Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1904 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

"/-Miss Pearl Hoover is the guest of Miss Pearl Blue, at the county farm. __________ Lee Richards, who has been at the reform school for some time, is back on parole. Ladies’ shirt waists, suits and skirts, one-half price to close at the Chicago Bargain Store. jSE). E* Hudson, for a long time Monon agent at Parr, has been promoted to the agency at Broad Ripple, near Indianapolis, "SC. S. Chamberlain received notice yesterday that he bad drawn No. 262 in the Devil’s Lake land drawing, but as the expense of proving up is probably more than the land is worth, he will not likely do anything further in the matter. Hundreds of people from Rensselaer and vicinity attended Fountain Park Sunday, and the crowd there that day is said to have been a record-breaker up to that time. A Remington man who drove from Rensselaer to Remington Sunday evening after 6:30 o’clock says that he met 112 rigs between the two towns, all coming toward Rensselaer. Rev. Fisher of the Methodist Protestant church, tells us that there is a good prospect of the United Brethern and the Methodist Protestant churches of the country consolidating, and there is also a prospect that the Congregational denomination will join the consolidation, thus doing away with two denominations entirely. Charles Carter and family, of Silver Lake, Kosciusko county, drove over last week for a few days visit with friends about Rensselaer and Mt. Ayr, his old home. Mr. Carter says the dry weather bad done considerable damage in his section, and in passing through Marshall and Starke its effects on corn were qnite pronounced. He likes his new location quite well and seems to be prospering. The Democrat’s new newspaper press will arrive this week, and we expect to erect same in our new quarters, one doer north of our present location, the first of the week and to issue next week’s paper from the new press. This press, by the way. weighs over four tons, and prints a larger surface than any newspaper press in the county. When erected and in working order our friends are invited to call in and see the press in operation. The Gollmar Bros, circus, which is to exhibit here Monday, Sept. 5, showed here some four or five years ago, out in the ball park. It was then a wagon show, and was pronounced an excellent show. It is now traveling by rail and is said to take over twenty big circus cars to transport it from place to place. It ought to be and no doubt is a much better show than when seen here four years ago. It will occupy grounds in Leopold’s pasture, in the southeast part of the city, while here, the same grounds usually occupied by the Wallace shows when exhibiting in Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. G. G. Brown, of Plymouth, returned home yesterday, the latter after a six weeks’ and the former a three weeks’ visit with relatives in Rensselaer and their old home neighborhood in Jordan township. Mr. Brown is still in the hitch and feed barn business in Plymouth and is doing well. He says that wheat was almost a complete failure in Marshall county and corn has been hurt considerably by the dry weather, but oats were excellent and among the largest ’yields ever harvested there. John Kieper, he says, has a fine farm, is prospering and likes his location very much. Tremont (Ill.,) News: The Allentown Correspondent of the Peoria Herald-Transcript has the following to say of Mr. Wilbur Duvall, one of Allentown’s enterprising young men: Wilbur Duvall graduated from the Valparaiso College of ‘Pharmacy last Friday, at Valparaiso, Ind. He led the class in his grades, making an average of 94$ in the finals. We are all justly proud that one of our boys should do himself such credit. His sister, Miss Cora Duvall, spent the commencement week with him. Wilbur will take but a two weeks’ vacation, then return and take a course in dentistry. His vacation will be spent with relatives and friends here.