Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1902 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

I want all my old friends to call and see me at my new location at Laßue Bros. John Merritt. We cftn furnish The Democrat and Indianapolis Daily Sentinel each a foil year for only $3.20. If you want a good democratic daily, call in and subscribe. and Mrs. John Eger gave a evening to the Rensselaer High School in honor of their son Trevor. Eighty invitations were sent out. It was a very swell affair. b(Ward Anderson, a former resident and postmaster of Rensselaer, died at his home in Morocco last Sunday, aged 92 years. He was the last surviving charter member of the Morocco Masonic lodge, and had resided in Newton and Jasper counties for 62 years. “The Confederate Spy,” a drama of five acts, given by the St. Joseph’s College Volunteers in the College auditorium, Thursday evening, was a complete success. The boys and their able instructors, deserve credit for the zealous efforts they put forth to make the play one of interest, and it was greatly enjoyed by all present J. R. Hazen returned Tuesday from a week’s visit to his farm in Jennings county. His brother Lincoln, who moved there last spring, is well pleased with the country. There are excellent wheat and grass prospects there this season. Mr. Hazen saw several former residents of this vicinity there and all expressed themselves as well pleased with the country, he says Emma, the 16-y ear-old daughter of Mr and Mrs. Perry Mallatt, died shddenly at her parents home north of town Thursday afternoon at about 4 o’cloak, of consumption. The girl began failing in health in March, but was up and about and ate her dinner at the table Thursday. She was taken suddenly worse about 3 o’clock Thursday while sitting in her chair, and as she protested against being moved to a bed she was allowed to remain in the chair where she soon expired. The funeral will be held to-day at 10:00 a. m. from the' bouse. The handsome commencement invitations sent out by the Rensselaer High School graduating class were turned out by The Democrat office again this year. The invitations are handsomely engraved in script, have a specially designed monogram, “R. H. 8.,” and in a scroll running through the letters of the monogram on which is the class motto. The stock on which they are printed, is the finest to be bad and the invitations themselves are the swellest ever issued by the Rensselaer schools, and will" be equaled by few if any schools, in the state. The White county democratic convention will be held to-day at 10:30 a. m., at Monticello. The congressional convention will be held in the afternoon. Hon. B F. Shively of South Bend, democratic candidate for Governor in 1896 and one of the best orators in Indiana, will be present and address the gathering after the convention work is over. Those from Rensselaer who expect to attend the congressional convention will leave here on the 10:55 a m., train and go to Reynolds, there connecting with the Panhandle train, after a 20 minutes wait, landing them in Monticello at 12:16 p. m. The estate left by the late Mrs. Eliza Fowler of Lafayette, owing to recent bequests, will only amount to about $130,000 to $l5O. 000. In January, 1901, deceased conveyed her residence property in Lafayette to Cecil Gross Fowler, and in July of the same year she deeded the same benficiary 462 acres of land near the town of Fowler. On May 8, 1901, she made deeds conveying 1,162 acres of Benton county lands to her grandson, James M. Fowler, Jr., and granddaughter, Elizabeth Fowler. These lands comprise all the Benton county real estate excepting a large number of lots in the town of Fowler.