Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 12, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1903 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Local and Personal. VCorn 45c; oats, 35c. f—Wheat 60. cents; rye, 40 oents. Another excursion to Chicago, Sunday, Jnly sth. The library site subscriptions now reaoh over S7OO. Fifty tickets were sold for the Indianapolis excursion last Sunday. John Eger says he has sold 1,800 pineapples in the last three weeks. , burlap horse fly sheets, SI.OO per pair, at Lee & Poole’s, McCoysburg. New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Rensselaer, 2. It is rumoredjthat Wallace’s circus will be m Rensselaer, Saturday, July 25. The Racket Btore has everything in the 4th of July line to please the small boys. For Exchange: Lumber for a good draft horse; also for cordwood. Donnellt Lumber Co. J. W. Horton has sold the lots occupied by A. L. Branch’s wood yard to the latter, consideration Eger is figuring on building a new house, for rent, on Cornelia street, west of his own residence. Type-writer carbon paper, best grade, two sheets for sc; 25 cents per doz., $2 per box (100 sheets) at this office. In order that the employes of The Democrat may celebrate the 4th, the office will be closed all day next Saturday. The front of the First National Bank building has been repainted and the brick work penciled, which adds much to its appearance.

One of the oil companies operating in this county run an excursion into the oil fields last Saturday, the suckers being from Milwaukee. Wolcott Enterprise: Friends of Nicholas Wagner will be sorry to learn that he lies critically ill at his home northwest from town, since Tuesday night. Milton M. Sill, for 69 years a resident of Monticello, and prominently identified with the early history of White county, died at his home in that city last Sunday. A good supply of binder twine on hands at Lee & Poole’s, at McCoysborg. Leave your orders now for what yon think yon'will want this harvest. Price guaranteed. The running horse, “King Cotton,” owned by Jap Wright of Mt. Ayr, is a half brother of “The Picket,” winner of the American derby, both being sired by “Falsetto.” Advertised letters: Miss Mary Stephen, Mrs. Clarisia Brooks, Mrs. C. Davisson, Eddie Curtis, Mr. F. E. Neigand, Mr. Jno Conover, Mr. H. H. McChesney, Miss Janie Morris. The Democrat handles calling cards in all the latest sixes, Mr. Mrs. and Miss. We sell them either blank or printed. Engraved cards furnished if desired at reasonable prices. soutbside pool and billiard parlors have been moved into the room vacated by Cooney Kellner’s saloon, and Matt Worden will move his harness shop into the room vacated by the pool and billiard parlors. Rensselaer sports took in the derby races at Chicago Saturday. Some of them are said to have bad their money on the right side and about S2OO was brought back. Of course nothing is said of the amount left there. - There is a good demand for stock in the new building and loan association, and it is likely that the association will be the means of assisting a great many people to own homes of their own, who otherwise could not hope to. Carrol! County Citizen: Funny how poker terms continue to creep into the sayings of our great men. Roosevelt says the negro shall get a “square deal” ana Hanna advised the republican Ohio convention to “stand pat” on the tariff.

An exchange says: Many a wife is loitering around home fooling her time away toying with a washtnb, or cutting wood while her poor husband is hard at work in the bactk room of a saloon worrying his brain trying to keep the other fellow from shotting oat his doable six.