Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1903 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Local and Personal. it, Corn 44c; oats, 30c. )kWheat 60 cents; rye, 40 cents. Read The Democrat for news. An armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office. The frame is up for J C. Harris’ new residence on Division street. Monroe Banes has the contract. The Dickey booze cure factory at Shelby has quit business, we are informed, and Mr. Dickky has returned to Monou. W. Steege of Walker tp., as sold bis 80 acre farm to David Martin of Effingham, 111., through G. F. Meyers’ agency. Wm. Richmond, residing in the northwest part of town, was fined $lO and costs, $22,40 in all, by Bqnire Troxell the other day for wife-beating. The Demoorat calls the attention of its readers to the advertisement of Starke Bros. Nursery Co., elsewhere in this paper. This company’s stock is well and favorably known in this county, where they have sold a great many trees daring the past several years. An exchange says: If you want a tropical plant to grace your window collection, cut the top off of a pine apple and put iu jar of water and place in a sunny window. In about four weeks a mass of roots will start, then pot in rich, sandy soil, and give it au abundance of sunshine and water, and it will grow right along and form a pretty plant, as wen as a novelty. - Kentland Demoorat: George W. Gauthier has received the appointment as district deputy organizer of the Modern Woodmen of America lodge. The district assigned to him is comprised of Lake, Porter, Newton, Jasper, Benton, White, Warren and Fountain counties, to which, will be added Tippecanoe, Carroll and Cass counties, after January Ist. The duties of bis new position, which gives a salary of SBO.OO per month, will require most of his time but will permit of his residence here. Next Sunday at the Christian churoh, Mr. Naotaro Otsuka, a native Japanese and student of ihe University of Chicago, will preach. In the morning his subject will be: Religious'* Conditions in Japan.” In the evening he will give a stereopticon lecture on the subject “Japan and the Japanese as They are To-day.” The lecture will be illustrated with one hundred beautiful views. No admission fee will be charged. A collection will betaken to assist Mr. Otsuka to educate himself. He intends to work among his own people. Come and hear and help