Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 September 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

i jThe second county seat election in Newton county on the proposition of removal from Kentland, will be held next Tuesday. Brook is the hopeful town this time, but it is not thought she will get much of a vote outside of her own township. i. Ray D. Thompson and Miss Bertha Nowels were married at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Nowels, on the corner of Weston and Susan streets, Thursday morning, Rev. Work of the'Presbyterian church, officiating. Only a few of the immediate friends were present. The groom is the son of the late Thomas Thompson and is engaged in the law practice here. The bride is one of Rensselaer’s most estimiable and popular young ladies. The newly wedded couple left on the 9:45 train Thursday for Chicago and other points for a brief honeymoon, after which they will return and take up their their abode in the property known as the Presbyterian parsonage on North Van Rensselaer street. Jasper county will soon have a free rural mail delivery, the route to run from Rensselaer north to Alf. Donnelly’s farm, thence east over Groom’s bridge to S. Nichols’ farm, west to Geo. Jenkins,’ south and west to Arnold school house, south to Pullins school house, west to Bowling Green school house, then south by the Matheson farm to Rensselaer. Mails will leave Rensselaer each day at 8:30 a. m., returning about 4 p. m. John Daugherty be carrier and J. A. Ramey substitute carrier. The service will begin, it is expected, about Oct. 15. Boxes must be furnished by the patrons a small cost, about 50 cents, which are to be placed by the roadway in front of each patron’s residence. No one will be served unless they have a box, but several persons may get mail from same box. The service is free and the only being for boxes. $ Ma?k Hanna passed through Rensselaer last Saturday as advertised. Possibly seventy-five people were at the depot to see what sort of a looking man he was. Tom McCoy boarded the train and just as it was pulling out of the station appeared on the rear platform with a sleek old gentlemen with a bald head whom he introduced as “Senator >-Marcus A. Hanna.” The senator bowed in acknowledgement. Mark had on different suit of clothes from those he usually wears in the pictures we see of him, and few would have recognized him without his $ marked suit had not Tom McCoy kindly told them who he was. There were no cheers or demonstrations whatever. Senator Hanna is about 65 years of age, quite bald, smooth face except short Burnsides, and his features much resemble those we see in the newspaper cartoons of him. He is a man about the height and build of A. McCoy of this place, although not quite so portly or florid a complexion, this latter accomplishment due no doubt to the fact that Mark talks politics to the trust magnates in their sumptuously furnished apartments while Mr. McCoy takes the open air for his efforts in this line and works the farmers.