Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 August 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

R. H. Robinsqn, dentist. County institute next week. • Kentland will hold no fair this year. White county old settlers meet to-day. J. E. Bislosky, south of town, is visiting in Michigan. Wolcott will hold a business carnival, Sept. 13 and 14. Misses Nellie Bussell and Cora Zimmerman are visitingin Motion. Mrs. C. E. Hershman is visiting friends in the north part of the county. J. A. McFarland started his grocery wagon on the road again Monday. New pensions; Annie Dexter, mother, Goodland, (war with Spain) sl2. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. S. Ellis are visiting at Monticello, with Mr. Fannie McCarthy of this city, will teach in Kankakee tp., the coming year. The call for tbe democratic judicial convention appears on our editorial page. Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Dunn left Thursday for Wichita, Kansas, their future home. John Sullivan and John Mulder went to Indiana Springs for treatment Monday. Mr. and Mrs. C. E. Mills have returned from their trip to Niagara Falls, and other points. Nearly all the “old vets” in this vicinity will take in the G. A. R. encampment at Chicago next week. John Kimble of Gifford, democratic candidate for recorder, was in the city on business Wednesday. Mr. and Mrs. Lois Hollingsworth of Des Moines, lowa, are visiting G. K. Hollingsworth and family. Mrs. Maria Kennedy of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Mrs. V. P. Hope of Morocco, visited Mrs. D. A. Stoner last Sunday.

Robt. Crockett and Ord Yeoman left last Sunday for Georgia, lowa, to work for awhile in threshing and to see the country. John Hinnigan, aged eight, and Williard Laplant, aged ten. were drowned in a tile pit at Fowler Saturday afternoon while in bathing. _ Mrs. Charles D. Norman, who has been confined to her bed for several weeks with consumption, is no better but seems to be gradually failing. William Pitman, a highly respected citizen of Burnettsville, committed suicide by hanging last Monday. Financial troubles were the cause. The Northern Indiana Normal School at Valparaiso, Indiana, will open its 28tn year September 4th, Quite a number from this county will attend. Clarence Travis, of south of town, who has been confined in jail here for some time awaiting room for his admission at Long Cliff, was taken to that institution Monday. The third annual reunion of the Yeoman family will be held at the home of James Yeoman in Newton tp., on Thursday, August 30. All relatives and friends are cordially invited, J The News says that within a radius of fifteen miles of Monon there is being grown this year 300 acres of broom corn. Thomas Wiukleback, four miles southeast of Francesville,.is the largest grower, having in 60 acres. Mrs. J. L. Smith of Valparaiso, widow of the late Rev. Dr. J. L. Smith, is in our city representing the American Home'-Finding Association. She will be here about two weeks, speaking in the churches and visiting the homes. She is stopping at H. M. Middleton’s.

DR. MOORE, Specialist, HBMORHORIXS, womk,. Office First Stairs West of Post Office. Phone 35 >. RENSSELAER, IND.