Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 August 1902 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Wm. Frank returned Tuesday from his visit in Pensylvania. For farm loans see Baughman & Williams. Low rale of interest. Only 65 tickets were sold here last Sunday for the Indianapolis excursion. Herbert Toops of Sharon, has gone to Oklahoma to seek a location. >fUyir. and Mrs. D. C. Hopkins celebrated their 60th wedding anniversary last Sunday. Fountain Park assembly at Remington opens to-day, which is Sunday School and G. A. R. day. Editor Clark has sold his interest in the Shelby-Thayer News Review to his partner, John Bowie. A good many cement walks have been put down in Rensselaer this season, and the work is. still progressing. Mrs. Lizzie Duvall and son Ed and daughter Ora, have gone to Chandler, Oklahoma, for an extended visit. Louis Overton, an ' early settler of Jasper county, died at his home in Walnut, lowa, last week, aged 84 years. Ray Thompson has moved from the Presbyterian parsonage into Frank Wood’s residence property on South Van Rensselaer street. Misses Merle and Georgia Harris of Remington, have been spending the week with their grand-parents Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Harris. Frank Kelley of Chicago, who has a position with the Chicago Record-Herald, spent Sunday with his mother, Mrs. Agnes Kelley, of this city. >&F. Smith of Walker tp., has traded his 460 acres of land in Walker for a 488 acre stock farm in Monroe county, Mo., belonging to Will Ade of Kentland. Advertised letters: Miss Bessie Anderson, Mr. John Morris, Miss Minnie Price, Charley Beaty, Charlie Bady, Robert Davidson, C. A. Knapp and Miss Grace Homaday. Mrs. Martha Portzman of Brook, is visiting her sister, Mrs. E. H. Shields. Mrs. Portzman has been in California for the past two years, and but recently returned from there. E. E. Preble, the new proprietor of the bowling alley, has moved his family here from Wolcott and occupies the house on Scott street, recently vacated by Peter Giver. •sLj'he Sheldon, 111., girl whose mother was here looking for her about two weeks ago, returned home last week. Ora Brady, the married man with whom she eloped, having tired of her and sent her back home. Carroll County Citizen: On account of the removal of Loeb & Foust Miss Tillie Fendig, the popular saleslady, will return to her home in Rensselaer Monday. Miss Fendig made many friends here who regret her departure. It is not generally known that ex-Sheriff Reed and wife are not living together, yet for a year or more they have lived apart. Mrs. Reed, and their only child, reside at Remington where she conducts a millinery store, but nobody appears to know where Nate is or what he is doing. Grover Ritchey returned Monday from Chicago, where he went to consult physicians regarding an injury to his spine of a year or more standing. The doctors thought he would recover after some time by continuing present treatment and being careful and not straining his back. The writer went over Alf. Donnelly’s onion farm last Sunday, and while the floods of a few weeks ago iniured the crop considerably, he will still have lots of onions. They are growing nicely now and will yield several thousand bushels. There will probably be more small onions than formerly, however.