Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1899 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

. Oscar Tharp has moved to Montfftan^Hoyea was in LaMra. W. C. Babcock is visiting Goodland friends this week. Mrs. Levanda Huff is visiting with her sister in Crawfordsville. J. G. Perry and Httte"daughter off Goodland, were in the city yesteeday. Mies Stella Perkins visited frtemds at Battle Ground W ednesday. J. J. Williams of Cleveland, Ohio, is visiting his brother, J. W. Williams, this week. Miss Lelia Middleton, who recently graduated from the Deaconeaa school at Washington, is home fur the summer. * See the “machine made” fruit jars at McFarland’s before buying elsewhere. They are 200 per cent. better than those cheap things you bought last year. Hon. and Mrs. George Major of Bloomington, Ind., Mrs. Ollie Henricks of South Carolina, and John F. Major of Remington, were Rensselaer visitors Tuesday. The White County Democrat thinks the Rensselaer papers are devoting too much space to “scrapping.” The Democrat is reminded that we have no base ball club this year, and the foot ball season hasn’t opened yet. The marriage of John Halladay of this city, and Miss May Callahan of Comer, was solemnized at St. Augustine’s church Tuesday morning. Rev. Father Charles pronouncing the ceremony. They ; will reside in Michigan. The contract for Morocco’s new school building was let last week to E. J. Clark of Fowler, at $13,219. The building is to be 60x86. two stories and basement, built of Bedford stone and pressed brick, i lt ia to be completed by Dec. 1. The members of the county council, appointed under the new reform law, are required to meet jon the first Monday in August for organization. (See Sec. 48). * Every member of the council in thia county should remember this. H. J. Dexter on Monday traded his grocery stock for a 171-acre form in Unirm township, owned by A. B. Fisher of Remington, (ta Tuesday Fisher traded the atocklor a 120-acre farm in Barkteytp, owned by Sylvester GalI 7 • Korah DeWitt, Frank Chilcote, Wm. Randebush, John Seible, L. A- Lutz, August Malchow, Ev. Smith, Wm. Lewis, Fred Parcels, Rayford James and George Robinson have gone to lowa to work on an extension of the C. & N-W. railway. A tetepheme war is imminent. “Honest Abe’* Halleck has some lines noth from this city, but no terminal station here. Now the Jasper County Telephone Co. is securing toe nght-of-way and talk of paralleling Abe’s lines with one of their own, it is said. W. B. Austin has begun foreclosure suit against the DeMotte panning (X, composed of Cornelius Pierres, Christian Drenth, Jacob Haan, Dedrick Decker, Abraham Hallerk and Edwin G. Warren. The amount involved is about after deducting A-4,

A prominent hay dealer informs ■a that last year wire for baling could be bought at 58 cents per handle. This year, owing to the heanttwi of the trust, the same wire-costs $1.25 per bundle. It should not be harq for the fanner to figure oat who pays this in. The case of an Indianapolis electric supply company vs George Fidwr, of Lake City, lowa, was decided by Judge Gillette of the Lake circuit court last week, judgment being rendered against Mr. Fisher for some >2,500, which is a reduction of about >1,300 over the amount sued for.