Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1899 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Geo. H. Brown of Knox, was in the city Thursday. Arthur H. Hopkins of Shelby, is in town for a few days. W. C. Babcock and wife were Chicago visitors Tuesday. C. B. Steward was in Racine, Wis., on business last week. Remember the Monon’s 75 cent excursion to Chicago to-morrow. Geo. K. Hollingsworth was in Chicago Wednesday on business. Attorney Honan and Postmaster Meyer and families are outing at Water Valley this week. Theodore Hurley of Blackford has had his pension increased from sl4 per month to sl7 per month. Sidney Schanlaub, Orange Bowers, Ross Goble and Samuel Fisher, all of Morocco, spent Sunday here. D. L. Prichard of Johnson county, visited friends here this week. He left a dollar for 52 weekly visits of The Democrat. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Macy of Indianapolis, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. John Makeever this week. The former is a son of Mrs. Makeever. The Wild West and Roman hippodrome entertainment at the Remington fair this year will attract hundreds of visitors who do not care for the regular program, and it is safe to say that the attendance will be nearly double that of any previous fair held there for years. Congressman Crumpacker was in the city Tuesday night and Wednesday morning for a short time. He went from here to Remington and Fowler to see about the establishing of rural free mail delivery routes from Remington and Fowler to the east quarter of Benton county. The first reunion of the Jasper County Soldiers and Sailors association was held at Fountain Park on Friday and Saturday last, and was very successful. D. H. Yeoman of this city, was elected president for the coming year and Capt. J. M. Wasson, also of Rensselaer, secretary and treasurer. The next reunion will be held- at Rensselaer. The latest plan to drain the Kankakee marsh is to tap the river near Baum’s bridge, in Jasper county, with a ditch one hundred feet wide and nine feet deep, and go down the south marsh to the Lake-Porter county line, and then use the Brown and Singleton ditches to the State line. The latter ditches will be widened sixty feet and deepened. This will make a straight water course for twenty miles.

The physicians’ meeting at Bass Lake last Tuesday was quite well attended and a temporary organization effected. The name selected was the Kankakee Valley District Medical Society. About fourteen counties in northwestern Indiana will be included in the organization. Drs. Washburn of this city, Thomas of Logansport, and Thompson of Winamac, were appointed to draft constitution and by-laws which will be presented at a meeting to be held at North Judson next month to complete the organization. i A son of Thos. A. Crockett, located at Battineau, N. D., writes back home that crops in his locality are very good and better weather could not be asked for at present. He also states that work at reasonable wages is plenty. He says that harvest hands are in great demand' and that it would be a good opportunity for our boys here at home, who are unemployed, to go out there. The pay for this kind of work being from $2.00 to $2.25 per day. In a little more personal part of his letter, he speaks of hie health being good and that he has been offered a good position—running a separator—at $5 per day. Frank Watson a former Jasper county boy located at the same place, as Mr. C. informs us, has charge of a traction engine, receiving $5:00 per day as salary.