Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 January 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Rev. C. D. Jefferies, is reported somewhat better.

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Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Jacks of Lee, we.re visiting in town yesterday.

Don’t miss the ideal e ntertainers at the M. E. church, Tuesday night.

C. M. Walters of the Populist Journal at Indianapolis, was in the city a few hours Monday.

Andrew Doty, a well known pioneer of Newton county, died at his home in Morocco last Monday.

It is rumored that a “quartshop” is running full blast in Judge Thompson’s town of Parr.

John O’Connar of Kniman, was in the city yesterday in company with an official of the Inter-State Oil Co.

Joseph Willey, a former well known resident of Rensselaer, was married a few days ago to a lady at Plymouth.

The three-year-old child of Mr. and Mrs. John Worden, who has been dangerously sick, is pronounced better at this writing.

Orville Rothrock, J late deputy sheriff of White county, has secured a position as detective on the Chicago and Effner divisions of the Panhandle.

Mrs. Mamie Porter returned to her home in Montana the first of the week. She was accompanied as far as Chicago by her father, Jav W. Williams.

In a lately published list of attorneys of the various counties of Indiana, Benton county is credited with 19 attorneys; Newton, 23; White 19, and Jasper 29, and of the latter 23 are credited to Rensselaer.

Mrs. Qeo. Foulks of Milroy tp., who was so badly injured in a runaway last Sunday—an account of which which will be found in our Sharon items —is reported considerably better, and it is thought she will recover.

Latest reports from Bishop Rademacher of Ft. Wayne, is that a gradual paralysis seems to be creeping over him. He lies motionless upon his pillow, is only partially conscious and is unable to take nourishment.

The Morocco schools, which have been delayed for several months on account of the new school building not being completed. will start up next Mondi/y, the building, however, is not fully Completed we understand. W. Q. Schanlaub, who has lieen employed in The Democrat office since last spring, is one of the teachers. T. Z. McMurray sold his 80-acre farm in Newton tp.. lest week to Carr Bros., whose lands it joins, and purchased a 168-acre farm in Jennings county. 2| miles north of North Vernon. Mr. McMurray sold for §4O per acre and paid about §l7 per acre for his Jennings county farm. He will move to Jennings county about March 1. The term “Hoosier” is said to be derived from “husher,” a western term, meaning a bully, or from the rough exclamation when one knocks at a door, “Who’s yere?” It is also said to come from a corrupt ion of the word “Hussar,” a term applied to a light cavalry of European armies. The name was adopted because the hussars were supposed to be noted for deeds of valor.

J. E. Sutton, editor and proprietor of the Logansport Reporter, committed suicide at St. Paul, Minn., last Saturday. Mr. Sutton had accompanied his wife to Portland, Oregon, where she was called by the illness of her mother, and was on his way home when the rash act wascommitted. No cause is assigned for his stop off at St. Paul nor no logical reason thus far shown for his taking his life. The Reporter was one of the brightest newspapers in northern Indiana, and Mr. Sutton was supposed to have been one of the few editors who was making money. The whole affair seems to be shrouded in mystery.