Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 May 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Read the half-page ad of the old reliable Chicago Bargain Store. A son was bom to Prof, and Mrs. W. H. Sanders last Friday. Job Harrison has gone to North Dakota to hold down his land claim. J. H. Jessen is in Morocco, where he has a large cement walk contract. Dr. Aaron Wood and Miss Ollie Wilson of Brook, were married last Friday. The Monon will run another 75cent excursion to Chicago one week from to-morrow, the 27th. Daniel T. O’Connor and John M. Johnson, both of Remington, will apply for liquor license at the next term of commissioners’ court. Store room for rent, opposite court house, 20x105. AU in good shape, counters and shelves. Enquire of John Makeever, at Makeever’s Bank. Attorney and Mrs. E. P. Honan and son Edward, were in Kentland Monday and Tuesday, where Mr. Honan looked after some cases in the circuit court. The 18th annual commencement of the Rensselaer high school will be held at the M. E. church on next Thursday evening. Prof. H. B. Milford of Wabash College, will deliver the address. Two insane people are now confined in jail here, awaiting room for their removal to Long Cliff asylum. They are Mrs. Ella Adams Lilly of Walker tp., and Joseph Wagan, a deaf and dumb man from Keener tp. New pensions: Abram P, Carnahan, Oxford, additional, $8; Daniel Bruce, Winamac, additional, $10; Michael Robinson, Medaryville, additional, $6; Elmira Turner, Wheatfield, war with Spain, widow, sl2.

C. J. Martin and family of Parr, departed Tuesday morning for Monmouth, lowa, where they will make their future home. Mr. Martin writes us that it is a nice rofling country, and land prices run from S2O to $65 per acre. ——*• The young wife of Editor Harry Strohm ofthe Kentland Enterprise died at the hospital in Lafayette last Saturday, where she had been taken for treatment. The Democrat extends its sympathy to Bro. Strohm in his great affliction. Jim Lefler and Ed. Bruce of Rensselaer, uncles of Mrs. O. Bolden, drove over to this city Wednesday. They leave the former pla?e Monday for Lincoln, Neb.* where, if the climate is agreeable’, they will become permanent citizens.—Francesville Tribune. The Ladies’ Industrial society of the M. E. church have purchased the Cotton property on North Cullen street, and it is expected to build a parsonage thereon next season. The foundation will be put in this fall. The amount paid for the property was S7OO. Dr. Washburn is getting along as well as could be expected since the operation was performed upon him at Chicago, and will probably be home m a week or so. While no great promises were held out by the surgeons, it is thought that he will be considerably benefitted by the operation. Robt. Parker of Remington, was in the city Monday afternoon, enroute to Chicago to meet the remains of Dr. S. C. Maxwell, a former well known resident of Remington, who died at his home in Duluth, Minn., Saturday night. The remains were brought back to Remington for burial. Last week The Democrat contained correspondence from 13 townsand neighborhoods in Jasper county, in addition to all the more important news in and about Rensselaer, a complete report of commissioners’court proceedings, real estate transfers and other general news of county business. Do you wonder that it is the most popular paper in the cohnty or that its circulation is greater than any other paper published in the county?