Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1902 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

MISS MARY MEYER GOING OUT OF BUSINESS! MOO Ml 01 SB Hols TO BE CLOSED OUT WITHIN 30 OAYS! Black Chiffon Hats which we sold at $5.00, now $3.00. W hite Chiffon Hats which we sold at $5.00, now $3.00, Dolly Varden Hats at half price. $4.00 Hats going at $2.00. Also a full line of Street Hats at 25c to SI.OO.

A complete report of the commissioners’ proceedings will be given next week. All along the Kankakee river water is reported as very high and crops badly damaged. Mrs. A. S. Nowels and two children, of Columbia City, is visiting relatives here. List your farms for sale with me. I can sell them. Frank Cooper, 2024 Hovy street, Indianapolis, Ind. ts. The Democrat and State Sentinel, each one year for $1.35; Democrat and Cincinnati Weekly Enquirer, §1.60; all three, §1.95. The contract for the new parochial school building will probably be let to Rush & Warren, their bid for brick veneer being the lowest of the five bids submitted, viz. §4,523.32. Andrew Misch and John Pinter of Wheatfield, were in the city yesterday on business. Mr. Misch says he has lived in that vicinity for 32 years and he never saw so much water there as they have now. He has been unable to work in his fields for three weeks on account of water. Lowell Tribune: From the Hammond Daily Republican we learn that Mayor-elect Knotts has succeeded in bringing about peace in the divided G. A. R. ranks in Hammond. The Major General had better go over to Rensselaer and try his hand in that line on the fractious “’boys” and “girls” of that burg. During the storm last Sunday afternoon lightning struck a telephone pole near Floyd Robinson’s home, east of town, and followed the wire into the house, knocking Mrs. Bertha Grant, a visitor, senseless and burning her arm and shoulder somewhat. The other occupants of the room felt the shock more or less, but escaped without injury. Pat Halligan went to Monticello Monday and filed his bond in the appeald cattle stealing case of Halligan vs. Tanner et al. Mr. Halligan has strong hopes of having the decision reversed in the supreme court, in which event it will be re-tried and a judgment no doubt secured against some of the gang who are not execution proof, like the lamented Dowell et al. Jasper county was honored at the state convention by the selection of E. P. Honan as a member of the very important committee on resolutions. Only one member is selected from each congressional district, and as there are nine counties in the Tenth, it will be seen that the selection of a man from Jasper was a great compliment to Mr. Honan and also the democracy of this county. Conda Stucker of Mt. Ayr, met with a yery painful accident Wednesday evening, while assisting finishing the big storage cistern on the H. O. Harris farm. A pail of cement being let down into the cistern, which is 12 feet deep, the rope became untied and the pail fell some 3 or 3| feet, striking him on the left hip, inflicting a very painful wound.’ Had the pail fell from the top of the cistern death would surely have resulted. At this writing he is getting along as well as conld be expected.

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