Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 January 1904 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. I Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Renders. )4-Oom 37c; oats, 36c. Next Tuesday is “Ground Hog Day.” Read Bowles & Parker’s page advertisement. ■, a . Miss Blanche Hoyes is visiting in Crawfordsville. R. W. Marshall is back from his trip to California. . Lowell, Lake county, will get an additional rural mail route March 1. Charles and J. V. Myers were down from Wheatfield on business Monday. A It is rumored that a new national bank will be established in Goodland. \JA. H. Hopkins returned Tuesday from a few days of business in Chicago. Miss Eva Moore of Monon, is a guest at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Jas. Nelson, New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Rensselaer, 2. Ralph, the nine-year-old son of Allen M. Faris of Gillam township, died last week. letting of the contract for tne new Carnegie library building will take place on Feb. 18. Mrs. Jacob Speaks, in the northbast part of town, is recovering from a siege of typhoid fever. Fred Fatka of Cbatsworth, 111., is here on business for a few days. Fred says he is still a widower. Advertised letters: Mrs. Alfred Anderson, Miss Belle Mitchell, F. G. Werner, Mr. John Ryan. ' s j«Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fendig expect to go to New Orleans next month to visit relatives for several weeks. ' NfMise Francis Irwin of Storm Lhke, lowa, is visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. James F. Irwin.

''i Mrs. Maggie Halligan went to Delphi Wednesday, to attend the funeral of a lady friend, Mra. Rose Knefel. Have yonr pianos tuned by Arthur W. Cannell, the reliable Piano Tuner. Satisfactory work. ’Phone 249. Mr. and Mrs. Denver Miller are visiting the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. James T. Miller, north of town this week. At the Price Bros, sale in Carpenter tp., last week, a Doroc Jersey sow belonging to Sylvester Gray of this city sold for SB6. Mr. Joseph Luers and Miss Candace Brown spent Saturday and Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Stephie near Remington. If you are not a subscriber of The Democrat and would like to see a copy of the paper, drop us a card or call at the office and get a sample copy free. \P Joe Larsh has named his boy Jack Arlon Larsh. We infer from the name that the youngster will be a strenuous chap, and will develop into a football player. We must again urge upon our correspondents the necessity of getting their items in earlier in the week. Mail them on Tuesday or Wednesday at farthest. E. P. Honan is still in the hospital in Chicago, and will not be brought home until next week, He sat up a little last Monday for the first, we understand, and his recovery from the operation has been rather slower than expected. ■4-0. K. Ritchey and Emmet Pullins are attending the poultry show at Chicago this week. The latter has seven Bronze turkeys entered in the show, one of which, a yearling tom, weighs 44 pounds, while another, a this year’s tom, tips the beam at SB pounds. The remains of Miss Lula Hendricks were brought here from Maywood, 111., last Friday for interment in the Crockett cemetery. Deceased was aged 19 years and was a daughter of H. L. Hendricks, a former resident of this •ounty. She died of typhoid fever.