Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 July 1904 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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.

A nice rain fell here Thursday morning, laying the dust and doing lots of good to crops, as well as cooling the asmosphere, which had been hot and sultry since Saturday. The rain was much heavier in the north part of the county, we understand, but did not extend over a mile or two south of Rensselaer.

*KR. w. Sprigg has sold his residence property to W. H. Eger, and departed for his future home in Oklahoma City, Okla. His family will follow later. Mr. Eger paid $1,400 for the Spriggs property, and its acquisition makes him the owner of that entire block except the one lot owned by the Journal editor.

Frank Guss of Biwabik, Minn., who was reported in a Rensselaer paper last week as having been killed at Duluth, Minn., while working as brakesman on a railroad, writes us under date of July 17th and says that he is still in the land of the living and is worth a good many dead men. He is working on a railroad at Biwabik, and is also living there. We have not been able to learn how the report that he bad been killed got started here.

It is announced that the Rensselaer Castle Hall Association proposes to inflict another street carnival on the people this year. The excuse given for the questionable proceeding is the same as that used by the highwayman—they need the money. If Rensselaer must again be cursed with a carnival we sincerely hope that the present city council is made up of men with sufficient strength in their verterbrae to refuse the use of the streets for this purpose.

k The new salary schedule for rural mail carriers has been completed. The new schedule applies from July 1. The last Congress raised the maximum, salary from S6OO to $720 a year.Vlt was found that the maximum rbute was 24 miles iong. and to carriers on routes of this length, numbering about 12,000, the maximum salary will be paid. The salaries of carriers on routes shorter than the maxionim was fixed by deducting $lB for each mile less than 24. The net result has been slightly over two thirds of the whole force of 24,500 rural carriers have received increases of $l6O a ypar in their salaries. The remaining carriers have received increases of less than this amount.

7>Few towns nowadays as large as rtensselaer but have oue or two automobiles in their bailiwick. Kentland, Goodland, Remington, Wolcott and Monticello, all much smaller and less wealthy than our town, each have from one to three or four “autos,” but Rensselaer is still behind the times in this matter, and not a machine of that kind is now nor ever has been owned by any of her citizens) Strange as it may appear, Toni MpCoy, with all his extravagancies and the free use of other people money, never bought an automobile. Tom was a lover of fast horses, it would seem, which are about aB expensive a luxury as an auto, and the latter craze never got a good hold on him.

S. H. Hopkins of Barkley township, created a little excitement in town Saturday forenoon by having a runaway. He was driving a pair of sprightly mules to a buggy, and one of the tugs became unloosened and slapped about the legs of the “near” mule,, and they tore down North Vanßensselaer street at a 2:40 gait, Mr. Hopkins vainly trying to stop their flight. Arriving at the corner by Renicker’s old implement store the mules made a sharp turn east and the driver went out of the buggy headlong, landing on the north side of the street, while the runaways went on,but were caught near the Catholic church. “Farmer” was uninjured, but the buggy, an old one, was pretty well demolished.