Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1901 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Read “The Ideal” pants ad. O. K. Ritchey was in Lafayette on business this week. Begin the new year right by subscribing for The Democrat. Our merchants did a rushing business Monday and Tuesday. Frank W. Fisher was down from Kankakee tp., on business Saturday. William Hordeman of Cincinnati, is spending the holidays with relatives here. Mrs. I. N. Hemphill slipped on the ice Monday morning and broke her right wrist. and Mrs. Leslie Clark visited their little son Harold, at Indianapolis, over Christmas. Will Reynolds went to Brookston Tuesday to spend the holidays with friends and relatives. /'•The Barbara Kelley ditch in Jordan tp., was sold Thursday to Thomas |Sr Reed at five cents per cubic yard. Mrs. D. M. Yeoman and little daughter of Ambia, are visiting the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. L. Strong. W. O. Schanlaub of Morocco, is spending the holidays with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Schanlaub of the city. >Mr. and Mrs. Peter Skillen and child of Lafayette, are visiting Mrs. Skillen’s parents, Mr and Mrs. Peter Hordeman. North Judson suffered a $12,000 fire last Monday. Among the business houses greatly damaged were the News office and the postoffice. H. Lally, formerly of Remington, has been appointed rural carrier on a new route to be established out of Michigan City, Feb. 1. 2 Miss Floy Nowels came home Trom Indianapolis last Friday evening to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. D. Nowds. )CM r. and Mrs. S. C. Robinson who are attending the Osteopath school at Kirksville, Mo., are spending the holidays with relatives here. In the case of Alex Merica vs. Samuel R. Nichols, from this county, judgement for $75 was awarded plaintiff in the White circuit court. XMrs. Charles Roberts and daughMarcelene, of Carpentersville, 111., are visiting the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Harris, over the holidays. Today’s Rensselaer markets (all top prices) : Wheat 65; corn 61; oats 45; rye 45. One year ago today the prices were, wheat 65; corn 32; oats 21; rye 42. and Mrs. D. B. Nowels returned from Lamar, Colo., last Friday to attend to some business matters and make final preparations for removal to Lamar. various saloon keepers of the city “set ’em up” Tuesday, in the shape of about a thousand “blind pigs,” each of which held a large-sized dram of “the crature.” }SLL. Foster and W. H. Boone, of Elwood, were here this week, and the latter purchased Mr. Foster’s 58-acre farm south of town, consideration said to be S2,(XX). He will occupy it after the coming year. f- Mrs. Candace Loughridge and daughter, Mrs. Chapman, returned last Friday night from the mineral springs, where Mrs. Loughridge bad been taking treatment for rheumatism with beneficial results. Barce of Benton county, bought the C. D. Hopkins’ farm of 160 acres 4 miles northwest of town a few months ago at $66 per acre, has refused SBO for ..the same, we are reliably informed. z G. C. Thornton last week bought the old Rowen farm, of 80 acres, in .Newton tp., 4| miles northwest of Rensselaer, paying S6O per acre therefor. Mr. Carter of near Mt. Ayr, bought this farm early in the fall at SSO per acre.