Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 June 1902 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

yj?he K. of P’s. will hold their annual decoration day exercises next Tuesday afternoon. rlMias Edith Marshall returned Thursday from Elkhart, where she has been teaching school. Ethel and Roxie Kennedy of Morocco, were guests of their aunt, Mrs. H. O. Harris, this week. “Kitchen Comfort,” a wickless blue flame oil stove. Every family should have one. Lee of McCoysburg sells them. 'Ntfiss Mary Beck of Sedalia, Mo., came Tuesday for a month’s visit with her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Beck, and family. C. D. Royce, Mrs. Hyatt and Miss Allie Coffin attended the district E. L. convention at Hebron this week, as delegates. district in about Lowell had a flooding rain Tuesday night, over three inches of water falling and much damage to crops ingVery heavy rains fell in the northern part of the county last week and this, and the crop prospects there are not very ing"T Messrs. John Rossbacher and John Lang of Kendallville, are visiting at Mayor Eger's. The former gentlemen is Mrs. Eger’s brother. Rev. Stanislaus Neiberg of Sedalia, Mo., is visiting St. Joseph’s College and will deliver a sermon to-morrow at St. Augustine’s Catholic church, at 10 a. m. Panhandle detective Wm. Strahle of Logansport, was shot and fatally wounded at Winamac Monday night by a tramp who was beating his way on a freight train. j<rhose attending the democratic state convention from this county were: E. P. Honan, Isaac Tuteur, F. E. Babcock, F. W. Fisher, Simon Fendig, Frank Hoover and Ira W. Yeoman. John Renicker has the editor’s thanks for a box of mammoth strawberries. John has been picking from 300 to 400 quarts per day this week, and his berries have a reputation that creates a ready market forthem. George Miller of Fulton, Mich., is visiting old friends in Jasper. For the past year George has been teaching in Hendricks, Mirm., and he will go back there again to teach the coming year. He will attend school at Valparaiso this summer. I Mrs. B. Forsythe was called to New Philadelphia, Ohio, last week by the dangerous illness of her sister, Miss Susan Smith," and whose death occured Saturday from consumption. Mr. Forsythe went to Ohio Monday to attend the funeral. 'jEo-P. Honan, U. M. Baughman, «T. F. Major, Lucius Strong, Lee E. Glazebrook, L. H. Myers, G. O. Stembel, B. F. Funk, J. A. Washburn and F. E. Babcock of this county attended the congressional convention at Monticello last Saturday. It is said that one of the defeated candidates for (in) justice before the republican township convention took his defeat very hard. Something is liable to drop any time and when it does there will be a nasty scandal in republican officialdom unearthed. Application was made Saturday for the admission of Benjamin BL Sharp of Wheatfield, to the Longcliff asylum. The old gentleman is 74 years of age, and has made his home with his son-in-law, Mark Knapp, of Wheatfield. He was adjudged insane May 29. The twentieth annual commencement exercises of the Rensselaer High School were held at Ellis opera house Thursday evening and, as usual, were largely attended. The graduates acquitted themselves with becoming dignity, reflecting credit upon themselves and their instructors. Our space is too limited to enter into an extended write-up of the exercises.