Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 August 1905 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

In the Field Day meet at Fountain Park Thursday Remington carried off the honors. Rensselaer had five men entered and carried off three firsts. . Mrs. Newton Wright died at her home in Brookston last Sunday after several years sickness during which she was bedfast. Her husband was a relative of the Wrights, Imes’ and others here, several of whom attended her funeral Tuesday. Her husband died about a year ago. yW. H. Cunningham and grandson Goldie Reeves of Cloverdale, Putnahi county, are visiting friends in Jordan tp. Mr. Cunningham was a former resident of Jordan tp., on the John Reed farm, leaving there in 1862 and locating in Putnam county This is his first \visit here since that time. They drove through with team. An old lady living near Morocco, who had never ridden on a railway car during her life, recently visited the Kentland station and was shown into the waiting room. She took a seat and prepared to enjoy herself, After sitting quietly for half an hour, she reached over and touched a stranger on the arm and remarked: “It rides real easy, don’t it?” M. J. Johnson, assistant superintendent of the Metropolitan Insurance Co., of Chicago, was drowned at the bath ng beach at Cedar Lake Saturday evening, where he had accompanied a picnic party. The water was but four feet deep where he went down, and it is thought an attack of heart disease caused his death instead of drowning. He was 32 years of age and unmarried.