Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1902 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Surveyor Price and his aged mother of Carpenter tp., are visiting C. H. Price at W ebb City, Mo. understand that Perry Marlntt has bought back the farm which he recently sold to J. N. Sample, paying SSOO to get it back. If you'want elegantly printed calling cards, almost equal to engraved, at the price others charge for poorly printed ones, come to The Democrat office. pThe weather for the pas t week nas been more like April than January. To-day’s indications are for “continued fair; colder in south and central portion.” Today’s Rensselaer markets (all top prices): Wheat 65; corn 60 ; oats 46; rye 45 . One year ago today the prices were, wheat 65; corn 32; oats 21; rye 42.

George L., the 16-year-old son of P. W. Kent of near Brookston, accidently shot himself with a 22caliber target rifle on Thursday of last week while out hunting. He lived about t vo hours.

Joseph Conway of Parr, gives notice through the Apologist that he will apply for a license to dispense intoxicants to the thirsty of his bailiwick at the February term of “Honest Abe’s” bankrupt court T. B. Shultz, who now resides near Francesville, in Pulaski county, sends us $1.50 in renewal for The Democrat and Cincinnati Enquirer, and says he has raised 4,000 bushels of corn this year from 80 acres of land. The Goodland Herald says that Miss Cora Wickwire, who was so badly injured in the C. & A. railroad wreck at Norton, Mo., on July 10 last, was able to walk several blocks to a neighbor’s the other day without the aid of cruch or cane.

Bert Bartoo returned Sunday from a week’s stay at Champaign, 111., where be went on trial to work in a newspaper office. He dida’t like the job, and next week will go to Canton, Ohio, we understand, where he has a similiar position offered him.

Henry Clements, aged 18, shot and killed Mrs. Edward Davis, a bride of a week, whom he claimed had jilted him, and fired a bullet into his own head, bat was still alive at last reports. The tragedy occured near Knox, Tuesday, where the partes all reside.

Under date of Jan. 7, Allen Gray writes us from Gowrie, lowa, to change the address of his Democrat from Goodland to that city. He says: “We arrived here this morning and the weather is the finest I ever saw—just like a spring day—and the roads are just as smooth as a floor.”

"YGharlie Fox, who for the past six years has carried the Pleasant Grove and Blackford mail, missing but one trip daring this time, has been awarded the contract for carrying the mails to and from the trains here at S3OO per year. He will continue the old route until he can dispose of it. J <D. M. Worland was called to Indianapolis Wednesday by the tragic death of David Harris, who was in business here with Mr. Worland a couple of years ago. Harris was riding with a teamster on a furniture van when they were struck by a belt line train and Mr. Harris was injured so badly that he died in a few hours. The driver of the van escaped with slight injury, but one of the horses was killed and the wagon wrecked.

It is stated that the purchase of the Eel River road by the Vandalia has struck a stunning blow to the proposed Toledo & Chicago Transfer line. Large subsidies have been voted in nearly all of the townships between Rensselaer and Ligonier to help build this road, which was to have been a fast freight and passenger line between St." Louis and Toledo, but now that the Yandalia has acquired a Bimiliar routejit has practically blocked the other road.— Winamac Journal.