Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1904 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn 39; oats 28. The White circuit court convened Monday. X Mrs. Lewis Davisson is quite sick with plurisy The latest winter styles displayed at Mrs. Purcupile’s. Mrs. A. J. Brenner is visiting in Goodland this week. 'TMre. L. H. Potts and daughter Blanche visited in Chicago this week. If you want a good horse or some good stock, go to Gaffield’s sale next Tuesday. 'xMiss Pearl Potts has gone to Joliet, 111., to take a course in type-writing and short-hand. Dr. Johnson shipped his goods to Chicago this week, and will make that city his home hereafter. Ramp went to Kentland, Saturday to visit this week with Ids sister and family, Mrs. Nicholas KmU. , and Mrs. D. M. Yeoman of Ambia, returned home Tuesday after a few days visit with relatives here. Randle has improved the looks of his residence by adding a fine new veranda, also some cement walks. X Claude Kious of Brookston, spent Thanksgiving with his sister and family, Mrs. Chas. Slaughter of Sharon. Reporter: The adopted child of Mr. and Mrs. John Bicknell died Tuesday morning, and was buried Wednesday. Adam Kerns, a tenant on the Wm. Burns farm in Barkley township, died Saturday, from pneumonia, aged 69 years. The funeral was held Tuesday. The Wm. Heusen farm in the west edge of Milroy township has been traded for a brick hotel in Matthews, Ind. G. F. Meyers negotiated the trade for Mr. Heusen. igProbably two hundred people Trbm Jasper county are taking in the fat stock show at Chicago this week. About 125 tickets were sold from this station on Wednesday alone. \Mrs. Minerva Mills of Jennings coWty, came up last week for a few days visit with her son, Zack Stanley and father, uncle Henry t Fisher. She expects to return r home to-day. Oxford Tribune: Football won a tonchdown in Rensselaer one day last week. All the saloons in that town closed front and side doors during a game and the whole outfit attended. -\j?rank Van Meter of near Monticello lost bis right arm in a corn shredder Wednesday morning. It was amputated about midway between the elbow and shoulder. It makes one fish hungry to read in the Monticello papers of the fine salmon, weighing from ten to fifteen pounds each, that the fishermen of that burg are hooking in the Tippecanoe. -}sF. A. Ross has purchased a fine a-nbrse power Crestmobile and expects it to arrive almost any day now. The machine is a two-seat-er, the rear one detachable, and costs S9OO. It is manufactured at Cambridge, Mass.