Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1903 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Local and Personal. . Yesterday was Arbor Day. <r Read the 2-page ad of the Chicago Bargain Store. j Tom Eiglesbach of Chicago, is visiting relatives here. and White counties are to nave complete free rural mail

service. Mrs. Taylor Boicourt of Wolcott, is visitinijf her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm?P. Baker. Marshall has been appointed to a cadetship at the fL S naval academy at Annapolis Md. | New subscribers to Thfi Democrat this week by postoffices: Minot, No. Dakota, 1; Rensselaer, R-R-2, 1. Several farmers are sowing over some of their oats fields. The Hoovers, south of town, are resowing 200 acres. t 'l-Fred Parcels was fined $1 arid costs, 46.65 in all, by Squire Trolell last Friday for riding a bicycle upon the sidewalks. Mrs. Mary Chnpp and daughter Katie of Surrey, were the guests .of Mr. and Mrs. H. C; Hoshaw Wednesday evening. »/Chase Ritchey, who hew been nher Yukon, Okla., teaching, for the past two years, returned home last week for a prolonged visit.

Mrs. C. C. Brown of Stanley, North Dakota, who has been visiting relatives near . Rensselaer for some time, returned home Tuesday.

Mrs. A, M. Stockton will build another tenant house on her lot on South Weston street, just south of the*property occupied by W. C. Babcock.

Mr. Baker of South. Weston street, will move into Lejtta Davjsson’s tenant house on South Division street, recently vacated by Wm. Bailey, who has moved to the country, upon his father’s farm.

Benton Review: Brother Babcock of Rensselaer, has a libel suit on his hands. He has been telling the truth about the president of the county board up there, who failing to silence him -by using the county money lawing* is trying another tack which has never won yet.

XJ3ome twenty or thirty\witnesses from Rose Lawn and vicinity are here on the Hancock-Kight case. Rensselaer whiskey was evidently proving too strong for several of them Thursday evening, but yesterday they renewed the engagement, with a result that one of them was landed in jail to sober up quite early in the forenoon.

Newton County Enterprise: At the local elections in Illinois Tuesday local option was the paramount issne. Sheldon, whose hide has been soaked full of red ‘ ‘likker” for a year, put on dry clothes > and carried the day. The saloons that have been running for a year will now be closed. Watseka also went dry, for the first time in years.

Mr. Stone of Fowler, and Mr. Hornberg of Chicago, were in Goodland Wednesday evening conferring with the town hoard regarding the purchase of the electrio light plant and the establishment of a water works system and a plant for the manufacture of electric supplies. Their proposition is substantially this: Messrs Stone and Hornberg will buy our electric light plant at an agreed price, leas than first cost, and will put in a water works system with fifty bpdrante, a steam heating plant, similar to that at Fowler, and a factory employing from twenty to fifty laborers for the manufacture of electrical supplies. In return the town must give them a long-time franchise on hydrants and street lights. Their proposition will be submitted in writing in a short time and the board will then no doubt submit the proposition to the people and abide by their decision—Goodland Herald. /

Posts, all kinds and sizes in oak and cedar. Donnelly Lumber Co. An armload of old papers for a niokel at The Demoorat office.