Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 April 1906 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. J. E. Bislosky, who is taking treatment in a Chicago hospital for blood poisoning, has not shown much improvement this week, but it is still hoped she will recover.

Henry Uhter, aged 88 years, committed suicide at his home near Lowell last Sunday by shooting himself with a shotgun. He had resided in Lake county for thirty years.

Miss Zoe Hopkins, formerly of this city, wa6 married last week at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Hopkins, near Roll, Ind., to Mr. Earl Cummings of near that place.

The first day a boy starts to school, he hearß, “Come straight home without stopping on the road to play,” and he hears the same thing from some woman till the end of his life.

New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Wilson Creek, Wash., 1; McCoysburg, 1; Hibbing, Minn., 1; Rensselaer, R-R-2, 1; Rensselaer R-R-3,1; Rensselaer, 1; Lafayette, 1. "T-Misa Clara Markin returned Saturday from several weeks visit with Mrs. Jesse Sayler, near Mitchell, So. Dak. Her father, Geo. Markin, will remain there for the present and work for Mr. Sayler.

Regular preaching service at the Barkely M. E. church Sunday morning at eleven o’clock. The second sermon on the life of Moses will be given. Sunday school every Sunday at ten o’clock.

Lowell Tribune: Mr. and Mrs. Clark, of Wheatfield, and Mr. and Mrs. Dan Tanner, of Rensselaer, visited their sisters, Mrs. L. B. Falk and Mrs. Frank Worley and brother Fred Tanner and families here Sunday.

The basket ball game here last Friday night between the Oak Park, Chicago girls’ high school team and the Rensselaer girls’ high school team, resulted in defeat for the latter—the first of the season. Score 17 to 7.

Mrs. Leslie Hewitt, aged about 23 years, died at her home near Newland Sunday morning at about 2:30 from pyemia. She leaves two children, one a babe but a few weeks old, She was a daughter of Charles Walker of Barkley tp.

Geo. A. Cover, as executor of the estate of the late George W. Cover of Union tp , will sell the stock, implements and other personal property of said decedent at public auction next Tuesday, at the late residence of deceased, beginning at 10 a. m.

Wood, southeast of town, lost six head of two and three-year-old steers last week from what he attributes eating the leaves of horseradish, a luxuriant crop of which grew upon the site of a former farmhouse, to which the cattle had access. VyDelos Thompson, cashier of the state Bank, has another new automobile. This machine is larger and finer than either of the three former machines he has had in the past two years, in fact is the largest and most expensive machine ever owned here. It is a steam machine. VThe heavy rain last Friday night brought large numbers of farmers and their wives to town Saturday, and trade was unusually brisk with the merchants and especially in the grocery lines. One stffte alone took in over 2,300 dozen of eggs in its grocery department Saturday.