Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1899 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Chas. F. Grow of this city, has been appointed railway mail clerk.'

Sheriff Reed was brought home from Michigan City Tuesday, and is said to be getting along very well toward recovery.

Kentland wins out in the Newton county seat fight, and 65 per cent, of the votes are necessary to make removal possible.

5 C. L. Wilson at Remington will sell a- hand-sewed team harness complete at S2O per set. A large stock to select from. Good honest work, No. 1 stock and square dealing is my motto. 4t

Dr. Hillis again disappointed the lecture course people by not being able to fill his appointment here Monday night. Some other attraction will doubtless be secured for this remaining number.

The Democrat i 3 read by the people of the whole counly, and our large corps of correspondents and complete report of county affairs makes it the newsiest and best paper published in the county.

. President McKinley sent F, B. Meyer’s appointment to the senate Thursday for confirmation as postmaster at this place. Mr. Meyer will probably enter upon his duties early in the coming month.

Dr. I. B. Washburn tests eyes for glasses by the latest methods. The best lenses put in any desired frame. It does not pay to ruin jour eyes with improper and cheap lenses. Satisfaction guaranteed when possible.

For the year ending June 30, 1898, 110 marriage licenses were granted in Jasper county and 9 divorces were granted, 7 to the wife and 2 to husband; causes alleged in complaint for divorce were: Adnltry, 1; abandonment s;*cruel treatment, 2; failure to provide, 1.

Last year Jasper county collected $1,200 from saloon licenses, and municipalities in the county collected $1,500 additional, a total a total of $2,700. Jasper county now has but 10 saloons in her borders, a gain of one in eight years, and there are 1,649 inhabitants (estimated) to each saloon.

The Democrat desires to call the attention of its readers this week to its newsy county correspondence on eighth page. Eleven towns and neighborhoods are represented making, no doubt, the largest and most complete correspondence department ever before published in any paper in Jasper county. We received nearly enough to fill up that “whole page” mentioned last week, and hope to hear regularly from our writers each week hereafter and also hear from a few districts not yet represented.

The National Advertiser tells a story of au old bachelor who bought a pair of socks, and found attached to one of them a slip of paper with these words: “I am a young lady of 20, and would like to correspond with a bachelor, with a view to matrimony” name and address were given. The bachelor wrote, and in a few days got this letter: “Mamma was married twenty years ago. The merchant you bought them socks from evidently didn’t advertise or he would have sold them long ago. Mamma handed me your letter, and said possibly I might suit you. I am 18 years old.”

There has been considerable talk for some time to the effect that Siegel, Cooper & Co., the big department store proprietors of New York and Chicago, contemplate opening department stores in several northern Indiana and southern Michigan towns. The South Bend Times says the report is more than a mere rumor, and that an agent for the company that proposes to open the stores was in that city the last of the week negotiating for a site for the store there. It appears, however, that instead of Seigel, Cooper & Co. being in control of the stores to be opened they are to be operated by a big syndicate with unlimited capital.—Starke County Democrat.