Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 December 1903 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn 36c; oats, 820. Wheat 65 cents; rye,' 40 cents. It pays to trade at Bowles & Parker’s. * James Rash spent Sunday with his family near Monon. A. M. Bringle was down from Fair Oaks Batnrday on business. Charles Fraser of Benton Co., was in the city on business Wednesday. Reduced prices on ladies’ and childrens cloaks at Rowles & Parker’s. Tom Orant of Rose Lawn, was a business caller in the city Wednesday. City Attorney Williams will go to Ohio next week to spend the holidays with his parents. Don’t fail to see those fine furs—reduced prices for the Holidays, at Rowles k Parker’s. Mr. and Mrs. J. C. O’Connor of Delphi, were the guests of Hon. and Mrs. E. P. Honan Sunday. Elmer Gwin, who has been sick for the past two months with fever, is just barely able to sit np a little now. Most of the big corporations are handing out Christmas gifts to their employes in the shape of a wage reduction. John Bioknell of Jordan tp. has leased the Hildebrand livery barn near the river bridge and will run j a livery and feed stable therein. < Mrs. Perry Washburn of Kentland, and Mrs. C. A. Caldwell of Hornellsville, N. Y., are visiting at A. D. Washburn’s this week. W. R. Dennis of near Pleasant Ridge, recently bought a fine fruit farm nerr Bangor, Mich., and will move upon same in a few months. Several carloads of dressed poultry has been shipped out of Rensselaer this season, B. S. Fendig alone having shipped four or five carloads. The entertainment advertised to take place at the opera house to-night has been declared off, Mr. Stewart having been called to New York by a death in his family. Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Alter received the intelligence that their daughter, Mrs. Ernest Fritts of Dunkirk, had fallen on the ice last Saturday and broken her arm in two places, Thomas H. Posse and Israel J. Lefler have been appointed carriers for the-new rural routes soon to start out of Francesville, with L. E. Burson and Addie C. Lefler •üb^tutes. Mrs. J. P. Warner fell on the ioe at her home on Front street Saturday morning and fractured her thigh bone. Her daughter, Mrs. Chas. Pefley of Remington, is nursing her. Preparations are being made for a Christmas tree and free entertainment at the F. W. Baptist church on Christmas eve. A cordial invitation is extended to the publio to attend. Joe Putts has engaged in the poultry buying business in the old Jake McDonald* quarters on South Front street. Tuesday night he shipped out a big carload of dressed poultry to Bridgeport, Conn.

Miss Fairy Chilcote, aged 18 years, died at the home of her mother near Sharon Wednesday morning from consumption. The funeral was held Thursday and interment blade in the Crockett cemetery. As. a a result of republican misrule and extravagance, the corporation and road funds of Rensselaer are overdrawn $6,000, and $7,200 has been overdrawn in the electric light improvement fund. How do you Uke this record, Mr. Taxpayer. Clarence, the 11-yeas-old son of landlord Dobbin* of the Nowels Hotel, met with a serious accident Thursday morning. While playing around the scnoolhouse fence his foot slipped and he ran one of the iron pickets into his right thigh, the same Entering to the bone.