Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 May 1902 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

We pay the most is why the bulk of the eggs and butter come' here. Chicago Bargain Store. 3 Peter Wasson this week sold his 380 acre farm, 5| miles southeast of town, to* Wm. Ranton of Hoopeston, 111., at SSO per acre, or a total of $19,000. We can furnish The Democrat and Indianapolis Daily Sentinel each a full year for only $3.20. If you want a good democratic daily, call in and subscribe. Jay W. Stockton sold 27 hogs to Wm. Daugherty yesterday that; averaged 327 pounds each and brought him $6.70 per hundred. This is the top notch paid here, and the hogs were the finest: shipped out of here this season. ' The first of The Democrat’s, publication of half-tone photo-: graphs of prominent young ladies of Jasper county appears on the correspondence page of this issued in the person of two well known and popular young ladies of Rensselaer. County Surveyor Price was called to his home in Carpenter tp., Wednesday by the dangerous illness of his sister, Miss Nettie Price, who had cut her band on a fruit can and blood poisoning set in. She was much better yesterday morning. While the democrats were defeated in Rensselaer and some other cities, yet throughout the state they made great gains. At Hammond, by reason of three tickets in the field, “Harbor” Knotts and most of the republican ticket slid in, the former by about 300 majority. A Georgia paper tells of a revival meeting at which a man arose and said he was the wickedest retch in the town. “I’d go to perdition if I should die tonight,” he concluded. Immediately an old deacon started the hymn “If You Get There Before I Do, Look Out For Me, I’m Coming Too” And then tha deacon wondered why everybody laughed. An exchange says that a babe is the prince of wails, an inhabitant of lapland, the morning caller, noon day crawler, midnight brawler, the only precious possession that ever excites envy, a key that opens the hearts of all classes, rich and poor alike, in all countries, a stranger with unspeakable cheek, enters a house without a stitch to its back, and is received with open arms by everyone. The marriage of Mr. Lawrence Sayler and Mrs. Belle Watson took place at the Bedford farm, east of town, last Sunday at 11 o’clock a. m., Rev. W. Ed Meads officiating. About 40 invited guests were present and partook of the wedding feast which was served after the ceremony. The newly Wedded couple will for the present reside at the Bedford farm and assist Mr. Bedford in the managment of the same. The preliminary oratorical contest of the Rensselaer schools at the M. E. church Thursday evening resulted in Glen Wishard, Senior, being awarded Ist place; Verne Sayers, Sophomore, 2d; Elbert Antrim, Junior, 3d; Alice Drake, Freshman, 4th. The Rensselaer High School athletic contest at the Stock Farm track Thursday afternoon resulted in the Juniors winning Ist; Seniors 2d; Freshman 3d; Sophomores 4th. The K. of P’s sold the two old buildings on the corner of Washington and Front streets to Hiram Day for SIOO, and Mr. Day removes them at hia own expense. The work of dismanteling the corner structure began Tuesday. N. Orull, who occupies the second building with his restaurant and bakery, has a lease until September, and did not want to vacate, but the matter was compromised by paying him SIOO to get out, and he will move his business to the old Foster restaurant rooms near the depot, we understand, on or before May 20. Stop., the Cough and Work, off the Cold. Laxative Bromo Quinine Tablets cure a cold in one day. No cure, no pay. Price. 26 centa.