Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 August 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

For first crass dental work call on Dr. R. H. Robinson. Office over Ellis & Murray’s store. 80-acre farm, six miles from city, orchard, barn, good five-room house, good well of water, land in prime state of cultivation. Big Bargain, see E. P. Honan. To Trade For Wood: A fine, gents new hunting case gold watch. 15-jewel Elgin movement and 21year gold-filled case; an elegant and first-class timepiece in every way. Will trade for 4-foot wood to be delivered in town. Enquire at this office. Among those from Jas pe r county who attended the Bryan notification meeting were: C. W. Littlefield and “Jake” Jordan, of Remington; Geo. W. Casey, of Union tp ; F. E. Duvall, of Jordan tp.; B. F. Fendig, of Wneatfield, Judge Thompson and The Democrat editor, of Rensselaer. The cow-puncher of . the Barnacle took advantage of the excursion rates to go down and see Charley Hernley of the Republican State Committee, and find out what his chances were of securing a little campaign fund, also to lay in a fresh supply of formaldehyde. We would call the attention of our readers who are seeking cheaper farm lands, to the list of farms in another column, for sale by Dalton Hinchman, of Vernon, Jennings county, Indiana. Probably as many as 25 families from this county have located in county during the past three years, and, so far as we have learned, all are well pleased with their change. The writer has made a number of trips to Jennings county and is quite well acquainted with the country thereabouts. We will be pleased to render such assistance or information as we can to people who desire to know more of that section of the country. The list of farms in these columns will be changed from time to time and new lists added. Keep watch of it and you will probably find something that will suit you.

The metropolitan dailies have been devoting a great deal of space during the past few weeks to “the shirt-waist man,’’ and Tuesday’s; Indianapolis Press contained a, portrait of the alleged “original” ' shirt-waist man. The “original” ' has been locatefl in various cities— I New York, Boston, Chicago, etc. — but none of the papers have as yet located him correctly, and we rise to present the claims of Rensselaer and to introduce one of her most popular citizens as the only genuine, name-blown-in-the-bottle, original shirt-waist man in the kingdom of Mark Hanna, a man who for two years or more has been a devotee of the alleged shirt-waist during the heated season and never made any noise about it. This man is big, good-natured, popular J.H. S. Ellis, and if there are any monuments, chromos or medals to be awarded to the city owning the original of this common-sense man who started the shirt-waist craze, we request that the donors look no further, but forward them direct to Rensselaer.

No one here seems to know exactly who is required by law to pay the expense of holding the late railroad elections in the townships where the proposition was defeated. Had the tax carried and been levied and collected, the expenses are required to be paid by the county and the amount kept out of the fund so raised, but no one that we have yet heard of has expressed any positive opinion as to who paid the freight of it lost. It doesn’t seem that the county ought to pay it, as it is a matter on which only a portion of the county, the interested townships vote. Neither should the townships themselves be required to pay the expense, but, rather, after the manner of ditch and gravel road petitions, the people who petition for the election should pay the cost thereof. Let this be as it may, however,-^the commissioners have allowed the bills and the county has paid them, if it [ever gets th • money back it will [probably require a long-winded l;<v nit i < tir e ii. the Wakarusa |ai t <i li uois < ch cases to accoi ipii- this n tilt.