Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 February 1903 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Theodore George is at home, quite sick. a Several more carloads of hard coal arrived in Rensselaer during the past week. The Newton county seat mandate cases have been sent to White county on change of venue. The Rensselaer High School basket ball team will play the Monon team at.the latter place today. high water IKat week took oubthe Tioga dam in the Tippecanoe river, just south of Monticello. John Poole of Benton county, who recently bonght Josiah Davison farm in Barkley tp., was in the city on business pertainig thereto, Wednesday. Wanted: Choppers to cut [4O cords of 1-foot >.J at §1.25 I per cbrcL good timber; ;5 tpiles [south and 11 miles west of Rensselaer. Riley Ti llis. Frank ,P. Meyer, - one of the genial and good looking clerks in Murray’s store, will go to Danville, 111., about the 15th of the month to take a position in Ball's big shoe store.

AMrs. Beagler, a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Win. Clift of this city, died Saturday in a Chicago hospital where she had gone to be operated on for cancer. Her home was in Chicago, Monticello Journal: Mrs. Lizzje S. Carr, proprietor of the Enterprise Department Store, has tiled a petition in bankrupey with William Guthrie as assignee. The assets are scheduled at $3,000. Mrs. W. S. Parks was called to Remington Thursday by the probably fatal illness of her aged mother, Mrs. Joseph Osborne. Not much hopes are entertained of her getting up again. She is about 84 years of age. It is rumored that a young man southeast of town has rented one of the new houses being built by Hiram Day in the east part of town, and will take unto himself a wife, in the person of a Rensselaer [young lady, in a few weeks. Elmer Fisher has sold his 160 acre farm southwest of town, to V. R. Crabb of Boswell, Benton county, consideration SSO per acre. The sale was made by B. jO. Gardner. Mr Fisher is now i residing at Champaign, 111. | The subject for the morning service at the F. W. Baptist church, Sunday, Feb. 8, will be: “The Office Work of the Holy Spirit.” The text for the evening service will be: “Is the Young Man Safe.” J. A. Cochran, Pastor.

A bill has been introduced in the legislature by Mr. Wilson to allow an increase of township tax levy for library purposes. The special purpose of the bill is to allow Rensselaer and Marion tp., to raise a thousand dollars per year to support the proposed Carnegie library. L. M. Ritchey of Jordan tp., is another Jasper county farmer who expects to leave in a few weeks for the Big Horn Basin country in Wyoming. He will have a sale Feb. 13. The Enos Timmons farm, on which Mr. Ritchey has been living, will be occupied by Charles Sommers. P. Chalfant, who recently bought out Mose Leopold's law practice, left town last Friday, stating that he would be back the following Monday, but at this writing he has not returned and it is thought that he will not. He is said to have taken two well packed grips with him and left no personal effects of value so far as known. He evidently found the field here too thoroughly covered already. night last week, while filled up v. ith whiskey, John Daugherty of Lowell, went into the cemetrygit that plnoo and tipped over scores of monuments and tombstones, doing damage estimated at S2,(XX). Many of the stones were badly broken. Daugherty Was arrested and is now in jail. X-He will probably be given the maximum pemuty for lesecrating a cemetery--SSOO fine and six months in jail. 'Ep ie Carroll County Citizen says of Charlie Porter, formerly of this place: C. H. Porter has sold an interest in his grocery store to Ives & Sons. XAn archway has been opened between the two establishments so that the two stores are virtually under one roof. In the spring an extension will be built to the grocery room and the stock largely increased. The grocery department will be conducted in the/name of Porter & Ives.