D. H. Yeoman andE. A. Yost on another page of The Democrat. When in Rensselaer put your team up at Haff & Masker’s feed and hitch barn, one block north of Makeever hotel. ts A medicine fakir traveling under the name of “Buffalo Frank,” has been holding forth at the opera house this week. • Jerry Schofield has purchased of Hollingsworth & Hopkins one of their new dwelling houses on North River street. Alexander Ross of Benton county, has bought the Neely Wilson farm, 4 miles northeast of Goodland. Consideration SSO per acre. The town council of Monticello have just made their tax levy for 1898. -The total levy for all purposes including poll, is but $2.45. Renssebier’s levy is $3.05. In White county 101 ballotsi were thrown out as illegal. We have riot learned the exact number in thia county, but it was probably about 150. “Bupk' - Stanley, the Logansport Mempeiance evangelist, is I holding meetings at the M. E. j church in this city. Quite a num- i ber of non-drinkers have signed’ the pledge. If yot expect to become a business man, now is the time to get your start while the Union Busi- [ ness College, of Lafayette, Ind., I is offering such great advantages to its graduates. George Shepherd of Goodland,, who recently traded his interest in 1 the tile factory at that place for a I farm near Rensselaer, has now | traded the farm for the J. G. j Perry hardware store at Gobdland. Capj. Chas. H. Price of the 2d Kentucky' regitneftt, was in the city Saturday. He had been visiting his mother and brothers •in Carpenter tp. His regiment has been mustered out and Charlie has returned to his home in Middlesboro, Ky. Had a part of the money used in erecting that $165,000 court house been expended in building gravel roads, so that the taxpayers could have reached the polls, it is quite evident the result of tlie late election in Jasper county would have been much different. C. D. Nowels has leased his two store rooms in the Nowels block to Laßue Bros., and the rooms are now being put in condition for their reception. Later they will secure the third room. Mr. Nowels has disposed of the balance of his stock of goods to his father, who has moved same to his store north of the depot. A petition will be presented to the board of commissioners at their next meeting praying that hitch racks be placed along the south and east sides of the public square for the convenience of farmers and others who may desire to hitch their teams while in the city. Thepetition has been generally signed by all to whom presented. Walter Gumm is putting in an acetylene gas plant, and will furnish gas for the new meat market of Messrs. Hartman & Woodkirk, H. J. Welch’s jewelry store and J. F. Major’s grocery in addition to lighting his hardware establishment. If this proves successful, there will probably be several other plants put in here in the near future.—Remington Press. * The stay-at-home vote in Jasper county makes a falling off in the vote of two years ago of 544, distributed as follows: Hanging Grove, 44; Gillam, 60; Walker, 47; Barkley, 66; Marion, 65; Jordan, 34; Newton, 21; Keener. 52; Kankakee, 20; Wheatfield, 14; Carpenter, 66; Milroy, 12; Union, 43. This is merely a comparison with ’96, and in some townships there were many more who did not vote at the last election than these figures show.