Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 February 1899 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

ADDITIONAL LOCAL. Good correspondence Stationery cheap at The Democrat office. We sell envelopes and writing paper cheaper than any place in the city. The Democrat. 100 envelopes with your name and address neatly printed thereon for only 50 cents, at The Democrat office. If you have for sale a farm, house and lot, or any other property of a salable nature, try advertising it in The Democrat. The postoffice matter is still sh/ouded in mystery, and many a knowing one is scratching his head and wonderig what is the matter with the Major. Mrs. Fred L. Chileote and daughters, from Albany, are visiting th# former’s mother, Mrs. J. H. Kinney. Uncle Reese Goddard's serious condition hastened their coming. . The bill introduced by Mr. Hall j of Fowler, separating Benton counIty from the 30th judicial district and attacuirig it on to the 21st, passed the House Thursday by a i-vote of 50 to 25.

Reason F. Goddard has been seriously ill for some days. At last accounts erysipelas—serious attacks of which he has experienced before—seems to have developed and his condition is considered quite critical. In the Newton county syat war, a fight in the House on the adoption of the committees’ report took place Thursday, when the minority report favoring removal was defeated by a vote of 31 years to 58 nays. Snnator O’Connor of White lias introduced the original bill in the senate. Abe Stone, Frank Poitwood, and Fred Liston spent Thursday night in jail. These boys have been in the habit of hanging on moving trains, and were arrested as they with others jumped off the passenger train going west Thursday afternoon. They were on trial as we go to press.

Mr. Aughsberger, a< farmer preacher residing one-half mile south of Union school house, Jordan tp., was killed while driving across the railroad track, by a Panhandle switch engine at Goodland last Tuesday noon, his body being ground to fragments and scattered along the track for a distance of five hundred feet. Meager particulars have been learned here. The phenominal growth of The Democrat Bince the election is a source of gratification to its friends, and of astonishment and dismay to its enemies. It has been the aim of its management to secure ten new subscribers for every (lay Abe convened himself in special session. The Democrat is coming down the home stretch like a quarter horse, while the cloud of dust, has long since hid Abo from view. The Democrat numbers among its enthusiastic readers the most intelligent and progressive people in the county, irrespective of party, and has the largest country circulation by odds of any paper published in Jasper county.

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