Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Attorney Douthit was out near Virgie on legal business Thursday. The young son of J. J. Eiglesbach has been quite sick with Tung fever, but is better now. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Wemple of Chicago are visiting the latter’s mother, Mrs. Agnes Kelley. Messrs. Ross Goble and Orange Bowers of the Chicago Bargain Store, spent Sunday' in Lafayette. Esq. Churchill united Wm. N. Campbell and Miss Gladie Richmond for better or worse last Saturday. Peter Hordeman, Sr n lost one of his big horses yesterday, resulting from a recent Kick from another horse. Wanted:—Good solicitor, something new, good pay. Call morning at 121 S. Van Rensselaer St W. H. McDowell. Mrs. H. J. Bartoo of Goodland, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Peacock, of this city. We understand Mr. Bartoo will shortly remove to some point in Georgia, where Mr. Peacock owns a small fruit farm, and start a paper. Rensselaer is to have hitch and teed barns galore if present prospects materialize. E. L. Bruce is figuring on erecting one on the vacant lot just north of White’s livery barn, and E. L. Short will build on the corner of Van Rensselaer and Harrison streets, west of the Comer boarding house. J. B. Clemens, a Shelby merchant, was here Monday and identified Charles Davis as the party who recently passed a forged order on him for 318. Davis is now in jail charged with passing a forged order on T. J. Mallatt of Fair Oaks, and his chances for a term in prison seem to be very promising. Mr. Enoch L. Preston of Laporte county, and Mrs. Chaffin of this city, were married at the Methodist manse Wednesday afternoon by Rev. Middleton. The groom is 72 years of age and the bride 60. The former is a farmer while the latter has been living for some time with her daughter, Mrs. M. A. Thomas in this city. The new rules adopted by the State Board of Health will be found in another part of this paper. These rnles and regulations were published so all the people of the county may become familiar with them. By strict observance of them the danger from contagious disease is greatly minimized, and much more easily stamped out when it does appear. Bert L. Brenner, the popular drug clerk in Long’s store, and Miss Glenn Porter, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. J. I. Porter, were married in the presense of a few immediate friends at the bride’s parents’ in this city on Sunday evening at 6 o’clock, Rev. D. T. Halstead performing the ceremony. They begin housekeeping at once in a tenant house owned .by Mr. Porter in Thompson’s addition.

Owing to other engagements,*l. S. Wade could not be present at the prohibition county convention, called for Jan. 29, and same has been postponed until Feb. 5. See call elsewhere. Also, the meeting advertised for Sayler schoolhouse, has been postponed until Feb. 4. Bro. Wade will also speak at Kniman on the evenings of Feb. 1 and 2, and at Fair Oaks on the evening of the 3d. Jasper Kenton. J. A. Patton, the Goodland poultry dealer, was in the city a few hours Thursday and made The Democrat editor a pleasant call. Mr. Patton informed us that the smallpox case reported near Goodland is that of a daughter of David Colston, residing about four miles south of town who is thought to have contracted the disease from some Ft. Wayne friends who were there visiting. The case is very mild. Many people in the neighborhood have been exposed. There are also three cases of diptheria in Goodland, Mr. Patton said, and the schools closed Wednesday. The people are more alarmed over the latter disease than over the smallpox.