Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1903 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Lake County .News: Editor Babcock, of the Jasper County Democrat, has been pouring hot shot at the carnival being given there. Keep it up, brother. If the press would work along this line the immoral street carnival, the sole object of which is to drain a town of its “loose change,” would ere long be a thing of ancient history.

We understand that A. McCoy and daughter and son-in-law, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rinehart, will close out their joint real estate holdings about McCoysburg. They have this week sold a 300 acre tract lying west of the Gifford railroad and north of the public highway to James and Orlando McDonald; consideration $65 per acre.-

A handsome piece of work by a Rensselaer artist, Miss Flora Harris, attracted considerable attention in B. F. Fendig’s window this week. The painting represented a market basket of corn, turned on its side and several of the big yellow ears had fallen out on the ground. The work was pronounced most excellent by local critics. The painting was for Mrs. Dr. Recher of Morocco.

/SA special meeting of the city council was held Tuesday evening to hear discussion of the matter of cutting a channel through the Iroquois in the city limits, in connection with the proposed Iroquois ditch improvement. The entire cost of the Iroquois improvement is estimated at §140,. 000, and the cost to Rensselaer will be in the neighborhood of §14,000. %No action further than discussion was taken. The council appointed E. V. Ransford and J. L. Adams city commissioners, in place of Geo. Meyers and A. Woodworth, who were disqualified.

Claimants for introducing that now famous early maturing corn in Jasper county continue to bob up. Alexander DeMoss of near Gillam postoffice says that he was the original introducer of the corn here, and he got the seed of a man at Idaville, White county. He sold or gave Reece Roby of Newland a half-bushel of the corn, he says, and Mr. Roby gave George Daniels some of it for seed. Mr. DeMoss says he has about 24 acres of the corn this season which he planted on qjuck ground June 22. It is now out of the way of frost. He left some samples of the corn at this office, both in plucked ears and on the stalk, which may be seen by any one interested.

It will be seen by the conference appointments published elsewhere that Rev. C. D. Royce is sent to West Lafayette, and N. L. Kindig, former pastor there is transferred to Rensselaer. During Rev. Royce’s pastorate here he has done much for his church in various ways, such as building one of the handsomest parsonages in the district, repairing the church edifice and in other matters. He has taken an active part in the anti-saloon fight and has been a whole host in himself in this work. With the better element of citizens regardless of creed he has made many friends by his active opposition to sin in its most flagrant forms, and the best wishes of these people who, when it comes to an honest show down, are always in the majority, go with him and his excellent family to their new home. His successor is slightly older than Rev. Royce, both in years and in the conference, and is highly spoken of both as a man and a preacher.