Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1903 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

To-morrow is Easter.

Wanted, 1 ton of good clover bay. E. PJ Honan. £(. C. Hefren is building a new house ou North Cnllen street.

L. Strong went to Ambia yesterday to remain until Monday.

New advertisements this week: “The Two Stores,” Judy & Wood, T. M. Hi bier.

Miss M&rtha Wilcpx of Rosamond, 111., is visiting her sister, Mrs. A. B. Cowgill.

John Eger and the Chicago Bargain Store each unloaded a carload of sugar this week.

Call on Miss Mary Meyefr for your Spring and Summer Millinery; the prettiest line in town.

Flora Snoddy of Delphi, aftd Ina Denham of Remington, were guests of Mrs. J. F. ‘Major Thursday.

are at work putting in the foundation for B. Forsythe’s new house on the corner of Washington and Division streets.

Lost, Thursday morning, somewhere on the streets of Rensselaer, a ladie’s gold watch. Finder please leave at Democrat office.

,£O6O. Michael, Wesley Miller, Chester Halstead and Grover Ritchey left Monday for the Big Horn Basin country in Wyoming to spend the summer.

About fifteen members of the local K. of P. lodge went to Lowell Thursday night to assist iu degree work. They were royally entertained by the Lowell lodge.

Wm. Haley is quite sick with lung fever, at the home of Miss Florence Wood, who is caring for him and Miss Haufman, of Michigan who was operated upon last week.

Graeme Stewart, the defeated republican candidate for mayor of Chicago, passed through Rensselaer in his private car Wednesday afternoon with his family on his way to French Lick to recuperate.

It is said that James Blake, who was sent to the reformatory from this county about a year ago for assaulting a man near Gifford, has made his escape, and the reformatory officials have offered a reward for his apprehension.

Frank O’Meara is now said to be at the Roby race track, training his derby horse, Jack Orr. We fear Frank is wasting consibcrable money in- a hopeless cause. The odds against his horse in the betting ring is 800 to 1.

One of the most successful public sales held in this section of the country this year was that of O. N. Berry at Monon last Saturday. A large amount of live stock and farming implements, also new wagons and buggies were disposed of.

’)Q3oratio Ropp says it is apparently the custom in Barkley tp., to charivari married -couples when they have been married 21 years, at least a crowd of boys came to his home Wednesday night and gave himself and wife a fine old “belling,” and they have been married 21 years, too.

Last Tuesday being F. M. Norman’s birthday anniversary, about forty friends and relatives gathered at his home north of town, in the evening and gave him a very pleasant surprise. After a bountiful supper the evening was spent in games, and at a late hour the guests all departed, wishing him many happy birthdays.

Dr. Jalia Donahue, a returned missionary from China, gave a very interesting talk on foreign missionary work at the M. E. church Sunday night. The spacious church was filled to the doors, and*'many pocket-books were unloosened in aid of foreign missions after the address. Dr. Donahne will return to China in J une to resume her work. Considerable complaint ia being made of the city council’s hiring one of their number to superintend the mjsking of Makemself sewer, at a salary of 12 per day. The matter can easily be stopped and a severe penalty be imposed if any one desires to taketne matter up, as the laws strictly prohibit anything of this sort. There is a law against hunting on Sunday, and we notice that qnite a number of Sunday huntsmen in other localities have lately been called upon to boost the school fund. The practice is indulged in to some extent in this county, and it would be well for those who have no time except Sunday in which to hunt, to give up the practice. •