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

C. T. Dye of Remington, was in the city yesterday. « A whole armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office. Sixty-five tickets were sold from this station to the Monon convention Wednesday. James Parkison and H. B. Murray returned from their Western trip last Sunday. Mrs. Mainwaring of Greenleaf, Kan., is visiting the family of her brother, Julius Huff, of Jordan tp. Misses Blanche Burger of Remington, and Flora Snoddy of Delphi, are guests of Mrs. J. F. Major. One of the Kessinger infant twins died in Jordan tp., last Sunday and was buried here Wednesday. Miss Myrtle Chipman has returned home from a few weeks visit with relatives at Buchanan, Michigan. Mrs. John Wood, an aged lady residing a few miles south of town, broke her left hip last Sunday, the result of a bad fall. There will be a silver medal contest at the Vauhgn church, Sunday Eve., July 29. Admission free. All are invited. Notice:—Fountain Park Assembly, Remington, Ind., July 28 to August 12. Finest program yet offered. Write Robert Parker, Remington, Ind., for one. A gasoline stove explosion caused some damage and a great deal of excitement at J. B. Sayler’s, in the north part of town, a few mornings ago. We understand that the viewers’ report of the public utility of the highway east of town, petitioned for by Delos Thompson et al, will be against the same. - Today’s Rensselaer markets (all top prices): Wheat 65; corn 36: oats 22; rye 45. One year ago today the prices were, wheat '65; corn 29: oats 19; rye, 45. Horace Swisher of Wheatfield, was arrested here Thursday and fined and costed to the amount of about eleven dollars, for being mixed up in the Wheatfield trouble in which his brother James is now under arrest.

One Giffordite has found out what it is to oppose the Jasper County Land King. He had teams working on the Gifford road, but voted against the tax, he says, and was informed that his services were no longer required by Mr. Gifford.

The report that the Western Union would give up their down town office here is said to be incorrect, at least they will try it a while longer, and hope by cutting down expenses to make the office self-sustaining. Robt. Johnson, the old operator, will move to Lafayette, and another man is to come here and take his place.

The republican press of this section is jubilating over the announcement that Isaac Parsons of Monon, has declared his sympathy with President McKinley's criminal agression policy and will hereafter follow the republican bandwagon. Isaac is quite a lover of “pap” and his old democratic associates failed to recognize the latent ability which lay buried un der the humble exterior of Uncle Isaac. May his new companions feed him on the fat of the land, is our wish.

B. J. Gifford was in the city Thursday and as a result of his conference here, we understand, new petitions are to be prepared in Barkley, Jordan and Carpenter townships and a desperate effort made to secure a majority of the voters of each of said townships on said petitions. If successful in this the petitions will be filed and new elections called, otherwise not. The people of those townships, therefore, who oppose the tax should not sign said petitions unless they expect to vote for it, as there is no necessity of going to the expense of holding elections when there is no prospect of carrying them.