Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1905 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

-VMrs. G. F. Meyers and Mrs. F. B. Babcock were Monon visitors yesterday. Miss Anna Smith of New Philidelphia, Ohio, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Benton Forsythe. --VRev. J. B. Bair and Misses Ethel Perkins and Lora Brace attended the Baptist Sunday school convention at Chalmers Monday. VMr. and Mrs. John Healy took advantage of the G. A. R., rates to visit Mr. and Mrs. Michael Koboski in Jennings county this week. H. Meyers was over to his son Howard’s, near Brook Thursday and says that a very heavy rain fell there Thursday afternoon. No rain at all fell here. Warren, Wm. Clouse and Fred McColly went to Lafayette Monday to work on the Jasper county soldiers’ cottage. Rush & Warren have the contract. This has been another excellent week for growing crops and farm work, with the mercury up in the nineties nearly every day. Crops are doing very nicely indeed. Rev. A.G. Work, Pastor of the Presbyterian church of this city for the past five years, has accepted a call at South Chicago and will move there in short time. John Makeever has transformed the old ramshackle building east of the Makeever House into quite a respectable little business room, and it will soon be occupied, we understand. Rowles & Parker have leased the room now occupied by the Haus restaurant and will add a clothing department to their business as soon as they secure possession of same. and Mrs. Turner Merritt of Remington are visiting their son John Merritt and family here this week. Turner has been pulling channel cat from the Iroquois, and has caught several quite fine ones. A. D. Washburn of Rensselaer, Perry Washburn of Earl Park, C. C. Kent, J. A. Wildason, J. A. White and A. J. Thompson of Kentland are up in the Alberta region of Canada, prospecting for a few weeks.

Ramp came over from Kentland this week to bid his college chums at St. Joseph good bye and to spend a few days with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Ramp. Nicholas Krull, Jr., came over with him and is the guest of grandma and grandpa Ramp.

The telephone company has purchased an “Orient Bnckboard” auto for Supt. Montgomery’s use in looking after the lines. The machine weighs but 400 pounds, has a four-horse power engine and costs but $250. It seems to be a little gem and just the thing to run about in.

'P’SLen Lefler of near Pleasant Ridge seems to have knocked the persimmons on new potatoes this season, and Saturday he deposited a dozen tubers on our table that were as large as turkey eggs, with the remark that they had been eating new potatoes for a weekr Len has a smart wife. stone road tax of two per cent in Marion township, including the oity of Rensselaer, will yield about $52,000 and ought to build 30 miles of good stone roads. Nothing adds more to the benefit of a town or community thau good roads, and The Democrat believes the project would carry by an overwhelming majority if it is put to a vote.

U. M. Baughman engineered a deal Satxirday by which Henry W. Long of Medaryville became the owner of the Monon telephone exchange. Mr. Long will move to Monon and devote his personal attention to the plant. He expects to put the plant in first class condition, establish connections with outside towns and cities and build some new lines. The Christian ohurch will hold its Sunday school and morning service in the assembly room of the high school building. The evening services will be held in the east court room of the court house. There will be reports from the delegates to the district Christian Endeavor convention at the Endeavor hour. The preaching servioe will follow at 7:30. All are welcome.