Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 22, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 September 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Without any undue noise or bluster the keys of the city passed from republican to democratic hands last Monday morning. No dire calamity has yet overtaken the citizens of Rensselaer, and the smallpox in Barkley tp., was contracted previous to this important event. “Shorty” Simpson, the new marshal, camo out Monday in a spick and span new uniform and set quite a number of the citizens to work mowing their annual crop of weeds, which work some of them, no doubt, felt was a great hardship. It is a common remark that you can always correctly guage the quality of a show troupe by the paper they carry, but in this day of cheap lithographs and posters this rule seldom holds good, and some of the worst barn-stormers on the road carry the most attractive advertising sheets. A case in point is that of the “Maloney’s Wedding” company, which held forth at the opera house Saturday night. This company ’ carried about as an attractive a line of advertising matter as any show that ever struck the town, and yet aside from the leading man, who was fairly good, the company did not possess as much talent as the average cross-roads dramatic company, and the “entertainment” put up was exceedingly thin.