Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1904 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

)yTed Eger is home from college for the holidays.

Our merchants have enjoyed a very good holiday trade this week.

county is promised cbmplete rural mail service in the near future with twenty routes. )Alrs. Simon Leopold and oahghter Selma are spending the holidays with relatives in Peoria, 111. rs. J. E. Meyers of Kniman and Mrs. Minnie Hopkins and daughter of Mt. Ayr visited Mrs. George Meyers here this week. XMrs. Elias Arnold and two daughters of Barkley township are spending the holidays with relatives at New Alexandria, Ohio.

l/*Three or four inches of snow qell last Friday night, the heaviest fall of the season, but all disappeared Thursday and prospects are we will have a “black Christmas.” E. D. Knotts, former editor of the Francesville Tribune but for the past four years deputy auditor of Pluaski county, has bought a newspaper at Whapeton, No. Dak., and will move there at once and take active charge of same. The county fair in Porter is to be revived. The county council of that county has', appropriated $3,500 for repairs to the old grounds and a fair will be held the coming season. No fair has been held there for the past three years.

Owing to poor health, Gustavus Lowe, proprietor of the farmers’ bank at Monticello, gives notice

that he will retire from business Jan. 10. His son is not disposed to continue the business, it is said, and it is likely that the affairs of the bank will be closed up.

It is said that Cedar Lake is lower than it has been for a great many years, owing to the long drought. In many parts of the state the question of procuring water for stock has become a serious one. Wheat has also been damaged a great deal by the long drouth. XMr. and Mrs. L. Strong will leave Monday for lola, Kan., for a brief visit with the latter’s brother, L. L. Ponsler, and from there will go to Los Angeles, Cali., to spend the winter with Mr. Strong’s brother, Elias Strong. They will not return until about April Ist.

In the history of this vicinity there has never been a time when the corn crop has been hauled into market as fast as during the last two weeks. The average amount of shelled corn for the past ten days that went into our elevators has been from 7,OCX) to 15,000 bushels per day.—Fowler Leader. V Earl Duvall, head clerk in the ciOthing department of the Chicago Bargain Store, will leave the first of the year, with his family to take a similar position in a big store in Rockville. Charlie Harmon will take Earl’s place in the olothing department, and Van Grant will take Harmon’B place in the shoe department.

The grand jury in Pulaski county last week returned and in* dictment against Dr. Eugene McMurray of Francesville, charging him with having performed a criminal operation from the effects of whioh the patient died. He gave bond in the sum of $2,500, with J. W. Burget and C. W. Baker as sureties.

Have you noticed that The Democrat prints nearly all the sale bills for publio sales in Jasper county? Why is this? Because we get up the beßt-looking bill of any office in the county ana the free notice we give of the sale in The Democrat reaches more people in Jasper county than in any other paper, for “Everybody reads The Democrat.”

The ninth annual exhibition of the National Fanciers’ and breeders’ Association will be held in the oollesium in Chicago, Jan. 2328. The exhibition promises to be the largest and best ever held. The premium list oontains all necessary information for exhibitors. They can be obtained of the secretary, Fred L. Eimmey, room 500, 325 Dearborn street, Chicago.