Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 August 1903 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

W. O. Hiatt attended the state teachers’ association at Indianapolis this week. New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Remington, 4; Lee, 1; Minot, No. Dakota, 1. Judge Clarke Price of Ashland, Kan., was the guest of his brother, County Surveyor Price, a few days this week. Owing to lack of room, the school board have rented the upper floor of the Odd Fellows’ annex for a chemical laboratory. 4La. D. Washburn of near Fair Oaks, manager oT the Kent ranch, expects to move here next week so that his children may attend school. VC. T. Dye and family of Remington came over Sunday in Mr. Dye’s auto and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. Deleoust, at P. H. Hallagan’s, northeast of town. Bert Pruett yesterday sold his 80 acre farm, one mile and a quarter north of Kentland, to Chas. Hatch, consideration SII,OOO This is $137.50 an acre, the highest price ever paid for a Newton county farm. —Kentland Enterprise. Fred Fatka drove over from Chatsworth 111., this week on business. Mr. Fatka informs us that his old suit with D. J. Huston has been - settled. He says corn is looking fair, but the general complaint about oats being a light crop also prevails in his section of the country, Howard Burr of Jordan tp., returned Monday evening from attending the annual M. P. conference at Muncie. There were over two hundred active delegates and ministers in the conference, and W. P. Fisher, former president of the conference, is sent to this circuit and will be located in Rensselaer.

F. E. Duvall of Allentown, 111., was in the city a few hours Tuesday. Mr. Duvall brought a party of land-buyers over to Remington and came over to look at the crop prospects on the Duvall Bros., land south of town. In his section of Illinois, Mr. Duvall says corn is looking fine, although some of it is quite late, but oats were a light yield. Miss Ethel Merrill, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. W. W. Merrill of this city, who is employed by the G. H. Hammond Packing Co., of Chicago as stenographer, was knocked down and quite seriously injured by the driver of a grocery wagon while on her way to work Saturday morning, and was unconscious for several hours after being picked op. She is now ont of danger. The driver of the wagon was arrested for criminal carelessness.

Mason Kenton and wife expect to start for Mitchell, So., Dak., Monday to see the former’s mother whom it is thonght can live but a short time. They had expected to start this wees but can secure much better rates by waiting, which they will do unless Mrs. Kenton’s condition becomes more alarming. Later: Mrs. Kenton died at 6 o’clock Thursday morning, and Mason and wife, Charles Zard and wife and I. N.' Hemphill left yesterday to attend the fnneral which will be held at 3 p. m., to-morrow. Interment will be made there, probably at Mitchell, although they live 13 miles from that city.