Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 November 1903 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Local and Personal. Com 40c; oats, 32c. Wheat 65 cents; rye, 40 cents. Ralph Jones of Michigan City, spent Sunday here. Judge Thompson was in Goodland on business Tuesday. Eigleebach’s “City Meat Market” sports a fine new delivery wagon, C. A. Perkins of Goodland was in the city Monday doing work in his line. Leslie Alter of Parr, is visiting his brother Cecil, at Salt Lake City, Utah. Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe were iu Chicago on business several days this week. Mrs. James Mead of Hammond, is visiting ber parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. L. Clark. Joe Reynolds was over from Delphi Sunday to visit his mother, Mrs. Hettie Reynolds. Mr. and Mrs. S. C. Irwin and Mr. and Mrs. Ed. Irwin visited their uncle John Irwin, at Brook last Sunday. Another reform needed in Rensselaer is that prohibiting the disfigurement of the sidewalks with painted signs. New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Chicago, 111, 1; Rensselaer, R-R----2,1; Rensselaer, 2. Mrs. Elizabeth Aldrich has moved her restaurant from north of Monon track, into the Maloy building, near the depot. The Barkley C. E. will give a name social at Wm. Burns’ Saturday evening, Nov. 14. Come and get a prize and a good supper. Samuel Winchester of Champaign connty, 111., has bought the Albert Bertrand farm of 160 acres in Barkley tp., consideration, S7O an acre. Christopher Salriu and son Stephen, of Walker tp., came down Saturday to spend Sunday with the former’s daughter, Mrs. J. G. Andrus. Mr. and Mrs. John Gray and Miss Carrie Gwin of Monon visited Mrs. Gray’s parents, Mr. and Mrsr J. N. Rush of this city, Saturday and Sunday.

The city council held a special session Tuesday night and made some slight changes in the grade of the Division street sewer, made necessary by striking rock near the river. At the Barkley M. E. church, Saturday evening, *Nov. 7, there will be given a literary and musical entertainment. Admission 10 and 20 cents. An extra occasion and good time. George Hagenbaugh, a wealthy young fanner of Union tp., Benton connty, committed suicide last Monday by taking striehnine while in tbs field hocking corn. No cause is assigned for the rash act.