Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 6, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 May 1903 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Local and Personal. ..... . 1 Corn 38c; oat«, 80c. Wheat 60 oenta; rye, 40 oenta. Jackson and family are in Illinois. Elbert Antrim is visiting his ancle at Wheatfield. Mrs. Mell Abbott and children are visiting at Delphi. Mrs. M. O. Bark is visiting relatives in Crawfordsville. dLA* L. Branch is Visiting his parents at JHanniford, Cali. Attorney U. M. Buaghman was in Monon on business Tuesday. Mrs. Charles Warner and baby are visiting relatives in Chicago. Mrs. E. Sayers of DeMotte, is visiting her daughter, Mrs. M. M. Tyler. •jLMrs. Bay Wood and daughter Both, are visiting friends at Mattoon, 111.

O. N. Berry and J. D. McAhren of Monon were in the cityj on basiness Thursday. Squire J. F. Spriggs and son James were down from Walker on business Wednesday. The wedding of Isaac Tuteur and Miss Blanche Meyers, is set forJnly 29, at Chicago. 4J. W. Tanner has been appointed postmaster at Valma, vice Joseph W. Leach resigned. The Democrat editor and family spent Monday in Indianapolis and saw the great Singling circus. Attorney George A. Wiliams, will make the memorial address at Bemington Decoration day. Mrs. A. McCoy and Miss Stella rarkison spent Saturday and Sunday with relatives at Frankfort. y -J-Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Williams spent Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. Charles Porter, at Delphi. The Hubertz Hotel at Kentland was damaged by fire Sunday morning to the amount of $2,000.

Mrs. J. F. Warren of Oklahoma City, Okla., came Tuesday for an extended visit with relatives and friends. Goodland and Francesville have announced that they will pluck a few feathers from the eagle’s tail on July 4th. Misses Clara Fendig and Mary Porter expect to go to Chicago about Jane Ist to take a coarse in stenography. *flhe New Claypool hotel, in many respects the finest equipped hotel in the world, opens at Inaianapolis to-day. Mrs. Jira Skinner of Kentland, was the gnest of Mrs. £. P. Honan a few days last week, returning home Saturday. W. W. Pfrimmer, “the Kankakee Poet,” is taking views along the Kankakee for a history of that river whioh he is preparing.

Miss Grace Pdlver, who has been visiting her sister, Mrs. P. W. Clarke, for the past month, returned to Danville, 111., Thursday.

Mrs. Geo. E. Murray returned home Monday from Indianapolis, where she was called two weeks ago by the serious illiness of her mother.

good rain, to soften up the ground on top, is badly needed. The ground is very hard and dry and crops are suffering for want of top moisture.

The Democrat handles commercial typewriter carbon paper, best made. Two sheets for a nickel, 25 cents per dozen or $2 per box of 100 sheets. ! 01 Robinson, ex-deputy sheriff and for the past twenty or thirty years a familiar figure about the court house, has gone to Inwood to work at the carpentere trade. New pension: Vinton Graff Boswell, increase, $46; John Snllivan, Rensselaer, inorease, $55; G. B. Ward, Monticello, increase, $55; Margaret P. Hoover, Monon, widow, SB.

The Democrat stated last week that Brook elected the entire Democratic tioket at her late corporation eleotion. This was a .mistake. Dr. Aaron Wood, formerly of this place, was elected Clerk, being the only republican

Farmers say that oats are not looking very well in this county at present. Wheat, what there is, is looking very good, also rye, bat tame grass is looking bed. Too muoh rain early in the spring and too little of it sinoe is responsible for it.