Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 July 1905 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Special wash goods sale, 25 and 50 per cent off, at Rowles & Parkers July clearance sale. .3Mrs. Martha Donnelly and grahd-son, George Donnelly, are visiting in Marshall county. Anfohn Makeever is having the interior of bis bank brightened up with new paper and paint, also the front repainted. M. Parcels has a big new Victor graphophone in stock and gave a fine street concert with the instrument Thursday evening that was much appreciated by those who heard it. ./ Mrs. Alfred Thompson, Miss IcTa Milligan and Mrs. G. E. Murray left Wednesday to visit the exposition at Portland, Oregon, find other points of interest for a few weeks. An ice-cream social will be given at the home of Miss Dora Thornton, on Thursday evening, evening, July 20, for the benefit of the F. W. Baptist church. A cordial invitation is- extended to everybody to come. About ninety relatives, friends and neighbors gathered at the home of John Rush in the north part of town Thursday evening and reminded him that it was his 39th birthday anniversary. A very pleasant time is reported. Dr. Prough of Goodland, was declared insane this week and will be taken to the asylum. He lost several hundred dollars in the Home Bank failure there last summer, which is said to have so preyed on his mind as to drive him insane.

Leo Wolf of Hammond was the guest of A. Leopold Sunday. Mr. Wolf is proprietor of a big department store at Hammond and talks some of leasing the rooms now occupied by Murray’s store and open a branch store here. Kentland Enterprise: A private bank cashier at Hagerstown, this state, killed himself the other day becanse of worry over a hundred thousand dollar shortage. Tom McCoy and Fred Gilman preferred to let the other fellow do the worrying. Judge Thompson has raised the John and W. H. Eger bid on the McCoy & Porter land in Union tp., to $16.25 per acre. The farm has excellent improvements and is thought to be worth more money than this. It is probable that the Egers will raise the Judge’s latest bid again. Charles Bonner of Carpenter tp., drove over to the hub Wednesday afternoon with his sister, Mrs. E. E. Flint of Pierpont, No. Dak., who has been visiting relatives there for the past few months. Mrs. Flint took the train for Lowell, where her husband is visiting, and from there they will return home.

Starke County Democrat: The Kankakee Reclamation association has received from Gov. Hanly a request for copies of their profiles and working plans, showing the levels and details of the Kankakee and Yellow rivers where the latter empties into the former. They will be sent this week. This indicates, apparently, that Gov. Hanly is genuinely interested in the drainage of this part of state. has sold his 109 acre farm southeast of town, to Stephen Koh ley of Marion tp., who, it is understood, is buying the farm for his brother-in-law, Joseph Kanne, of Livingston county, 111., a son of Michael Kanne, who last week bought the J. D. Babcock farm. Consideration $12,000, or SIIO.OO per acre, all cash. This sale and that of the Babcock farm last week was made direct, no agent. Eger has been nursing a sore hand for the past couple of weeks, and the. injury was received in a rather peculiar manner. He was out in the warehouse, back of the store, doing some work and was standing on a box, The box tipped and to save himself from falling he grabbed at a nail in the wall. A ring on the third finger of his left band caught on the nail and he hung suspended by the ring. The flesh was 'practically all stripped off the finger and the ring was bent all out of shape before he got released. He was fortunate in getting off without having the finger torn off completely.