Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1901 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Chicago excursion to-morrow. Mothers’ meeting at the east court room, to-day at 2:30 p.m. /JMrs. James Hall of Delphi, gave birth to triplets, all boys, a few days ago. * Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Moorhead of Carpenter tp., were Rensselaer visitors Thursday. Number one good Jersey cow for sale, 6 years old, will be fresh soon. L. 8. Renicker. Advertisers, if you wish tp reach the people, place your advertisement in The Democrat. George Dart writes from Chicago to change the address of his Democrat to Como, New Madrid Co., Mo. Mr. C. F. Brown, with Percival B. Palmer & Co., full line of cloaks and walking skirts, will be at Murray’s Store, Oct. 18th. and 19th; will take orders for special garments. The Henderson Stock Co., will be at Ellis opera house all of next week. The company consists of 12 people and comes highly recommended. It is featuring Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. *-If the three miles of the Range Line road in Jordan tp., were graveled, one could travel from Rensselaer to Lafayette and Indianapolis, into Ohio and Pennsylvania to the seaboard without getting off a free gravel turnpike. The Commercial Bank at Oxford, one of the Dwiggins syndicate of banks which went under in ’93, has paid its last dividend. After the stockholders had been assessed to the limit the amount paid depositors was 96 cents on the dollar. Andrus has just completed tne building of a fine new 7-room, two-story farm house for James Lane, 3 miles west of Surrey.. Mr. Lane is well pleased with the! job and says Mr. Andrus has done him excellent work. The house cost about $1,300. Owing to a large amount of office work and shortage of help during the past few weeks, we have been unable to copy the personal assessment of Wheatfield and Wheatfield tp., but will endeavor to do this so as to make publication of the same next week.

The Democrat last week, in addition to containing all the imv portant news of Rensselaer, couft house news, general news from all over the country, markets, etc., had correspondence from pourteen different towns and neighborhoods of Jasper county. Moral: If you want the news, read The Democrat. * At Hebron laet Sunday, at the Methodist church, a large number of wasps had congregated in advance of the flock. The wasps warmed up along with the preacher. He thought the spirit had taken an unusal hold upon the brethern and sisters, judging from the noise that they were making, and not until a brace of wasps went promenading up his pants leg did he realize what was the matter. His remarks after that wouldn’t look well in print. We drove around a half section farm recently with the owner and noticed that he had mowed his side of the publio highway for hay, he telling us that the six acres of ground so mowed over gave him eight tons of good hay, worth SSO, says the Caberry Enquirer. Besides this he had effectually disposed of the weeds and had improved "immensely the looks of his farm. He bad taken the trouble to level off the strip and remove the stones -and practically had the use of six acres of good meadow ground whiob the average man wouuj have neglected. On last Sunday morning, as The Democrat editor was directing his steps toward church, he was much perturbed to see an erotwhile candidate for the circuit judgship busily engaged in “bucking” up a huge pile of old rails. This candidate is reminded that it will tiake much sawing of wood to land this prise, especially since the present incumbent has his eye “sot” in the same direction. This vigorous sawing of wood may, however, have been for the purpose of attracting the favorable attention of Apologist editor, whose moral sensibilities may have been dulled somewhat by filing false and padded claims against the county.