Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1900 — COFFEE CO. (TENN.) ITEMS. [ARTICLE]

COFFEE CO. (TENN.) ITEMS.

Ira Gay went to Manchester Monday. George Hersbman Ilves In Manchester.

Andy Anderson is running a threshing machine. Noah Frame talks of driving through to Oklobotna this fall. Mak Sulivan is working in the Model Mills forW. Stockwell & Son. Charley Crawford and wife, better known iieie as Adam and Eve, visited in Manchester Sunday. The wheat crop here was much below the average this year and some fields were a total failure on account of the ravages of the Hessian fly. Corn, however promises a good yield. Lem. Stockwell went to see his best girl on the evening of the election and stayed three days. He first cast a ballot on which were ths names of no one but democrats, which probably caused him to forget himself and stay longer than he intended. The democratic congressional primaries was held, Jiere on election day. The Hon. James D. Richardson was renominated without Opposition. We are proud of our member from this district and trust him big enough to be Bryan's successor to the presidency. The elections passed off quietly here last Monday. The contest was for county offices and for the local officers in the civil districts, which corresponds with the townships in Ind. All the officers elect are democrats, the republicans having no candidates. It looks a little strange to see the ex-Jasperites who were republicans in Indiana working and voting the democratic ticket here. Leslie Clark of the Rensselaer Journal, and G. B. Calahan of Rose Lawn, have purchased the subscription list and good will of the Rose Lawn Review, and the first issue of the paper under its new management appeared this week. It is a neatly gotten up 8column folio, two pages home print. The mechanical work is done in the Journal printery. We wish the new proprietors success. Frank Christian, residing in Illinois, but owning a 320-acre farm south of Remington, has begun suit in the circuit court against Curtis, Taber & Co., and McCray, Morrison & Co., Remington grain dealers, to collect some S4OO for grain sold defendants by plaintiff’s tenants, Truitt, Truitt and Sullivan, and which plaintiff alleges he had a claim by reason of said tenants failing to comply with terms of lease. William B. Chilcote of this city has begun action in the Jasper circuit court for divorce from Lydia V. Chilcote, alleging abandonment. The complaint alleges that the parties were married July 3, 1871, and lived together as husband and wife until Oct. 4, 1897, when defendant without cause wholly abandoned said plaintiff; that her present address is Sibka, Wardenia county, Minnesota; that the fruit of said union was six children, the youngest of whom is now twelve yrars of age and resides with defendant. James W. Douthit is plaintiff’s attorney. The remains of the man killed at Fair Oaks last week were exumed and shipped to the deceased’s sister in Massachusetts, last Friday, she having telegraphed money to pay the necessary expenses. It is now claimed that the man got on the night train at Cedar Lake, where he tried to purchase a ticket for Fair Oaks, but as the train made no stop there the agent would not sell him a ticket for that place, but did sell him a ticket to Rensselaer. It is thought by some that he attempted to jump off at Fair Oaks and struck the switch guard, which caused his death. It is also claimed that the man had worked about a year ago for the Halsteads, west of town, under the assumed name of Henry Atwell.

The Tenth Indiana District Log Rolling association of the Modern Woodmen of America will hold their second annual “Log Rolling” at Hammond, Indiana, on August 29, 1900. A splendid and lively program has been arranged and the Hon. William J. Bryan, of Nebraska, and Lieut. Governor Northcutt, of Illinois, will be the most prominent speakers. A grand parade will be held at 12 o’clock and it is expected that 5,000 woodmen will be in line. The meeting will be held in a large park near the city and the G. A. R. rates of one cent per mile has been Secured on all railroads entering the city. All of the W T hite county camps, composed of Monticello, Wolcott, Brookston, Chalmers and Monon, will attend in full force and will

be escorted by the Monticello band. Everybody is invited to attend and enjoy themselves.— Monticello Herald.