Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 December 1902 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

An armful of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office. A warm wave Wednesday made the snow disappear and raised the mercury several degrees. Rowles & Parker are getting the fixtures arranged in their new store room in the Odd Fellows annex. New harness shop of J. C. Carmichael, opposite the Makeever House, for harness, robes and blankets. Read the notice of the big joint sale, of Carry Lowman and W. L. Yates in another column of The Democrat. j/ F. W. Sever, who has been staying with his daughter, Mrs. Amzi Laßue for the past year, returned to his home in Colfax, Wash., this week. Kellner has rented the room immediately south of his saloon, on South Van Rensselaer street recently vacated by J. C. Carmichael, and will put in a billard and pool hall, we understand. Unclaimed letters: Mrs. Jane Wenrie, Miss Alice Derritt, Mrs. Lizzie Pass, Nicholas Wolf, Mr.. Asa Hinkle, W. A. Porter, F. T. Dolson, Prof. Jas. W. Clemons, Mrs. Jennie Horrell, W. T. Cox, J. H. Stapleton. kDan Patch, the famous unbeatpacing horse that Dan Messinger of Oxford, Benton county, sold about two years ago for $20,000, has just been sold to M. W. Savage of Minneapolis for $60,000, the highest price ever paid for a pacing horse. hJ. R Hazen of Jordan tp. is preparing to move to Jennings county, where he has purchased a couple of farms, f- He expects to move next month, and will hold a big public sale Tuesday, Dec. 23. See notice of same in another column. "Frank Corbin of Jordan tp. has bought the Warner dry goods store at Brook, and will move there and try the mercantile business. -UHe will have a big sale about Dec. 30, at his farm, notice of which will appear in The Democrat next week. The Goodland Citizen is no more. The paper was established some five or six months ago by Frank Davis of Morocco, It was an ably edited sheet and deserved a better fate. It takes time, perseverance, experience, and money to establish a new paper on a paying basis nowadays. Bowman, formerly of Rensselaer. got badly hurt last week at Pueblo, Col , where he was at labor in the steel works. A large traveling crane upon which he and another laborer were at work was started and ran down upon them, cutting Will's companion iutwo, and breaking several ribs, jaw, etc., for the former. -“Latest reports were to the effect that he would recover.

DuCharme has sold his 80-acre farm in Barkley tp. to Josiah Davisson, consideration $2,800. V This is the farm Mr. DuCharme has advertised in the Democrat for the past two or three months, and as a result thereof has had hundreds of personal enquiries and many by mail. He bought this farm last March, got one crop off it and sold it for S4OO more than he paid. Goodland Star: Papers were tiled today with the auditor of Newton county by E. B. Sellers, the attorney for Goodland in the courthouse dispute, appealing from the decision of the county council and commissioners in their failure to make appropriations and accept bids on proposed new court house to be built at Goodland. The case will come up for trial on the second Monday in January. In the Indianapolis Sentinel guessing contest on the vote for Secretary of State in Indiana, the first five prizes were won by residents of Greensburg. The only parties winning any of the prizes in this vicinity were C. C. Spencer of Monticello, who gets a Jersey cow, the 23rd prize, and Dr. M. L. Humston of Goodland, who gets a sixth interest in a Jersey cow, on 24th prize, six others having guessed the same figure. Congressman Charles B. Landis’ vice-presidential boom has been cruelly punctured. The identity of Stewart M. West, the the Washington citizen who started the boom in a glowing communication to the Washington Post has at last been discovered. He is, alas, a colored man, who has been known on divers occasions to importune congressmen for railroad passes and other small favora, and the Landis boom no longer has any standing in oourt.