Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 March 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

David Thompson has gone to Florida. . Mrs. Wm. Greenfield is visiting Remington friends. Some of our correspondents evidently got snow-bound this week. - Ray Thompson has moved his law office into rooms lately occupied by Hanly & Hunt. Rev. Middleton expects to move in a few days into the property at present occupied by J. W. Doutbit. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Lakin returned Tuesday from an extended visit with friends in lowa and Nebraska. It would pay you to buy overcoats now, for next winter, at the prices we are making. Chicago Bargain Store. George Bales, late of the SaylerBales Lumber Co., has purcha.-ed the Paxton lumber yards. Mr. Paxton will remove to Lamar, Colg. In two days last week over for’ y onion orders came in to Alf Donnelly, the Jasper county onion grower, the orders running all the way from 300 pounds to 1,500 pounds. Lost: —Somewhere north of town, Saturday evening Feb. 3, a 3 inch iron pump top. Finder will be paid 25 cents for bis trouble if he will leave same at The Democrat office Andrew Ropp. A marriage license was issued in White county a few days ago to Elmer Phegley and Amy B. Heath. Elmer is a former Jasper county resident and The Democrat "unites with his friends here in extending congratulations.

The Parr quart-shop saloonist is said to have run the business for all there was in it up to about the time the circuit codrt convened, when he left for parts unknown. He seems to have been very “fortunate” in escaping the law. Mrs. Geo. Gowland, of Rensselaer, was visiting members of her family in Goodland and vicinity, this week, and called to renew their Herald subscription; Mrs. Gowland says she likes Rensselaer, both the town and people.—Goodland Herald. John L. Brandt will give the Passion Play lecture the Christian church in this city next Friday evening. The lecture is illustrated with the finest of moving pictures and is highly recommended by the press. Admission 15 and 25c. The lumber, steel and other building material trusts will play hob with building operations the coming season. People will put off building for a while in the hope that these trusts will be killed and the price of building material again cpme down to a reasonable figure.

Charles E. Mills, the present prosecuting attorney by. appointment from Governor, is writing letters advising the people at large that he will be a candidate for the nomination. Jasper county is greatly blessed by' having the judge, and that should be sufficient. —Kentland Enterprise (rep.) William N. Conn has sent in his resignat ion as republican postmaster of Winamac. The main causes impelling Mr. Conn to do so were, as he says, family trouble with his divorced wife, Myrtle Conn, and republican dissatisfaction over his appointment as postmaster. At the November term of the Pulaski circuit court Mrs. Conn was divorced from her husband and he gave her all his possessions. F. M. McDowell will be his successor in office. J. P. Hammond has secured a position as cashier and looal manager of the new bank which Robt. Parker of Remington, is about to establish at Wheatfield, and has withdrawn from the race for the nomination for township trustee of Marion tp. This move will cause an aching void in the truant and deputy treasurer’s offices, etc,, etc., which will be * hard to fill Perhaps, though, these various offices will be held on to as a sort of side line.