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

XG. A. Williams delivered the Decoration day address at Demptte. pM-iss Ethel Perkins has been emgaged to teach the 7th grade in the city schools. / Geo. F. Meyers will go to the springs near Attica Monday for a rew weeks treatment. ;\Zj. H. Cox has bought C. H. Vick’s daily newspaper business and is now the whole thing in the newsdealer line in the city. Grant Warner is making some extensive improvements to his residence on Front street, by adding another story and a large porch. Read the Racket Store’s page ad in another part of this paper, and remember that the special enamel ware sale is today and next Saturday. The Ladies of the Christian Church of Valma will give an icecream and strawberry social on Saturday evening, June 9, at Wm. Bennett’s, on the W. R. Brown farm. Everybody invited. /Themes Lefler, Charley Bussel, Mrs. Mary E. Lowe and Mrs. Tillie Jacks left Tuesday for northern Wisconsin, where the latter will probably remain for the summer for the benefit of her health.

Regular preaching service at Barkley M. E. church Sunday morning. Subject, “Capital.” Sunday school every Sunday 10 a. m.; Epworth League 7 p. m. Everyone is invited to these services. A Newton county prisoner by the name of Atwood, from Roselawn, is the only occupant of our jail at present. He is charged with cruelty to animals, in whipping and over-driving a livery horse. XJj. W. Hunt and family, who passed through the earthquake at Sant Cruz, Cali., where they had recently located, have returned and are now visiting relatives in this county. They will not return to the “quake” country.

It is the intention of the delegates to the democratic state convention from Rensselaer and vicinity to go down to Indianapolis next Wednesday on the 2.-04 p. m., train. Delegates and others from Remington and vicinity who expect to attend the convention can join the Rensselaer crowd at Monticello, while the north end delegates can come here on the 11 a. tn., train and join the Rensselaer delegates here.

Mrs. Lucinda Monnett, aged 65 years, died at her home on the Range Line road at the west side of town Tuesday morning, after a sickness of several days of peritonitis. She had been in poor health, however, for a long time. She leaves a brother, Fletcher Monnett of Evanston, 111., and two sisters, Cordelia and Elmira Monnett of this city. The funeral was held at 2:30 p. m., Thursday and interment made in Weston cemetery.

Memorial day was observed in Rensselaer in about the usual manner. The rain in the early part of the day no doubt kept many country people from town, but there was a reasonably good crowd out in the afternoon. The procession was formed at the public square at 2 p. m., composed of St. Joseph’s College cadets, Company M., I. O. (). F, Uniform Rank K. of P., members of the G. A. R., and citizens, and headed by the Rensselaer band marched to Weeton cemetery and decorated the graves of departed soldiers. The oration was at the cemetery and was delivered by W. H. Parkison. During the afternoon exercises the business houses were closed.

Theodore Phillips, ex-trustee of Gillam tp., writes us to change the address of his Democrat from Medaryville to Ellinwood, Kan. He says: “Left Lafayette the 21st at 2 p. m., and arrived at Ellinwood Tuesday at 6p. m. Traveled through Indiana and Illinois in day time; was about three hours in Missouri, and 300 miles in Kansas by daylight. The first three states were needing rain badly. In Illinois farmers were plowing up their oats and planting the fields to corn. The hay crop is a failure there; wheat looked tolerably well in the first named states but the acreage is small. After we left Kansas City we found crops ever so much better; wheat will make an average crop, corn is in fine shape and some of it eight inches high. Potatoes look well and the acreage is large. Alfalfa is good and farmers are now putting %p the first crop; they expect three crops a year of alfalfa. Please send The Democrat to Ellinwood until further notice.”