Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1902 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Benton county democrats will hold their county convention July 26. HsMts. George Barcus and childtenVe at Mitchell, So. Dak., for a month’s visit. Another car of "Ben-Hur” flour the best in the market, at J. A. McFarland’s; $1.05 a sack. The ball game at Lowell the 4th, between Rensselaer and Lowell, was won by the former. Score 8 to 6. <■ Mrs. J. C. Paxton, who has been visiting relatives here, returned to her home in Kingman, Kan., Tuesday. JMrs. Edwin Mauck and children" of Anderson, are guests of the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Yeoman. A daughter was born last Saturday to Mr. and Mrs. Leo Wolfe of Hammond. Mrs. Wolfe .was formerly Miss Sadie Leopold of this city. By an explosion in the mine of the Cambria Steel Co., at Johnstown, Pa., Thursday afternoon, two hundred lives are estimated to have been lost. * *«LThe freight handlers’ strike in Chicago has played havoc with freight receipts from that point. What goods our merchants have received this week have come by express. Ketch uni returned home from Chatsworth. 111., Tuesdaymorning. where he had been visiting a few days. In that locality, he says, the crops never looked better and immense yields are promised.

4E. E. Preble has bought the Smckfaden bowling alley and pool and billiard hall on South Yanßensselaer street and took possession of same last week. Mr. Preble is from Wolcott, and will move his family here in a few weeks. Last week, while wading in the overflow of the Kent ditch, just east of Kentlaud, Freddie Long, aged ten years, got into a washout and was swept into the ditch, his companions being unable to save him. The body was not recovered until the next day. County Democrat: Eli Green, the North Judson ossified man. was here Tuesday and yesterday, trying unsuccessfully to find a location for a peanut stand. His physical condition upj>ears to be about at a standstill, growing neither worse nor better. The K. of P. carnival matter has been definitely decided upon and will be held the week of August 18 to 26. The carnival midway will be located on Washington street, we understand, and the street will be closed to public traffic during that time. Sellers of Monticello, counsel for the Goodland county seat committee, and Charles Spinney of Goodland, were in the city Saturday and had Judge Thomspon approve the deed for the court house site at Goodland. The tract selected is 300x315 feet, and lies just north of the Panhandle depot abaut 100 feet, the small wooded park intervening. Alex. Kirkpatrick of South Dakota, State Railroad Commissioner, visited bis cousin, J. F. Major Sunday and Monday. Monday he and Mr. Major went to Benton county on business, and Mr. Kirkpatrick, who traveles all over the west, says that he had seen no such corn prospects in all his travels as he saw in Beuton countv. The prospects throughout Illinois and lowa were generally poor. The Jasper County Telephone Cj„ has recently installed Bell phones in Jordan tp., as follows: At John Bill's, W. D. Bringle’s, Jay Lamson’s, Geo. Tullis’ and Levi Clouse’s. Also in south Marion at Geo. Parkison’s, James Parkison’s, Oscar Hauter’s and Wm. Daugherty’s. These phones are all free to patrons of the Rensselaer exchange, and the new patrons get service over about 400 phones in Rensselaer and vicinity without extra charge.