Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 September 1901 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

W. H. Coover is prospecting in Colorado. Rev. C. D. Royce is attending conference. C. A. Roberts has sold 8 McCormick corn binders this season. Ex-Sheriff Reed and wife of Remington, were in the city yesterday. W. O. Schanlaub and The Democrat Editor spent Sunday in Chicago. Simon Phillips is visiting hie daughter, Mrs. Vanatta at Fo w ler. this week. 4 and Mrs. H. J. Bartoo leave tne first of the weekfor the Buffalo exposition.

Oscar Tharp and wife and son Glenn, and family, of Monticello, are visiting relatives here. C. D Nowels and family spent a few days the first of the week with relatives in Carroll county. New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Surrey, 1; Wheatfield, 1; Rensselaer, 1; Morocco, 1. John Kresler injured his back so badly Thursday while moving a buggy, that he required being carried to his home. Sale day of peaches postponed to Thursday and Friday, Sept. 19 and 20. Chicago Bargain Store. Miss Della Nauman returned Wednesday.. from Shanendoah, lowa, after a months visit with relatives O. Schanlaub will go to Morocco today to enter upon his duties as teacher in the Morocco schools, school beginning Monday. Joe Conway, the Parr saloonkeeper, was tried in Esq. Troxell’s court last Friday for assault and battery upon Harry Kelly, and acquitted.

May of near Wolcott, and Halstead, one of Michael B Halstead’s sons, west of town, are. expected home from the Klondike in a short time, they being now on the way. They have done fairly well in digging for the elusive metal, it is said.

F. C. Robertson of Goodland, was in the city Tuesday. He said that a very heavy rain fell at Goodland Monday night, accompanied by considerable wind and lightning. The new grain elevator was struck by lightning, but only slightly damaged.

pThe 14-year-old son of John Ward of Milroy tp., died Sunday afternoon after a few weeks illness from typhoid fever. The funeral was held Monday from the Milroy Baptist church, Rev. D. J. Huston conducting the services, interment in the Crockett cemetery.

If you need sale bills, come to The Democrat office for them. Remember that The Democrat reaches twice as many farmers as any other paper published in the county, and that a free notice of your sale will be published in its columns with each set of bills.

X There were 220 tickets sold here to the Chicago excursion last Sunday, a greater part of those going being Rensselaer people. The train carried 17 coaches, all heavily loaded. It was about one hour late in reaching Chicago, and returning reached Rensselaer at 3:15 a. m.

N. S. Bates remembered The Democrat last Monday with a basket of the famous Lombard plutns, of which he raised several bushels. To show how prolific they grew this season, he also gave us a small branch upon which in a length of six inches there were 21 fine large plums.

The Democrat contains more real home news, news about county affairs and news from all over tne county, than all other papers in the county combined, and it costs no more than any one of the others. This being the case, it ought not require much diliberation when about to subscribe for a home paper.