Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1901 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Zell Fisher has bought the Short hitch barn. Monon now has two saloons, with another in prospect. Hiram Day, wife and children, are visiting friends inTllinois. Read the program for the Farmers’ Institute in another column. Two good farms to rent for cash. Call at this office for particulars. Miss Ritta Witham of Buffalo, White county, is visitiner the Maucks, in Newton tp. Mrs. Lizzie Johnson of Whitehall, Mich., is visiting her sisters, Mesdames J. F. Warren and E. L. Clark.

Mrs. Wm. Nowels of Jordan tp., returned Thursday from a visit with-her son and daughter at Chicago Heights. Julius Taylor, Rensselaer’s coloredcitizen, has broken ground for a new house upon his lot on South Scott street. Dr. Millard, the osteopath, has been quite sick for the past week with pneumonia. He is reported better at this writing. Married, by Rev. D. J. Huston at his residence in Milroy tp., Jan. 6, Mr. Oliver F. Hammond to Miss Dora Wood, all of Jasper county. Today’s Rensselaer markets (all top prices): Wheat 65; corn 32|; oats 21|; rye 42. One year ago today the prices were, wheat 65; corn 26; oats 21|; rye 45. W. D. Bringle has bought back his old farm in Jordan tp., paying therefor, we understand, S6O per acre. He will move upon the same about the first of March. Judge Thompson was going about with a subscription Wednesday to raise money to purchase a piano for the library, and met with flattering success. The defendants in the famous old Iroquois ditch ease recently filed Lond for an appeal to the supreme court, and work on the voluminous transcript is about completed.

The Democrat’s new subscribers for the past week number 12, distributed by postoffices as follows: Coats, Kan., 1; Pleasant Grove, 1; Parr, 1; 1. Rensselaer, 8.

B. M. Donnelly of Monticello, Ind., has succeeded Mr. Stoneback at the Pavilion Photo Gallery. The public are cordially invited to call and see samples of work and get prices. At the January meeting of the Newton county commissioners, petitions were presented and viewers appointed for 70 miles of gravel and stone roads—3s miles in Jefferson tp.; 14| miles in Beaver tp.; 13 miles in McClellan tp.; and 7| miles in Lake tp The ladies of the W. R. C. held a public installation of officers Monday evening. After the installation exercises were over, refreshments were served to a large number of members and visitors. Also, W. H. Miller gave a “Chalk Talk” which was highly appreciated. The eleventh annual meeting of the Jasper County stitute will be held in the east court room at the court house in this city next Monday and Tuesday. An interesting program has been prepared and it is hoped that there will be a large attendance.

L. H. Myers of Jordan tp., has recently purchased the Mrs. Caddie Martin residence and four lots on South River street and will move to Rensselaer about March first. Consideration $1,400. Mr. Meyer is a good, substantial -citizen and we are glad to learn that he will locate here. The Democrat freely admits that the Apologist’s term of “Reformer,” as applied to this paper, is not wholly misapplied. The saving it has made of $3.10 on every thousand dollar assessment, a grand total of about $25,000 in the whole county for this year alone, certainly earns for it this title among the taxpayers.