Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 October 1899 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL MATTERS. Fine weather again. W. B. Austin was in Lafayette Monday. Read the new ad of S. Galbraith, the grocer. Geo. J. Nichols of Wheatfield, was in town Wednesday. Schnman concert company at Ellis opera house, Oct 26. Winamac schools were closed last week on account of diphtheria. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. Mallatt of Fair Oaks, were in town Wednesday. The Makeever House is being connected with the pity water mains. Nightwatebman Childers is again pulling the string to the curfew bell. Next Thursday night at Ellis opera house, Schnman concert company. Joe Larsh of Remington, was in the city Wednesday, enroute to Lowell on business. Two car loads, 300 barrels, of flour received this week at the Chicago Bargain Store. New pensions: George W. Coppess, Medaryville, original, §6; John Slife, Winamac, original, $6. Miss Belle Adams entertained i Tuesday evening in honor of her I cousin, Miss Hayes of Indianapi olis. Miss Maggie Kenton will preach jat Yaughn church, next Sunday i morning at 10:30, end.at Parr, 7:30 ! p. m. j A Hammond school teacher 'whipped a boy pupil. The boy | died, and now the teacher has been i arrested for manslaughter. The wife of Wm. King of Goodland, well known in the southern part of the county, died "Wednesday night after a week’s illness. We want new correspondents at Wheatfield and Dunnville at once, and desire our readers at those points to assist us in securing same.

Frank Nelson expects to move to the north part of Jasper county in a couple of weeks and will work on the Gifford railroad.—Wolcott Enterprise. William Miksell, a 13-year-old orphan boy at Monticello, fell from the Panhandle railroad bridge at that place last Monday and was killed. Joe Reynolds, who has been working for the W. B. Conkey printing company at Hammond for the past year, is home for a two weeks vacation. Mrs. Ellis Iliff of Chicago Heights, returned home Monday after spending several days with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Kohler, west of town. I. N. McKeever of Newton tp.. and Isaac Knapp of Wlieatfield, have been drawn as members of the U. S. district jury which meets at Indianapolis, in November. Vemice Crisler, who has been in the employ of Huff, the jeweler, for several years, will go in a few days to Appleton, Wis., where he has secured a good position in a jewelry house. L The fire which caught in the I muck out north of tewn last June !is still burning, and it looks now jas though nothing short of a protracted lain would extinquish it.— Morocco Courier. Remington’s new paper made its bow to the public last Saturj day. It is a very creditable 6-col-j umn quarto, and will be non-part-isan in politics. The Herald has our best wishes for success. The Democrat is read by more farmers than any other paper published in Jasper county. Remember this when getting your sale bills struck, and come to this office for having the work done. A free notice in The Democrat with each set of bills.