Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 May 1903 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Local and Personal. Com 36c; oats, 30c. 1 Wheat 60 oenta; rye, 40 cents. Dyer, Lake county, is to have a new national bank. John Sharp is working in a poultry honse at Gilman, 111. Yesterday was the fifth anniversary of the battle of Manila. is reported that the blanket rembnstrance will make Brook a “dry” town. Mr. and Mrs. Orlando Finney of Rose Lawn, visited relatives here Sunday. Miss Nora Morlan is visiting her brother Frank at Rugby, North Dakota.. Mrs. Sarah Smith of Chicago, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Vernon Nowels. Mrs. W. W. Merrill was called to Crown Point Tuesday by the sickness of her aged father, Mr. Wood. T. H. Robertson was over from Wolcott Saturday. He expects to build a big sale barn at Wolcott. Special excursion, Sunday, May 10, to leave Rensselaer about 8:30 a. m., for Chicago; 75 cents for the round trip. Mrs. Joseph Kennedy and daughter of Morocco, are visiting the former’s sister, Mrs. Henry Harris, this week. The Monon will run its first Sunday excursion to Chicago one week from to-morrow; 75 cents for the round trip. fvSam Roth has bought the Kight property on North Franklin street, now occupied by Earl Duvall, consideration $1,570. The big plant of the International Salt Co., at South Chicago, was destroyed by fire Tuesday night, entailing a loss of $1,250,000. New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Rensselaer, 1; Medaryville, 1; San Pierre, 1; Allentown, 111., 1; Parr, 1. Charles Hanson, the blacksmith, has rented the James Yeoman property on North Front street, and will move into the same shortly. * Monticello Journal: Bert Donnelly is here from Chicago. His parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Donnelly, will move here from Kankakee, next week. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Parkison, who have been in Indianapolis where the former has been attending medical school, are home for the summer vacation. Advertised letters: Mr. F. G. Garvin, Miss Lettie Ningwilson, F. B. Harness, Elbert Dunem, Mrs. D. D. Banes, Joseph Blair (2), Mr. Frank L. Yeager. Lewis Fritz and J alios Hine of Walker, were down on tax-paying business Monday and embraced the opportunity of calling and subscribing for the Tax-Payers’ Friend. The Jasper County Telephone Co., has issued a new card containing a list of its subscribers. It contains about 60 more names than the card issued last Sep-c tember. Quarterly meeting at Mt. Hope M. P. church in Jordan tp., May 9 and 10. Rev. N. Vice, one of the former pastors, is expected to be present. An invitation is extended to all. We understand that plans are being perfected at Monticello for the erection of a Catholic Chnrch. It is said that Monticello is the only county seat town in Indiana without a Catholic chnrch. ■>Tpm McCoy has bought the Island in the Kankakee, about twelve miles up the river, known as Jerry’s Island, and will make it his headquarters while hunting and fishing in that locality. N jtKrman Rutheford has traded his 33 acre farm in Jordan tp., for Alfred Webber’s residence property in the northeast part of town, and has moved into the same. John McColly jr., who ocoupied the Webber property, has moved into O. K. Ritchey’s property, northeast of the depot. The newly appointed library board met last Friday afternoon and organized as follows: S. P. Thompson, Pres.; C. M. Blue, Vice Pres.; W H. Sanders, Sec.; Wanen Robinson, G. K. Hollingsworth, Mrs. John Eger, Com. on site; S. P. Thompson, Mrs. J. H. Chapman, W. H. Sanders, Mrs. Ora T. Ross, C. M. Bine, Ex. Com.