Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 February 1905 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A MATTER OF HEALTH &AKIKG POWDER Absolutely Pure HAS HO SUBSTITUTE

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn 40; oats 29. JfMrs. I. M. Washburn and baby ale visiting relatives in Chicago. TCSylvester Gray is looking after nis farm near Bluffton this week. Matt Zimmer of near Wheatfield, was a business caller in the city Monday. [Vance Collins who has been ' living at Mt. Ayr, has moved back to Rensselaer. Alex Leech, whose sickness we mentioned a couple of weeks ago, is reported no better.

Chas. Hanson, the blacksmith, will move onto his Gillam township farm next week. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. S. A. Brusnahan of near Parr, died Wednesday from pneumonia. N A. L. Berkley, late of Rensselaer, is now located at Portland, Oregon, in the practice of medi,j e - , Lainson of Newton tp., moved this week to near Bluffton, Ind., where he has rented Sylvester Gray’s farm. Rev. J. H. Cissel, a former presiding elder of this conference district, died at his home in Laporte Monday morning.

John W. Burget has sold his private bank at.Francesville to the State Bank of that place, and The Bank of Francesville will cease to exist. Peter Plummer has rented his farm near Virgie and this week moved on a farm three miles north of Fowler, which he has leased. Frank and Ad Robinson and Mrs.' Lute Ponsler of lola, Kansas, came this week to attend the funeral of their sister, Miss Orlena Robinson. Mrs. B. Forsythe, who has been confined to the house for the past three or four weeks with a bad cold and the grip, is now nearly recovered.

C. N. Slaughter, the Sharon blacksmith, has bought him a pair of the Barcus horse stocks and is now ready to shoe all kinds of vicious horses. Estif, son of Mr. and Mrs. Leslie Hewitt, of Gifford, died last week from inflamation of the bowels. He was aged one year and seven months. Mrs. D. T. Halstead has been confined to the house with grip for the past few weeks but is thought to be improving somewhat at this writing.

The high school basket ball team went to Hammond last Friday evening and played the high school team there, defeating them by a score of 25 to 8. H. Cnlp of Lee was a business caller in the city Tuesday, Mr. Cnlp has been drawn as a petit juror for the present term of court in White county. ~Tlf. A. Larsb expects to engage in agiiculture the coming year. His'brother Guss and Ben Smith will work Joe's farm west of town and Joe will sign the checks. Yon will miss a good story if yon fail to read onr new serial, “The Wings of the Morning,” the opening chapter of which apissue of The Democrat.