Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1905 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

NJWm. Merica, Sr., of Delphi, is yufiiing his son Billy and family on south Scott street. u Great reduction on everything but thread at the clearance sale of the Chicago Bargain Store. Dell Cooper, aged about 35 years, died at Demotte Monday from consumption, leaving a wife and tour children in indigent circumstances. The ice cream social given at the residence of Miss Dora Thornton Thursday evening for the benefit of the F. W. Baptist church netted over SIO.OO. You can procure deeds, mortgages, mortgage releases, cash or grain rent farm leases, mortgage notes and other legal blanks at The Democrat office. The Northern Indiana Normal school at Valparaiso will hereafter be known as the “University of Valparaiso,” president Brown having incorporated the institution under that name a few days ago. . . 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. A carload of breakfast food was found to be on fire on a three-I train last Friday soon after leaving Wheatfield, but the train was run on to Demotte where the car was side-tracked and burned to the trucks. The fire is supposed to have caught from sparks from the engine.

~vThe Democrat was favored Thursday with a brief call from Leander Wright of Fowler, Colo., who is visiting his brothers in Newton tp.Mr. Wright left Jasper county 39 years ago, and this is his first visit here since. Of coarse there is scarcely anything that has a familiar look to him now.

fcmong the recent new type faces adcaed to The Democrat’s job department is that of a large font of typewriter type, making it possible to print circular letters that cannot be told from original type-written letters. Prices for this class of work are no more than others charge for work printed in ordinary type.

The Goodland Herald says that the report that Dr. Prougb’s insanity was caused from brooding over money he had lost in the Gilman bank failure, is untrue; that the bank records show that he had no money there. He had shown symptoms of insanity previous to the bank failure, the Herald also states. Someone with neither the fear of God, man nor the devil in his make-up twisted off one panel of the tops oi the iron pickets on the iron fence around H. 0. Harris’ handsome residence one night recently. The work was done on the north panel, at the corner, and it has the appearance of having been done with a heavy pair of pipe tongs. Such acts of vandalism should meet with swift and sure punishment if the miscreat is ever found out,

The Wolcott Enterprise states that Mrs. John Flohr of near that place has left her husband and applied for a divorce. Mrs. Flohr was living in Rensselaer at the time of her marriage to Flohr, under the name of Lewis, which was her first husband’s name. She was married to Flohr last August, he being her third busband. The marriage resulted from an advertisment in The Democrat for a husband by the woman. She alleges cruel treatment. See the ladies’ fine kid shoes, all sizes, was $1.90 to $2.45, now per pair 75c, clearance sale. Chicago Bargain Stork.