Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1905 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

An arm-load of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office. □ Trevor Eger left Monday to resume his studies at Harvard uni.,, versity. A fine new serial story, “The Yellow Holly,” will soon appear in The Democrat. Watch for the opening chapters. Mr. and Mrs. John Body, of Watseka, 111., who have been visiting their daughter, Mrs. W. R. Shesler, returned home Thursday. Granny Wilkins, the 103-year-old Remington lady, was returned to the poor asylum recently, her daughter, Mrs. Watson, being unable to care for her properly. The Democrat wants two good steady girls of fair education to learn type-setting. Must be girls in town, who can board at home. Steady position. Apply at office. A party of Minnesota land seekers returned home last week. James and Charley Clark purchased a 200 acre farm and Lewis Hammond purchased 320 acres near Drooten, near which W. W. Burns also has bought. Frank Wood of Wolcott was here this week a few days. He has sold his interest in the dry goods business of Boi court & Wood at that place to his partner and will go to El Campo, Texas, next week prospecting with a view to locating there. The Big Four railroad expects to have the new Indiana Harbor road which passes through Morocco and Kentland, completed by January Ist, it is announced, and then the principal part of the freight and passenger traffic will be over the new road.

F. A. Mower, cashier of the Farmers Bank at Wolcott, which went under last winter, was arrested recently in Paw Paw, Mich., where he was going under the assumed name of F. A. Simons, and brought back to White county and later released on a $2,500 bond. We are informed that Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Fisher, formerly of this county, but lately of Jennings county, who now reside in Shelbyville, Ind., are the proud parents of a girl, born on the 18th of this month. Mother and babe doing well. The father is as happy as a lark, and is all smiles. An ordinary council composed of pastors and members of the churches of the Monticello Association, will meet at the Milroy Baptist church Thursday of next week to act in the matter of ordaining Rev. F. A, Morrow, of Wolcott, to the full work of the ministry. There will also be an evening service. There were 184 tickets sold here for the Chicago excursion last Sunday. And, after all, Knabenshue didn’t sail his airship, this being the excuse offered by most of those who took in the excursion, that they “wanted to see Knabenshue sail in his airship.” The day was too windy for the attempt to be made. brick work on the new Mur-ray-Long block is now completed to the top of the second story, and the work of laying the upper ceiling joists is now going on. The building will have a very neat front, with up-to date wide windows in the second story, and will be a handsome and imposing structure when completed. Mrs. Eliza Renicker of Pyrmont, Carroll county, and Mrs. Levi Renicker of Rensselaer, left Thursday for Covert, Mich., for a few weeks visit with relatives. The former has sold her farm in Carroll county and may decide to locate in Rensselaer. The farm contained 111 acres and she sold for $27 per acre more than she paid for it four years ago. Monticello Journal: The Hammond Tribune may have new owners and a new editor but the paper is using the same old box of miscellany plates for the past six months. There are about twenty columns of the stuff and as soon as they finish a rttn of it they commence over again. It is probable there are people in that burg that can repeat the stories from memory so often have they been published. Mr. Frank W. White, a musical director and teacher pf violin, has permanently located in our city and is now ready to receive scholars at his home on North Front street. Mr. White is a licensed teacher from the Marion conservatory of music, and teacher of the same courses as are given in the first class conservatories. He would also like to form a class of 15 young men and boys on clarinet to join the band. He also teaches mandolin, guitar, etc.