Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 January 1904 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

M A Run on the Bank.” Watch for “A Run on the Bank.” Mr. and Mm. Eugene Sayler of Cullum, 111., are visiting relatives here this week. Walter Imes of Huntington, is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs, W. J. Imes, here this week. daughter of 0. G. Spitler, was successfully operated upon for appendicitis at the Mary Thompson hospital at Chicago, Tuesday. Good second-hand sewing ma v chines, also a good organ, suitable for county school will be on sale at the M. E. rummage sale, Jan. 15 and 16. S(Yan Grant of Watertown, So. 1 Dak., and Orlan Grant of Danville, 111., are visiting their mother, Mrs. Mattie Grant, thus week. Both are clerking in stores at the above named points. S. C. Irwin was called to Milwaukee Monday by the serious illness of her mother, Mm. Emily Plummer, but arrived a few hours too late to see her mother alive. She died of pneumonia. and Mrs. Simon Kenton of near Surrey, left Tuesday for a two or three months sojourn in Florida. Their first stopping place will be Pensocola, and their wind up at Tallahassee. C. E. Enz, whose sale is advertised elsewhere in this paper, to take place next Friday, was in from east Barkley Monday on business. Mr. Enz expects to move to near Payne, Ohio, where be has (bought a 320 acre farm, about J Feb, 15. Last reports from E. P. Honan, who underwent an ofieratfon for gall stones at the West Side Hospital, Chicago, last week, are that he is improving nicely and will probably be brought home in ten days or two weeks. Harry Aldrich of Loverne, Minn., is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Granville Aldrich. He has married since leaving Rensselaer, and he and his wife are •employed as trained nurses in a private hospital in Loverne. the finest ice ever put up in Rensselaer is being harvested this week. It is full 18 inches thick and of good quality, better than usual. The long continued zero weather has frozen the river to a greater depth than for a great many years. The Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the M. E. church will give a social Jan. 14, at the home of Mrs. Henry Amsler. A short program will be rendered, light refreshments served and a silver offering taken. Remember the, date, Jan. 14. * Charles Burbage, notice of whose public sale next Tuesday appears in another part of this paper, expects to move to Morton county, No. Dakota, in a few months. Mr. Burbage has bought an 80 acre farm and homsteaded 160 acres near Flasher, and will move thereon. Claud Rogers, a young man twenty-two years old, was killed Friday while acting as switchman in the railroad yards at Monon. He was attempting to arrange the airbrakes between his car on the train just in from the south, when the cars moved, catching his head between the bumpers and crushing his skull horribly. He only lived a few minutes. Manager Ellis promises to have some very fine shews for lovers of theatre in the near future. “Ten Nights in a Bar Room,” which was on the boards last Friday night was a good show and deserved more of a house than it received. Mr. Ellis hopes to see Rensselaer people turn out well to the coming shows and he promises them some first-class ones. The program for the fourteenth annual session of the Jasper County Farmers Institute, to be held in this city, Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 20-21, appears elsewhere in this paper. The out of county speakers are both new to our people, but are said to be good. They are. Mr. O. A. Somers of Howard oounty, and. Mia. Florence Ross of Southport, Marion county. Farmers should so arrange their work that they may be able to attend one or both days of the session.