Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1899 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Warren & Irwin are making loans on farm or city property at a low rate of interest and com mission and on more liberal terms than can be obtained elsewhere in Jasper County. The population of Rensselaer as given by the Journal’s censns is 2,025. Many of the empty honses of the city have filled up during the past two months, and but 29 vacant dwellings were found according to this report.

The civil cases of Jacob Dluzak and Agnes Dluzak vs James A. May, resulting from the Milroy tp., fracas of several months ago, were set for trial in the White circuit court yesterday. The state case vs Jacob Dluzak, growing out of the same old corn stealing charge, was set for the day previous.

The 35th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Clark was duly celebrated last Thursday evening by a band of masked members of the Relief Corps. The evening was spent in playing games and indulging in social conversation. Refreshments were served. Several presents were left as a remembrance.

Fred Parcels, one of the Rensselaer football players, was quite severely injured in the Thanksgiving game, but went about his business until Saturday evening, when he fainted while shaving a man in his father’s barber shop. A physician who was called to attend him found that he had four ribs fractured, his nose broken, one lung injured and two teeth knocked out. Those “Chicago palefaces” seem to have been a little tougher than their appearance would indicate* judging fr6m the many knockouts administered to the Rensselaer team. The Democrat sends in hundreds of subscriptions each year to various publications for its readers, and these subscriptions are usually j sent in the week they are re-! ceived. If after a lapse of three weeks a subscriber fails to receive j a copy of the publication sub- 1 scribed for he should drop us aj, card notifying us of the fact, but,/ after receiving a copy, report all irregularites, if anv to the head-; quarters of the publication itself, and not to this office. If you wish j th 6 address changed, write to the publication direct, always giving both the old and new address. Please remember this. Tom Joiner turned over the keys to the court house last Sun- • day morning, and it is said has sought greener pastures in the Windy City, something like an engineer’s position. Tom made a very good janitor, and his sudden leave-taking has been a soufce of considerable annoyance. A' great deal of difficulty has been experienced in keeping the building com-; fortably warm, and Tom seems to have been the only man who was on intimate terms with the $j2,300 court house clock and was prepared to treat its numerous ailments promptly and in a general-, ly “fetching” manner. The clock persisted in striking twice for the half hour for several days after Tom left, but has now settled down to business once more. Alexander Biotsky through his attorney, E. P. Honan, has begun action in the Jasper circuit court against the Monon railroad for SI,OOO damages. Blotsky on Thanksgiving day alleges to have purchased a ticket from Rose Lawn to Fair Oaks and boarded a train for the latter place. Being unfamiliar with the stations and the conductor not coming around to take up his ticket the train had passed Fair Oaks when the conductor came to him for his ticket. The conductor would accept no explanation of why he had not got off. at Fair Oaks nor would he stop the train and let him get off that he might walk back, but was unnecessarily voilent and abusive and demanded fare to Rensselaer, which Blotsky refused to pay. The conductor then forcibly seised his overcoat lying on the seat beside him and held it for the fare from Fair Oaks to Rensselaer, turning same over to the agent at the latter place.