Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 February 1903 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Alva Potts of Barkley tp., moved onto a farm in Pulaski county, near Francesville, this week. Abram Warne of Chicago Heights, a former resident of Union tp., died suddenly last Saturday night from heart disease. The funeral was held Wednesday and interment made at Chicago Heights. - W. W. Kenton and family and Geo. R. Keener shipped tbeif goods Tuesday to South Dakota. The former will locate on a halfsection of land which they bought last fall near Mitchell, while the latter will move upon a half-sec-tion near St. Lawrence, in Hand county, which he has rented for the coming season. - There will be an entertainment given at the opera bouse next Monday night, March 2, by Mr. Gilbert A. Eldredge, Indiana’s celebrated impersonator. The program will also contain a number of musical selections, which will give a nice variety to the entertainment. All are cordially invited to attend. Admission 25 cents. Rev. C. C, Beyrer of the Ft. Wayne district of the Indiana Children’s Home society, was in the city Thursday. Rev. Beyrer informed us that the society have on hand at all times many children that they desire good homes for, especially boys, of which they usually have about three times as many as girls. Parties desiring to adopt one of these children can make application to their local agent, Rev. B. F ; Ferguson, or make direct application to the society at 152 E. Market St. Indianapolis. Morocco Courier: The Frisco people have surveyed a line from Woodland, HI., to Mt. Ayr, where the road will form a junction with their north and south road. This road crosses the C. & E. I. about four miles south of Morocco, and turneth not aside nordeparteth so much ns the fraction of an inch from the shortest route between the two points first named—a distance of some forty miles. Those who are in a position to know seem to think that there is a strong probability of the road being built.

Hon. W. D. Frazier, National Bank Examiner for northern Indiana, was here on the 23d examining the Commercial State Bank, preparatory to granting authority for that bank to become a National Bank on the 2d day of March, as previously announced. He found the bank in excellent condition, and complimented the management on the conserative and safe policy pursued in the administration of its affairs. His approval wns necessary before the authority from the Treasury Department to convert into a National Bank became effective. This is the Inst step necessary and the Bank will open on Monday morning, the 2d day of March, as the “First National Bank of Rensselaer,” with the same board of directors and officers as under the State Bank organization. Miss Bessie Massey, the lady of color who was recently mixed up in a butcher-knife and steakhammer argument with Jerry Karsner, and later employed as domestic at T. J. McCoy’s, took her departure for Chicago last Friday. A few thousand dollars worth of diamonds were missed after she started for the depot, and Constable Vick and Tom McCoy hastened to the station to overhaul her belongings. She was brought back to the McCoy home, her trunk was looked into, and while no diamonds were found, a few bottles of wine, some canned goods, an umbrella and some other articles belonging to the McCoy’s was found, and finally the diamonds were discovered in a bureau against which the girl was leaning while the search was in progress. The girl was then allowed to depart, taking with her the wet goods, eto., and the umbrella.

BAZAAR AND RUMMAGE SALE. A Bazarr and Rumage Sale will be given by the Rathbone Sisters, in rear of postoffice, March 13 and 14