Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1902 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Oom, soc; oats, Indianapolis excursion to-mor-row. Mrs. Geo. Davidson is visiting at Streator, 111. Simon Leopold of Shelbyville, •was here Tuesday. George Ketchmark was down from Dunnville Monday. For farm loans see Baughman & Williams. Low rate of interest. Mrs. James Shindler of Jordan tp., is quite sick with heart trouble. Karah L. McKillip of southeast Milroy was in the city Tuesday.

Fountain Park Assembly, at Remington, opens one week from Monday. J. H. Chapman was in South Bend visiting his brother Charlie, this week. J. Gifford is opposing Judge Thompson’s Iroquois river drainage scheme. The Presbyterian church people are having the interior of their church re-decorated. y-The prospects for corn along the Monon from Rensselaer to Chicago are mighty poor. Congressman Crumpacker was in the city Wednesday, shaking hands with his henchmen.

Wanted:—ln exchange for lumber, a good draft house. Donnelly Li mber Co. Xm iss Mary Bates returned Wednesday from a few weeks visit with friends at Monticello. Mrs. Jacob Troxell and Mrs. E. G. Warren visited Robert Mitchell’s in Jordan tp , Tuesday. threshed his oats crop Saturday. The yield was 60 bushels per acre. George Stoudt and family of Remington, were guests of The Democrat editor and family Sunday. James Meads, Luther Wartena and Ethel Sickman of Hammond, were Sunday guests of Miss Mvra Clark. their commodious new grain office this week. Miss Merle Beam is installed as stenographer. .

If you want some high-grade Jersey cattle free of cost, read our clubbing offer on the editorial page of to-day’s Democrat. Fred Jessen and wife of Morocco, and Miss Mary A. Jessen of near Beaver City, spent Sunday with John H. Jessen and family. There will be a basket meeting held at Egypt school house in Jordan tp., on the second Sunday in August by the Universalists. All are cordially invited. killed eight head of cattle for Geo. H. Maines, north of town, last Sunday afternoon. The cattle were probably worth SSOO, with no insurance. Mrs. Peter Greiser, of El Paso, 111., who has been visiting relatives south of town, returned home Monday accompanied by Joe and Emma Greiser, who will visit there for some time. The Goodland Herald is authority for the statement that Rev. DeLong of that place will be a strong candidate for presiding elder at the M. E. conference to be held here in September.

J. F. Warren and M. L. Spitler of Oklahoma City came last Friday afternoon for a visit with friends and relatives. Young Sam Spriggs, who has been visiting the former, returned home with them. Sam Howard, arrested recently in Chicago for embezzlement of property belonging to Warren Springer in this county and released on SSOO bonds, is reported to have jumped his bond and left for parts unknown. The Lake County News has put in a new $3,000 linotype. The News is the best paper published in Lake county, and The Democrat is glad to note that it is being appreciated, which is evidenced by its financial prosperity. Bill of Jordan, was in the city with his family on business Tuesday. He reports farmers all up with their work in his locality, and that threshing Will begin there in a few days, with prospects of a good yield of oats. The Democrat was in error last week as to the amount received by Mrs. Charles Vick No. 1 from her interest in some land south of town. The amount, we have since been-informed, was only $l5O, and of this her husband got about SBO.