Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 January 1905 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

FARMERS' INSTITUTE. The farmers Institutes for Jasper county will be held this year as follows: Remington, Jan. 17 and 18. Rensselaer, Jan. 19 and 20. Wheatfield, Jan. 21.

New Year Rakes In Japan. On New Year’s day in Japan every house Is decorated with one or more rakes, on which the goddess of good fortune or a money safe appears. These rakes, or kumades, are plain or very hundsome, according to the state of one’s purse. The wealthy people think that they attract good fortune for the next year if they buy an elaborate rake, often paying as high as $25 for the emblem. Conundrum*. Why should a sparrow be offended if you were to call him a pheasant? Because lie would not like to be made game of. Which is the more obedient, the church bells or the organ? The bells, because they will sound when they are tolled, but the organ says, “I’ll be blowed first.” Addition Panic. Add one letter to each of the following and see what words result: Add a letter to the opposite of “first” and make the opposite of “greatest.” Add one letter to a part of the face and make a disturbing sound. Add one letter to a sweetheart and make a sweet smelling plant. A Cat Family. A teacher asked her class to name five different members of the cat family. Nobody answered till at last one little girl raised her hand. “Well,” said the teacher encouragingly. “Father Cat, Mother Cat and three little kittens.”

Get your sale bills printed at The Democrat office. Money to loan on real estate security. Address Box 431, Remington, Ind. Buy your farm leases, deedj, mortgages, etc., blanks at The Democrat office. For Sale: —40 acres timber, miles southeast of Rensselaer, Ind. Will sell by the acre or part of acre; will sell cord or stovewood, or poles; stovewood cut to order. Cordwood $2.00 per cord on the ground. W. E Jacks, Sale Agent. 19f Residence near timber.

Instruct your attorneys to bring legal notices in which you are interested or have the paying for, to The Democrat, and thereby save money and d.o us a favor that will be greatly appreciated. All notices of appointmentas administrator, executor or guardian, survey, sale of real estate, non-resident notices, etc, the clients themselves control, and attorneys will take them to the paper you desire, for publication, if you mention the matter to them; otherwise-they will take them to their own political organs. Please do not forget this when having any legal notices to publish. Craft’s Distemper and Couth Cure Sold by A. F. Long.