Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 June 1903 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Local and Personal. y<oom 41c; oats, 31c. yuWheat 60 cents; rye, 40 oents. J. F. Warren of Oklahoma City. Okla., is here. Miss Grace Jacks is visiting relatives at Lee and Monon for a few weeks. Miss Edna Wildberg will graduate from the Chicago Muscial College, June 16. Miss Ethel Rush and her uncle, Monroe Sunday with friends at Monon. S. A. Hemphill and grandson Edward Honan jr., are visit> ing in Danville, 111. A handsome new gold leaf sign ornaments the large windowof the First National Bank.

Elmer Med worth came down from Chicago Saturday and spent Sunday with friends here. Mrs. M. V. Burk returned Sunday from a few weeks visit with her parents at Crawfordsville. Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Harold of Hammond, spent Satnrday and Sunday with Rensselaer relatives. Five new subscribers were added to The Democrat’s list last Monday, and all were unsolicited, too. Advertised letters: Mr. W. M., Small, Miss May Smith, Mrs. Maggie Smith, Mr. W. C. Smith, Mrs. M. Hartberg. Township Trustee Clark, Assessor Grube and Benj. H. Knapp, of Wheatfield tp., were in the city Monday on business. Chris Morgenegg Jr., who has been working near Surrey, has moved to Rensselaer and is now a bona-fide citizen of the hub. Frances ville Tribune: Wm. Prewett of Boulder, Colo., was called here last week through the critical condition of his father. -4 Trustee T. F. Maloney, Assessor Bert Vandercar and ex-Assessor F. W. Fisher were down from Kankakee tp., Monday on business. New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices. Rensselaer, 3; Wheatfield, 2; Remington, 1; Valina, 1; Tefft, 1; LaPorte, 1. TSMr. and Mrs. EJ@til Pierson of Newton tp., are preparing to move to Bloomington, where the format is taking a Taw coarse in the State University. The gravel road election in Hanging Grove tp., last Friday was practically unanimous. Out of 52 votes cast, 51 were “for” to 1 “against.”

Jr Trustee Smith will builds new school house in district No. 2, Milroy tp., this season tisement for bids appears elsewhere in this paper. -hr. S. Bates remembered the printer with a box of fine strawberries this week. Like the other growers, Mr. Bates’ crop will not be large this season. The ladies of the Barkley M. E. church will hold a social at the church on Friday evening, June 12. Ice-cream and cake and lemonade will be served. The town of Brook will hold a special election June 13 to vote on the proposition of issuing $12,000 in bonds for the erection of a new school building. is reported that W. H. Babb lsprobably fatally sick at the home of his daughter at Reedsburg, Wis., and is expected to pass away at moat any time. jMlfisa Evaleen Miller, a well knfewn teacher of this county and daughter of Mrs. Sarah Miller of this city, was married last week, at Lafayette, to Mr. Frank Asher, a Monon passenger brakeman. Goodland Herald: Daring all of that smallpox excitement at Rensselaer the people of Goodland took the affair very calmly. No special quarantine measures were adopted, and only two or three persons were vaocinated. Gillam tp., will hold joint commencement to-day with White Poet tp., Pulaski county, at Medaryville. Gillam has six graduates —Zora Tillet, Frank Preston, Lanra Wilcox, Hazel Parker. Herman Hermanson and William Weaver. Monday was something like old times in Rensselaer. There were quite a good many people in town and business was very good in most lines. Five people called in and subscribed for the Taxpayers’ Friend, and job printing orders to the amount of S3O were left at this office.