Jasper County Democrat, Volume 6, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 March 1904 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

For Rent:—7 room cottage. Enquire of S. P. Thompson.

8. N. Snoddy of Delphi, is visiting his nephew, J. F. Major, this week.

James Tanner has gone to Coldwater, Kan., where he expects to locate. *j

Mrs. E. P. Honan has Wen confined to the house with the grip this week.

Miss Mary Weathers spent Sunday with Mrs. Myra Mead at Hammond.

“Doctor” William Babb has been taken te the poor farm. The old gentleman is quite feeble.

Mrs. G. O. Pumphrey was called to Rushville Thursday by the serious illness of her father. \>

Miss Tillie Ramp and brother John, spent Sunday with their sister, Mrs. N. Krull in Monon.

Simon Leopold haß been corf? fined to the house a greater part of the week with liver and stomach trouble.

O. H. McKay, the laundrymarfi, has just installed a new gasoline engine, a steam washer and a new ironer, and now has an up-to-date establishment.

Wanted, a place to work by the month on a farm. lam going to school and have not had time to look for a place. Address, Rensselaer, R-R-l. Harry Hayes.

Mail or telephone orders for job printing will have prompt attention. If you can’t call us up by phone, write and tell us what you want and it shall have our best attention.

The State Bank of Wolcott wtfa incorporated this week with a’ capital of $25,000. The stockholders are E. B, Dibell, W. E. Fox, E. H. Wolcott, Robert Parker and W. F. Brucker. .

The Carnegie library associatidrr have fears that “Andy” will die rich in spite of his efforts to give away his money, and will ask him to drop another $2,000 into the Rensselaer library building.

James Linton, a young man employed by Joe Nagel southwest of town, shot off the end of the big toe of his left foot last Monday while out hunting. He was crawling through a fence when the accident occurred. » .

There are now protested city orders outstanding to the amount of about $6,000.00, and no funds will be coming in for several months yet. Will the present city officers make the race for re-elec-tion on their record? .

Water is said to be higher along the Kankakee than for nearly thirty years, so say old inhabitants. At Shelby it covers the lower floor of some of the business houses and no teams travel between Shelby and Thayer.

John Kimble of Gifford announces himself a candidate for the nomination for trustee of Barkley township. It is also rumored that the names of one or two others may be sprung at the convention which meets next Saturday. - x : vW.— -■

Mr. and Mrs. Addison Parkison? who went to California early in the winter, have returned home. Uncle Ad looks well and reports a fine time. He is glad to get back and says that California is ahead of us in only one respect, and that is the climate.

The swellest dance of the season took plaoe at the armory Wednesday night when about fifty couples of the city’s swell society attended and danced the most of the night 'away. Music was furnished by Orchestra of Chicago, who, as usual, rendered excellent music. Rensselaer is now without a bowling alley, Mr. Preble having torn np and expecting to move to Dakota, we understand. The business has not been profitable for. some time. Mr. Roberts has not closed a lease for the building as yet, but parties are after it for another business. Charles J. Murphy, who has [owned the Brookston Gazette for the past four months, has sold ths plant and good-will to C. C. French, owner of the Reporter. The two plants will be consolidated and Mr. French will continue the publication of the Reporter. —Monticello Journal.