Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1900 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Having purchased the grocery store in Odd Fellows Building I expect to add to the stock on hand everything necessary to make it complete in every particular. The goods are new and I shall aim to keep the stock in prime condition at all times. Everything in the grocery line, with a nice line of queensware, etc. and a large line of cigars and tobacco, candies, etc. I respectfully solicit a portion of the trade, and guarantee fair, courteous treatment to all. Come and see the new Cash Grocery in front of the court house. W. H. Coover, Prop.

About the only new developments in the Tanner cattle case is that some of the parties claim to have gotten their money all out, and the Sanson Commission Co., of Chicago, now claim to have held a mortgage on 100 head of the cattle that were recently taken up by the Harris’ of the Rensselaer Bank, to cover a mortgage which the latter alleges to have on the particular cattle taken by them, and the Commission Co., has begun suit in the circuit court against the Harris’ for $8,500, the amount of their mortgage and damages. The Harris contention is, we understand, that Tanner turned out the cattle taken by them as the particular cattle covered by their mortgage, and after getting possession of the same they released the mortgage. The case is quito a complicated one and it looks very much like there was a scheme to saddle the whole thing onto the Harris’. Jasper county has a “democrat” who deserves a leather medal for his treachery to his party. His name is Robert Zick. He secured the democratic nomination for trustee of Walker township, and the party elected him. It happened that democratic trustees were elected in seven of the thirteen townships of that county, thus giving the democrats a majority of one for the election of a county superintendent. Zick took his office Monday of last week, and two days later, although importuned by many democrats not to do so, he resigned it, his only reason being that he thought he “might not like it.” Of course the republican auditor appointed a republican in his place—as he had a perfect right to do—and a democratic majority is thus changed to a republican one. At this distance it looks very much as though money had induced Zick to play traitor to the party that honored him.—Pulaski County Democrat.