Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1904 — EXCHANGE CLIPPINGS. [ARTICLE]

EXCHANGE CLIPPINGS.

Hebron News: We have noticed many loads of wood coming into town from the Kankakee timber lands. It is said that* teams can be driven through parts of the swamp lands that were never known to be passable except over the ice or in a boat. Mtedaryville Advertiser: Squire Joel Spriggs, of Barkley township, brought a couple of hogs to town Tuesday that tipped the scalps at 1040 pounds, anti on Wednesday he again appeared in town with twenty turkeys that weighed 311 pounds. Verily there must be something to eat out the Squire’s way.

Francesville Tribune: It has been agreed that newspaper subscriptions are an infallible test of a man’s honesty. They will sooner or later discover the man. If he is dishonest he will cheat the printer in some way—declare he has paid when he has not —sent the money in the mail which was lost —will take the paper and not pay for it on the ground that he never subscribed for it, or move off and leave it coming to the postoffice he left.

Crown Point Star: Crown Point people have never made any attempt to secure any right-of-way for the Gifford railroad, and there is hardly a doubt but what ,it will go via Bt. John if ever completed. The owner now has a majority of the right-of-way on that line, and it seems quite certain that the road will be built with belt-line connections within the next two years. The iron is now laid nearly across the Kankakee marsh and next year it will be built to within four miles south of this place, and perhaps farther.