Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1904 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Miss Golda Harmon leaves tomorrow to visit relatives in Goodland. All $2.50 and $2.25 Oxfords now $1.98, with every tenth pair absolutely free to the purchaser at Rowles & Parker’s. infant babe of Mr. and Mrs. Charlie Pettit of near Parr died Sunday night and was buried in Hershman cemetery, Walker township, Monday. Call at Wildberg’s Ideal clothing store and take advantage of the 25 per cent reduction prices on Men’s and Boys’ Suits. This sale will last all through July. hundred tickets were sold from Rensselaer to various points, the 4th. Of this number almost 450 were to Fair Oaks. The latter town can’t complain of a nonattendance from Rensselaer to their celebration, that is sure. Goodland Herald: The Jasper County Democrat rounded out it’s sixth year under its present management last week. The Democrat is a good paper me'chanically and editorially, and is deserving of the success it has achieved. Lake County Star: It is said that Lowell people are building a great amount of cement walks this season, the usual price being thirteen cents per square foot, and that home contractors have put the cost down to nine cents in order to drive Rensselaer parties away from the harvest. William Haley, who is now living at Bloomington, 111., is here looking after business matters this week. He expects his daughter who has been in Victor, Colo., for severcl years, to come to Bloomington soon aud they will make their permanent home there. She will probably engage in running a boarding house there. J. A. Patton, the poultry dealer, has practically closed down his business and will file a petition in bankruptcy. Mr. Patton hopes to make some kind of arrangement by which he can keep possession of his building and a little later continue the business, believing that if given a chance he can eventually pay off his indebtedness. —Goodland Herald. The proposed Canadian trip of the Indiana editors this month has been abandoned, owing to the fact that only thirty-eight of the two hundred whom it was expected would go came forward with the cash deposit for Pullmans. The two weeks trip was expected to cost $45, the only expense being for Pullman cars and meals, the railroads furnishing the transportation for the advertising they would receive. A heavy rain fell in the west part of Jordan township Monday, and in Rensselaer a nice rain also fell, but not nearly so heavy as in Jordan and south of Rensselaer. A few miles north of Rensselaer they got no rain at all scarcely, and they were needing it badly, too, Tuesday night another fine rain fell which was more general, nearly or quite all parts of the county being visited. This latter rain came gradually and was a fall of an inch or more. It did a world of good to grain and crops. /Cjohn H. Jessen and his gang of employes are now turning out from 300 to 400 cement blocks per day for the new Thompsom block south of the Makeever House. Four sets of moulds are now being used for the work. About 6,500 blocks will be required' for the building. The work is attracting a great deal of attention and hundreds of people have examined the blocks now piled up there ready to be laid in the walls. Tom McCoy was up from Lafayette last Friday afternoon, and in the evening, while down at Duvall’s livery barn, got into an altercation with Ed Duvall over the latter’s refusing to shake hands with him. In the mix-up Tom was choked a little and might have fared much worse had not bystanders interfered. He was escorted to the home of his son-in-law, Dr. Berkley, to keep Ed from again“getting at” him, and the next morning took the early train to Chicago. The feeling here is so intense against Tom for having a good time on other people’s money that some of the depositors in the defunct bank are liable to do him bodily injury unless he stays away.