Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1905 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. C. D. Nowels i<» confined to the house with malaria! fever at this writing. Miss Mary Soh mitter, of Delphi, is visiting her sister, Mrs. Billy Merica, on South Scott street. , Mr. and Mrs. Enos Timmons of Plymouth are visiting relatives and friends here and in Jordan tp. -\-Gaylord Nowels has gone to Los Angeles, Cali., with the intention of locating at or near that place. The two last items in the Blue Sea correspondence should have been placed under the Remington bead —a mistake in make-up. Mayor Ellis, A. J. Brenner, Geo. Scott, Bert Brenner and Joe Jackson took in the Ringling cir.cus at Lafayette Wednesday. J\Frank Critser, Geo. Calvert and soh Clint, and Christie Vick and F. M. Abbott are spending the week camping and fishing on the Kankakee. \Miss Jennie Myers and Mrs. A. Gangloff took in the Wabash excursion to Niagara Falls Thursday. They expect to be gone about a week. The running races that were to have been given at the Stock Farm track next Thursday have been postponed until a later date, notice of which will appear in due time. Moosmiller who has been night man at the Lowel station on the Monon for some time, is at home recuperating from too close work, and will not return to Lowell again. B. O. Gardner, the real estate man, and R. A. Parkison,of Rensselaer, Will Murray and Mr. and Mrs. W. W. Burns of Barkley, left Tuesday on a land prospecting trip through Kansas. Donnelly and Perry Marlatt returned Tuesday from their prospecting trip to Ransom county, No. Dak. While neither invested this trip they were well pleased with the country and report crops excellent. Nels Sampson, aged 84 years, died at the poor asylum Sunday afternoon, where with his aged wife he was taken from Hanging Grove tp.,some ten days previous. Burial was made in Weston ceme tery Monday afternoon. nSTt. and Mrs. G. A. Strickfaden returned Sunday from their eastern trip. Besides Boston, where Mr. Strickfaden attended the national meeting of the C. 0. F., they visited New York City and numerous other points of interest. They were gone two weeks. The bid of John and W. H. Eger of $16.50 per acre on the McCoy & Porter lands in Union tp , not having been raised, the same will be accepted and the deal closed up. Porter lets his interest go with that of the McCoys and at the same price. If you are a farmer, and are thinking of making a change in location, it will pay you to read the advertisement of the Burchard Hurlburt Investment Co., in another column. C. J. Dean one door south of The Democrat office, is the local agent for this company. J. A. McFarland had a mammoth egg plant on exhibition at his store the first of the week. It was grown by N. S. Bates and was about twice as large as any fruit of this plant we bad ever before seen. It was as large as a goodsized pumpkin and attracted much attention. Newton County Enterprise: The first political plum for Newton connty to come from Gov. Hanly fell into the hands of (Schuyler C. Jones Tuesday, in the way of an appointment as oil inspecter. Fees are the only perquisites of the office. Mr. Jones’ district embraces the counties of Newton, Jasper, Porter, LaPorte, Pulaski and Marshall. The disclosures of graft (which is modified stealing, or stealing, within the limits of the law) and of out-and-out stealing in all parts of the country and in almost every line of human effort, indicate an aroused public sentiment that is bound to result in good. It shows that the people are taking advanced ground.—Rockville Republican. —(Louie Ramp, who has been at Hullsmith, Texas, with Will Donnelly for several months, came home Wednesday and will not return until the weather there becomes cooler. The mercurv has been hanging around 125 0 , but the nights are always cool. The hot weather did not agree with Louie and he is now under 1 the doctors care.