Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — VICINITY NEWS. [ARTICLE]

VICINITY NEWS.

The Hydraulic Pressed Brick Company at Porter, this county, has just sold $500,000 worth of brick to the postoffice department at Chicago —Valparaiso Messenger. Joe Heath shipped 134 heed of cattle to Chicago last week, that averaged $90.81 per head. Can any cattle-feeder in Benton county beat this? We think not—Oxford Tribune. Wolcott Enterprise: It is reported that Hon. Robt. Parker of Remington has purchased a tract of land adjoining the railroad about a half mile east of Reynolds. On this land is a fine lot of timber, that, when properly trimmed and cleared will make a pleasant grove. He will, so onr informant said, make an effort to establish a park there, similar perhaps, to the Fonntfdn Pnrk, near. Remington Fair grcuiias. Hany Caldwell, of the firm of McCray, Morrison & Earl Park, has built a railroad, so to speak, from Earl Park to Kentland. Monday he had fifty teams hauling grain to Kentland. The elevator was filled with grain but they could get no cars oft the Big Four. Extra crib room for 100,000 bushels more was built; still they could g d no cars. Having exhausted hi'ir padence they are now deli vr ug this grain to the Pan Handle road at Kentland. —Fowler Leader.