Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1899 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Subscribe for The Democrat. * Read Hershman’s new ad in this issue. s Come to The Democrat office for your sale bills. Mrs. Chas. H. Price of Middlesboro, Ky., is visiting Jasper county friends. ' ■ - J. W. Baer and John Toyne of Ooodland, were in the city yesterday on a real estate trade. E. P. Honan and Peter Hordeman attended a blow-out of the C. O. F., at Lafayette Thursday night. Miss Gagen, Stenographer for W. B. Austin, returned yesterday from a few days visit at her home in Lafayette. The son of The Democrat editor, who has been quite sick for the past ten days, is somewhat better at this writing. C. H. Vick handles the Cincinnati Sunday Enquirer, the best paper published in the United States. Leave your order with him for a copy. State Chief Ranger Honan, Henry Hildebrand and Peter Hordeman attended the state reunion of the Catholic Order of Foresters at Crown Point this week. Halleck Bros, have been granted a franchise to maintain and operate a telephone system in Newton countv. The line will run from this place to Morocco, thence to Brook, we understand. I have a special fund to loan on farm land at 5 per cent interest; commission low. Loans made on city property, personal or chattel security for long or short time. Office removed to rooms 2d floor Makeever’s bank building. James H. Chapman.

The Iroquois Ditch matter will be further heard from in our circuit court on next Wednesday, November 15, at Ip. m. The numerous parties and attorneys should be prepared to dispose of this controversy, which began October 7, 1892. * - The Stowe Uncle Tom’s Cabin Co., played to a packed house in this city Wednesday night, in fact the box office had to stop selling tickets for want of standing room even. The company was the largest and best that ever presented this old and ever popular play in our city.

W. T. Pierson and Alfred C. and David McWhorter returned last week from a prospecting tour in Jennings county. They were not very favorably impressed with the section of the county visited by them. The party made the trip via wagon, and say they found a good pike all the way between North Vernon and Monticello. Benton county will have a five hours’ corn husking contest, Nov. 18, for a purse of S3O, S2O for first and $lO for second, in the field of Theodore Hoes. Also a $25 purse in prizes in Fowler, snapped corn to be husked. Every contestant will be paid cents per bushel for the corn husked in addition to prizes, For particulars address C. H. West, of the Benton Review, Fowler, Ind.

Mrs. Martha E. Schneckenberger, a 350 pound amazon of Morocco, is enjoying the hospitality of Sheriff Reed for a few days at the expense of Newton county. The old lady was fined and costed some fifty odd dollars for keeping a disorderly house in the very orderly town of Morocco, contrary to the statutes made and provided, etc. She evens up with her tormentors by laving out the bill. W. J. McGinn, having secured a good position with the Rensselaer steam laundry, closed his laundry here Wednesday and moved his family to Rensselaer. Me is a thorough laundry man and built up a fair business here, but the opening at Rensselaer offered a better opportunity than his plant here promised for the winter. He has established an agency at Hough’s barber shop, where work will be sent them twice a week.- 1 - Monon News. \_-