Jasper County Democrat, Volume 8, Number 52, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 March 1906 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mr. and Mrs. Jesse Nowels and son of Brook, spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. L. Nowels of this city. -|-The mother of our former townsman, Geo. Bales of Good land, died near Logansport last Saturday, aged 64 years. The burial was made at Goodland. Miss Kate Marshall, who has been employed in the W. B. Conkey printing plant at Hammond, has resigned her position on account of sickness, and returned home. The offer of Farm and Fireside free to new subscribers to The Democrat is withdrawn with this issue, and after April Ist no more free subscriptions to same will be given. \The son of The Democrat editor is improving slightly from his attack of typhoid fever, and it is expected will now get along all right, although it will of course be some time before he is able to get out

Maude Spitler has purchased the Florence property south of the new school building and is having the old house torn down, preparatory to erecting a new residence for herself and mother. The mutual telephone company lately organized over about Foresman will probably absorb the Brook and Mt. Ayr exchanges, as they have secured so many patrons that it will be unprofitable for those exchanges to continue. Miss Pearl Morris, who for some years employed in the Racket Store, has succeeded Miss Lettie Willis as clerk in the G. E. Murray Co., store. The latter is to be married April Bth, to Leslie Alter, son of J. E. Alter of Union township. H. C. Heffner has sold his two residences on North Cullen street to James M. Bell of Frankfort. Dr. Myers, Mr. Bell’s son-in-law, will move into one of the houses, and W. F. Hodges will move into the D. M. Yeoman property, vacated by Dr. Myers. Owing to matters coming up that demanded his attention here for the present, Dr. Washburn has postponed his trip to New York to to take a course in the New York Post Graduate Medical School for a few days, and will probably remain here all of next week, at least. "“jMr. Roy Hurley and Mrs. Mary Deere were united in marriage Sunday at the home of the latter’s sister, Mrs. Samuel Price, in Barkley tp., Rev. Abraham Miller officiating, in the presence of several relatives of the contracting garties. They will reside in tarkley. Mrs. Hugh Lowe has bought of A. Leopold'nine lots in Leopold’s addition, south and east of E. V. Ransford’s residence, 150 feet on Scott street, 300 feet on the gravel road, 300 feet on Milton street and 150 on Emilie street. She will build residences on the lots, we understand. The burlesque on The Merchant of Venice, given by the Senior class of the high school at the opera house Wednesday night, was very largely attended and is well spoken of. About every seat in the house was taken and a neat sum was realized from the entertainment.