Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Henry Getting of Goodland, was the city Sunday. Miss Dena Gangloff is visiting her parents at Francesville. Mn and Mrs. T. F. Clark visited friends in Dunnville the first of the week. Carroll county old settlers will hold their annual meeting at Delphi, August 11. Mrs. Mary Payton and children are spending a few days with relatives in Monticello. Mr. and Mrs. Maloney of Chicago, are visiting the former’s sister Mrs. Mary Drake. For first class dental work call on Dr. R. H. Robinson. Office over Ellis & Murray’s store. John Vosburg, an old resident of Newton county, died at his home south of Foresman last week. The “gold democrats” have decided to put no ticket in the field, much to the consternation of Mark Hanna. - Charles Handly and John Mauck of Newton tp., were in town Tuesday and each purchased a new farm wagon. Miss Orrie Clark has graduated from the Vermillion county hospital at Danville, 111., and is now home for awhile.

Mrs. Henry Shide and Mrs. Conrad Kellner attended the wedding of their sister Miss Maggie Wagner to Frank Kennel, at Lafayette the first of the week. $1.50 for the round trip to Chicago, August 25 to 29, good returning to August 31, or by paying a fee of 50 cents, tickets may be extended to Sept. 30. W. H. Beam, Agt. A party was given at the home of Mr. and Mrs. James Yeoman in Newton tp., Saturday evening. About fifty were present. Icecream and cake were served and a most delightful time was had. Last Friday one of the 3-year-old daughter’s of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Gorham got hold of a bottle containing a solution of carbolic acid and swallowed a portion of the stuff. For a time her life was in danger but prompt medical, attendance supplemented by immediate home remedies for poison saved the child’s life. Scarcely a word of the Journal's account of Bro. Marshall’s insanity outbreak was true and neither was its alleged wording of the affidavit filed against him. Truth, however, need never be looked for from this source. So accustomed has the editor of that sheet become to lying that if a truthful item appears therein it is by mistake.

The Chicago <fc Eastern Illinois railroad recently built a cut-off line from the Indiana coal fields over to their main line, and all coal trains now go north over the main line. On the Momence-Bra-zil division but one passenger train and one local freight is now run daily each way. A few years ago from twenty to thirty coal trains each way passed over this division.

A South Bend dispatch says that the Jasper County Oil and Gas Company, whose promoters are mainly local capitalists, have, through the purchases of valuable franchises, acquired leases to 8,000 additional acres of land and thirty wells. The acquisitions are the New American Oil and Mining Company, the Interstate Petroleum Oil and Gas Company and the Interstate Oil Company.

Into the cow lot, bright and gay, the milkmaid hustles from day to day and gathers the lacteal fluid white, while the morning suir is still “out of sight.” And e’en when the evening sunlight falls, again she hustles up the pails, and seeks in cow with brindle tail that fount of wealth that never fails. Hot wiud may blow and grasshoppers hop, and the bugs and blizzards may gather the crop, but so long as the stream of milk don’t stop, the cow and milkmaid will come out on top. —Ex.