Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 January 1903 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Wm/ H. Stucfier, on Squire Moore’s farm 2| miles west of the city, raised from 100 acres of ground 5,000 bushels of corn. If it had been an ordinary season he would have raised more. Mr. Stucker is a hustler, a good farmer and an all ’round good man. -The cold weather has caused another advance in coal by the wholesalers. The Donnelly Lumber Co. have bills for four cars of hard coal which they are looking for any day now, but they will be compelled to sell it at $8.75 or $9 per ton, or about a dollar more than a month ago. F. C. Lagen has thus failed to effect a settlement with the insurance people for the loss of his laundry, and has moved to Chicago. He has offered to take SBOO in settlement of his loss, and it is likely the insurance comSiny will accept the proposition, onnelly Bros, have attached the laundry lot for a balance of sll7 due them for coal furnished, and a brother of Lagen’s is understood to have held a mortgage on the plant, so he will realize but little from the insurance after paying claims against the property. , - Our neighbors on the prairies of Benton and Newton counties, also Remington, have probably felt the scarcity of coal much more than Rensselaer and vicinity. Plenty of soft coal has been procurable here most of the time, while about a dozen cars of hard coal have arrived here. Gcod dry oak 4-foot wood has been hauled in from the surrounding country in abundance and retails at from $3.50 to $3.75 per cord. Quite a good many people have been unable to get sufficient hard coal, and have substituted wood burners, but taken as a whole Rensselaer has been much better provided with fuel than most places this season, and we have little cause to grumble.