Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1899 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Subscribe for the taxpayers’ friend, The Democrat. New oats are starting at 19| cents in the Rensselaer market. Mrs. A. S. Nowels of Hammond, is visiting friends here this week. Henry Butler, the Goodland butcher, was in the city yesterday. Attorney E. P. Honan was in Chicago on law business Thursday. Rev. T. H. Ball, of Crown Point, is working upon a history of northwestern Indiana. Luetgert, he of sausage notoriety, died at Joliet prison Thursday morning of heart disease. Jacob Dlazak of Milroy tp., was again arrested Wednesday on the corn stealing charge and was taken to Monticello, where he gave bond for his appearance next Monday.

On application of W. B. Austin. Judge Thompson yesterday appointed a receiver for the DeMotte Canning Co. J. F. Irwin was appointed. The factory is not being operated now, and about all the old stockholders have dropped out. Geo. H. Parks, a brother of W. S. Parks of this city, died at his home south of Remington last Monday, after a brief illness, aged 38 years. Deceased was one of the best known and most respected farmers of Gilboa tp., and his early death is deeply deplored. The cause of his death was a bowel trouble. He leaves a wife and three children.

Strickfaden’s bowling alley is to shut down the first of the month for a few weeks while some changes in the interior arrangements are being made. The partition is to be removed at the west end of the alleys, the whole thing moved west to the end of the building, another alley added and a gallery erected on the east end for spectators. The change will cost some six hundred dollars, it is said. The young people of the Baptist church gave a social at the home of Marion Adams, southeast of this city, last Saturday evening. Over 100 people were present and all speak very highly of their entertainment. Plenty of good music, and a large, well-kept lawn, well lighted with Japanese lanterns, afforded no end to amusements for the young folks. Ice cream and cake were served.

Blaine Shafer, a well known young man at Monticello, has been arrested on the charge of attempted blackmail. He is alleged to have tried to scare a Logansport doctor into paying him §250 or he would "blow" something he claimed to know injurious to the doctor’s professional reputation. A trap was set for him and he was caught redhanded. Shafer has always borne a good reputation and his friends hope that he will be able to extricate himself from his serious position.

An Anderson Indiana genius has perfected some sort of a harmless fluid which, poured over a cake of ice, will render it almost everlasting. Three blocks of ice were treated with an application of the fluid and have been exposed to the sun’s fiercest rays for the past three months and are said to be as large and cool as when first exposed. This story has a somewhat chilly sound, and what makes it even more so the inventor is an ice dealer, yet it is given out as straight goods and the inventor has applied for a patent.

The new law’s governing the management of poor asylums makes it mandatory on the superintendent of such asylum to file with the county auditor estimates of supplies for the subsistence of the inmates and maintenance of the asylum, on or before the Thursday preceding the first Monday in March, June, September and December of each year, for the subsequent three months, and requires the auditor to advertise for bids for furnishing such supplies. Nothing of this kind has been done, however, in Jasper county.