Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 August 1900 — DUNNVILLE. [ARTICLE]

DUNNVILLE.

i Corn looks tine. ' Lee Kin er is working for Mr. Stole in Pbr- | ter Co. Mrs. C. C. Jones is visiting friends at La- I fayette. Miss fcdna Witt is working for Mrs. T. J. Maloney. Earl WUmington is.now stationed at Glen-j dora, Mich. L. B. Collins attended the base ball game at Judson last Sunday. Okla Vandercarr of Grant I’ark, is visiting friends in these parts. Miss Mary Stimson of Kniman, was visit’ng : in these parts last Sunday. Miss Pekrl Bobannan of San Pierre, attended Sal bath school at D. V. last Sunday. Miss Maggie Bellies, who has been visiting i.r these parts, returned tot liicagolast Friday Laun Hilliard has constructed for his own comfort a tine swing. George Sands says it is alright. The republicans of Kankakee tp.. held their mass convention at I). V. last Saturday. They nominated David Collins for trustee and Milt Jones for assessor. Wedid not hear the names of the other candidates. The great pie and cake eater*, the Misses Emma Burger and Anna Jasperson. w ere prenmbulating the streets of DunnvlHe last Sunday. They brought in for shipment a little wee turkey and an infant gosling, packed securely in a shoe box. Mr. and Mrs. T. F. Clark of Rensselaer were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. Mannan last week. Mr. Clark and Mr. Mannan were in the same company during the rebellion. It lias been their custom to spend their birthdays together. | they being only a few days apart. May they see many happy reunions. The young people of the Baptist church gave a necktie social at I). V. July 25. which w as a success both socially and financially. Two prizes were given; one for the prettiest girl, which was captured by Miss Stella White, and one for the homliest boy who was unhesitai tingly awarded to Joe Fenzil. Proceeds of social *20.87. W. O. Hinshaw our ex-operator is stationed iat Wellsboro. He say* that his whiskers are assuming serious proportions which he Is 1 afraid will retard his matrimonial sun from ! rising. He is getting H 5 a month and eats hintaelf. W. 0., is a candidate for matrimony. : but please don’t all apply but give, give Miss Jennie a fair chance. Messrs. Hendricks’ and Fred Booth had an experience last Sunday that would raise the hair on a wooden Indian. While returning from Sunday school their mule got contiary and wanted to transfer hi* caress west, while i they wanted to go east. After a little skirmish j the mule tipper! the buggy over throwing the voting njen out and ran away with the buggy, damaging it quite badly. The boys after holding a conference decided that tliey were all alive. That same mule without provoeg- • tion kicked the d**h board off of Etnmon ■ Miller's buggy awhile back.A certain man asked me the following question: "Why are you a democrat?" to which 1 replied: “First, the democratic party doubled the area of the V. 8. without resorting to crim* Inal aggression or buying the good-wll) of a Mormon Sultan. Second-, because democracy ■ ha* always stood for the common people, of | which 1 am a member, and for economy and for the restoration of the money of the const!. ■ tution." People that are financial giant* can , protect themselves, therefore protect and de-

fend die interests of the ordinary people from the encroachment of the extraordinary.