Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1902 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Prices are now away down on oil and gasoline stoves at Lee’s at McCoysburg. to and including yesterday, naiTrhad fallen 17 days out of the 25 this month. • The Chicago Bargain Store put in h water motor this week for running its coffee grinder. Mr. and Mrs. O. L. Reed are visiting the former’s mother, Mrs. Agnes Kelley, since Monday. Mrs. H. B. Murray and daughter Bessie, will leave Monday for a few weeks visit with relatives in Ohio. Miss Nellie Muster of Valparaiso, is visiting her brother. Louis Muster, in the east part of town. Mrs. Oppenheimer and daughter of New Orleans, are guests of the former’s daughter, Mrs. B. 8. Fendig. J No new oats have been marketecbat Rensselaer as yet, but the price quoted by dealers here is 30 to 32 cents per bushel. Township Trustees Maloney, of Kankakee. Ryan, of Gillam, and Stewart of Hanging Grove, were in the City Saturday. Be sure to let Lee, the McCoysburg hardware and lumber man, have a chance to figure on your fall's building bill. He will save you money. old dwelling on Judge,, Thompson’s lot opposite the Makeever House has been moved up to the sidewalk and will be occupied by White & Marion for a plumbing shop. Mrs. Nelson Randle, who has again been quite poorly for some time, has been growing worse the last few days and at this writing (Friday morning) is not expected to live but a few hours. It is said that A. A. McCain, the Indianapolis millionaire who owns 1,200 acres of fine land along the Tippecanoe river 2| miles south of Monticello, will build a $25,000 residence on the banks of’ the river and take up his permanent abode therein.

Owing to the fact that I have made arrangements with Byer Bros., Company to run a live poultry car each week, I will make a guarantee of 8 cents, with rise of the market, for old hens, up to and including July 30; 11 cents for spring chickens'. B. S. Fendig. TFrank Wood and Taylor Boicourt, two of the old dry goods clerks at the Chicago Bargain Store, will soon branch out for themselves iu the dry goods business at Wolcott, is rumored that the latter gentleman will take another partner from Rensselaer in the not far distant future. /-Prof. LN. Warren And family of Laporte, who have been visiting Mrs. Warren’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Irwin of this city, returned home Wednesday. Mr. Warren has resigned his position as principal of schools at Laporte to accept a similar position at Ft. Dodge, lowa. The latter position carries with it a salary of S4OO per annum better than he received at Laporte.| A 16-year-old boy named Smith, who had stolen a suit of clothes at Brook Tuesday, was arrested and incarcerated in the Newton county “jail” at Kentland. The lad found a pickax in the building and within two hours from the time he was locked up, broke jail, stole a horse from Ira Drake, a local grocer, and struck for Illinois. At this writing he had been apprehended. 'N.' he question is being agitated of graveling about five miles of roadway in Hanging Grove tp , connecting with the east end of the Pleasant Ridge gravel road and extending east some five miles. )(A petition will be circulated, we understand, and if it is found the matter meets with sufficient favor the proposition will be voted on at the November election, the idea being to build it at the expense of the whole township.