Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1904 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A MATTER OF HEALTH pov« POWDER Absolutely Pure HAS MO SUBSTITUTE LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of interest to City and Country Readers. Corn 48c; oats, 28c; rye, 55c. Rev. W. E. Meads and wife of lowa, are visiting relatives here. New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: V te ; E. J. Hujrly is preparing to move to the state of Washington. Rev. C. D. Royce of West Lafayette was a visitor here Wednesday. H. O. Harris is building a large new barn at his home on Division street. A steam drill is working in the rock on the Garrison ditch near Sharon. i Charlie Gisch and daughter Rettie of Sharon, visited relatives in the eastern part of the state last week. /'Mrs. R. J. Yeoman of Newton township is visiting friends in Chalmers and Brookston this week. William Kettleberry, aged 80 years, residing with his son on the John Grooms farm northeast of town, died Monday. N. Marion I. Adams, Peter Hordeman, Jr., and several others from here, attended the state fair at Indianspolis this week. F. D. Craig of Indianapolis, former editor of the defunct Peoples Pilot of Rensselaer, was in town a few hours Saturday. fvJohn Durant of Idaho County, Idaho, and Cornelius Durant of Oklahoma, are visiting their sister Mrs. Alex Harley of Barkley tp Mrs. W. S. Parks sold the grey team of dray horses of her husband’s Saturday at public sale. Thos. McDonald was the purchaser at $l7B. A big crowd of people were in town Wednesday, attending the McCoy bank creditors’ meeting. Forsythe’s peach sale and Wildberg’s salvage sale. Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe went up in Michigan the first of the week and bought a carload of peaches, which were sold out here’ Tuesday and Wednesday. All members of the local lodge of M. W. A., are requested to come out to the meeting of Wednesday evening, Sept. 28, as there is import ant business to transact Mrs. Sophia Chilcote and daughter Lillie came last Thursday for a few weeks visit here, after which they will go to Terre Haute for a brief visit and from, thence go back to Colorado. from the Republican: Owing to the carnival here next week, the opening of the Marion township schools has been postponed a week, and they will not open until Monday, Sept. 26. >4The grain elevator at Fowler, owned and operated by the Fowler Grain Co., was destroyed by fire last Friday afternoon. There was but a few carloads of grain in the elevator and the total loss was only $12,000 to $14,000, with insurance of SIO,SCiO. Mose Hodshire was lodged in jail the first of the week for jumping a small board bill at the Tanner restaurant. His father, John Hodshire, came up from Frankfort Wednesday, where he is now working, settled the matter up and took Mose to Frankfort with him.