Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 January 1901 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Two good farms to rent for cash. Call at this office for particulars. Take advantage of that free State Sentinel offer at once—it won’t last always. Rev. Converse, an Episcopal minister of Delphi, will preach at Slaughter schoolhouse, south of town, at 2:30 p. m , to-morrow. A cordial invitation is extended to all. ■) Well, brethern, we have had a very pleasant winter so far and if we are now to catch it for six or eight weeks, all we can do is to muffle up our ears and be thankful for past mercies. David Varner of Page county, Va., and daughter Mr< Sadie Prince, of Cmkggo, have been visiting the former’s brother-in law. F. W. Mauck, in Newton tp., for the past two weeks. There will be a box supper and literary entertainment at the Randle school house in Barkley township, Saturday night, February 2. Everybody come and see the wax figures. Sadie Cody, Teacher. Lost:—Thursday, Jan. 17, somewhere on the road between the Robt. Randle farm and J. N. Sample’s northeast of town, sl6 in cash, sl, $5 and $lO in bills. Finder will be liberally rewarded by leaving same at this office. Vanderbilt paid the preacher who married him $5,000. Just think what he may have to pay the lawyers if he ever wants to get unmarried. Besides, it raises the price too much. We poor devils can’t stay in the game with such an ante as this.

County Clerk Major’s private office is becoming quite a popular rendezvousfor candidates for matrimony. .Monday morning Rev. A. L. Ward of the Christan church was summoned there to unite another couple for better or worse. The contracting parties were Nathaniel Swisher and Ina Hall, the groom a Pulaski county man and thp bride one of Gilliam township’s daughters. Contractor J. E. Gibson of Logansport, who was recently indicted in Mississippi for attempting to bribe the governor of that state in the letting of the contract for the new 11,000,000 state capital, has forfeited his bond of SO,000 and left for parts unknown, it is said. Gibson’s experience in dealing with a few boards of county commissioners -in Indiana no doubt imbued him with the idea that every man had his price. We are glad that the democratic executive of Mississippi has shown him his mistake. Aiden Benedict’s “Fabio Romani” which will be presented at the Ellis opera house Monday, Jan. 28, is one of the strongest and best acted plays now traveling. Walter Lawrence is an agreeable, as well as a talented actor, and in this play, has two characters which are’ well suited to his style and range The scenery is brilliant and effective espedially the Bay of Naples and Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius The French dialect songs introduced during the preformance by Mlle. Charmon aredecided popular • novelties and the charming little . Parisian chflnteuse is nightly recalled again and again. She is acknowledged to be the superior of Anna Held and Yvette Gailbert. Mike Lawler, a member of the firm of Lawler Bros., commission dealers of Chicago, went to a rooming house on 29th street in that city last Friday night in company with Miss Elizabeth Sterling, a young woman to whom he had been paying attention for several years. The next morning Lawler went away and Sunday morning the young woman died. An attempt was apparently being made to keep the death a secret, but the authorities got wind of the matted and arrested Mike and the proprietor of the house on suspicion of having been instrumental in causing the young woman’s death, and they were locked up. The coroner’s inquest, held Tuesday, resulted in both parties being exonerated, the evidence showing that the woman had suicided via the carbolic acid route.