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

C. O. Carter of Mt. Ayr, was in the city Thursday.

Hear the famous Chicago Divine, at opera house, Feb. 7.

Come and hear Dr. Hillis at opera house Feb. 7. A rare opportunity.

John C. Carmichael and his brother, Lewis, paid a visit to •‘Gifford’s laijd” Thursday on business.

Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe of the Chicago Bargain Store, are in Chicago purchasing goods this week.

Dr. M. B. Alter’s condition does not improve. He rests easier but his strength seems to be slowly ebbing away.

Lewis Carmichael, brother of John 0., is paying his brother a visit for a few days. Mr. Carmichael resides at Kansas City.

Ladies, you are cordially invited to “The Model's” exhibition of all kinds of new styles in Dress Goods, Silks, Embroidery, and Laces.

The late cold snap created a boom in the matrimonial market. Clerk Cooyer has issued seven licenses during the past two weeks.

Dwight Newell Hillis who is called to fill Henry Ward Beecher’s old pulpit in Brooklyn, N. Y., at opera house next Tnesday night.

Harry Bott, the efficient foreman of the Republican, will, it is said, soon join his family in California and make that state his home.

All parties knowing themselves indebted to the Stoner & Day Milling Co., will confer a favor by and settling their account it once.

The eight-months old son of Mr. and Mm. Nichols Krull died Tuesday night from lung trouble. The funeral was held Thursday and interment made in Mt. Calvery cemetery. The OLicago Chronicle Sunday edition is a model Sunday newspaper. It contains all the news, and many special features that commend it to both old and young. A volume of entertaining reading matter every week for five cents.

The big damage case of Brown vs. the C. I. & L. railroad, which had been occupying the attention of the Jasper circuit for two weeks, ended Saturday in a verdict of something over $5,000 for the plaintiff. The case will be appealed, we understand.

Joseph A., and Harvey W. Robinson, of lola, Kan., are visiting their mother and brothers, Warren and Wallace Robinson, of this city. “Ad,” as he was familiarly called, is well known in this community, and was once a candidate for the office of commissioner on the democratic ticket.

We see by4he Remington Press that ex-Connty Commissioner D. R. Jones has bought a 40-acre farm over in Carpenter tp., paying SIOO per acre. “County commissionering” and farming seems to be a lucrative business in Jasper county. This is the second farm Mr. Jones has bought in the past year or two.

Some months ago a petition was circulated and generally signed asking the county commissioners to erect hitch-racks along the south and east sides of the public square. This petition was to have been presented to the commissioners at their December seesion, but if this was done the records make no mention of the fact.

The mercury took a decided drop last Saturday and lingered about the zero mark for several days, dropping as low as 16 ° below one or two nights. This is alleged to have caused the trouble with “Honest Abe’s” twenty-three hundred dollar court house clock, but as the weather has now moderated and Abe is in special session we may expect this expensive piece of furniture to again ring out the hours and half-hours once more providing it is carefully nursed and kept good natured with frequent doses of hot lemonade