Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 April 1903 — Page 3

CLOSING OUT >. ’ A '■■■'* V-- •Vi.vV *■* 1 V; : < ■v' '’ GOING OUT OF BUSINESS. Having been in the grocery business in Rensselaer continuously for 40 years, I have cpncluded to close out my stock of GROCERIES, GLASSWARE, LAMPS, STORE FIXTURES, in Large or Small quantities AT A SACRIFICE. 1 ONE LARGE., BUTCHER REFRIGERATOR I g nearly new, as good as can § M be made, 2 Meat Blocks, g 1 Butcher Scale, Saw § Cleaver, Etc., at a Bar- S • gain. One 2 seated Carri- :§S g age, little used, one single || 8 Top Buggy. p llliliM I will continue my. ICE Business. I have my house .well filled with good ice. I respectfully solicit the continuance of the trade of all my old patrons and thank them for their liberal patronage in the past, and solicit the patronage of as many new customers as will favor me with their orders. BUSINESS PROPERTY FOR SALE OR RENT. Will give possession inside of sixty days. A big bargain to the purchaser. One of the best if not the best basinets properties in the city. If you want Bargains come and see me....... C. C. STARR.

SEE THOSE THOSE LADIES* *■*“ WHITF NOBBY t ™ 2 SHIRT WAISTS WASH VESTS. | ARE BEAUTIES Worth as high as $5.00 5T* Do not be foolish and pay fwo and three dolw 1 < » Q. lars for the same waist Tour dioice from 99c or something inferior. up to $1.99 ... o Saa tbam btfors you buy. they 111 ids lend 10 00 HI fl] m m 1 RACKET STORE I A«k Hr th%m with Mch pvrehtM. I ■'* • Over 100 little boys * Honey Saved On from 3 to 9 years of * Ladies waists n ■ Skirts age, are wearing one of £ „ Corsets those 3-Piece Suits, “ Shoes “ Hose bought at the 99 •cent 3 Wrappers Racket Store. We Laces and Embroid- , , ■ , ery, Ribbons, Towelhave only a lew left- g in £ j eW elery, Waist just think, and only 99 g Sets, silverware, china, cents for the three O j; ousefarnisl i n g goods pieces, Pants, Coat and . and in fact it is hard Vj-ttt - - ZZm to mention anything but what we can save you, money on.

M md wi oi Kitoiiumi om seeKnot*. very RespecUHiii. E. V. RANSFORD, Propr,

MONEY ON FARMS. A special fond to loan on Farms for Fire 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 dlsorded stomach may cause no end of trouble. When the stomach fail* to , perform its functions the bowels become deranged, the liver and kidneys congested, canning numerous diseases, the most fatal of which are painless and therefore the more to be dreaded. The important thing is to restore the stomach and liver to a healthy condition, and for this purpose no better preparation can be used than Chamberlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets, For iaie by A, F. Long.

Thunder Mountain. Report* from the Kaw Thondar Mountain GKstd Fields grow steadily better. There will undoubtedly be* great ruth Into the district this year. Last year the aewa eeaearatag the new dtaeoreriea at free-mOCa* ere bed only begun to leak out and before October more than 80,000 claims ware Had. From every quarter there will he people going to Thunder Mountain, and all will want reliable information as to the tart raate and how soon the trail wflU he ape* Ma*y whoeanaotgowffl anuta^tatajrauagmd when money ia needed Car arias qmflpMta. The Thunder Meuatala Md Mm and Milling Company he* a epleadU amiy ed ltaeerae. aaroaa whiA ttwreto* XSESLm ▼etned free-milling ere 1C feet wida andnm nine right into Rainbow Peak. Mr. Cherlea J. Perklna, Oenaral Manager of taeCampaar, ■pant aU last nmaar in <K* dMriat. Hals new at tbs Company's eastern etacee fa Mew Terk, where be will remain aatil aeana Mam In May pvehasinr equipment and daacrihiag the property to all who wish to buy shares. He also possesses full taformatioa ragardtag thedirtnet and makes it a potat ie answer alia—ticini about it, without aharge, eo that all who are iaterasted may writs aad get this information free and at first hand. The Company which Mr. Krhtaa represents made As diet public cJPerlag ad steer in January, aad ao many subscriptions hare been received that* great deal o f the emipmaat fer the mine has aeenpurehsaed and pr ape red for riiipment aa soon as tbe way is opened for travel. It is estimated that fully three sstllioas of dollars sd mataiaery aad ayd|SM*t Is new on the way to Thunder Mewatssa tar various companies. One of the oompsaus srid stack ayeewageat Memtsa shasn and new ft Is net to he hsnght fer M** nardhasa Thirty other mines are opened aad ase getting iato richer are every day. The property which this Cosapaay owns is secondV> none ia ths dietsiet,*ad the mere one teams sheet tt aad its sfiiwethe greater tbe datire heessaw te own sow od its stock. For taf irmsttsa sagardlig it, price of ihares, eta, writs to TKMMIiMWTAIf OMMUMW 40LD ■MM AM ■HUM CMFAXY, Nsw Terk Ufa MMtag. HnrYatfeOir.

Local and Personal, Corn 84c; oats, 29c. Wheat 60 cents; rye, 40 cents. Read The Democrat for news. Miss Mary Weathers visited in Lafayette Sunday. Miss Ethel Sharp is visiting relatives at Bnrnettsville. The coart hoase at Watseka, 111., was burned last week. Mrs. Sarah Hempill is quite siok from stomach trouble.

dW, B. Cbilcote of the Marion soldiers’ home is visiting friends here. George Ketchmark was down from Dnnnville Wednesday. Call on E. P. Honan to have yoor mortgage exemptions filed. Mrs. Vernon Nowels is visiting her mother in Chicago this week. Mrs. Wm. Parcels of Monticello, is the guest of her son, E. M. Parcels. Grace Pulver of Danville, 111, is visiting her sister, Mrs. P. W. Clarke. and Mrs. C. D. Nowels spent Sunday with friends in Carroll county. E. V. Ransford has been confined to the house with the grip most of the week.

F. P. Meyer of Danville, 111., spent Sunday with his mother and sisters here. C. A. Roberts, the {carriage dealer, got in several new baggies and carriages Tuesday. Mrs. W. H. Cornell of Grand Rapids, Mich., is visiting her sister, Mrs. W. H. Eger. Attorney Geo. A. Williams was in Indianapolis on business Wednesday and Thursday. "'(Misses Tillie Malchow and Minnie Hemphill are attending normal at Terre Haute. 4»Rev. C. D. Royce was in Lafayette and Indianapolis on business the first of the week. Mrs. Mattie Bowman of Pueblo, Colo., came last week to spend the summer with relatives here. Tuteur of Ann Arbor University, spent Sunday with his mother Mrs. Anna Tuteur.

James Meads of Hammond, was the guest of Miss Myra Clark, Saturday, Sunday and Monday. Charles Kenton, who has been attending a medical college at Indianapolis, returned home Tuesday evening. Tom Huston, who is working near Hebron, was down the first of the week looking after some business matters. James F. Irwin has been appointed administrator of the estate of Joseph Glosser, deceased, late of Remington. Mrs, Sylvester Gray went to Columbia City Wednesday to visit her brother, Charles Mustard, for about ten days. Isaac Leopold of Wolcott, was the guest of his parents Sunday. His father has been quite poorly again for several weeks.

Mrs. James Rush and Mr. and Mrs. J. N. jGnnyon visited in Monon Sunday.

Mr. and Mrs. Nicholas Krull of Monon, were guests of the latter’s parents, Mr. afid Mrs. Charles Ramp, Sunday.

’/LAttorney E. P. Honan goes to Logansport to-day where he will to-morrow address a big initiation meeting of Knights of Columbus,

The Democrat was in error last week in stating that Grover Ritchey had gone to Wyoming. L. M. Ritchey, we should have said.

jJennings Wright has moved from the Lamson property on College avenue into the L. H. Myers property on South River street.

John Staber, the lad who got his foot shot off last fall while rabbit hunting, now has his new artificial foot and is learning to walk upon it.

The Democrat published no real estate transfers the last two issues, owing to lack of space, but this week’s issue contains qll transfersup to date. .

Hebron News: —Mrs. Anna Cover and her father, Robert McDaniel, of near Rensselaer, visited a few days this week with Mr. and Mrs. Corbin Aylsworth.

Mrs. W. E. Jacks, southeast of town, who had been in Chicago for surgical treatment for abont fifteen days, returned home Sunday. She is getting along nicely from tbe operation.

Roberts and family, who have been living at Carpentersville, 111., for the past few years, will return in a few weeks and will again occupy their property on South Division street.

Christie Vick, who assisted in the arrest of Charlie Thompson Saturday night, got a kick from Thompson on one of his hands, injuring it quite badly. He swore out a warrant for Thompson’s arrest on the charge of resisting an officer, but young Thompson had skipped, and up to date has staid skipped.

It is reported that the Sells Bros, show company has purchased 250 acres of land along the Panhandle road three miles east of North Judson, and that the farm will be converted into winter quarters for the animals of the show. In the summer the farm will be used as breeding quarters. If these reports are true it will mean a profitable addition to Starke county.

A very heavy rain fell last Friday night followed by a still heavier one Sunday afternoon, and Monday and Tuesday added some to the already large amount of water on the ground, consequently farmers have been unable to get upon their fields to do much this week, and on some of the oats fields on lower ground, where the water stood for some time, it is thought the oats will rot and require retsowing.

Miss Nancy Haley came last week from Victor, Colo., to look after her father Wm. Haley, who has been seriously sick with lung feveir. Mr. Haley is now on the road to recovery, and has been moved to rooms in Mrs. Meyers’ house on South Front street, where his daughter Miss Nancy, is caring .for him. His son Con, came from lowa, but returned home yesterday, the old gentleman’s condition having become so much better.

Lowell Tribune: John Hack & Son, the hustling contractors, have been given the contract for building a bridge across the Hart ditch north of Dyer for which they will receive S6OO. They have also secured the contract for dig?ing the Wheatfield ditch in asper county. The ditch is five miles in length, and they get 25 cents per yard for doing the work. Messrs. Hack & Son now have work enough to keep Jhem busy for the balance of the year, and next. ■

the spring the groaning husband eats his victuals in the barn, for his wife most clean the mansion, and she doesn’t care a darn; and the yard is full of carpets and the trees are full of sheets, and he has to live on saurekraut, cistern water and sliced beets. And at night the husband has to sleep upon the floor, and he feels so plum disgusted that he swears that life’s a bore. When tbe blamed old cleaning’s over then the wife is taken ill, and it keeps the husband busted baying dope and drags and pills; and the mansion is no cleaner than it was when she began, but she’d slay him if he said so—and he is a prudent man. - *

An armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office.

New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Wheatfield, 1; Surrey, 1; Valma, 1; Fowler, 1; Cleveland, Ohio, 1.

Several of the drunks in town Saturday night were minors, and the parents of the boys are wondering where they got their liquor.

g'UMrs. Kinney has rented her •operty on Front street to A. B. owley, the horse-stocks man, who will move his family here from Dakota, and will make her home with her daughter, Mr. F. L. Chilcote, at South Bend. -

The party who “borrowed’’ the lap-robe from L. H. Potts’ barn recently, was evidently impressed with the ad for same which appeared in The Democrat last Saturday, for Monday night the robe was returned to\the barn.

The Democrat editor was in Lafayette Saturday afternoon and didn’t see half as many people on streets of the Star City as he saw in Rensselaer on returning home at four o’clock. Saturdays are generally very busy days in Rensselaer.

Obed Barnard, of the grain firm of O. Barnard & Son, of Fowler, died suddenly last week at Riverside, Cali., where he had been spending the winter. He was 77 years of age and had been engaged in the grain business at Fowler since ’74.

Alex. Hurley came down from Chicago Heights Saturday to look after some business matters, returning Monday. Alex likes it very much there, and has bought ft lot aud will build a residence. He is employed in the car shops and has steady work at good wages.

Pulaski County Democrat: Rev. Paul E. Deininger of Rensselaer was here this week the guest of his cousin, Father Linder. Rev. Deininger is the priest who celebrated his first mass here Christmas, and he is now teaching in St. Joseph’s college at Rensselaer.

is said that there were more drunks in town Saturday night than have been seen for a long time. Only one arrest was made, however. One well known farmer from north of town was perfectly helpless, and his friends thought he had been “doped.” A doctor was called to attend him.

jJ)r. Ira Washburn has let the contract for a new house on College avenue, north of the creamery bridge, and it is reported that when completed his father will move into same, while Dr. Ira will join the order of benedicts and reside at the old home place.

1 Mr. and Mrs. N. h. Littlefield of Fair Oaks, who went to Colorado a few weeks ago for the benefit of the former’s health, returned Saturday. Mr. Littlefield expected to engage in buainess there but found no suitable opening, hence his return. He has now moved into property in Rensselaer on the north side, and will engage in the real estate business here.

Pulaski County Democrat: — Trustee Fred Holl of Cass township filed an affidavit in Holladay’s court a few days ago charging John C. Behrnes, also of that township, with |orgery. The affidavit alleges that in February of 1901 Behrnes forged the signatures of Julius Thues and Mike Tetzloff to a S4OO note, but that the note has since been destroyed. When the case came up for hearing Saturday Behrnes pleaded not guilty, and was bound over to circuit court, giving S3OO bond with John L. Burton and W. F. Prakison—a Rensselaer attorney —as sureties. »

REAL ESTATE FOR SALE. G. F. MEYERS, formerly of Kniman, Ind., is now located in this city ancLhas opened an office iu tiie Leopold block, over Murray • store. Having been a resident of Jaßper county for thirty years and in the real estate business for eight years and having a large list of farms and oity property for sale and exchange, he would be pleased to have you call or write if you have any business in liis line. If yon have a farm or city property for sale he will be pleased to sell it for you. If you want to buy, see his list before buying. You will fin# below a brief description of a few of his bargains.

380 acre* In solid body, level land, well set to grass, make fine pasture or stock farm, near three railroads, easy terms, at the low price of - 100 acres, small boose, orchard. 40 acree call rated, balance timber, mortgage 32.000 due three years; owner trill trade for horses ot any kind of clear property. Prise—336Ao 80 acres, near oil fields, good land, used fbr pasture, will take part in city property and give long time on difference, at only—s3s4o 180 acree, six miles of this city, fine elay loam soil, fine bnUdings of 10 room house, large bsrn, doable corn cribs; stock scales, wind mill, good orchard and small fruit; cellar, cistern, deep well, near school, well tiled, a model farm, 0n1y.., *07.50

Fifty Years the Slaadutf <sm mm mm Awarded Highlit Honors World’s Fair Highest tools U.S. flov’t Chomisfc eeioi baking powdcr oa •! CHICAGO r -

Subscribe for The Democrat. Pickets, nil kinds juv£. -sizes. Donnelly Lumber Co.

>lJJesdames I, A. Glazebrook and John Duvall go to Indianapolis next week to attend the Eastern Star Grand Chapter meeting.

Both the Methodist and Presbyterian church people are -contemplating putting in pipe organ* sometime in the not distant future.

Miss Martha Wilcox, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. A.. B. Cowgill, for the past two week* while on her way home from an extended visit in New York state, will leave Monday for her home at Rosemond, 111.

"i s W. C. Babcock has moved into the J. W. Stockton property o* South Weston street, and DrBrown will move into the property vacated by Mr. Babcock South River street, having purchased the same several months ago.

Tom Robertson bought the residence property lot 5, block O. P. just east from Joe Laroche’s. It is his intention to erect a frame livery barn thereupon next fall that will be 50x100 feet in sist and is to be well stocked.—Wolcott Enterprise.

K. Parkison and P. Gwinn, of Rensselaer, were up from that place Sunday night. They were here trying to arrange an atheletie meet between Rensselaer and Lowell. We have an idea that Rensselaer will run up against a snag.—Lowell Tribune.

Miss Grace Jacks lost her gold watch about 7 o’clock A. M. April 9, when going to her work. A gentleman driving in from tha country was seen to pick up tha same and deposit it in his pocket. He will be liberally rewarded if ha will please return it to her or leave at this office.

Easter weather was kind in the forenoon and gave the ladies an excellent chance to show off their new tailor-made suits and costly hats, but the thunder storm in the afternoon was very and was accompanied by considerable hail. East of town it was more severe than here, and window panes wefrb broken in soma cases.

Mrs. W. H. Beaver of Milroy tp, returned Saturday from Oklahoma, where she has been spending tha Most of her visit was with relatives near Wei Is ton, which is a cotton growing seetwu and of oouree quite a warm -climate. Mrs. Beaver did not like the country there very well, chiefly on account of the warm climate and too many colored people. She visited several other sections of the territory but did not like the country and conditions weM enough at any place to move there.

80 acres,aU fine prairie except 4 ecses grown, half mile to station, lies along targe ditch, dry and ready for crop*, easy terms, at—S3o43 %89 acres, alt level black soil, in cultivation, prairie meadow and pasture, 60 In grasses, has good outlet for drainage. M mile to the station, will divide to nfl, at 4 —. — snm 6V acme, mile to town, 40 acree cnltlvstefi. 27 acree timber, fenced bog tight, aU good land, has five-room boose, new barn, good well; owner will trade for good business or city property, Price Jk. —S4SSS 10 room bouse with full basement, well, astern, tome fruit, fair barn, good garden ot three large lots, three blocks from court bouse. Price on application. ....