Jasper County Democrat, Volume 1, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 March 1899 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The township assessors will meet next Friday. Garden making will be a little late this spring. Subscribe for the taxpayers’ friend, The Democrat. B. F. Fendig was in Chicago on business this week. Attorney Spencer of Monticello, was in the city on business Thursday. Easter Sale of Carpets, Lace Curtains, Portiers, Window Blinds, etc. Chicago Bargain Store. Congressman Crumpacker has recommended Ray Cummings <sf Kentland, for a cadetship at West Point. W. H. Ritchey has eight or ten tons of good timothy hay for sale at his farm, 6 miles southeast of the city. 100 envelopes with your name and address neatly printed thereon for only 50 cents, at The Democrat office. When in Rensselaer put your team up at Haff & Masker’s feed and hitch barn, one block north of Makeever hotel. ts Get your job printing done at The Democrat office. Satisfaction guaranteed both in stock, prices and workmanship. Is Bryan’s “trip around the circle” causing lack of “confidence” again, and is it responsible for the slump in prices of grain and other farm products? Miss Mary Meyer has returned from Chicago with a complete line of Millinery, and is preparing for an Opening on March 30-31 and April 1. Call there for your Easter hat. Another winter begun Wednesday afternoon. Three or four inches of snow fell and at night an old-time freeze-up came again. It never phased “Honest Abe’s” t wen ty-t h ree-h u ndred-dol lar-clock, a little bit. March 25, and not a solitary oat sowed in Jasper county, and at hast a week of extra good weather required to make even well tiled fields fit to work. It is seldom we have a spring so unfavorable for farm work as this has been, but it is hoped the* good weather will come to stay when it does come.

We are informed that several of the trustees of Benton county are going to resign on account of the new township law. If that is correct it would indicate that something is rotten in that baliwick, and the township council was created to fit just such cases. The present trustees of this county, we are pleased to state, are men who have no fears of a supervising council and will continue to attend to the public business as the law directs. —Kentland Enterprise (rep.) Goodland Journal: John Vannatta, a Brookston banker, has brought suit in the courts at Lafayette against ex-Trustee Stout and his bondsmen, H. T. Griggs, F. D. Gilman and E. R. Bringham, to recover SBOO, the amount represented by one of the celebrated “township warrants” purchased by him of Mr. Stout during his incumbency of office. Mr. Vannatta’s action is a tacit acknowledgement that the township is not responsible for this overplus of promises to pay, and of course the liability of the bondsmen will be thoroughly tested by this suit. Sunday, the 19th, a lecture by I. S. Wade of Lafayette, was delivered at the First Baptist church. A good crowd was present and all wore pleased. Mr. Wade has been lecturing for nine years in the interest of Good Templars. He seems to understand the needs of the hour. Will men hear such pleadings in the interest of humanity and go away with no new r4sdutions? Vainly following some Wil-o-the-Wisp while the Nation’s honor is seriously dishonored? So much is said about higher civilivation, while our legalized dram-shops continue to lower civilization. ♦