Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 October 1903 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Millinery opening, October 2 and 3d, at Mary Meyer’s millinery store. . Henry C. Nevill has moved here from Brook and occupies the Mrs. Agnes Kelley property on the corner of Weston and Harrison streets. C. A. Hopkins, who has been living over in Benton county for the past two years, has moved to Rensselaer and-expects to buy a farm in this vicinity. Co. M., fifty strong, departed Wednesday at 11:30 p. m., for West Point, Ky., to participate in the military maneuvers. Thdy will be gone two weeks. Mr. and Mrs. 1. A. Leavel went to Huntington, Ind., Wednesday to visit and prospect a little. Miss Nora Leavel accompanied them and will enter a business college there. H. G. Leffel, notice of whose public sale appears in another column, has bought a 160-acre farm in Polk county, Wis., and will move there immediately after his sale.

A dispatch from Laporte says that “Kid” Hennessy, the prize fighter who is well known to Rensselaer sports, has fled because of a beating he gave a woman who says she is his wife. Prof W. O. Schanlaub came over from Morocco last Friday evening to attend the funeral of his grandfather, Uncle Robert Kepner, the following day. He returned to Morocco Sunday afternoon.

Dr. A. J. Miller attended the wedding of Miss May Ralston and Mr. Jesse Logan near Rnshville, this week. Miss Ralston is a sister of Miss Ester Ralston, a teacher in the city schools here last winter. Vern Haas, a 12-year-old school boy, was arrested Tuesday for striking one of the teachers as she was passing along the street. He wasarrained before Esquire Troxell and severly reprimanded and tamed loose. Albert Helsel, who has been working on the Duluth & Iron Range Railroad'in Minnesota for the paSt two years, returned with his family yesterday and will again take np bis residence on his farm north of town.

Charlie Mann, former clerk in the grocery department of the Chicago Bargain Store, who has been laid up with sickness for several months, is again able to work, and has taken a place in the dry goods department of the same store. Alva Clark, another grocery clerk who has been sick with typhoid fever for several weeks, is now convalscing.

Rev. J. A. Cochran returned Sunday evening from attending the state conference of the F. W. Baptist church at Eddy, Ind. Rev. Cochran reports a goiod attendance and an enthusiastic meeting. The conference has sent two new missionaries to India during the past year and there has been a notable increase in the home and foreign mission work.

The “Legally Dead” company which held forth at the opera house last Friday evening was one of the best companies that has visited Rensselaer for many a day. Every member of the company' was good, and it was one of the cleanest and best shows we have seen, for a long time. We can conscientiously recommend this company to our neighboring towns.

Ted Eger returned Thursday, from Cambridge, Mass., where he went last Saturday to enter Harvard College. He had not been feelingextra good for a week or two before leaving here, and was taken down sick when he got to his destination and the doctors told him be should not study any for a year, but to come back home and rest up, He came. Remember when it comes to calling, wedding or invitation cards, The Democrat is especially “it.” A new series of plate script has just been purchased and we are able to turn-out a class of work in this line that only an expert can tell from engraving, which costs several times as much. Give us a call, examine samples and get prices if in need of anything in this line.