Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1904 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Com 49c; oats, 29c; rye, 550. Merchant cigars at J. W. King’s. Bruce Day has gone to King man, Kan. To-day is “old settlers” day at Monticello. The Rensselaer city schools will open Monday, Sept. 5. Mrs. Roy McKenzie is visiting friends in Indianapolis. Excursion to Chicago to-mor-row; $1 .00 for the round trip. Walter Forbes and Will Zard took in the world’s fair last week. vffflisses Clara Fendig and Edna Wildberg visited in Chicago Wednesday. J. G, Perry of Chicago, was in the city on business Monday and Tuesday. '""vErnest Clark of Davenport, la., is visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Clark. Dr. Merrill of Englewood, 111,, was in the city on business Monday and Tuesday. ■.Thomas Brusnahan and son of northwest of town, are prospecting in North Dakota this week. Jasper Kenton returned Saturday from South Dakota, where he has been spending a few months.' yJudge Clark Price of Ashland, 'Kansas, was the guest of his bro*ther, County Surveyor Price, Monday. Misses Ethel and Roxie Kennedy of Morocco, spent Monday and Tuesday with Miss Mildred Harris. Jesse Nowels and family of Brook, spent Sunday here with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Nowels. V Miss Vesey Grow, Miss Hazel fllcColly and John F. McColly are visiting friends in Chicago Heights. > fiileen Littlefield and family have been visiting relatives at Remington and taking in the Park meetings this week. The Monon will run another excursion to Chicago Sunday, Aug. 28. Fare for the round trip from Rensielaer SI.OO. i ..Mrs. Ellis Iliff and children of Heights, are visiting Mrs. Iliff’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Kohler, West of town. Robt. Clark and family expect to leave about Sept. 15th for Palouse, Wash., where Mr. Clark expects to go on a farm. /vMrs. Henry Ballard of Lebanon, who had been visiting her sister, Mrs. John Jessen, for several days, returned home Saturday. New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Remington, 2; Goodland, 1; Robinson, 111., 1; Manitowoc, Wis., 1. jL Mrs. John Borntrager went to Wapakoneta, Ohio, Saturday for a visit with relatives and friends and to attend h§r brother’s wedding. Advertised letters: Miss Grace Dingbam, Mrs. Carrie Healy, Mr. Fred Hallar, Master Henry Hess, Mr. Elmer Humphfrey, Mr. Ayr Vawn. B. D. Richardson, who has been spending vacation with his parents at Valma, returned to Manitowoc, Wis., Thursday, where he will teach again in the city schools this year. SyW. O. Schanlaub goes to Morocco to-day and will attend county institute at Kentland next week. The Morocco schools in • which he will teach the coming year, will open Sept. 5. The Monon will run a special train to Lafayette, next Thursday, Sept. 1, leaving here about 7 a. m., and returning in the evening on account of the Tippecanoe County Fair. Fare $1.40 for the round trip. There was a small freight wreck east of the Coen & Brady elevator Saturday morning, in which a couple of box' cars were quite badly smashed up. One car was so badly wrecked that it was set fire to and burned after the track was cleared.