Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 March 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

New pensions: David J. Thompson, Rensselaer, original, $6. Joseph Law, a resident of Newton county for the past fifty years, died last week. S. A. Dowell announces himself as a candidate for re-nomina-tion for county commissioner. John Carder of Parr, will make application for a liquor license at the April term of commissioners’ court. Wm. Plummer, the Kankakee poet, will give an entertainment at Good Hope church, Union tp., on the evening of March 28. Geo. W. Burk has sold his 240acre farm north of town to an Illinoisian. Consideration said to be $14,000. Mr. Burk will remove to Colorado, we understand. To-day’s Rensselaer markets (all top prices): Wheat 65; corn 29J; oats 22; rye 45. One year ago today the prices were: wheat 62; corn 28J; oats 26%; rye 40. Cummings & Darroch have sold the Maloney ranch of 1,120 acres lying two miles north of Morocco, to a Chicago party. Consideration $31,000.00. —Kentland Enterprise. The big snow is gradually disappearing, but enough still lines the sidewalks, and, as it melts, runs back onto the walks; to make it decidedly unpleasant getting about, while the “sledding” remains fairly good. We acknowledge receipt of bulletin of the Agricultural Experiment Station of Wisconsin, with compliments of S. E. Sparling. The bulletin is on “Construction and Maintenance of Country Roads,” and therefore cf more than passing interest. Judge Thompson got quite a bad fall last Sunday night while up to render some service to Mrs. Thompson, who was ill. He fell down the back stairs at his residence nnd as a result was feeling for a few days much like the man who went up in a balloon and. walked back. Monon has now been'one year without saloons It has ass rded sufficient time to test the conditions where no saloon exists. The people are satisfied with the results. There seeiiis to be no disposition on the part of the business men, whom it was feared would suffer under the new regime, to let the saloon in again. While it is not claimed that keeping out the eradicates the drink habit, yet it seems to be proving the most effectual restraint that has yet been placed upon the drink habit.—Monon News.

News was received here this week of the death of Jesse Grubb, who died Feb. 28, at Boulder Colo., of consumption. Mr. Grubb, was about 33 years old. He lived in Rensselaer for several years, during which time he was agent for the American Express Company. He was married in 1892 to Miss Maud Benjamin, who died about 5 years ago. He has since married again, in Goshen, and this wife survives him. He also leaves two children a girl about seven years old, by the first marriage and an infant daughter, by the second marriage. Geo. H. Mains of Livingston county, 111.,wh0 purchased the Henry Fisher farm north of town, moved here with his family this week. Mr. Mains was delayed some in Setting here by the illness and nal death of one of his sons, a young man about 24 years of age. The boy had been very sick for several weeks with long fever and died while Mr. Mains was on his way here to close up the deal with Mr. Fisher early last week, a dispatch informing him of the death overtaking him at Reynolds. He immediately returned home and buried the young man and came on Saturday and closed up the trade with Mr. Fisher.

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