Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 January 1905 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

T Joe Thomas moved in from Newton tp., this week. He occupies the Philip Blue property on Scott street. Word comes from Wabash that the Barcus horse-stocks people are thinking of reducing their force, and that some of the families who went there froth here may return. Correspondence from Laura last week arrived too late for publication. All correspondence must reach this office not later than Thursday morning to insure publication. Correspondents will please remember this. jMr. and Mrs. John Guss of Biwabik, Minn., are visiting old friends and relatives in Jasper county for a few weeks. Mr. Guss was caught for about $5,000 in the failure of McCoy’s sheepskin bank, $1,500 direct and $3,500 indirectly.

Write personal letters to members of the legislature, urging them to vote and use their influence against the passage of House Bill No. 182, the bill to saddle the county funds lost in McCoy’s sheespkin bank onto the taxpayers of Jasper oounty. The wife of Fritz Fastnow, a farmer residing near Reynolds, White county, committed suicide on Thursday of last week by taking paris green. She had been in poor health for some time and was not right mentally for a couple of weeks before committing the rash act. K. Ritchey, on nine entries of Baonze turkeys at the poultry show in Chicago this week, won eight prizes, but we are unable to state what they were at this writing. Orph Halstead of Newton tp., won first on old tom, which was a tine looker and weighed 46 pounds. F. M. Timmons of Kansas, who has been visiting his mother in Remington and two sisters, Mrs Keister and Mrs Laura Harris and other relatives and friends in Jordan tp, for the past three weeks, returned home Saturday. Mr. Timmons had been gone from this county for eighteen years.

Archie Robbins, who received a fracture of the spine while making a dive into a net from the court house tower at Monticello last October, died at the home of his parents in Hartford City last Friday as a result of his injuries. Deceased was 22 years of age and had traveled with circuses since he was 1& Scores of the heavest taxpayers of Rensselaer and vicinity have in the past few days vigorously expressed their condemnation of the effort to saddle the the loss of county funds in the McCoy bank failure back on the taxpayers of the county, and it is probabley that something will be doing that will make hard sledding for this iniquitous measure in the legislature. Miss Belle Bailey, of Chicago, representing some Chicago firm in the selling of a patent medicine, was arrested here Thursday on the charge of practicing medicine without a license, the complaint being made by a Rensselaer doctor, and the case was set for bearing before Squire Irwin yesterday afternoon. The prosecution claims that defendant has been treating patients here.

Rev. J. B. Bair, pastor of the Baptist church, solemnized the marriage at his home of Mr. Fredrick Bherman Wailing and Miss Lydia Adaline Potts. Both the bride and groom live near Pleasant Ridge and are highly respected worthy young people. They will begin housekeeping at once near their former homes. May peace and plenty be theirs, is the wish of their many friends. In the report of the Trustee of Hanging Grove tp., published in The Democrat last week, two errors were made by the compositor that toe desire to correct. The amount paid to Foltz, Spitler & Kurrie for legal services for four years, should have read SSO instead of $80; and another item of $12.70 to the same firm, in the special school expenditures, should have been charged to Reed McCoy for school supplies. Dress lining remnants lo yd., cheese cloth 2 ots yd. calico 3 cents jd. for all new goods. Clearance Sale, Chicago Bargain Store. Read The Democrat for news.