Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1904 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

About 80 tickets were sold here to the K. of P. jubilee and picnic at Lowell Thursday. IJkMrs. Marsh Warner and son Jim went to Delphi yesterday for a week’s visit with relatives, and to attend the old settlers meeting held there to-day. Miss Jean McFarland is camping at Dunn’s bridge this week with the party of young folks from Brook and Goodland, mentioned in our Dunnville correspondence. jQGeorge Hopkins, who has been ’wearing the city marshal’s star during the latter’s sojourn at the Kaukakee, has done some good work in cleaning up the streets, cleaning out the gutters about the catch-basins, etc. Mr. Mort Dyer, proprietor of the Cullen street barber shop, and Miss Nellie F. Davisson of Chalmers, were united in marriage Wednesday evening at the home of the bride’s parents in Chalmers. The Democrat extends congratulations. F. D. Craig, former editor of the defunct People’s Pilot of this city, has started a Populist paper at Indianapolis, where he is now living. John Medert will be associated with him in the publication of the sheet, the Indianapolis News says. It is a little-four sheet and is called the Plain Dealer. The big dry goods firm of Shields Bros, at Monticello, have made an assignment to Capt. Wm. Guthrie for the benefit of their creditors. The firm states its ability to pay all creditors in full, and gives as a reason for the alignment, that it bought heavily and the goods did not move fast enough for them to meet the bills as they came in.

Mrs. James Maloy who has been staying with her son, Dr. Bernard Maloy at Steeger, 111., for some time, returned home Wednesday to look after her household affairs here for awhile, bringing Beruie’s two children home with her. His wife is reported very low at the home of her mother in Englewood. Mr. and Mrs. James Maloy will probably go up to Steeger and stay with Bernie this winter. “M” returned from The State Encampment last Friday, dusty, foot-sore and tired. They were met at the railroad station by the Military band and escorted down town. The accomodations and grub furnished the boys this year were not very satisfactory, and several of them have expressed themselves as having “bad enough” soldiering, and when their time expires next March they will not re-enlist they say. A. R. Colborn, head of the A. R. Colborn Lumber C 0.., of Michigan City, died Thursday after a few hours illness from paralysis, supposed to have been caused from a blood clot on the brain. Mr. Colborn was a brother of Isaac Colborn of Goodland, who was formerly in the lumber business in this city, and was married a few years ago to Miss Nellie Claypool, daughter of Rev. *J. H. Claypool, a former well, known Methodist minister of this conference district.

Mr. Vernon Shock, the “delivery boy” of the Chicago Bargain Store, and Miss Jennie McGinnis, also of Rensselaer, were married Sunday morning at the home of the bride’s grandmother, Mrs. Washington Scott, at 9:30 o’clock, Rev. J. M. Elam, pastor of the Christian church, officiating. The young couple left at once for Danville for a short visit, after which they will return here and take up their residence in rooms in the John Coen residence, which they have rented. The advent of the opening of the new clothing store in the Leopold building last Saturday spurred some of our other clothing dealers to additional efforts to draw trade that were quite amusing to the onlookers. Special price bargains were put on display and L. Wild berg, of the Ideal, hired the Military band to play several selections both forenoon and afternoon in front of his store. This caused the other fellows to put out a new balletin, saying that they “could not afford to hire a band and sell goods so cheaply.” The atrenuosity of the good-na-tured fight attracted much attention from Jew and Gentile.