Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 October 1899 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

“Uncle Seth Hastings” to-night. Remember the balloon ascension next Thursday. Attorney Douthit is visiting his wife in Chicago this week. Rev. H. M. Middleton has our thanks for copies of the Chattanooga (Tenn.) News. The county council of Starke county cut down the estimates of the various county expenses from 177,260 to $41,821. Mr. and Mrs, John Kepner and little daughter Marie, formerly of this city but now of Sheldon, Ills., visited with relatives over Sunday and Monday. Hon. I. S. Wade of Lafayette, will deliver a temperance lecture at Slaughter school house, southeast of town, Sunday afternoon, Oct. 29, at 3 p. m. Everybody seems to be going insane up in Starke countv. The officers estimates $1,290 tor insanity inquests. The council appropriated S7OO for that purpose. The Duvall Bros., west of town, have purchased of A. Leopold the South Van Rensselaer street livery barn (Short’s) and will take possession of same in a few months. The Boers of South Africa ye said to have almost exterminated the giraffe. This no doubt will be added to the reasons why the British should exterminate the Boers.

The county council met in special session Wednesday to make appropriation for township poor relief. The appropriation made carries $2,005. No other business was considered. The annual reunion of the Catholic Ordqr of Forresters of Indiana which was to have been held at Crown Point, Thursday, was postponed until Nov. 7, on account of diphtheria at Crown Point. .4The prosecuting attorney of Tippecanoe county has brought penalty suits against the ex-clerk and ex-sheriff of that county. The penalty for failure to turn over fees collected .is equal to the amount of such fees, and one-half such penalty goes to the prosecuting attorney. The Passion Play lecture at the Catholic church last Sunday night was largely attended, the church being packed to the doors. Coring to the light not being strong enough or the poor quality of the views, the pictures did not show up to advantage, and nearly every one was disappointed.

On complaint of Robert Hilton, Dr. Dessler was arrested Tuesday on the charge of practicing medicine without a license. Hilton had been treated by Dr. Dessler for defective eyesight, and fell out with him over something. A. Leopold and B. S. Fendig went on Mr. Dessler’s bond, and the case will come up at the November term of court An unusual incident, or a pair of incidents, occurred at the court house Monday. One woman was granted a divorce in the court room, while at the same time her sister was being married on the next floor below. Although the one had found marriage a failure, her sister was ready and willing to make the experiment for herselt.— Starke County Democrat.

There are certain vaudeville acts during the action of “Uncle Seth Haskins,” the new play depicting life in Vermont, which comes to the Ellis opera house, Sat., Oct. 28, that are alone worth the price of admission, embracing as' they do such high class artists as Hodgkins and Leith, Khem and Cole, Kathryn Marborough, Lawrence Deagon, Harry LaMack and C. H. Kanson. S. F. Wood and another young man of the same name, have purchased a graphophone and stereoptican outfit and will give exhibitions about the country during the winter. They have a fine outfit, we understand, comprising fortyeight Spanish-American war views, over 100 miscellaneous views, etc. Their first public exhibition is to be at Banner school house, Milroy tp., this (Saturday) evening.