Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1904 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The Three-I depot at Knox was destroyed by fire last Friday night. E. W. Culp and Mr. Shelly of Remington, were business visitors in the city Thursday. ■f-’Mr. and Mrs. M. A. McConneIbay of Idaville, are visiting the family of their son, Dave McConnehay, here this week. ~!~Mrs. Edna Jackson, sister-in-law of Mesdames A. A. Hoover and John H. Jessen, who has frequently visited here, died last Monday at her home in Lebanon, Ind. Cards are out for the marriage of Mr. Jesse E. Wilson and Miss Gail Wasson, to take place at high noon, Wednesday, Dec. 14, Ht the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wesson, The latest report from Rensselaer is that the McCoy bank will pay about 15 cents on the dollar. Tom had a good time on the other 85 cents, so it is giving him little concern: —Oxford Tribune. Mrs. Rae Mossier was operated upon in a Chicago hospital last Saturday for gall stones, and twenty-five gall stones were removed. She is reported to be recovering nicely from the operation. John Hefferlin was looking after business interests here Saturday. Mrv#" Hefferlin recently bought a 60 acre farm on the banks of the Tippecanoe river, J mile from Monteray, Pulaski county, and moved his family from Goodland to that pluce. -A-Mr. William Rolla Gates of Wolcott and Miss Dora Leota Critser of this city, were married at the home of the bride’s aunt, Mrs. Guß&, in the east part of the city, at 2 p. m., Wednesday. Rev. A. G. Work performing the ceremony. They will reside at Wolcott.

The Fowler Leader thinks the times are out of, joint. It says that the hogs are worth $4.60 per hundred. Bacon is sold for 25 cents per pound, Hams at 22, and pork chops at 15. There is eighty per cent of meat in a hog and valuable products are made from the remainder. Baughman & Williams have moved their law office from rooms in A. Leopold’s building on West Washington street, into the office rooms over the First National bank, formerly occupied by G. K. Hollingsworth and Ray Thompson. The latter has moved into rooms with the township trustee, C. M. Blue. 1

Uncle Lewis Davisson went to Monon Wednesday to consult a cancer doctor regarding the sore on his nose, mention of which was made some time ago in this paper. The doctor diaguOsed the trouble as cancer, and said that he could remoAe the same in a few days, but he would not guarantee to heal it up. J\rislr. and Mrs. H. R. Kurrie are in Washington, D. C., this week, where Mr. Kurrie as attorney for the Monon road, argues the case of P. Maguire et al vs. the Monon, which was decided against the railroad company by our highest courts a year or two ago. and which was appealed to the U. S. court by the latter. ~ v Mann returned Thursday ffoi|l Kokomo, where he has been Clerking in a big department store for several months. He has just received an appointment as railway mail clerk and will begin duty at once. His headquarters will be in Cincinnati, but he does not know at this time just where his route will be. Crown Point Star: It is so near winter now, and the marshes still as dry as powder, that our hunters have given up all hopes of having any sport with the ducks. Scarcely any ducks have come this way and those that did were obliged to pass along to get a drink. Outside of the ditches and the river the Kankakee marsh is absolutely dry.

The 11-year-old son of Andy Hazelbaker of near Fowler, got a leg twisted off in a buggy wheel Thanksgiving day. The boy had caught onto the rear of a buggy with his hands and was swinging and riding along when in some manner one of his legs got caught in a wheel and before the rig could be stopped the limb was twisted off above the knee.