Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 May 1905 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. Corn, 46c; oats 29c. Tuesday i 8 Decoration Day. Monticello has a case of smallpox. r-v The Rensselaer schools closed this week after a successful term. F. W. Fisher of Kankakee township was a business visitor in the city Saturday. Mrs. Flora Immel, of Pontiac, 111., is visiting her father, L. H. Meyers, on Cherry street. The Monon will run its first Sunday excursion to Chicago, Sunday, May 28. The round trip fare will be SI.OO. E. M. Parcels has placed a fine Regina automatic music box in his barber shop. It is the finest machine ever brought to town. —y—■ a, and Mrs. Robert Mannan and Mr. and Mrs. Louis Paulsen of Wheatfield were guests of Recorder Tilton and family Sunday. St. Louis is making a fuss over a rain of fish in that city. That’s nothing. Chicago is having “showers of brickbats” nearly every hour. annual banquet of the Rehsselaer High School Alumni Association was held at the Armory last evening and was a very swell affair. Ramp hasfgone to Kentland where he expects to spend the summer assisting his brother-in-law, Nicholas Krul, in his bakery and restaurant. and Mrs John Marlatt, north of town, is dangerously sick with brain fever at this writing and is scarcely expected to recover. The Winamac Republican has moved into its fine new brick and stone office building, which has just been completed. The Democrat is pleased to see such evidence of prosperity on the part of Bro. Riddick. Members of the local lodge of Knights of Pythias, also sojourning members of the order, are requested to meet in Castle Hall next Tuesday at 1 p. m., and prepare to take part in the Deooration day exeroißes Articles of incorporation have been filed with the Secretary of State for the Shelby Improvement Co., of Shelby, Lake oounty; capital stock $15,000. The directors are Edwin E. Dickey, James Doty and James Arbuckle. There will be no preaching at the Christian churoh on Sunday morning. All will join in the Union Memorial service at the Presbyterian churoh. The subject of the evening sermon is “Christ is King.” All are welcome. T“At the meeting of the school ooard yesterday afternoon Newton Warren of Ft. Dodge, lowa, was decided upon for Supt. of the Rensselaer schobls for the next school year. Mr. Warren is a former resident of Rensselaer and well known to most of our people. The Monon’s Chicago excursion Sunday, May 28, will pass through Rensselaer at 8:48 a. m., and the round trip fare from Monon to Rensselaer, inclusive, is $1.00; Surrey, 90c; Fair Oaks, 86c; Roselawn to Lowell, inclusive, 750.. Returning train will leave Chicago at 11:80 p. m.