Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 March 1899 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

M. G. Lewis of Remington, was in the city Thursday. County Commissioners must now give bond in the sum of $5,000. _j J, C. Kaupke, trustee of Kankakee tp, was in the city on business Thursday. Wednesday was another red letter day for marriage licenses. Four were issued. Wm. Lißk, an old and well known resident of Wolcott, died at that place last Sunday. Special linen sale one week, Monday, March 13, to Saturday, March 18th, at the Chicago Bargain Store. There are too many saloons in Monticello. They have begun killing snakes over there this early in the season. Several inches of very damp snow fell Saturday night, and several mornings the first of the week the mercury was down about zero. Next Monday Will Marshall will pack bis household goods and leave for Wheatfield, where he will follow the life of a farmer for the coming year.—Brook Reporter. August Schrieber of Wheatfield, was examined at that place Thursday of last week before Esq. Swisher on the charge of attempted criminal assault upon Miss Snsie Callahan, and bound over to the circuit court on SSOO bonds. A series of special evangelistic meetings will begin at the Methodist church of this city next Sunday. There will be services at 7:30 o’clock each evening. The pastor will have charge next week. Rev. C. Fenwick Reed of Terre Haute, Ind., who was so popular with our people a year ago. will be with us again. We expect him about the 19th inst. Everybody is invited to attend these services. * C. T. Miller of Stoutsburg, was in the city Tuesday getting bills struck for a public sale March 18. Mr. Miller and family will visit their old home in Tennessee during the next few months and perhaps the former and his son George, will take a trip to Porto Rico in the fall. Mr. Miller says they will probably return to Jasper again in a year or two to reside permanently. They are excellent people and we do not like to lose them. C. M. Reynolds has lately sold a half interest in the Monticello Evening Journal to Fred Clarke of that city, and the office has been moved into the rooms formerly occupied by Clarke with his job printing plant. The Journal has withstood the storms of three summers and winters and is one of the permanent fixtures of Monticello. May prosperity continue to smile upon it and its genial publishers, is The Democrat’s prayer,

We would call the attention of our readers to the new mortgage exemption law, published in another column of The Democrat. This bill as introduced allowed an exemption of SI,OOO, but was amended so as to allow but S7OO of real estate mortgage indebtedness. Parties wishing to take advantage of same must do so between March Ist and May Ist. As usual, this is a feature contained in no other paper in the county, and it alone will save many taxpayers enough in one year to pay their subscription to The Democrat for from ten to twenty years. It will be welcome news to the many friends of the boys in Co. I to hear of the mustering out of the 160th and 161st regiments at an early date. It is assured however, that within six weeks both regiments will receive their discharges. J. P. Simons received a letter from Congressman Crumpacker this morning stating that the authority was from headquarters and this wonld make it seem as if there must be something in it. Of course it may be a few weeks later than is thought at this time, and the Monticello company will probably arrive home by not later than the first week in May.—Monticello Journal.