Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1899 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL MATTERS. Read Jack Warner’s new ad. Remington fair, Aug. 22 to 25. Fountain Park Assembly, Aug. 5 to 20. Battle Ground campmeeting, Aug. 3 to 14. The Democrat editor and family spent Sunday in Chicago. R. S. Dwiggins has gone to Oden, Mich., for a month’s outing. Quite a number of Rensselaer people spent Sunday at Cedar Lake. ’’ Attorney John Greve of Wheatfield. was in town on business Wednesday. A camp of Modern Woodmen of America is to be instituted at Mt. Ayr to-night. Carroll county old settlers will hold their annual meeting on Saturday. Aug. 12. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Cox are visiting friends and relatives in Henry country. The town of Wolcott has given up the project of erecting a new school building this year. Frank Nicholson and Harvey Gates of Remington, were in Rensselaer on business Wednesday. The Dem< x rat and the Indianapolis Weekly Sentinel one year ror $1.35; Democrat and Cincinnati Weekly Enquirer. 51.50. cash in, advance' The widow of the late Elwood Spriggs of DeMotte. who was a soldier in the war with Spain, has been granted a widow's pension of sl2 per month. Applications are again being published for saloon licenses at Monon, where the remonstrators have knocked out every applicant for the past few months. Drs. Washburn A English have dissolved partnership. Dr. Washburn retaining the old office rooms and Dr. English opening an office over the postoffice. The bids for the various proposed street improvements in Rensselaer are to be opened and acted upon August 14. Bids will be received until 8 p. m. of that day. Edwin Mauck. of Anderson, spent Sunday with his parents in Newton tp. Mrs. Mauck had been visiting here for several days with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. D H. Yeoman. The Goodland Journal each week contains an interesting letter trom Rev. H. A. Henderson, a Goodland young man who recently went as a missionary to Nanplia. Greece.

Bro. West of the Benton Review. will celebrate his first year’s work of converting the republicans of his county by getting out an illustrated souvenir edition of 3.000 copies. Sept.’2l. The Chicago Bargain Store is the only house in town that bought one car load of 100 gross MasoiY fruit jars and they can afford to sell half gallons at 39 cents a dozen: the quarts at 34 cents a dozen. John O'Conner of Kniman, was in town Wednesday. Oats are nearly all harvested in his locality, threshing has begun and the yield is good. Mail is now being carried on the Coal Road and everything is moving along harmoniously. Raising the left arm as high as you can will relieve choking much more rapidly than being thumped in the beck, and it is well that everyone should know it, for often a person gets choked while eating when there is no one near to thump him. And now comes an Indiana man who has discovered a process for making rubber from crude oil, and at about one-fifth the cost of the regular product. The rubber is said to have been thoroughly tested and possesses all the qualities of the genuine article.

DR. MOORE, Specialist, PRIVATE DISEASES, * •“> , BRMORRORDS, r ‘S,.™,. Office First Stairs West of Post Office. RENSSELAER, IND.