Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1899 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A social will be given this evening at the home of George Kessinger in Jordan tp. Ice cream and cake will be served for only 10 cents. The proceeds will go toward enclosing the Welsh cemetery with a good fence. Everybody invited. An old settlers’ organization was perfected in Newton connty last Tuesday, at a meeting held at Brook. Dr. M. L. Humston of Goodland, was made president, and A. J. Kitt of the Goodland Journal, secretary. The first meeting will be held at Brook, Aug. 24. The Democrat is fighting in the interests of every tax-payer in Jasper county. Remember this, and remember that every man engaged in plundering the public has from time immemorial fought by every means in his power to keep the public in ignorance of the true facts. The Apologist editor and Miss Jessie Bartoo left for Colorado Springs. Colo.. Thursday, where it is said the latter contemplates locating. It is also rumored that the Apologist editor is looking for a location in the West, some place where "official organs’’ and pianos escape taxation provided the owner has the requisite amount of firearms. Something is evidently wrong with the striking apparatus of "Honest Alie s’’ $2,300 court house clock. Yesterday morning at 5 o’clock it chimed out the hour of three. Under the old per deim law a special session of "‘Honest Abe’s” court would no doubt have fixed matters all right, but now it is difficult to say just what can be done.