Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 August 1902 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Subscribe for The Democrat. — _ . i Frank lines of Chicago, visited his brother, W. J. Imes, this week. XThe walls for the new I. O. O. r., annex are about two-thirds completed. Mrs. G. A. Strickfaden and children are visiting friends in Champaign, 111. XThe “oil well” at Water Valley waS shot last Monday, but the oil failed to materialize. 7'*fhe brick work on the new parochial school building is about up to the second story. Mrs. Bales and children of Chicago, are guests of Andrew Gangloff’s, east of town. Mrs. Nancy High of near Monon, is visiting Her brother, Lewis Davisson, and family of this city John Kohler has a new blacksmith from Logansport, said to be one of the best horse-shoers ever in Rensselaer. Work on the K. of P., block foundation is still in progress, and it will probably not be completed for about two weeks.

Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe of the Chicago Bargain Store, were in Chicago this week buying a large invoice of new goods. Mrs. Alfred Armstrong and daughter Dolly, of Michigan City, are visiting the former’s son, Charles Armstrong, east of town. Randle Overton, who has been sick at the home of his sister, Mrs. Wm. Childers, with consumption, is reported in a serious cendition at this writing. Mrs. Mary A. Jessen of near Beaver City, returned home Sunday, after a visit of two weeks with her son John H. Jessen, and family of this city. If you aro going to make a sidewalk don’t fail to use Glazed Sidewalk Brick. They make the cheapest and best walk. For sale by Donnelly Lumber Co.

Lightning struck a telephone pole on East South street last Sunday and also struck Wm. Daniels’ house in the north part of town, but did little damage to it. TA-horse alleged to have been stolen from a Kentland livery barn by Hans Kiser of Goodland, was recovered here at Duvall’s livery barn by the owner Tuesday. Kiser was not apprehended. Fowler Leader: Brother Kitt has lost his supertine job printer. Al was paying the printer $2,500 a week and board. The publisher of the \\ heattield Bungallo offered the printer the same amount with board and beer and he left on the first train The Democrat has a n«wsy lot of items from Kersey this week, and we hope to hear from the correspondent regularly. The writer also has quite an article on the threshers’ organization, which will be of interest to all threshermen as well as others.

rMrs. Elmer Dwiggins and two sons of Buenos Ayres, So. America, are visiting Mr. and Mrs. F. A. Ross. Mr. Dwiggins is now located at Paris, France, as assistant manager for a New York life insurance company, and Mrs. Dwiggins will soon join him there, fafce metropolitan papers published extended accounts of Rensselaer’s noted young bigamist, Charlie Vick. It is not probable that more than half their productions were true, but the imaginative brain of the city reporters furnished a huge lot of sensational matter just the same. The people who advertise in The Democrat say they want your trade and you may be'assured of cordial, genteel treatment when you visit their places of business, while the man who does not advertise simply says he has enough and you are allowed to infer that he does not care whether you trade with him or not. About Ij inches of rain fell Sunday and Sunday night in this locality, making it too wet to cut oats again in the low lands, and it is feared some few fields cannot be cut at all. In Jordan, Milroy and Carpenter but little rain fell", and oven in the extreme north part of the county the fall was considerably less than here. George K. Hoover, D. D., field secretary of the American Home Finding Association of Chicago, who had been here for a few days, returned to the city Wednesday night, taking with him Mrs. May Sherman and little daughter Mabel, whom he will find homes for. The Democrat sincerly hopes thclt both may be fortunate in securing good Christian homes.