Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 February 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

. « LOCAL MATTERS. Yesterday was ground hog day. Commissioners’ court will convene Monday. J. C. Kaupke was down from Kankakee tp., Saturday. Mark Foresman of Goodland, was in town Wednesday. /Vrßead the Chicago Bargain r Store’s big Clearance Sale ad. Benton county republicans will hold their convention March 3. The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs. George Sharp died Thursday. Miss Ona Tyner of Cedar Lake, is visiting het friend Miss Maude Jacks. _________ Mr. J. Vandercarr of Kankakee township, was in the city Tuesday. John H. Jessen was down from W>st Pullman, 111., a few days * this week. Get your horse cards printed at The Democrat office. Call and see samples. | And now r wheelbarrow trust is announced with a 30 per cent, advance in prices. Mark Yeoman and sons left | Wednesday for their new home at Kingman, Kan. See inside pages of The Democrat for real estate transfers and other news items.

The February term of the Jasper circuit court will convene one week from Monday. Subscriptions are being taken at Monon for the establishing of lime kilns at that place. Mrs. Lucy Malchow has succeeded Miss Clara Robinson as clerk in the Rensselaer postoffice. J. C. Mayne has sold the Hebron News to A. W. Barnes. The I Democrat extends the glad hand to Bro. Barnes. The infant son of Mr. and Mrs. Watt Hopkins, north of town, died last Saturday after a brief illness from pneumonia. The compositor made us say -last week that the city election would be held on “Friday” May 1. It should have read Tuesday, May kl. ' Up to last Saturday there had gathered from the Templeton b ranch 78,068 bushels of corn, with 200 acres yet to husk. —Morocco Courier. Mr. and Mrs. A. Pruitt of Goodland visited this week with <aj. A. McFarland and family. ’They are on their way home from a trip to Missouri.

Billie Postil of this city, who joined the Bloundin Hypnotic circus recently, has developed into a fine “subject” and did the sleeping act at Medaryville last week. It is rumored that Halleck Bros, will string additional wires in Rensselaer and put in more phones here. Also, that they will parallel the Jasper County Co’s line to Remington. New pensions: Alpheus Booher, •dead, Kniman, restoration and additional, $6 to sl2; Sarah E. Booher, Kniman, original widow $8; Edwin P. Hammond, Lafayette, original, $lO. The Brook Reporter states that James Hoach, formerly of that place and well known throughout this section, lost a foot a couple weeks agq in a Hammond machine ' shop, where he is now employed. | It is said that about a baker’s dozen republicans are after the nomination for city Marshall, inP eluding the present incumbent. I Thus far only Thomas McGowan, t _J. T. Penn and C. W. Platt have « fmade public anouncement of their swadidacy. M. Yeoman of Ambia, in vwriti»g to friends here last Mon- . day,, says that 865 loads of corn ' was .dumped by the two elevators . at Ambia, last Saturday, averaging , ,450 bushels to the load. Ambia , is in the center of a great corn produpiug'Section. ■ .

” s %sfer OR- MOORE’ Specialist, Office First Stairs West of Post Office. RENSSEL AER, IND.