Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 13, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 July 1905 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

There were fifty-five applicants for license at the teachers’ examination held here Saturday, and of this number twelve were late graduates from the Rensselaer high school.. Geo. W. Anderson who lives two and a half miles northwest of town, was out Thursday afternoon for the first time in 6 months. He had his left limb broken by the turning over of a load of srtaw. r-4-Dr. H. L. Brown returned last Friday from a few weeks visit in the north west. He visited the principal cities of Washington and Oregon, the exposition at Portland, and Salt Lake City, while away. Bert Vandercar, Joe Fenzil. Hans Rasmussen, Wm. Sbirer, Herman Flugel and Joe Behles, all young men from Tefft, were down Saturday, to take examination for rural mail carrier on the new route to start out of Tefft August 15. That S3OO Chase Piano that The Democrat has been telling about for the past two weeks is now on exhibition in the show window of Rowles & Parker’s dry goods store, on East Washington street. Read the conditions on which it is to be given away in another column. Dr. Rose M. Remmek, optical specialist, will make her regular visit to Clarke’s jewelry store, June 28 to July 1. Modern methods in eye examinations means accurate knowledge of the conditions affecting the sight and the remedy supplied with proper glasses. Misses Lessie Bates of Rensselaer and Miss Stella Shields of Monon left Wednesday to attend the Teachers’ National Association meeting at Asbury Park, N. J. and will visit several principal cities of the east before returning. They expect to be gone a couple of weeks or more Miss May Fox formerly of Rensselaer, was married last week to SSuES? Cali., where Miss Fox and her mother have been living for the past year. They will reside at North Baltimore, Ohio, and Mrs. Fox will return to Indiana and make her home at Roselawn, it is understood. These Indiana rural mail carriers were appointed Wednesday: Brook, Marshall M. Jones, regular; Charley Ellis, substitute. Laconia, Bert B. Steepleton, regular; Claude Steepleton, substitute. Morocco, Samuel R. Robinson, regular; Claude H. Ackoars, substitute. Roselawn, William H. Overmyer, regular; Thomar L. Bundy, substitute. Mrs. Kate Woods, aged 75 years, 2 months and 14 days died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. J. M. Shields, near Rensselaer, on Thursday of last week, and the funeral was held Saturday at 10 a. m., from the residence and interment made in the Welsh cemetery in Jordan township. Her death was very sudden, and caused Jrom heart failure. "TWerner Miller bought a horse of Charley Hemphill last week and on getting it home it seemed sick and refused to eat and kept getting worse, until Tuesday, of this week, when it died. The veterinary pronounced its complaint catarrhal fever. Mr. Miller says the mare did not act right when he took her, and he thinks she was sick at that time. He paid $125 cash for the mare. A-Remington, Parr, Fair Oaks, DeMotte and Dunn’s Bridge are the places in Jasper county that will celebrate the 4th next Tuesday, while on the west of us Mt. Ayr will have a big celebration. Rensselaer should have a good free celebration every year, but it seems that nothing but a bum street carnival can be had here, for which The Democrat is truly sorry. Mrs. R. W. Marshall was at Longcfiff last week to see her son Joe who was sent to the asylum there a few months ago. She found him in very bad condition. He refuses to take food much of the time and is failing greatly in health ns a consequence. His mental condition shows no improvement and he is reported to be one of the most difficult and refractory patients to handle that Was ever in the asylum, and must be kept under restraint most of the time.