Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1904 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Miss Pearl* Mallatt of Fair Oaks, is the guest of Miss Mae Leech this week. Thomas Murphy, aged nearly 80 years, died at his home on Vine street at 1 p. m., Monday after a several weeks sickness from dropsy and kidney trouble. Deceased moved here about a year ago from near Surrey, where he had resided for many years. The funeral was held Wednesday forenoon from St. Augustine’s Catholic church and was largely attended, many old soldiers being in attendance, deceased having served in the 42d Indiana regiment during the civil war. Burial was made in Mt. Calvary cemetery south of town. C. A. Snow & Co., Patent Lawyers of Washington, D. C., have senj us a Handy Vest Pocket Diary Memorandum and Account Book for 1905. It contains calendars for 1905 and 1906, a census of cities and states, common business laws, court decisions in patent cases and other valuable information. It is such a book as every man needs all the time. C, A. Snow & Co. will send it to any address on receipt of actual postage, two cents. This pocket diary would cost elsewhere from 10 to 25 cents and is indispensable to those who kuow how to use it. Twenty years hence the boys of today will be men. They will be doctors and drunkards, lawyers and liars, senators and sneak thieves, editors and idiots, ministers and murderers, democrats and republicans, and so on down the line. It is impossible to tell to a certainty in just which class your boy will be but it is possible for your boy to be put into such inflence that will steer him in the right direction. Follow the boy of twelve and in twenty years some of them will be in congress while others will be in jail. Parents, do you know where your boy is tonight, and for which class he is training?—Hoopeston Chronicle.

KITT HAS BEEN THERE. Referring to* The Democrat’s suggestion to Bro. Kitt of the Goodland Herald, to let some one else hold the rope at the “badger” fight nt that place recently, the Herald says: “Thanks for the suggestion, Bro. Babcock, but it is not needed.” About thirty years ago, in Rensselaer, we held the rope while Charley Price and George Robinson pulled the barrel from over a bald headed eagle, and the memory of that little incident (it cost three dollars to treat the crowd) will abide with us to the end.” NEW a. A. R., OFFICERS. The following officers were elected at the annual election of Rensselaer Post No. 84, G. A. R. last Friday night. Ralph W. Marshall, Com.; T. H. Robinson, S. V. C.; Benj. L. Saylor. S. V. C.; John T. Thornton, Chaplain; J. C. Kresler, Q. M.; Larkin Potts, O. of D.; Fred Stocksick, O. of G.; H. C. Hoshaw, Surgeon; Delegate to State Encampment, J. C. Porter; B. H. Dillon, alternate; Trustees, D. H. Yeoman, R. H. Grow, Chas. Platt. Notice of An Election of Officers in Prairie Lodge No. 115, F. & A.' M. - Notice is hereby given that on December 19, 1904, at Masonic Hall in Rensselaer, Indiana, there will be held an election to elect a W. M., S. W. and J. W., with other officers of said Lodge. The first three to be elected will be ex-officio trustees of said lodge for the ensuing year. Lodge opens at 7:30 p. m. C. W. Coen, W. M. W. J. Imes, Sec. "> FOR CHRISTMAS AND NEW YEAR HOLIDAYS. To the general public a rate of one and one-third fare for the round trip, on sale 24, 25, 26, 31, Jan. 1 and 2. For teachers and students returning home for Christjnas and New Year vacation, tickets may be sold on the closing day, but not earlier than Dec. 15, on presentation of certificates. W. fl. Beam, Monon Agt. BIRTH ANNOUNCEMNTS. Dec. 2, to Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Gwin, of the north part of town, a daughter. Dec. 4, to Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Stucker, west of town, a daughter. *L Dec. 6, to Mr. and Mrs. Milt Roth, in town, a son.