Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 April 1905 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City end Country Renders. Corn, 43c; oats 28c. Mina Ellen Donnelly is attending the State University. Attorney E. P. Honan was in Brook on business Tuesday. Mies Olive Harriott, of Union tp., is attending the Valparaiso Normal. P Miss Jennie Harris and Mrs. E. T. Harris were Lafayette visitors Tuesday. Millinery opening at Mary Meyers’, Friday and Saturday, April 7 and 8. Attorney U. M. Baughman was on business a few days this. week. W. L. Wishard is visiting Geo. Jenkins and family at Big Rapids, Mich., this week. George Spitler has joined the Forepaugh circus billposters’ gang again this season. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Renicker are prospecting near Larrimore and Minot, No. Dak. Jerry Healy and John Hallagan returned last week from their winter’s sojonrn in Florida. Squire W. E. Moore is visiting his daughter Mrs. J. C. Paxton, at South Bend this week. Mrs. O. M. Allen, of Kalamazoo, Mich., is visiting her daughter, Mrs. E. L. Hollingsworth. Unole John Coen has gone to Monticello to spend the summer with his daughter Mrs. John Sayler. Mrs. Mossier and son, of Hammond, are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Leopold, this week. Fred Kupke of Gillam tp., who was sent to the asylum a short time ago, has been discharged as cured. Brick laying on the new buildings of Duvall Bros, and A. Leopold, on South Van Rensselaer street, began Wednesday. > —.- Brook Reporter: Elwood Collier will move his family to near Kouts, on the Kankakee river, next week, where he will run a dub house. Will Woodworth was given a dollar and costs in Squire Irwin’s court Monday, $7.50 in all, for assaulting Harry Watson last Friday evening. B. F, Ferguson has sold the W. W. Watson property on South Weston street to Mary J. Bair of this city. The consideration was a little under SSOO. D. M. Worland and Charlie Nowels returned Saturday from their prospecting trip to Texas. Dave has quite case o's Texas fever, and may locate there. B. F. Ferguson, of the firm of Ferguson, Hershman & Ferguson, was st Medaryville last Friday and closed the deal for A. C. Wilcox’s land to the Crescent Oil Co. The city schools closed Wednesday afternoon for the week, to enable the teachers to attend the meeting of the Northern Indiana Teachers’ association at Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. L. Strong returned last week from their winter’s sojourn at Los Angeles, Cali., and Mr. Strong is now busy with his duties as deputy assessor, assessing Rensselaer. Misses Ida and Bertha Dennis, who have been spending the winter with their aunt, Mrs. C. B. Steward, returned to their old home in York State Sunday. They will reside at Utica, N. Y. Joe Jeffries and bride arrived from Ohio Monday, and Joe has been the busiest man in Rensselaer this week, putting down oarpets, setting up stoves and getting accustomed to the duties of a married man. Alfred Collins moved in from the country this week and ocpupies the Lampoon property on the west side. Wm. Daugherty, who has rented the Collins farm, also moved ont from town onto same this week. F. S. Willard, Leslie Fisher and A. B. Cowgill of the Remington Camp, and William Grnbe and Thos. Jensen of Wheatfield Camp, were here Wednesday as delegates from their respective Camps to the meeting of the County Camp. Will Donnelly Is dosing np his business affairs here, preparatory to locating in Hullsmith, Texas, His family will not go until fall. Frank Donnelly will continue to carry on the lumber business of' the Donnelly Lumber Co., here.