Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 April 1904 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Miss Vivian Rush of Monon, is visiting here, the guest of Miss Lizzie Brown. Fred Chapman is assisting in the postoffice nowadays, and makes a very able assistant. Attorneys Guy and Westfall, of Remington, were looking after matters in court here Monday. Advertised letters: Mrs. Viola Reynolds, Mrs. Mary Sammeton, Wm. Schunneman, Wm. Bierly, Milton Hall. James Warren and William Chilcote, who have been staying at the Marion soldiers’ home, are here on a furlough. Geo. Duggins was given a fine and costs amounting to $17.40 in Squire Irwin’s court Saturday for a Friday night drunk. Earl Sayler has moved to Saybrook, 111., where with his brother Eugene, he will operate an electric light plant. Ella Callahan of near Giffford, and Mr. Edgar Camp of Notre Dame, were married at the latter place Tuesday morning. 'L Mr. and Mrs. A. O. Yeoman of Kingman, Kan., and Mrs. Nellie Hanscome of Chicago, were here to attend the funeral of Mrs. W. E. Moore. Sylvester Galbraith has traded his property in the northeast part of town for the Chestnut ten acre farm, north of town, and will move on same Monday. W. A. Huff, the jeweler, is talking some of moving to Niles, Mich. He has made an offer on a jewelry store there and the matter is still pending at this writing. VC. E. Mills is confined to the house with sickness again. We understand It is the old ailment that kept him laid up for several months a year or two ago.

We see that Jacob R. Hazen, formerly of Jordan township, this county, has been selected by the democrats of Jennings county as a delegate to the state convention. W. H. Craig of Indianapolis, who several years ago edited the People’s Pilot at this place, was here Wednesday looking after populist interests. He found very few of the “old guard” were left. __ ___ Geo. Barcus is in Wabash this week with a force of men getting things in shape for his removal to that place. Work has begun there in the foundry department and arrangements are being made now to move in May. The republicans of Keener tp., turned down their old trustee (by appointment) S. L. Luce, who was a candidate for nomination, and nominated Henry Feldman for trustee and F. M. Hart, present incumbent, for assessor. The five weeks old baby of Mr. and Mrs. F. E.. Roy, of Jordan township, died Tuesday evening from lung fever. The funeral was held Thursday from the Catholic church at Remington and interment made in the Catholic cemetery west of that place. Chas. L. Mann writes us to send his Democrat to Kokomo, and adds that he has charge of the domestic department of the big store in which he is now employed, and has several people under him. He says that he likes the town and his work very much thus far.

Chas. Phegley, southwest of town returned Sunday from Newcastle, where a dispatch from that place states he had gone to take treatment from a madstone for blood poisoning. The dispatch also stated that the stone adhered for 400 hours, and that he returned much benefitted. Spriggs, the sage of Walker township, was down on business Monday. Mr. Spriggs got kicked in the side by a colt a few days ago, and had one or two ribs fractured, while Mrs. Spriggs is just recovering from an injury received several weeks ago from falling from a chair. At a meeting of the board of trustees of the State Soldiers’ home at Lafayette, last Friday, the new cottage to be erected by this county was ordered to be placed on the circle in the southwest part of the grounds, opposite the Porter county cottage. There are now 708 ex-soldiers in the home, and the deaths last month numbered twelve.