Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1903 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

-g - - Local afrff Tersdnal. Corn 41c; oats, 330. ;• '* Wheat 60 cents; rye, 40 cents. For fine commercial job printing come to The Democrat office. • '"’“f The supreme and appellate courts resumed business Monday after their summer vacation. Duboc J ekseys : — -I have several, both male and female, pedigreed Duroc Jersey spring pigs for sale. Sylvester Gray. McKay’s laundry is open unti 9 a. m.; will take your laundry work Saturday a. m., and give it to you the same day. >-The high school football game here Saturday, Brookston vs. Rensselaer, resulted in a victory for the latter; score 13 to 0. Before ordering in any more sidewalks our profligate city council should save up enough money to pat in some crossings. The laundry is here to stay. Why? Because I have the business experience and money to back me. I owe no man a dollar. O. H. McKay. It takes lots of gall to order taxpayers to build sidewalks along their property when, owing to the profligate management of affairs, the city has not a dollar to bnild the necessary crossings connecting same. Geo. Moorhead sends ns $1,35 from Lovett, Jennings county, in renewal of his subscription to The Democrat and State Sentinel, and encloses best wishes. Thanks, George, and may the same good things come to yon, is onr wish. The 18-months-old son of Mr. and Mrs. John A. Milttr of Jordan tp., died Monday afternoon from malarial fever. The funeral was held Monday at 10 a. m , from the residence, and the remains taken to Fowler for interment.

Marion I. Adams is agent for the Farmer’s Mutual Insurance Co., of Jasper, Benton and White counties. Insurance now in force over $1,000,000. Farmers desiring policies in this company should call upon or address him at Rensselaer, Ind., Bell Phone, No. 5241. The Democrat received another invoice of job type this week, including the popular Mercantile Gothic series, a new and popular type for professional work, such as letter heads, business cards, etc. jOur’s is the only office in the county having this popular type. The Carroll County Citizen is building a handsome new business home of its own. The paper is 55 years old and concluded that it was time to hate a permanent domicile. The Citizen is a good paper and its editor deserves the best. Congratulations, Bro. Crampton. The Democrat has a nice, newsy, batch of news from “South America,” in Milroy tp., this week. This correspondence will be a permanent feature of our correspondence page and will be highly appreciated by our readers generally, and especially by those residing in that vicinity.

At the reunion of the 9th Indiana at Elkhart a few days ago a committee composed of Capt. McConnel and Lieuts. J. M. Helmick of Wheatfield, and B. R. Faria of Gillam, was appointed to recommend plans for a bronze tablet to be erected in Milroy park in this city to the memory of Col. Milroy. Geo. W. Tanner, proprietor of the short order restaurant down on the levee, had an altercation with his brother-in-law, a young man who clerked in the restaurant, one evening last week and the latter struck George over the head with a chair, catting a terrible gaeh on George’s cheek bone. There were no arrests. Thelma, the little thirteen months old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Herbert Sorrel, formerly of Rensselaer, now of Sheridan, died Sunday. Tbe remains were brought to Leb Monday evening and the funeral was conducted from the home of Mrs. Sorrel’s brother, Otis Jacks, Tuesday morning at 10 o’clock. Interment in Osborne cemetery.

Geo. R. Hanna and family of near Kniman, were in the city Saturday. Mr. Hanna has made considerable improvement to his residence and farm buildings this season, expending several hundred dollars for this purpose. He had some sale bills .printed in town and will have a stock sale next Thursday. Notice of sale appears in another column of The Democrat