Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 January 1905 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

yi John Berger of Huntington, was « business visitor in the city Tuesday. ' George Ketchmark of Walker tp., was in the city on business Tuesday. Big reduction on all lines for this month. January Clearance Sale at Rowles & Parker’s. v Abe Aery, of near Newland, whose public sale notice appears elsewhere in this paper, expects to move to Laporte county, we understand, and work at the carpenter trade. “Eli and Jane,” the big comedy production, will appear here with its wealth of special scenery, mechanical effebts, calcium lights, etc. At Ellis opera house, Monday, Jan. 16. M. Baughman, E.P. Honan, 0. W. Duvall aud son John, Geo. E. Hershman of Rensselaer, and Frank Welsh of Jordan tp., were among those from this county who attended the Jackson Day banquet at Lafayette Tuesday night. On account of the ice on the walks, Dr. Walter D. Cole’s stereoptican lecture which was to have been given at the Trinity M. E. church this evening on the subject “An Evening Trip to Palestine,” has been postponed until Tuesday evening, Jan. 17, at 8 o’clock.

William E. Hinshaw, who, in 1895, was sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of his wife, was unconditionally paroled by Governor Durbin Monday just before his successor topk office. The papers reached Michigan City Tuesday, the tenth anniversary of the murder of Hinshaw’s wife. Governor Durbin made a formal statement giving his reasons for granting the parole, referring to the uncertainty and mystery surrounding the case from the very start. His action in the matter is generally condemned, a large majority of the people believing that Hinshaw was guilty of the murder. One day one of our subscribers wrote us a kick like this: “When my daughter puts new, clean newspapers on the pantry shelves, she runs across a story and stops her work to read it. If two women are putting down a carpet, they sit on the floor with their work waiting while they read the love stories in the papers that go under the carpet. This has lasted a long I was patient, but the other morning my wife'got up to light the fire. She found a love story in the paper she was rolling up to start the tire, and sat down to read it before applying the match. I think this is going too far. Unless you agree to keep the love stories out of your paper I may be compelled to get up and light the fire myself.”—Ex. Relative to the proposed further lowering of the Kankakee river the Momence Reporter says: It is presumed the ledge in question is the one in the river near the site of Simond’s old ice house, where the work of taking out the rock several years ago was left off. At that time the state of Indiana appropriated $40,000 for the removal of the rock in the river, and the contractor quit work when so many rods bad been removed, leaving a strip about twenty rods wide and extending across the river which holds some of the water above. There is some doubt in the minds of many whether the removal of this ledge will bring the required results, or whether it would be a better expenditure of money to strengthen the river in places. The windings of the stream holds the water back perhaps more in the flat, up-river districts than does the rock above this place.” Special discount on all lines of shoes at Rowles & Parker’s. Now is the best time to buy your Ladies’ and Childrens underwear; special discount off the regular price at Murray’s Store.

FARMS FOR SALE. I control several choice farms in Davison county. Will sell direct. Write or come and save the commission and expense yon would have to pay the land agent Here is a snap open for a short time—-320 acres within miles of Mitchell, a town of over six thousand people, for thirty dollars an acre, half cash. Henry Swindler, Mitchell, 8. D. Proprietor Highland House.