Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1902 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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Local and Personal. - Corn 36c; oats, 28c. Wheat 60 cents; rye, 40 cents. Miss Nellie Imes spent Sunday at Monticello. The Democrat is all home print this week. Miss Sadie S tocksick is sick with pneuomonia. It is rumored that Francisville is to have a second paper. John Sharp is working for a poultry house in Morocco. Read every page of The Democrat for home news this week. Remember Geo. H. Maines’s big sale, Wednesday, Dec. 23. Mrs. J. T. Murray, southeast of town, is visiting friends in Ohio. Quite a number of cases of whooping-cough are reported in the city. The public sale season is here, and the sales seems to be more numerous than usual. } Dr. Hartscl has the material on the ground for a new barn 34x64 on his farm west of town. Brookston and Morocco postoffices will bo advanced to the presidential class, January Ist. Mrs. Karsner of Chicago is visiting her daughters, Mesdames Peter Giver and Harry Wiltshire. Read the inside pages of The Democrat for correspondence, city council doings, public sales, local news, etc. Postmster Meyer took down the screen doors at the postoffice I this week. This is un indication ! that Hy time is over. Furnished rooms for rent in I private family, or will take lodg- J era. Miss Nancy Rees. sth house l north of light plant. Miss Mary Hordeman returned j Tuesday from a six weeks visit ! with friends and relatives at Waterford and Racine. Wis. The old reliable Chicago Bargain Store lias a two-page holiday ad in The Democrat this week. You will do well to read it. Local poultry dealers have been paying as high ns 13 cents per i pound for tin keys this week. 1 his is tough on the consumer. The young Stubor boy, a report of whose accident appears in our Surrey items, will be crippled for life, but it is thought the foot can bo saved. JRL W. Allen of Kankakee tp. a.ik .a business caller in this city Wednesday. Mr. Allen made a good race for commissioner and lias uo regrets. Mr. add Mrs. T. Z. McMurray returned to their home in Jennings county yesterday. They left the latter’s father, Mr. Wood, south of town, much better. ■*j.. About two inches of snow fell Saturday night and the mercury Sunday morning and for several succeeding mornings was within a few degrees of the zero mark. A dispatch from Laporte states that John B. and James M. Newtson of Fowler, have bought 2,083 acres of land in the Kankakee region, paying SIIO,OOO for the same. v/ Bquiro Lewis of Barkley tp., has designed his office of justice of the peace, and M. P, Comer, one of the newly elected justices, now is the only acting squire in that township. Frank B. Burke, the well known Indianapolis attorney and candidate for the democratic nomination for governor a few years ago, is lying fatally ill at Jeffersonville with cancer of the intestines No hopes are entertained of his recovery.