Jasper County Democrat, Volume 4, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 April 1902 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. Charles Shroyer is reported quite sick. There has been excellent hunting on the Kankakee this spring. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Clarence N uss of near Blackford, died Thursday morning. jNErnest Cockrell has purchased C. D. Lakin’s 80-acre farm in Union tp., consideration $3,400. 'dlHugh Barcus, a former resident br Rensselaer, died at his home in Wolcott last Friday, from Bright’s disease. as John Hays of Barkley tp„ and BlKine Gwin of Rensselaer, have gone to Lewiston, Idaho, to spend the summer. Bowman Rothrock yesterday caught a bass which measured 224 inches in length and weighed 0 pounds.—Monticello Journal. The Wabash Glee Club were greeted with a fine audience here Thursday night and they gave a very satisfactory entertainment 120 acres of pasture, in white clover and bluegrass, living water, 3-wire fence, for rent. Enquire of Reuben Dickinson, near Sharon. Wm. Haley.

The Chicago & Alton railway company settled with F. D. Gifman for damages resulting from the killing of Mrs. Gilman in the wreck last summer. He received $5,500. —Goodland Herald. Ex-county commissioner 8. A. Dowell was still in town yesterday. For about two weeks he has been sick at the home of Mr. Burns, his son-in-law, north of town. He intends to return to Conway, lowa, to-day. The cool weather for the past week put a temporary check on garden-making. Yesterday morning the mercury was at 25 degrees above zero. Weather indications for to-day are; “Fair; light northwest winds.” Sq&os. Stout, ex-trustee of Grant Ip., Newton county, who got into so much trouble some years ago over purchasing several thousand dollars worth of “township supplies,” died at his home in Lafayette recently of softening of the brain.

t-At this writing C. E. Mills is still confined to bis bed and shows no particular sign of improvement, we understand. He has now been down for about six weeks, and the trouble, something like rheumatism of the heart, is said to yield very slowly to treatment. Frederick J, Lang, a well known’ German citizen of Surrey, died suddenly at about six o’clock Tuesday evening of appoplexy, aged 72 years. £Tbe funeral was held Thursday morning from the residence, Rev. B. F. Ferguson officiating, and interment made in Weston cemetery. ■/-A-. A. Powell, representing the Arm and Hammer soda company of New York, was in the city a few days the first of the week. He is the tallest man seen here for many a day, being 7ft. 4j in. in height, and weighing 245 lbs. He is one of a family of seven brothers who used to travel with the Barnum circus.

The democratic county convention will be held at the opera house next Saturday. Hon. Daniel W. Simms of Lafayette, chairman of the Tenth district, will be in the city on that day and will probably be called upon to make a few remarks after the convention. We hope to see a good attendance of democrats out on that day. One of the republican candidates for the nomination for city marshal informs us that the next day after the republican city convention, he and another gentleman canvassed the entire city, and there were but 304 republican voters all told, including the sick and infirm who did not get out to the convention. At the convention 382 votes were cast, he says, and some of those who voted put in three and four ballots at once, so anxious were they to have their man win.