Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1899 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Oliver Neubnrn and wife, and James Lakin of Hoopeston, Ills., visited their respective aunts, Mrs. Sarah Gephart and Mrs. E. H. Shields, this week. E. H. Logwood, the clever and popular advance agent for the Alexander Leonard Co., which is playing here this week, got out a novel nouse program in the shape of a miniature daily paper called “The- Daily Dramatic News,” which was filled with an interesting synopsis of each night’s play, show and sporting news items, jokelets, poems, and a neat and attractive lot of advertising. The scheme was a new one here and took well.

Uncle John Makeever is making some extensive improvements to the interior of the Makeever House, in the way of adding.toilet rooms on each floor fitted out with a row*- of marble top wash basins, patent closets, etc. Mr/ Makeever also intends, so he informed us, to build an addition north, on the east end of the hotel, thence west and connecting with the north wing of the building. The addition will be three stories in height, same as the main building, and will surround a cemented and sky-lighted court in the center, from which the interior rooms will receive light. The new addition will add about 30 to 35 rooms to the hotel. Henry Fisher and son Joseph, L. M. norland, George Nichols and Mrs. Minerva Stanley went to Jennings county last Saturday prospecting for land.- The former bought an 80-acre farm 3 miles south of Butlerville, Joseph Fisher and Mr. Nichols bought a 212-acre farm adjoining Butlerville, and Mrs. Stanley bought a 156-acre farm one mile from Butlerville. Mr. Henry Fisher and Mr. Worland are still down there at this writing (Wednesday) and it is probable the latter will also purchase. The parties will remove to Jennings county about March 1. Mr. E. C. Davis of Butlerville, whose advertisements have appeared in ThE Democrat for some time, negotiated the deals. We are sorry to lose such good citizens from Jasper, but wish them much success and happiness in their new home.

Owing to the dampness of the weather last Saturday the balloon ascension was again postponed, the balloonist not being able to properly inflate the big canvass. Wednesday afternoon he again made preparations for the ascent, but the weather conditions were even worse than on Saturday, but with the use of nearly a barrel of coal oil the canvass was partially inflated and at about 4:30 the big balloon went floating skyward. It went up probably three or four hundred feet and would go no higher, so the areonout pulled the string and he was shot from the tin “cannon” and c:;me down with his parachute without mishap. There were few country people in to witness the ascension, and owing to the short distance the balloon ascended, they did not miss very much. Had conditions been more favorable it is likely the ascension would have been a good one. Balloon ascensions, however, are not to be depended upon, and very few are worth going far to see.