Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 October 1900 — DUNNVILLE. [ARTICLE]

DUNNVILLE.

Flection drawe. h nigh. Mr; Billy Jones is occupying- his new hous - in 15. V. l eter Behlts is shipping his beets. The yield is quite good. Grandpa Miles and wife have moved into their new D, V. house. Dr. John Spitler of Thayer, the optical!, is doing work in this vicinity. Grant Hill of Wheatfield tp., attended church at I). V. last Sunday evening. Martin Sands has the best prospects for wheat we have seen fi r some time. Mr. George Sands was the guest of Honolulu Hilliard a few evenings ago. Candidate M. A. Jones and wife were the guests of Mr. and Mrs. White last Sunday. Messers George Belcher and son and Clarence Powell are pressing hay near Wilders The husking of corn is the main feature on the industrial program at the ' present time.

Mrs. Janies Warreii Newman William, Douglas White visited in San Pierre the first of the week. Mr. Charley Whitehas taken the contract of putting in tile on the farm, occupied by August Klanska. Miss Sar i Cowgill is hoarding at Mr. George Belcher's, jr. Her favorite item on the mei.ue card is chicken, Wanted- a granite, steel line 1, coppercornqred cage in whi h to hide, to save me irovp the wrath of the school ma'ams.

o>'r new- M. E. pastor is making a pood impression upon the people m i|,< >< p ,rts. Ills oratory is pleasing ami lus theology geniune. • z Lost, strayed or stolen - a spotted! Hup of the hound variety. Anybody! i .eerng 01 lieariug the musical sound j there cd, please notify John Collins. I Quite a few of the I). V. Young people . tleml<,d the oyster carnival at Hon. H. Cooler's last F'tday evening. They all report a rip-roaring litre, thus a Niagara of tun. Mesdaines'Carrie Seegrist and Lizzie \ andvicar visited at Medaryville last Saturday and Sunday. 1 hey intended to deliver a few political speeches there but the opera house being too small they refat med.

Mr. and Mrs Peter Behles are visiting • friends m Chicago. .Anna, while her mamma is gone, is reducing the quantity of cream. Why, she is feasting on cream and huckleberries, with potatoes for desert. Trustee K-tupke and Civil Engineer Finn have succeeded in cutting a canal through the hill known as the McGuire hill. The trustee, after walking through the canal to the tune of, “There'll be a hot time,” christened it the Fmp canal. Robert Rennewanz of San Pierre, wishes to pose before the public, as the champion mashed potato eater of the state. Any lady who is inatnmonially inclined and can serve potatoes to suit the buffalo taste of Bobbie, would do well to see him.

Mr. George Naphtali Gross departed for 111., last Monday. He called on Miss Emma Knapp Sunday morning and after talking in a strain of acute affection for two hours, he bowed his mortal frame like a weeping willow and said goodbye six times. Sometimes dead people are given a watery burial but it is very seldom that live folk figures as the principals in such a role. Last week as Mr. Ike Brown and Miss Winnie Fraier were boat-riding, in a boat noted (or its mustang propensities, they had the honor of enjoying the excitement of a regular old boat upsetting experience. In lhe midst of the tumult', Ike, in tones of thurnder, said, “Let the boat goto Halifax, sink or swim.', The Misses Fannie McCarthy and Netta B. Collins and the latter's brothers engaged in a water sprinkling contest a few days ago. After the battle or contest bad waged for a few minutes the girls got fire-eating mad and wished they had the power to bring a deluge and thus wash the boys off the seat of action into the great beyond. But after their wrath

had waned they at once saw the rashness-' of their wish, for had a deluge came, the ! rabbits, of which they, are very, very fondi of, would have unfortunately disappaered. Of course their friends m the central: part of the county could ship them a. few c. o. d. A LETTER FROM THE PHILIPPINES. Nueia Caceres, August 19, igocv Mr. Bert VanixerX'AM, Dear Brother—:. I thought I would write you a letter to Let you know, ihat so far, I have escaped the bullets. Am well and hope-that you are well, yea. very well. I am having a good time now, better than I have enjoyed for some time. I have been, here for the past six months with the prospects of staying a few more. Most of iny company are out on a "bike,” having been gone for ten. days. A few mghts ago Captain Brown of company E., was killed. He was at one lime an officer in our company, h is reported his company was captured. Weil, Bert, I suppose you are married by 1 this time, 1 hope so. When I get back jto America I will tell you all. I would | r ither convet sate than write. Your Friend, William A. Wilmington.