Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 July 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

R. H. Robinson, dentist. Remember the Chicago excursion to-morrow. Bert Vandercarrof Tefft, was in the city Tuesday. Mann Spitler was down from Thayer Saturday. Frank W. Fisher of Kankakee tp., was in town Monday. W. H. Coover returned from his eastern visit last Saturday . A son was born to Mr. and Mrs. Marion Freeland of Newton tp., Tuesday. Miss Blanche Alter is away for an extended visit with friends in the gas belt. Mrs. S. M. Freelove of Goodland. is visiting her daughter, Mrs. F. E. Babcock. T. M. Hibler of Joliet, 111., is looking after his real estate interests in Milroy tp. Wm. Price, an aged inmate of the poor asylum, died Wednesday morning of dropsy. D. M. Yeoman came up from Ambia last Thursday and remained until after the 4th. Newton county will vote on the proposition of moving the county seat to Brook, on September 25. Misses Ethel Sharp and Lelia Knox and Mrs. Ida O’Meara are attending Normai at Terre Haute. Mrs. J. H. Loughridge is having her old house moved back to another lot, preparatory to building a fine new residence. Michael Bernicken, John Greve, John Pinter, I. McNeil and Town Marshal Brown, all of Wheatfield, were in the city Monday. W. O. Schanlaub closed his school work at Morocco last Friday and will leave for Valparaiso next Monday to attend normal. New pensions; Charles Shipps, Oxford, lenewal, $8; William Burton, Kentland, increase, sl2; William Clift, Rensselaer, increase, sl7. The corner stone of Remington’s new Catholic church will be laid to-morrow (Sunday) afternoon. A large number from Rensselaer and vicinity will attend. Notice:—Fountain Park Assembly, Remington, Ind., July 28 to August 12. Finest program yet offered. Write Robert Parker, Remington, Ind., for one. Mr. R. S. Dwiggins hied himself away to Ohio a few weeks ago and on Saturday of last week was united in marriage to Mrs. Ella Weather of Jacksonville, Ohio. • Frank Frogge, the alleged “Blocks-of-five Dudley of Newton county, gave bond Saturday in the sum of SSOO and is now at liberty. His wife secured bondsmen for him. ' Orlando Finney, the genial head clerk in the grocery department of the Chicago Bargain Store, has resigned his position therein and left Thursday to take a position as commercial traveler. John Jenkins, one of the pioneer settlers of Newton county, died last week, aged almost 80 years. He settled in Newton oounty in 1865, and resided near Mt. Ayr for many years. Mr. J. A. Hopkins -and Miss Cora E. Harmon were married at the residence of the bride’s parents Mr. and Mrs. Jerome Harmon, on the east side, last Saturday evening, Rev. Middleton tingCharlie Watson, a young man of near Remington, got bis hand badly mangled here the 4th by a cannon firecracker. He thought it had gone out and held on to it long. This was the only serious accident here that we learned of. The commissioners granted liquor licenses to Michael Bernicken of Wheatfield, aud R. B. Goodrick of Rensselaer, last Monday, no fight being made against either of the applicants. Goodrick will open a new saloon in the Leopold building, south of the Rosenbaum saloon.