Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 May 1906 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

It is reported that a lot of gold mine stock of questionable value was unloaded upon Monticello people by some Lowell parties, and that Senator Agnew, of Valparaiso, is a member of the company which issued the stock. Several thousand dollars was invested by Monticello citizens, it is said, a lady solicitor disposing of most of it. T. E. Donnelly, the county recorder, Kit Sills, and numerous others are said to have bitten at the bait for large sums.

The rain last Friday was a disappointment. It was purely local, extending only a few miles south and did not last as long even here as expected, the weather turning cooler and ending in quite a frost in the lowlands of the Gifford district Saturday night. The hay and oats crop is bound to be very light, all through this section of the state, because of the drought, and hereabouts some farmers are plowing up their oats and planting the fields to corn. Just a mere sprinkle of rain fell here Wednesday afternoon, but at Chalmers, Brookston and Lafayette, our people who were attending the G. A. R. encampment say, it poured down heavily and the gutters, fields and roadsides were filled with water. Up about Hammond and Whiting a heavy, rain is also reported, accompanied by a severe electrical storm in which three persons were struck by lightning and killed.