Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1903 — Page 7 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Yon will find home news on every page of The Democrat this week. .. Misses Keith and Roberts, teachers in the city schools, have been engaged to teaoh at Marion the coming year, we understand. Mrs. I. A. Glazebrook and daughter, Miss Ara, were in Indianapolis this week, the former as a delegate to the Eastern Star Grand Chapter meeting. v j(Mr. and Mrs. Ray Woocl celebrated their fifth wedding anniversary last Tuesday evening. About thirty guests were present and a very enjoyable time is reported. Jerome Helmuth of Mt. Ayr, who has been clerking in the Chicago Bargain Store for several months, went to Valparaiso Monday to take a position in a gents furnishing store. jWJuite a hard freeze came Wednesday night and ice formed to a depth of |to £ inch. Opinion is somewhat divided as to the extent of damage to fruit, but it would seem that it must have suffered considerable. Charles Hanson, the blacksmith, was very seriously sick Saturday and Sunday, and is still confined to the house at this writing. The trouble grew out of a slight injury to his left hand, blood poisoning set in and for a couple of days his condition was very serious. He is getting along all right now and will soon be about again. cold, wet, backward spring is causing the farmers considerable uneasiness. It has been too wet most of the time to plow for corn, while the continued rains daring the first half of April drowned out many of the oats, and at the best they will he a short crop. There is scarcely an oat field hut has several acres, in the low places, completely drowned oat. growers, like onion growers, found last year a very unprofitable one for their business, and Tom Irwin of southeast Marion, who buried 1,000 heads of as fine cabbage last fall as was ever grown in the county, found no market for them this spring and has been giving them away to his neighbors. Usually cabbage bring a good round price in tbo spring, hat last season seems to have been a remarkably good one for their growth, and the market is glutted.

Monticello Herald: The Frankfort and Monticello High Schools will hold an athletic meet at the fair grounds west of town on Saturday, April 25th, commencing at 1:30 p.m. The track events will be 220 yard hurdle, 120 yard hurdle, 50 yard dash, 100 yard dash, 220 yard dash and 440 yard dash races; half mile run, one mile run and relay race. The field events will be 12-ponnd hammer throw, discus throw and shot put; running broad and high jump. A twenty-five cent admission fee will be charged. Our lost package of ready prints came in oh the milk train Saturday morning, 24 hours late. The package was refused and the express company must pay the loss. In the almost five years we have been publishing The Democrat our ready-prints have never failed to arrive on Friday before. The trouble this time was with some careless employe of the express oompany, who will no doubt lose his job or be compelled to make up the cost of the package out of his salary. We trust the same trouble will not occur again.

Manager Ellis has in “The Mascot" Company one of the best attractions he has provided for the patrons of his house this season, if indeed it does not prove to be the banner show of the season. The company is owned and managed by Graves & Morton, who have successfully piloted several worthy operatio productions during the past ten years, which Is sufficient guarantee that the company is a capable one. The opera has been re-written, new music, bright and catchy, has been added, and appropriate scenery and attractive costumes are among the features prominent. It should prove a pleasing entertainment. The performance will be given at EUis opera house, Wednesday, Aprils, Pickets, all kinds and sixes. Donnelly Lumber Co. MONEY CM FARMS. A spooiol fund to loan on Farms for Five Years at 6 per cent interest, with privilege to make partial payments at any interest paying time. Call at First National Bake, No of Pub. Sq., Rensselaer, Ind.