Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 February 1899 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Get your sale bills at The Dem- j ocrat office. | —— _ j If you have for sale a farm, house j and lot, or any other property of a j salable nature, try advertising it in i The Democrat. Bring your job printing to The Democrat office. We appreciate your favors, do nothing but the best work and charg moderate prices. Fruit will in all probability be scare this year. The intense cold has undoubtedly done much damage to many kinds of fruit, notably peaches, pears, apricots and plums. Low temperature setting in early in the winter is said by fruit men to better the conditions somewhat, as the sap is kept dovfh- and the blossom buds are nor developed. Small fruits are damaged consider- | ably, strawberries especially. Gooseberries and currants will stand any amount of cold, but raspberries and blackberries, will not stand the low temperatures of the last few weeks without serious damage.

Hon. S. E. Nicholson of Kokomo, author of the liquor law known as the Nicholson Bill, spent last Sunday in Rensselaer, in the interest of the Anti-Saloon League of America. A committee consisting of one member from each church, and a citizen from the outside world was appointed to confer with the officers of the other Temperance organization. In an in-, terview Monday, he expressed himself in favor of the county and township reform measures now before the legislature and deplored the fact that A 1 Reser and men of his ilk were doing what they could to defeat them.

The question of an electric railway between St. Mary and Rensselaer, via Morocco and Mt. Ayr, has been quite freely discussed by our people in the past few days. All are agreed as to the benefits to be derived from the road, and the leading business men have even reached that stage where they have expressed a willingness to put up their good money as a token of their sincerity in the matter. The Courier has frequently called attention to the importance of an electric railway over the above mentioned route —in fact it claims to be the originator of the scheme and believes that the road will some day be built. —Morocco Courier.

We have a newsy lot of items from Parr this week and hope our j correspondent will send us in a letter each week regularly. We would also like to hear from our

Kniman correspondent regularly as well as from all other correspon- • dents. We still wish to secure correspondents from Wheatfield. j Fair Oaks, Surrey, McCoysburg, Stoutsburg, Gillam and all other postoffices in the county not al- ! ready represented. Let some read;or take hold and help us .to secure i correspondents in those places. We ! already have a greater number of j correspondents than any other | paper in the county, but we i shall not be satisfied until every j neighborhood and hamlet is represented. We would like very much to devote a whole page to this. Help us to make this desire an accomplished fact.

The Remington town council did something at their meeting this month that other towns and cities should profit by. A franchise tender was made to the Jasper County Telephone Co., for use of certain streets and alleys for their telephone poles and wires at the rate of 50 cents per annum for each pole erected, leased or used within the corporation. The Central Telephone Co., also asked for franchise and the same order was made with regard to this. F. R. Curtis of that city, asked for franchise for electric lights, and the council granted the application and gave him free use of certain streets and alleys, to be selected by the council, for the first year, but thereafter he must pay 25 cents tier annum for each pole erected, leased or used. If such franchises are worth askings for they are worth paying for, and the Remington town council is to be commended for establishing so good f precedent for small towns.