Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL MATTERS. The state legislature meets Jan. 5. < One week from to-morrow is Christmas. ' The 161st Indiana sailed for Cuba last Monday. A. M. Bringle of Fair Oaks, was in the city Monday. ’ Dr. Dessler the optician, is at Farmer City, DI., this week. Samuel Barker of Mt. Ayr, was in the city on business Monday. Monon gets the next meeting of the White County Farmers’ Institute. Samuel Dyer and another gentleman of Wolcott, were in the city Thursday. Morocco has settled her threatened damage suit by paying the party SIOO. Over one car load of Holiday Goods bought for the Chicago Bargain Store. S. A. Brusnahan of Union tp., is receiving surgical treatment at a Chicago hospital. Geo. Hargreaves and Thos. Mullen of Remington, were in Rensselaer on business Monday. The Newton circuit court convened Monday. Several of our attorneys are in attendance. Allie Day who was sent to the reform sck ol about a year and a half ago, is home on parole. Blaine Shafer, David Beasy and Frank Parcels of Monticello, were in the city last Sunday. Watch and wait for the lowest prices ever offered on holiday Chicago Bargain Store. Positions are easily obtained by the graduates of the Union Business College, of Lafayette, Ind. The new waterworks system at Lowell, Lake county, is completed and has been accepted by the town council, Benton county corn shelters have formed an association and agreed upon a uniform rate of 75 cents per hundred bushels for shelling the coming season.

N. W. Warner has retired from the hardware firm of N. Warner & Sons, and the business will be continued by his sons. D. G., N. H., and Chas. Warner. Box social, Friday, December 23,, 1898, at Pleasant Grove, Barkley township. A short program will be presented. Mary Bell Moore, Teacher. Charlie Grow has been compelled to give up his school southeast of the city on account of trouble with his eyes, and Albert Marshall takes his place as teacher. The place of meeting of the forthcoming farmers’ institute will be in the M. E. Church, instead of the east room of the court house, as announced last week, same having been changed. The Supreme court has refused a new trial to Wm. Messenger, the Starke county murderer. Messenger, it willjbe remembered, brutally murdered Chas. Nelson at San Pierre a year or more ago. Arthur Lakin of the 4th Infantry, U. S. regulars returned to Ft. Sheridan Tuesday, after a 5 days’ furlough, spent with his parents in Newton tp. His regiment exScts to leave in a few days for anilla. Among the Remingtonians in the city Thursday were James Clowry, Wm. Shepherd, Wm. Penwright, Samuel Dunn, Hugh and John Treanor, Charles, Samuel and James Burling, Homer Hardy and Jos. Shide. G, W. Fanson of Barkley tp., has purchased Peter Hordeman, jr’s. corn shbller, and has the contract of shelling 50,000 bushels of com for B. J. Gifford. The Gifford railroad is now completed about nine miles of its length and Mr. Gifford will ship his corn over the new road.