Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 August 1899 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL MATTERS. Remington fair, Aug. 22 to 25. Fountain Park Assembly, Aug. 5 to 20. Farmers’ Picnic, at Wheatfield, Aug. 26. Battle Ground campmeeting, Aug. 3 to 14. The Delphi Street Fair will be held Sept. 18-22. Ike Leopold of Wolcott, visited his parents here Sunday. Another 75-cent excursion to Chicago, Sunday, Aug. 13. Buffalo Bill and his Wild West will be at Lafayette, Aug. 17. The county council must meet next Monday for organization. Miss Mary Weathers is visiting with friends in Michigan City. Ernest Fritz is spending his vacation at his former home in Anderson. Mr. and Mrs. J. S. Moorehead of Remington, were in the city Moi’day. Miss Alice Mills of Ottawa, 111., is visiting her brother, C. E. Mills, this week. James Allen, an Ambia barber, committed suicide via the revolver route last week. David Hilton of Rensselaer, has been granted an increase of pension, sl2 to §l6. The Jasper county teachers’ institute will be held the week commencing Aug, 28.

A new postmaster has been appointed at Lochiel, Benton county, Wm. W. Owen. The teachers’ institute for Newton county, will be held at Goodland, commencing August 14. John Makeever has put in a strip of red cement walk, which is proving so popular in other cities. Taylor Boycourt, of the Chicago Bargain store, is spending his vacation with his parents in Wolcott. Bert Goff has returned home, after a several week’s stay in Indianapolis, where he was attending business college. Gaylord Nowels of Chicago Heights, visited over Sunday with his wife and daughter who are staying here at present. Commissioners’ court convenes in legular session Monday, at which time the annual reports of the township trustees are made. About 20 more young men from Rensselaer and vicinity went to lowa last Thursday, to work on the construction of a new railroad. Elvin Overton, traveling salesman for the McCormick people, with headquarters at Freeport, Ills., is visiting with his relatives and many friends in Rensselaer, this week.

Mr. Mel Laßue accompanied his wife and children to Indiana Mineral Springs, Monday, where the latter will remain for treatment a while. Jerry Shea and L. Worland had a little misunderstanding last Saturday. Worland paid $11.65 fine and costs for assault, and Jerry was assessed $10.60 altogether for prcvoke, by Esq. Burnham. Mr. Thomas Robinson of Rensselaer, has sold his 640 acres of land, four miles southwest of town, to a party from Streater, 111, for a cash consideration of $15,000. —Medaryville Advertiser. The 14-months-old babe of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Chilcote died of cholera infantum last Sunday morning. Funeral services were held Monday morning and interment made in Crockett cemetery, southeast of town. Walter Daywitt, a brother of Dallas, now in jail for furnishing beer to minors, was arraigned before Esq. Burnham Saturday on the same charge and assessed S2O and costs. He, too, is boarding at the expense of the county.