Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 July 1905 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Atttorney Jasper Guy of Remington was in the city yesterday on business.

<\TB lbs. of granulated sugar for SI.OO at the Clearance Sale, at the Chicago Bargain Store. Uncle James Maloy of Steeger, 111., was here a few days this week looking after his property Uncle Jim is looking exceedingly well. The remains of the infant son of Dr. and Mrs. J. A. Overton, of Tuscola, 111., born July 17, was brought here for burial day—diMrs. J. J. Montgomery returned Monday from a visit at Rockford, 111., her sister, Miss Grace Wemple, returning with her for a visit here. Mr. and Mrs. Anson Chupp left Monday for their new home in Edinburg, where Anson recently purchased a grocery and notion store.

The Home Missionary ladies of the M. E. church and several of their friends spent Thursday afternoon with Mrs. George Ketchum, east of town. About fifty ladies were present and a very pleasant time was bad.

>rCharlie Chamberlain went to Chicago Tuesday night to purchase material for extending the electric light line out to St. Joseph’s college, also to contract for the material needed by the college. It is expected to have the lights installed in a few weeks.

Sam Murdock, with a party of Lafayette friends, passed through the city Wednesday in the former’s big three-seated automobile, the largest and costliest machine frobably that was ever seen here, t is said to be of 60 horse-power and cost something like SB,OOO. The party were bound for Chicago.

A typographical error appeared in the amount of the claim of Wm. Rinehart for services as assignee of, the McCoy bank matters, in a few copies of The Democrat sent out last week, the figures given in those copies being $2,000 instead of SI,OOO, the correct amount. The error was corrected in the greater part of the edition.

John Greenfield has written from California that he expects to move back here next month and will want possession of his residence property on the corner of Scott and Cedar streets. E. T. Jones, The Democrat’s foreman, who has been occupying the property since last February, will move into one of the Bussell houses on South Scott street.

Mrs. Rettie Sharp was taken to Chicago Monday to undergo another operation for an ailment of long standing. She was taken to St. Mary’s hospital and was to be operated on yesterday. She has been in rather poor health for some time, but the operation she is to undergo and which it is expected will bring permanent releif is not considered a dangerous one, although it is likely to keep her the hospital for three weeks at least.

The Modern Woodman, the official organ of The Modem Woodmen of America, will hereafter be printed at Indianapolis, W. D. Pratt of that city having landed the contract at something like $6,000 per month. The paper is issued monthly, has a circulation of about 780,000 copies and requires five carloads of paper for each issue and twelve mail cars to carry the printed edition. Its mailing will increase the receipts of the Indianapolis postoffice $12,000 per year.

VD. M. Worland has traded hia residence property in the northwest part of town for a livery stable and business in Alexandria, Minn., a town of 3,000 population in Douglas county, and expects to move out there in about a month’s time and run the livery businesaA The part of tbe old McCoy home-i stead wlrich be recently traded for, he has sold to James T Randle, Swanie Makeever and A. Parkison. The first two named were the original purchasers of the property from A. McCoy last winter.

The sale of the R. B. Porter and Martha Donnelly farms, has fallen through with. No contract had been entered into, Mr. De bo stating that his word was good and he would take the land, but Friday he came over from Remington and refused to go ahead with the deal, it is said. It is possible that action for damages will be instituted against him. We see by the Wolcott Enterprise that Mr. Debo last Saturday bought a 270 acre farm 8 miles south of that place, paying tOO per acre therefor, which no doubt accounts for his becoming “dissatisfied” with his deal here.