Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 March 1902 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Corn, 54c; oats, 41c. New pensions: Wm.' Platt, Fowler, increase, sl2. John Casey of Fair Oaks, was in the city Wednesday. Miss Ethel Sharp’s school in Milroy tp., closes to-day. Mrs. J. A. Larsh visited in Chicago a few days this week. Albert Bouk was down from Walker tp., on business Tuesday. J. W. Cowden was over from Logansport Wednesday and Thursday. Mrs. Leslie Clark visited relatives at Bloomington and Indianapolis this week. Miss Maude Merritt of Remington, visited Mr. and Mrs. John Merritt here this week. Mrs. C. H. Porter of Delphi, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jay W. Williams, this week Farm For Rent: 80 acres, 4 miles south of Mt. Ayr. Enquire of G. 0. Pumphrey, Rensselaer, Ind. Mrs. Wm Heischy of Chicago, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Oscar Hauter, southeast of town, this week. Miss Viola Glaze brook returned last Friday from an extended visit with relatives in Putnam county. J Thos. A. Crockett was 60 years sltt- last. Monday and had lived just 50 years of this time in Jasper county. Ed Phegley of Pulaski, is visiting relatives abo nt Rensselaer. He expects to go to Dakota in a few weeks, he says. *lMr. and Mrs. Sylvester Gray weht to Bluffton, Ind , last Friday to look after a farm that Mr. Gray bought near there last fall, Pruett of Goodland, has moved to Rensselaer and occupies Mrs. Adams’ property, on NortnVfm Rensselaer street. •4 Mr and Mrs. Zack Stanley went to Jennings county Saturday to visit the former’s mother, Mrs. Minerva C. Stanley, near Grayford. About forty men are now at work clearing up the ruins of the fire and making ready for the new buildings to be built.—Wolcott Enterprise. CJames Lefler has moved from tne Churchill farm northwest of town, to the Squire Moore farm in Hanging Grovs tp , which he has leased for five years. S. Nowels has finally purchased the lumber yard at Columbia City which he was negotating for some time ago, and will remove from Geneva to that place. 4-J. J. Reed’s family left Tuesday for their new home at Armour, So. Dak., where Mr. Reed recently purchased a section of land. fThe best wishes of their friends in Jasper county go with them. Mr. and Mrs. E. W. Sprague of Jamestown, N. Y., missionaries for the National Spiritual Association, lectured at the Church of God Tuesday and Wednesday evenings to large and attentive audiences. 'Vriie real estate transfers published in another part of this paper represent the number of deeds filed for record in Jasper county in the past two weeks. It passes all previous records in the history of the county. \Harrison Warren has bought the C. F. Stackhouse 80-acre farm north of town of A. A. Blair of Piper City, 111., paying therefor $77 50 per acre. Mr. Blair paid Mr. Stackhouse $75 per acre for the farm last summer. The “Two Little Waifs” company, which held forth at Ellis opera house Wednesday evening, was the best that has showed here for a long lime and carried the finest scenery that was perhaps ever seen in Rensselaer. They had a good house and richly deserved it.