Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Granville Hawkins gives notice through the Barnacle that he will apply for a license to sell -intoxicants to the thirsty Giffordites in Barkley tp., at the November meeting of the commissioners.

The state committee, under whose direction he is speaking, changed Captain Gutherie’s assignment in this county'somewhat and as now arranged he will speak at Wheatfield next Saturday, Oct. 27, and at night of the same date at Rensselaer. Remington had to be cut out, but some other good speaker will be assigned to that place for some date next week, it is expected.

Workmen commenced last Tuesday to remove the six-inch oil pipe line which starts in Wabash county and runs thence westward to the oil refineries at Momence, 111., passing through the counties of Wells, Huntington, Fulton, Pulaski, Jasper and Newton, a distance of over 160 miles. The line was built in 1896 by the Cudahy Brothers of Chicago at a cost of $2,000,000, to compete with the Standered company, which recently purchased it. — Winamac Democrat-Journal.

Almost simultaneously, “BenHur,” General Lew Wallace’s famous novel, and Quo Vadis,” Henry Sienkiewicz’s life of the early Christians were dramatized. These two great religious plays are receiving the consideration of nearly every person, including brain the struggles and triumphs of the early church. The feasting at the Imperial palace, the contest in the arena, the burning of Rome, the rescue of Lygia (the Christian maiden,) will hold their place in memory with unfading color and are to be reckoned among the significant genius of narrative art. The above fine offering will be seen at the Ellis opera house on Monday, Oct. 22, in its entirety.