Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1904 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Read The Democrat for news. Corn 48c; oats, 31o; rye, 50c. Threshing coal at Coen & Brady’s. Fountain Park Assembly opens at Remington to-day. Mrs. Mary Fox of Lafayette, vised relatives here Sunday. f ... - . Mr. H. Keen of Goodland was a Rensselaer visitor Tuesday. Gray left Saturday for a couple of weeks visit at his farm near Bluffton. 'JLMrs. Charles Ramp spent Sunday with her daughter, Mrs. N. Krull, at Monon. White county old settlers’ meeting will be held at Monticello, Saturday, August 29. >4S. T. Harris of Remington, was the guest of his parents, Mr. and Mrs. H. O. Harris, Sunday. -AYoung John Duvall-has gone to Grand Rapids, Mich., where he expects to secure a situation. Donnelly returned Tuesday from a week’s stay at Mudlavia, for the benefit of his health. Goodland has a cracker-jack base ball team but the town is helpless in coping with the fire fiend. __________ SyMrs. F. E. Mauck and children or^Anderson, are visiting Mrs. Mauck’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. D. H. Yeoman. Miss Ethel Perkins of this city, has been re-engaged to teach in the Goodland schools the coming school year. xMr. and Mrs. F. E. Babcock and Mr. Roy Keesey and Miss Frances Eiglesbach picnicked at Cedar Lake Sunday. The Monon will make a rate of 80 cents for the round trip to Water Valley to-day on account of Shelby’s Odd Fellows’ picnic. J. W. Pruitt of Lafayette, was here Saturday to file his claim in the McCoy bankruptcy matter. He had SSOO in the defunct bank. A - ■■■■ * Ethel Sharp, Nellie Gray add Tillie Malchow, who have been attending normal at Terre Haute, returned home last Friday evening. Warner, W. C. Babcock, DF Kannal, Nim and Ed Hopkins and several other Rensselaer people spent Sunda}’ at the Kankakee, fishing. •&. Mr. and Mrs. James T. Randle returned last Friday from their visit with their children in Kansas and Missouri and from taking in the world’s fair. Judging from the appearance of the cement walks in the business part of the city, our anti-spit-ting ordinance is not being enforced very rigidly. Charles Antcliff and Miss Bessie Deniston, both of near Fores* man, were married last week. Miss Deniston formerly resided near Kniman, this county. Glenn Bates of this city, is one of those who have registered at Devil’s Lake, being about No. 300 to register. He has also registered for his father, N. S. Bates. Misses Orpha Timmons and Mary Peck of Remington and Mrs. D. H. Patton of Woodward, Okla., were guests of Mrs. N. S. Bates and family last Friday. There will be no services of any kind except Sunday School at the Christian church until The First Lord’s Day in September, on account of Fountain Park Assembly. Bquire Troxell, Christie Vick, Marshal Abbott and Geo. Colvert are putting in the week at the Kankakee, fishing and running up and down the river trying to keep warm. W. H. Eger has been putting in his spare time of late in building a big pigeon yard at his home. It is expected that he will soon be able to treat his friends to pigeon pot-pie, vB. F. Ferguson, Dr. Hartsell and Charles Chamberlain, left Wednesday for the Devil’s Lake oountry in Dakota, prospecting. Charlie expects to register for a land claim at Devil’s Lake.