Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A whole armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office. Mrs. Maloney and daughter of Chicago, are visiting Miss Maggie Healy. John T. Sayler has sold his farm east of town to Geo. R. Katchum, an Illinoisian. Cosideration SB,800. Mrs. J*. P. Hammond, who has been sick for some time, shows no signs of improvement, in fact is said to be growing weaker. Mr. and Mrs. L. W. Hunt of Barado, Mich., who have been visiting friends here, returned home Thursday, accompanied by the former’s mother who will spend the summer there. Mrs. T. J. McCoy who has been at the Presbyterian hospital for several months for treatment, is said to be improving very slowly. She has been in poor health] since she was thrown from a carriage in a runaway last fall. Twelve indictments, have been returned by the grand jury investigating the assination of Gov. Goebel in KedtucXy, one of which is said to be against “Gov.” Taylor himself, charging conspiracy in bringing about the assination. Wallace Robinson, who is now in Lamar, Colo., writes D. B. Nowels that be had been offered $2,500 advance upon the coal, hay and seed business, which the Rensselaer syndicate recently bought. They have not decided to sell as yet. Several north side residences were entered by someone,presumably a burglar, last Sunday night, although nothing was taken at either place, the would-be thief being scared away before securing any booty. The homes of James Norris, John Hordeman and Mrs. Grant were those entered.

Gifford now says that if the $30,000 and free right of way is given him he will agree to build his road to Remington within two years, and gives the people 100 days to accept or reject his proposition. The people of Remington should go ahead with their electric road project and put it through this year.

The railroad tracks have been torn up, the iron and ties returned to the C. & E. I. railroad company, the superintendent has returned to Rensselaer and all work has been abandoned on the Keener tp., gravel roads. Still there is some five or six miles of the road uncompleted. Do the taxpayers now think The Democrat lied about this gravel road matter in its previous statements or was it the “Official Apologist?” Yes, when you see it in The Democrat it’s so.

In 1869 the town of Oxford, in Benton county, was incorporated—or supposed to have been. Recently the town wanted to expand, and when the matter came up it was found that nothing appeared on record that there ever was such a town as Oxford, the plat not having been recorded, or if recorded, the records lost. School, street improvement and electric light bonds have been issued and sold investors without question as to their legality so far as the incorporation of the town was Concerned, and* the peculiar state of affairs was only brought to light by accident.

The writer made a flying trip to Jennings county last Saturday, returning Sunday morning. Wheat, one of the principal crops in southeastern Indiana, is looking bad. aid from present indications will not be more than one-fourth an average crop. The best fields we saw anywhere along the route were in Jennings county. We saw Mr. Henry Fisher, who recently moved to Jennings from this county, and he is well pleased with the country and his purchases there. The old gentleman was hauling tile and is improving his lands by drainage. Owing to our necessarjlly short visit we did not itoeet rfny Others of the Jasper county contingent, of which there are some thirty or forty.