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

EAST CARPENTER.

Chet. Dexter rides cht in a new carriage. Geo. Moorhead took a jag of hay to town last Saturday and stayed all day. Frank VanDoren and Lew Plummer are putting in tile for John Taylor this Cold weather. Geo. Banes and his brother-in-law G. W. Kelley, went to Rensselaer Salurda\ after a threshing engine. Charles G. Beal of Reining.on, has solo Ins farm in Sec. 18 to Reuben Cram of G<Midland. Consideration $6, >OO. Kick Wagner, has bought the Curtis farm of 160 acres, joining him 011 the nonb. Consideration ff>2 50 per acre. V ni. R. Kelli y of So. Dakota, and Geo. W. Kelley, of Ottawa, 111., were hen over Sunday on business and to visit old friends. A' lionv Gallagher has sold his farm to •hu Kellner a"d will move to lending county—the Eldorado to which a larp- number of Jasper county people hav lie during the past few years. J* Ban -s, who has hi en ?ick the last two 1 three years with consumption, diet Wednesday of last week and :rcd Friday. Mr. Banes was a wet -'own and ♦intelligent farmer and will greatly missed. He wasa brother of v Banes of Goodland. \ . Pitts s->id his farm west of town that or chain <| of v\ , if. Clark last We< r |6u lirr <•' re I eviSonlique, of K «e, ll„ in 1 hew of Imua by - the mw o»iat and will take

immediate possession. The price paid is $62.50 peracre.—Wolcott Enterprise. A sleighing party at Wolcott last Monday evening came near resulting in a fatal accident. A party cf young folks were fenjoying the luxury of a sled-ride, when Miss Carrie Brown, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Aaron Brown, was thrown out, striking her head so forcibly on the frozen ground as to render her unconscious. She was taken home about eight o’clock and did not regain complete consciousness until six o’clock Tuesday morning.—White County Democrat.