Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 November 1899 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL MATTERS. And still it snows. B. H. Dillon receives $144 back pension. Commissioners’ court convenes Monday. - .< '■■■- Uncle Tom’s Cabin next Wednesday night. 9 The Benton circuit court convened Monday. Miss Bertha Hammond is quite sick with neuralgia. James Masker was in Chicago on business Tuesday. The youngest son of The Democrat editor is very sick. Miss Julia Leopold is attending a business college at Chicago. “Dick” Wood was in Chicago on business the first of the week. D. Clark of Stoutsburg, transacted business in Rensselaer Monday. Bert Be bout and Elmer Heagy of Morocco, spent Sunday in the city. * R. S. Dwiggins is visiting with relatives and old friends at Marion,' this state. Ed Fritts left Monday for Anderson, where he expects to work in a nail keg factory.

Goodland and Rensselaer high school teams are to contest on the gridiron here to-day. Watch for the Uncle Tom’s Cabin street parade which is to take place next Wednesday at noon. Mrs. P. W. Clark, who has been receiving treatment at a Chicago hospital, returned home Tuesday, There is said to be considerable monldy or rotteo com in the crop now being harvested in this tyThe Barkley tp., Sunday school convention will be held at Independence schoolhouse on Sunday, Nov. 5, The Starke • Country Democrat is thirty-one years old, and one of the best county seat papers that reaches our table. The Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin Company uses a carload of special scenery. The transformation is the finest ever staged. Miss Floy Nowels returned Saturday from quite a protracted visit with relatives and friends in the eastern part of the state.

C. H. Kleist, a former Monon agent at Rensselaer, now at Brookston, was married last week to Miss Mable Ashley of Reynolds. Mr. and Mrs. J, W. Sargent left Saturday for Kankakee, Ills., and after a short visit at that point, will go to La Salle to spend the winter. More “lies” of The Democrat are being “exposed.” We refer to the W. B. Burford stationery claim, mention of which is made elsewhere. A little daughter of Ed Warren, living on Clark street, has the soarlet fever. Necessary precautions have been taken to prevent the spread of the disease. Dr. C. E. Triplett, jr., and Miss Blanche Carpenter, both of Morocco, were united in marriage at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. M. B. Carpenter, last Monday.

Nelson R. Jacobson, who for some years has been connected with the law office of Attorney Knotts at Hammond, will be Congressman Crumpacker’s private secretary. Suit has been brought by the county commissioners of Dubois county on ex-Sheriff Henry Cassidy’s bond to collect SB,OOO, which it is alleged he has wrongfully retained from the county. An exchange says that the new law requiring a permit to bury* a corpse, does not include the * merchant who does not advertise, no coroner is necessary, the verdict is given by the general public.