Jasper County Democrat, Volume 2, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Ellis opera house, Apr. 4, Wabash College Glee Club. Mr. and Mrs. James Gardner visited friends in Monticello Tuesday. D. H. Yeoman has. at last struck water on his sawmill site, north of town. The White grain elevator at Knox was destroyed by fire Monday night. J. C. Kaupke and Frank Fisher of Kankakee township, were in the .city yesterday. John Eger and E. P. Honan are candidates for the democratic nomination for city mayor. It is rumored that the Parr would-be saloonist will be successfully remonstrated against. Perry Hull, the Gillam tp., “horse buyer,” has been released from the reformatory on parole.

Charles Brown of Pulaski county, visited his mother, Mrs, A. E. Brown, of this city, over Sunday. Mrs. Jennie Wright, mother of Mrs. W. H. Beam of this city, died at Fresno, Cali., last Sunday. Twenty-six young men from Carroll county left Delphi last Tuesday to take up their abode in North Dakota. The Halleck telephone franchise passed Monday night with but one dissenting vote, that of councilmen J. C. Gwin. Jordan township/d&mocrats will name the next set of township offices for that bailiwick to-day. The republicans will hold their convention one week from to-day.

Democrats should remember the convention at the court house Monday evening, and make it a point to turn out and see that good men are nominated to fill the city offices. No correspondence reaching us latter than' Thursday can be inserted. Correspondents will please bear this fact in mind and see that their items are sent in earlier in the week. Miss Mary Meyer has just returned from Chicago with a complete line of millinery. The prettiest pattern hats ever shown. All of the latest colors and shapes. Please give them a call. The Kankakee river has been out of its banks for the past ten days and thousands of acres of contiguous territory is inundated. Monday the whole country about Shelby was-one vast lake of water. It was very affecting to listen to the table of woe over republican friends brought home. with them from the senatorial convention at Goodland. Our handkerchief is still damp from sympathizing with them.

The ladies of the foreign missionary society had charge of the services at the M. E. church Sunday evening, and a very able and interesting program was rendered which was fully enjoyed by all present. William Drewette, an old soldier, died at his home just north of town, Wednesday, after a long illness, aged 77 years. The funeral was held from the residence Thursday afternoon, and interment in Weston cemetery. The work of taking the census of Monticello was completed this morning, and the enumerators report that there are two thousand and fifty-eight people in the corporate limits, The town board will meet Saturday evening and order an election, which will likely be held about April 9, or as soon as the proper notice can be given. —Monticello Journal. The Kalamazoo (Mich.) Beet Sugar Co., have assumed the beet growing contracts made with northern Indiana farmers, and car loads of beet sugar seed have arrived for diatribntion. It is estimated that nearly 12,000 acres of sugar beets will be put out in Indiana this season. The farmers will be paid at the rate of about •4.00 per ton for the beets delivered on board the cars.