Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 April 1903 — Page 5

I CLOSING HUT C>ALE. GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. | Having been in the grocery business in Rensselaer S continuously for 40 years, I have concluded to close s out my stock of GROCERIES, QUEENSWARE, X GLASSWARE, LAMPS, STORE FIXTURES, B in Large or Small quantities ci IA T A S A-C RIFICE. | ONE LARGE BUTCHER REFRIGERATOR § 1 ;g nearly new, as good as can || si j be made, 2 MEAT BLOCKS, j |j § Butcher Scale, Saw M j Cleaver, Etc., at a Bar- j IS gain. One 2 seated Carri- p ej m\ age, little used, one single gg § Top Buggy. P I I will continue my ICE Business. I have my house £: well filled with good ice. I respectfully solicit the contin- r uance of the trade of all my old patrons and thank them X for their liberal patronage in the past, and solicit the si patronage of as many new customers as will favor me ? with their orders. X BUSINESS PROPERTY FOR SALE OR REIT, • j . Will give possession inside of sixty dsys. « A big bargain to the purchaser. One of c the best if not the best business proper- V ties in the city. - X If you want Bargains X come and see me , X C. C. STARR.J Iqq cent I luu racket store.! <• •) t (• “W HAT wonderful Store !” is everyone’s opin- m) A) Yv ion after a visit here, and “Oh. my, how (• (• cheap, and such a fine quality of goods, and such a •) t) variety to select from. No wonder you have such a (• (jft trade, as we find everything just as advertised and •) •) when you say you have Bargains they are here and (• (• show for themselves, as all my neighbors will •) f) testify.” Another one says, “We never come to town (• (• unless we visit the 99 Cent Racket Store as they ft) •) always have something new and so cheap that the (# (• temptation is such that we cannot resist buying, even •) ft) if we think we do not want anything.” (m (• The truth of the whole matter is we strive to •) ft) please, not only in the appearance of our store but in (• W the quickness and dispatch of handeling our trade; •) ft) we do not have to keep a large army of clerks, but (<jft (• the army we do keep is capable of doing as much un- •) •) der the management as a full regiment would in some (• (• places, and no matter how low the prices seem to you •) ft) the quality of our goods will be maintained. (• '/WWWWVWWVWVVSWAAi •) ;! THOSE EASTER NOVELTIES ji We have a fine lot of LADIES' j 1 V® fft 1 1 in Plate* at 10 cent* each are ij SHOES at price* which defy com- ftH vv world-beater*. 'i ( i petition, also Men's Boy's and [ 2': THOSE BOYS SUITS. 3 pi*,**, ; I ;! C WI <W »hoe* in alargevariety. |g 2;! *■» nd veßt ’ “ re * oln ‘ r ;! ; CLOTr” he widest |! 2 ft) ' i like hot cakes. , 1 p« r yard. j 1 fft •D jobs now and then that (• 2 put the department stores and catalogue houses in the Jj) shade with all their army of clerks and buying in car (• (• lots. The small dealer can make them squeal once £) £) in a while, and they wonder how it is done. (jH 2 Db not be deceived, but when in town come in and •) Ht) see us, no matter what you want, you will be better (0 2 able to juii b o aftei .1 inspection of our stock, of what *) jP we carry and our mode of doing business. We know (• 2 you will buy something and probably we can save •) YOU SOME MONEY. (P 2 Open evenings until nine o’clock. Call for your 2 tickets with every sale no matter how small, our 2 National Cash Register prints a ticket with each saie and they are worth dollars to you if you save them. | ffi 99 GENT RACKET SURE. E ZZXZZSZr J

MONEY ON FARMS. A special fund to loan on Farms for Five Years at 5 per cent interest, with privilege to make partial payments at any interest paying time. Call at First National Bank, No. of Pub. Sq., Rensselaer, Ind.

A rilsorded stomach may cause do end of trouble. When the stomach falls to perform Its functions the bowels become deranged, the liver and kidneys congested, causing numerous diseases, the moat fatal of which are painless and therefore .he more to be dreaded. The Important thing is to restore the •tomach and liver to a healthy condition, and for thla purpose no better preparation can be used than Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets, For sale by A, F. Long.

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Mrs. Malina Klauski was in Dunnville Wednesday. Mrs. Mary Funk was in Dunnville on business Tuesday. Mrs. Edward Prairie is visiting at the Danner home this week. , Mr. and Mrs. J. P, Hammond spent Sunday with friends in Demotte. Fred Watson of Demotte, spent Sunday afternoon with Miss Rosie Clark. Bert Vandecar, our good ' natured Dunnville correspondent, was in town Tuesday. Mrs. Mary Philips entertained a number of her friends at a rag-taking Thursday afternoon. Mrs. Simon Fendig and son Allen spent a few days this week with relatives in Rensselaer. The men who are intending to put onions out here are all busy plowing and preparing the ground. L. Gilbransen and A. S. Keen were in Rensselaer Wednesday attending the County Camp, M. W. A. Mr. and Mrs. Curtis Hand were called to Michigan Wednesday by the sudden death of the latter’s mother. Miss Rose Clark and Mr. Con Carey attended the ball at Kniman Saturday. They report an exceedingly good time. It is rumored that the Wheatfield football boys will give a box social some time this month for the benefit of the team. The country schools are nearly all closed the Fray school closed Wednesday. The Misch, Thursday and the Finney school, yesterday. Mrs. E. Allen, who lives east of town, fell backwards from a ladder while trying to climb into the haymow and was hurt badly, but it is thought will recover. The Democrats held their town caucus Thursday night and the following officers were nominated: Clerk, George Swisher; Marshal, Isaac Wilson; Treasurer, Mike Bernicken; Councilmen—Simon Fendig, L. Langdon and Orlie Miller. Miss Minnie Tinkham entertained the sewing society Tuesday evening. Nineteen of the members were present and a very enjoyable time was had. A dainty supper was served at 9 o’clock and at 11 the club adjourned to meet at Mrs. Dr. Schwier’s next Tuesday night, Miss Minnie leaves for Terre Haute in two weeks where she will attend school this summer. She will be missed by a host of friends. One of Wheatfigld’s most estimable young ladies was seen about three weeks ago between the Dewdrop church and Gifford, in frantic search for a horsedoctor. One of her father’s horses was supposed to be seriously sick. She inquired in vain and was almost in despair when she reached the little “temple of learning” that is near Gifford. She asked the teacher there but he told her he had other engagements for the evening, and she was forced to accept "the inevitable and return home alone. How sad! We wonder if the horse died?

A Great Sensation.

There was a big: sensation in Leesville, Ind., when W. H. Brown of that place, who was expected to die. had hit life saved by Dr. Kina’s New Discovery for Consumption. He writes: “I endured insufferable agonies from Asthma, but your New Discovery gave me immediate relief and soon thereafter effected a complete cure.” Similar cures of Consumption, Pneumonia, Bronchitis and Grip are numerous. It's the peerless remedy for all throat and lung troubles. Price 50c, and SI.OO. Guaranteed by A. F. Long, druggist. Trial bottles free.

ASPHALTUn.

Everybody is sowing oats. Mr. Stalbaum is batching now. MissToyne is on the sick list this week. Bill Stalbaum has bought a new race horse. M iss Murphey visited at home last Sunday. Our friends are attending church at Medaryville. Geo., Ed and Flora have gone back to Valparaiso again. George Hershman called on George Wilcox last Sunday. Mrs. Prairie is visiting a friend at Wheatfield this week. Mr. McKiney will preach here Sundsy. All come out and hear him. W. M. Hershman has brought his cattle home from down by Francesville. Grimme’s had their last party in Jasper county the other night. Those present had a good time.

Dreadful Attack of Whooping Cough. Mr 9. Ellen Harlison, of 800 Park Ave., Kansas City, Mo., writes as follows: "Oar two children had a severe attack of whooping cough, one of them in the paroxysm of coughing would often faint and bleed at the nose, We tried everything we heard of without getting relief. We then called in oar family doctor who prescribed Foley's Honey and Tar. With the very first dose they began to Improve and we feel thatllt has saved their lives." Kefuse substitutes. Sold by A. F. Lon g. See the new shirt waists, silk Monte Carlo coats, silk capes and skirts, for the Easter sale.Chicago Bargain Store. SEVERE ATTACK OF GRIP Cured by One Bottle of Chamberlaln’e Cough Remedy. "When I had an attack of the grip last winter (the second one) I actually cured myself with one bottle of Chamberlain's Cough Remedy,” says Frank W, Perry, Editor of the Enterprise, Shortavllle, N. Y, "This Is the honest truth. lat times kept from coughing myself to pieces by taking a teaspoonful of this remedy, and when the coughing spell wouldcomeonat night I would a take dose and It seemed that in the briefest Interval the cough would pass off and I would goto sleep perfectly free from cough and its accompanying pains, To say that the remedy acted as a most agreeable surprise Is putting It very mildly. I had no Idea thßt It would or could kuock out the grip, simply because I had never tried it for such a purpose, but it did, and it seemed with the second attack of coughing the remedy caused It to not only be of lees duration, but the pains were far less severe, and I had not used the contents of one bottle before Mr. Grip had bid me adieu." For sale by A. F. Long. Craft’s Distemper and Cough Cure A BMCtfic for Distemper, Coughs, Colds, Hesrsa, rink Eye, and all Catarrhal diseases of horses, Price, Me. gI.M per bottle. Sold by A. F. Long.

ELLIS OPERA HOUSE. Saturday, April 4. Those Famous Funny Fellows Wood & Ward, Presenting their Jolly, Jingling Farce, Two >= Merry Tramps.. (3d Addition) fSCENERY \ T n\ir 1 SONGS INcW... j CHORUSES (DANCES 20 Artists. 20 Novelties. common sense Prices, 25,35 ond 50c.

Local and Personal. Corn 33c; oats, 29c. Wheat 60 cents; rye, 40 cents. Editor Clark went to Chicago Thursday to see “Teddy.” Miss Nellie Imes spent Sunday with friends at Monticello. Pickets, all kinds and sizes. Donnelly Lumber Co. Call on E. P. Honan to have your mortgage exemptions filed. The Chicago Bargain store paid 13cts. a doz., for eggs last Saturday. Everett Greenlee has moved upon a farm near Buffalo, White county. ’Frank Garriott of Union tp., went to Valparaiso Monday to attend school. Millinery Opening, April 9, 10, 11. Everybody invited. Miss Mary Meyer. If you want a pretty and stylish hat for little money, call at Mary Meyer’s Millinery Store. Pure seed potatoes bought from a seed house, any kind, perbu, 60 cts. Chicago Bargain Store. Easter opening at Mrs. Purcupile’s beginning Wednesday, April Bth. Everybody welcome. Attorney J. E. Westfall and Charles Sliaull of Remington, were in the city on legal business Wednesday. We are equipped to pay more for eggs than you can get elsewhere. Chicago Bargain Store. Ruby and Amy Knowlton, who have been attending school at Valparaiso, returned home last Friday. >(J. W. Paxton has rented Lewis Davisson’s new house on South Weston street, and will move into same as soon as it is completed.V Jessie Smith and Nellie Byrd if Union, and Leonard and May Hayes of Barkley tp., went to Marion Monday to attend normal. /Mohn Eger has sold the building in which the postoffice and Clarke’s jewelry store are located to James H. Chapman, consideration $5,000. John Stnber went to Chicago Wednesday to be measured for an artificial foot, to take the place of the one shot off while rabbit hunting last fall. New advertisements this week: The Racket Store, G. M. Wilcox & Son, Donnelly Lumber Co„ 0. A. Roberts, C. C. Starr, E. J. Harley, Rowles & Parker. Scott Richardson, who has been living in Michigan City for the post year or so, has moved back to Rensselaer and will again work on the Monon as section hand. p- Wayne Parker entered the senior class of Chicago University this week, having finished his course at Butler College, Indianapolis. He will graduate from the former institution in June. /County Clerk J. F. Maj >r and three or four members of the Masonic lodge went to Remington Monday to attend the funeral of Joseph Glosser who was a member of the Renssolaor lodge. v A heavy rain came Thursday night, continuing yesterday, while the temperature foil several degrees. As we go to press Friday p, m., a blizzard is raging and the ground is covered with about two inches of snow.

We have what yop want, a hat for every head at reasonable prices. Mrs. Purcupile. Posts, all and sizes in oak and cedar. Donnelly Lumber Co. Call on Miss Mary Mfeyer for your Spring and Summer Millinery; the prettiest line in town. Don’t fail to come and examine our complete and beautiful line of millinery. Mrs. Purcupile. The city marshal could have done some much needed work this week in using the road scraper on several of the streets. We understand that Mr. and Mrs. Frank o’Me.ara have moved to Mt. Ayr, and that Frank is now away on a prospecting trip. Clothing and shoe headquarters, with double the stock of any others to select from; $ $ saved. Chicago Bargain Store. C. D. Nowels got a SIOO judgment against his late hotel tenant W. W. Huston, for damages to property, and was given possession of the hotel, in Sqnire Troxell’s court Tuesday. The English Shire and Percheron horses owned by Morton & Potts of Pleasant Ridge, will be at the Hempill barn on the river bank, in Rensselaer, every Friday and Saturday until July 1. J. J. Moore of Trafalgar, was here over Sunday, visiting his sister Mrs. Joseph Yeoman, and looking after his real estate interests in this county. He says the fall and winter was very wet in his section of the state and thousands of acres of corn remained unhusked until spring. Misß Pearl, the 18-year-old daughter of James Tanner of near Valma, was burned quite severely last Thursday about the face and hands while attempting to start a fire with coal oil. While quite painful, the burns were not so serious but that she will recover from them in a few days. The Bachman triplets, will be on exhibition at the ladies waiting room in the court house, Saturday afternoon, April 4. The proceeds will be given to the parents of the infants, who are worthy people and quite poor in this world's goods. The exhibition will be by the neighbor ladies of the Bachmans. Addmission 10 cents, or as much more as any choose to give. The oil refinery agent who sold stock to Miss C. P. Monnett to the amount of $6,250 also called on Mrs. Ida Pierce, widow of James W. Pierce, and urged her to buy some of the stock,"but he did not succeed in disposing of any. He asked her if she did not have money in the bank that she could invest to which she replied that she had some money in the bank bat did not care to invest. A dispatch from Danville, 111., to an Indianapolis paper states that Miss Rosaline Platt who is a daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Platt of this city, and formely a resident of Rensselaer but now living at Danville, has begun suit in the circuit court there against John T. McCrone, a wealthy 70-year-old resident of Danville, for breach of promise, and that she wants several thousands of the old man’s long green to heal her wounded affections. We understand that the Rensselaer ministerial association has been working quietly but energetically this week in filling up and getting more signers to the remonstrance circulated last fall, and that there is a possibility of their having enough signers to knock out the applicant who applies for license next Monday, Cooney Kellner. Tne remonstrance had to be filed last night bat we went to press too early to learn positively if the required number of remonstrators had been secured, or not.

«BIRTH ANNOUCEMEN T 3. March 16, to Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Douthit of Weatherford, Ok., a daughter. March 26, to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gratner of Barkley tp., a eon. March 26, to Mr. and Mrs. Clarence Stephonson, in town, a daughter. March 28, to Mr. and Mrs. Elza Grow, a son. April 2, to Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Price of Barkley tp., a Bon. Makes A Clean Sweep. There's nothing like doing a thing thoroughly. Of all thp Salves you ever heard of, Bucklcn's Arnica Salve is the best. It sweeps away and cures Burns, Sores, Bruises, Cuts, Boils, Ulcers. Skin Eruptions and Pile*. It's only a&c, and guaranteed to give satisfaction by A. F. Long, druggist. 75000 doz , eggs wanted within 30 days. Chicago Bargain Store.

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ELECTRIC LINE FOR RENSSELAER

Company Incorporate I to Uutld Lines ConnectCounty Seat Town: of North-Western Indiana. The Western Electric Railroad Company of Logansport filed# articles of incorporation Thursdayand set forth n purpose constructing an electric line from 1 Logansport to Fowler, Benton; county, and a system of linee that will pass through Benton county" to Crown Point and Hammond in# Lake county, Rensselaer in per county, Winamac in Pulaski county, Rochester in Fulton county, North Judson and Knor in Starke county, Plymouth ins Marshall county, Laporte and Michigan City in Laporte county and Valparaiso in Portor county. The estimated length of the system is 150 miles. The capital stock is $150,000, and the directors are Newland T. DePauw, of New Albany; Henry B. Smith, of Hartfort City; William M. Elliott, of Logansport;; Emery B. Sellers, of Monticello, and George E. Ross, Sr., of Logansport. In addition to the directors the following are incorporators: J.R. Johnson, Hartford City; H. D. Reasoner, Marion; Louis Hartman. New Albany: Alvin T. Hert, Louisville, Ky; Henry Van Voorst, and Cloyd Loughry, Monticello; O. H. Binns, W. M. Graffis, Jehu T. Elliott and John Gray, of Logansport, and W. A. Goodmau, Jr,,, of Cincinnati, O. Of the 1,500 shares of stock,. George E. Roes, Sr., subscribed to* 1,368, VV. M. Elliott to ten, Emory B. Sellers one hundred, Henry Van Voorst ten and all others one share each. The company incorporated! under the steam railroad law of 1852.

TRINITY M. E. CHURCH.

Quarterely meeting Saturday and Sunday. The Presiding Elder. Dr. D. M. Wood, wiu preach Saturday night and Sunday morning. Dr. Julia Doneheu, of Foochow, China, will speak in the evening. Commencing Sunday, April 5 r the evening services will begin at. 7:30 instead of 7:00 o’clock.

Wonls, foi Sole, loßeni, txcliQnge. Etc. I have 240 acres of good pasture, 14 miles east of Wheatfield; plenty of good water. W. W. Stroup, 4t Wheatfield, Ind. For Sale:—A 12-horse Russek Traction Engine, almost good benew and in first-class running order. Call on or address, Arthur J. Wills, 3t Box 56, Tefft, Ind. Hildale Egg and Poultry Farmr Barred Plymouth Rock Eggs for setting, $1 for 15. Mrs. Alice Perkins, Box 85, Fowler, Ind' Pasture to Rent: 80 tier's of good pasture land, half blueg; ass, 5 mill's south and 1 mile east of "■'nssola< i’. 8, F. Iliff. >\ anted: but 10 head o lorses or colts to posture, on th Geo - Nicholson farm in Jordan >. J. U. IliffFor Sale: House and three-' lots, woll, outbuildings, fruit of all kinds; on Elm st., price SBOO. Enquire at -hit office. * 120 acres of good white clover and bluegrnss pasture to rent, living water; will rent entire or will take in stock by the head. 4J miles south of Rensselaer. Wm. Haley. STRAWBERRY PLAIN S. Best varieties, early, medium and late, fifty cents per, hundred. N. S. Bails, Rensselaer, Ind. The surest and safest remedy fur kidney and bladder diseases Is Foley's Kidney Cure, Sold by A. F. Long.