Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 November 1901 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

T. M. CAUahan was down from Newland Thursday. Cloaks in all colors, lengths and styles, at the Chicago Bargain Store. George E. Nichols'of Jennings county, was visiting Jasper county friends this week. Renew your subscription to The Democrat and get the State Sentinel free for a year. Born, last Sunday, to Mr. and Mrs.'Thomas Knox of South Division street, a daughter. was visited by an SBO,000 fire Wednesday night, in the business portion of the city. C. C. Jones of Tefft, visited his dnugbter, Mrs. L. E. Glazehrook, northwest of town, Thursday. Nelson Ducharme, Kniman, Ind., will cry saleA in all parts of the country; terms reasonable. Hoehstettler and Miss Mary Miller, both of near Mt. Ayr. were married this week. A shirt factory wants to locate at Monon, providing a little matter of $3,000 bonus is given them. The Woman’s meeting will not convene again until the first Thursday in January, in the afternoon. Several of the children of L. H. Myers, who reside in Illinois, were guests of their father here tliis week. Don’t forget the special cloak sale, Friday, Saturday and Monday, November 22,23 and 25, at the Chicago Bargain Store. is again rumored that B. J. Gifford is negotating, for the purchase of Neison Morris real estate holdings in Northern Jasper, some 20,000 acres.

jCThe father of Miss Stella Shields, teacher in the city schools, who has been lying sick for several weeks at his home in Monon. died Tuesday morning

A full line of the genuine E. Stout's patent snag proof rubbers and Mishawaka knit boots, that outwear two pairs of any other make, at the Chicago Bargain Store. Francesville Tribune: The railroad election in Salem tp., for the appropriation of SO,OOO, last Tuesday, was carried by a small majority. There were 311 votes cast, 3l» majority for the appropriation. <W. 11. Nowels has traded bis residence property here to his father. 1 nele David Nowels, for a dwelling house and five acres of ground in Flora, Carroll county, and will shortly remove to that place. V. \ ern, the 10-year-old son of George Hopkins, ran away from home Sunday. Mr. Hopkins suspicioned that he had gone to Chicago, and went to that city the next day and found him and brought him hack home. Our suggestion of a few weeks ago regarding improvements of the Rensselaer mail service, has already borne good fruit. The office lobby will hereafter b« kept open until 8 p. m, and a. night mail sent out at that time. The office will close for the sale of stamps as usual at 7:30. A. Padgett and Homer Hardy came home from a several months’ horse-buying trip to Oregon last Saturday. They brought about 325 horses to Chicago, where they disposed of a few and brought the rest down here to dispose of. The horses did not take very well at Chicago, we are informed, and only a few were sold there. A gentleman who has advertised in The Democrat columns continuously for the past year and a half Haiti to us the other day: “I am well pleased with your paper to advertise my business in; it has done me lots of good.” The reason for this is the fact that The Democrat is read by more people in Jasjwr county than all other papers combined.

Smith of Milroy tp., was in town Monday looking for a teacher for No. 4. Miss Bertha •fames of near Wolcott, the teacher employed to teach the school, having taken sick last week with what proved to be typhoid fever, and had to give it up. He secured Miss Sadie Cody, who will begin teaching next Monday and will probably finish the term.

It is said that a family that recently moved from Rensselaer to Illinois, left the house which they here in a beastly condition. Parties who saw the rooms say, that in tho bedroom, the lord and master had apparently lay in bed and squirted vast quantities of tobacco juice all over the walls of the room, and the effect can bettor tie imagined than described.