Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 December 1905 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Only two more weeks. xMrs. A. K. Moore left yesterday her new home in Orange county. J-Miss Fame Haas returned Sunday from a few days visit with friends in Pullman, 111. Blanche Randle of Summer, Mo., is visiting he- grandfather, James T, Randle, and othe r relatives here. August Koltlowski’s barn in Walker tp., was destroyed by fire Wednesday afternoon. Loss SSOO, with S3OO insurance. —\Chas. Hansen, the blacksmith, bffs rented his farm in Gillam tp., and will move back to Rensselaer again in a few weeks. -VMlsees Orabell Duvall and True George returned Monday from a week’s visit with the family of Earl Duvall at Rockville. Remember The Democrat’s piano contest will close promptly at 6p. m., Thursday, Dec. 21. No votes will be received after that hour.

VlTncle John Makeever passed tris 86th milestone last Friday, and is still as hale and hearty as most men twenty-five or thirty years his junior. A Benton county farmer says this is the first year in his experience in farming, where he had his corn all husked, marketed and the money for it before Thanksgiving. Remember the second number of the Library Lecture Course at the library auditorium next Tuesday evening. This number is a lecture by Dr. E. W. Oneal on “Popular Fallacies.” I have a number of Barred Plymouth Rock Cockerels and Pekin Ducks for sale; all are extra fine. For prices call on or address, Thomas Reed, R. F. D. Remington, Ind. Independent ’phone, 2 on 79. IW. R. Brown and family of HaYkley tp., moved to town last week and occupy the former Dr. Berkley property on McCoy avenue which they purchased some time ago of Dr. H. L, Brown. Attorney J. E. Westfall of Whiting was in town a few hours Wednesday on his way home from a visit with relatives in Fountain county and at Remington. He was accompained by his mother who will visit him for awhile. In the Thanksgiving football game at Morocco, Rue Parcels, one of the Rensselaer players, was quite badly hurt about the head, so badly, in fact, was he hurt that it is said the blood gushed from his eyes. The score was 16 to 0 in favor of Morooco. The Jasper County Democrat, the St. Louis Twice-a-week Republic, and Farm Progress, a big agricultural and home monthly, all three papers for a short time for $1.50, cash in advance. This offer applies to both old and new subscribers to The Democrat.

In fairness to each other the various livery barns of the city have established a uniform schedule of prices for rigs. This insures patrons that they are each treated alike and, as the prices we understand have not been raised, no one is harmed by the agreement. JrCorn husking is practically all over with for this season and the farmers never had a better season for gathering it than this The weather was ideal and there was no “down” corn to hinder the work. The crop in this section of the state is about the best ever raised here. Geo. F. Meyers will sell a large quantity of stock and farming implements at public sale on Monday, Dec. 18, at the residence of Lewis Elijah, on the old Lewis Davisson farm, 10 miles due north of Rensselaer. Sixteen head of horses and mules are included in the stock offered. As the Farmers’ Institute this year was run on the plan “to the victors belong the spoils,” The democrat was furnished with no report of the proceedings by the secretary. The following officers were elected for next year: Joseph Pullins,'Pres.; Everett Halstead, Sec.; Peter Hordeman, Treas. Clyde Hyer, a notorious young character of Earl Park ; and a former resident of Kentland, with two companions attempted to steal some turkeys of Ed Childress, a farmer living near Earl Park, last week for a Thanksgiving feast. Childress heard them and got his shotgun in play. The coroner held an. inquest over vhat was left of Hyer, but his two companions drove off and made their escape.