Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1901 — INDEPENDENCE. [ARTICLE]

INDEPENDENCE.

Snow has come at la? t. Wagons and buggies are out of date in these parts. Will VV'ray did business at Surrey Wednesday. Charley Hopkins drove over to the hub Tuesday. Subscribe for The Democrat and get the county news. Charley Pullins is hauling straw from G. M. Renicker’s. Mr. Bret is hauling corn down where he intends to move. Chesley Wray bought a horse of Charley Arnold Tuesday. Frank Snyder and Ed Walker are cutting ties tor Wm. Burns. Abraham Miller of Kankakee tp., was seen in these parts Monday. Chesley Wrav and family called on Samu-I Hopkins last Sunday. Mr. Thornton of Surrey, was in these parts Wednesday buying hogs. Movers from the Gifford district are perambulating our roads at present. Isaac Blocher and wife of wheatfield, visited in these parts Saturday and Sunday. Our Blackford mail man drives a fine sleigh, composed of a hand sled and a Store b«.x. Anything goes, he says.