Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 October 1902 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Additional Local News. Corn, 55c; oats, 26c. Wheat 60 cents; rye, 40 cents. The Democrat is all home pript this week. Marshall is home from the Philippines. Murray’s cloak opening, Thursday, Oct. 16th. The Newton circuit court con-* venes Monday. Read the ad of Long’s second annual corn show. Read inside pages for country correspondence, editorial, etc. JLjhere were 143 tickets sold here Sunday for the Chicago excursionCome out and hear Capt. Guthrie, Oct. 11, 2 p. ra., at the opera house. Sylvester Gray is up in Wells county, where be is making some improvements upon his farm. Mr. Brown, with a full line of Palmer & Co., Wraps, will be at Murray’s store, Thursday, Oct. 16. Miss Bessie Benjamin returned home Monday after a few weeks visit with friends at Michigan City. Allen Gray of Gowrie, lowa, returned home Wednesday, after a few days visit with relatives in this county. Unclaimed letters: Mrs. C. F. Shurtz, Miss Grace Tompson, Mrs. Maggie Pry, and Miss Minnie Zuedenia.

The weather took a change for the better this week and we have been favored with some old-time autumn days. Mrs. Hershman is selling a fine line of trimmed and pattern hats on a very small margin of profit. Give her a call. *’| N Judge Saunderson, of Fowler, candidate for appellate judge on the democratic ticket, was in the city Wednesday. corner stone of the new SIO,OOO Catholic church at Goodland will be laid with impressive ceremonies Nov. 8. Miss Manda Hoyes has a position as book-keeper and stenographer in the Goodman department store at Monticello. Mr. and Mrs. John Shroer of Barkley tp., returned Monday, from a few days visit with friends at Chicago Heights.

Mrs Rettie Sharp went to Chicago Sunday to enter the Presbyterian hospital, where she was operated on for a tumor. Miss Grace Peterson, from Gage Brothers, Chicago, a competent trimmer, is employed at Miss Mary Meyer’s millinery establishment. Weise has sold his 120 acre farm southeast of Foresman to Miss Florence Amos of Sheldon, 111. Consideration not stated.

J. L. Foster of Elwood and John Jordan of Remington, weie Rensselaer visitors Monday. The former was here looking after his farm in south of town. >Mr. and Mrs. John H. Brown, of north of Rensselaer, left Tuesday morning on a land-prospect-ing trip to North Platte, Neb. They expect to be gone about a week.

The Rensselaer-Monticello high school football game to have been played last Friday, at the latter place was declared off on account of rain, and now is scheduled to be pulled off to-day.

W. H. Parkison and G. A. Williams were at Rose Lawn Wednesday, to try a change of venue case from Esq. LaMoine to Esq. Wiseman. Parkinson took nnother change, and the case will be tried here before Esq. Troxell.

George W. Casey of Union tp., also raised a few apples this year, and on Saturday deposited eight fine large winter apples of different standard varities upon our table. The eight tipped the scales at 5 pounds and 14 ounces. Mrs. Christona Stibbe, aged 88 years, died at the home of her son, Michael Stibbe, in Union tp., Saturday at about 9p. m. The funeral was held Monday from the German Lutheran church in that township and interment made in the cemetery near by. Addison K. Sills, the well known Monticello attorney, who was married about a year ago to a widow lady of Atlantic City, lowa, was granted a divorce from his wife on the grounds of cruel and inhuman treatment, at the last term of the White circuit court.