Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1904 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Miss Ida Nowels, of Flora, is visiting relatives here. G. W. Michael is visiting friends in Logansport this week. Mrs. C. J. Weathers is visiting her grand-daughter, Mrs. Mary Fox, at Lafayette. C. D. Nowels will move into the Mrs. Kinney property -on Front street, recently vacated by A. B. Rowley. Wood and sons Ray, the barber, and Dr. Aaron Wood of Brook, are prospecting in Washington and other parts of the West. Stanley, of near Parr, was fined $1 and costs, $14.70 all told, by ’Squire Irwin Wednesday, for taking on too big a load of corn juice. Excavating for Judge Thomp r son’s new building, south of the Makeever hotel, began Wednesday. The building will be 42x75 feet in size, we understand, and two stories high. The Cadies of the Grand Army will serve dinner to the soldiers of the Civil War on their return from the cemetery on Decoration Day, at the ladies’ waiting room in the court house. Mr. and Mrs. John Greenfield, who have been living in Colorado City, Colo., for the past three years, returned to Rensselaer Monday, and will remain here during the summer at least. Carpenter and Marion township will hold mass primary conventions to-day for the purpose of selecting delegates to the democratic county convention, which meets here nex( Saturday. '■> Mrs. R. W. Marshall and her son Albert, arrived home Wednesday afternoon. Bes 4is doing finely, sleeps well, eats well, sets up all day, and is rapidly recovering from his five weeks tussle with typhoid fever. V" Hiram Day has not closed out ms lime, hair, brick and cement business, but will continue this branch of the business disposing of his lumber yard only, which has been bought and consolidated by the other two yards here. S. H. Norman writes us to change the address of his Democrat from Pe Ell, Wash., to Tacoma, Wash. He enclosed in the letter a chip from Washington’s giant tree, sent to the St. Louis fair. The tree was 14 feet in diameter. M. Worland returned Tuesday from his Western trip. He visited his fatner near St. Paul, Kan., and Ad Robinson and L. H. Ponsler at lola. While he did not close up a trade for a farm there, he has some propositions that he is considering.

A number of our readers will be pained to learn of the death of P. S. Abbott at his home in Cherryvale, Kane., May 9th. Mr. Abbott was a former resident of Jasper county and about thirty years ago was engaged in the hardware business in Rensselaer. He was a brother of Mrs. Howard Burr-of Jordan township. 0 J. F. Heinzman of Noblesville, was in the city on business Tuesday and Wednesday. The olcb lawsuit of Heinzman Bros, for balance alleged to be due them on the court house contract here, some $2,500, is set for trial in the White circuit court next Monday. It is not likely, however, the case will be tried until the September term. ' Mr. Edward Green wald of Taylorville, 111., and Miss Florence Wood of this city will be married at the M. E. church tomorrow morning, immediately after the close of the regular services. They will leave Sunday afternoon for their future home in Taylorville, 111., we understand. The bride is a well known and popular young lady in church work here, and has the best wishes .of her friends. Anna Walter, who has bfeen in Victor, Colorado, for the past two years, is here for an extended visit with her parents, brothers and friends. Miss Walter has been right in the heart of the big miners’ strike, which has been on for nearly a year in Colorado, and which has paralyized the mining industry and the trade generally in tfeat section of the country. Her sympathy is with the miners in this struggle.