Jasper County Democrat, Volume 7, Number 50, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 March 1905 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

ADDITIONAL LOCALS. Brook Reporter: C. W. Davis moved from Virige to this place last week and has taken charge of the Thos. Davis hitch barn. Mrs. Almyra Shivley and sons Henry and Aaron, and sister, Mrs. Lilly M. Payne of Brookston, came up last Friday for a few days visit with their sister, Mrs. Charles Slaughter, and family, south of town. We can furnish the Democrat and W. J. Bryan’s Commoner, each a full year, for only $1.60. Clubbing rates on almost any paper or magazine published. Let us know what yoii want and we’ll save you money. Mr. Oscar W. Holley and Miss Ruby R. Smith were united in marriage at the home of the bride’s parents in Morocco last week. The parents .of the bride— Mr. and Mrs. George Smith—and of the groom —Mr. and Mrs. C. B. Holley—formerly resided »in this county. They will reside on Mr. Holley’s farm near Beaver City. Tom Crockett, southeast of town, lost a good horse last Friday. It had been eating plenty of Tom’s corn this winter and had had little exercise. When let out in the yard it capered about, running here and there, and finally ran up on the edge of a pile of straw, fell and broke one of its hind legs near the hip. Mr Crockett had to kill the animal. W. L. Wood of Parr was in the city Thursday with his neck bandaged up. He was trying to catch a hog the other day and ran into a wire stretched across the space where his hogship waß running, and the result was that the wire caught Mr. Wood under the chiq, threw him to the ground and cut quite a gash in his throat. The hog temporarilly escaped. Washington news item: Newton County’s fight for complete rural service has ended in a Waterloo. When one inspector reported against county service Postmaster Harry Strohm of of Kentland hurried to Washington and had another inspector sent out. When asked today as to the report of the second inspector, William R. Spilman, superintendent of rural free delivery, said: “There will be no complete rural service in Newton County. The county does not have enough people to justify it.”