Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1906 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Excursion to Chicago to-mor-row; $1.25 for round trip. Ex-Prosecuting Attorney Sink of Roselawn was in the city Thursday. “The Manager of the B. & A.” begins in this issue of The Democrat; don’t miss it. I Dr. and Mrs. Edward Corcoran, ujf-Ghicago, are .guests of Mr. and Mrs. E. P. Honan this week. Misses Leah Knox and Laurel Biggs returned Wednesday evening from their trip to Niagara Falls, ■AMrs. Minnie Meyers of WheatfiWTcl> is visiting a few days this week with the family of G. F< Meyers. ■> . Morocco Courier: The Town Board has passed an ordinance putting a license fee of SIOO upon the cold storage shops. Adolph Eisner, a member of a camping party from Chicago, was drowned near the Monon bridge at Water Valley Monday. Mrs. Mary E. Lowe is quite sick with malarial fever at the home of her mother, Mrs. Bussell, in the southeast part of town. Mr. and Mrs. S. S. Shead and daughter Edith left last Friday for a two weeks’ visit with their son H. P. Shead in New York. ‘ T. E. Besse, J. E. McClannahan, Martin Murphy, John Karr and two of the Leek boys are prospecting in South Dakota this week. Z\W. H. Postil and Ross Benjamin left Sunday for Minneapolis, and may go farther on, unless they find positions to their liking there. Have you seen those handsome electric stand lamps in the Racket Store window? They are the finest lamps that ever came to the city. Quite a number of our people have been attending Fountain Park this week and a Targe crowd will go over to-morrow to the Sunday services. Miss Opal Hardesty of Danville, 111., well known here where she has visited frequently, will be married August 29 to Mr. Otto Grabbs of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Alexander Leech went to Danville, 111., Thursday for a couple of weeks’ visit. They will also visit Hoopeston, Paxton and Bismark, 111., before returning.

Francesville Tribune:- John Tillett, Sr., daughter, Mrs. Mary Parker, and Miss Virgie Tillett, took the train from this place for Kansas Tuesday morning where they will make a long visit. —4Mxs. Philip Blue, accompanied uy her grand-daughter Miss Esther Phillips left last Friday for Minneapolis, Minn., to visit the former’s daughter, Mrs. Louella .Brown. Miss Esther will remain there with her mother and attend school. The Medaryville Advertiser says the report that Rev. Peter Owen, who was injured so badly in the electric railroad wreck at Battle Ground during the State G. A. R. encampment had returned to his home in Medaryville, is a mistake. He is still in the hospital at Lafayette but is expected to be able to return home soon. The Monon will run another excursion to Chicago Sunday, Aug. 19, on same schedule as former excursions, passing Rensselaer going at 8:48 a. m., and returning will leave Chicago at 11:30 p. m. The fare for round trip from Monon to Rensselaer, inclusive, is $1.25; Surrey and Parr, $1.15; Fair Oaks, sl.lO. While putting corrugated iron on an elevator at Foresman Saturday, working on a scaffold 50 to 60 feet from the ground, one of the pieces got away from Ed DeForest and fell to the ground cutting one of the ropes that held the scaffold and precipitating DeForest to the ground below, killing him almost instantly. John Poole of Rensselaer has traded 560 acres of land in Kankakee county, 111., for a $22,000 brick plant at Muncie, which is turning out 28,000 brick per day. Mr. Poole is now in Muncie and will probably sell the plant to parties there. The deal was negotiated by F. E. Martin, the McCoysburg real estate dealer. A resident of the Egypt neighborhood tells us thata Rensselaer editor and his family was out there blackberrying last Sunday, right when Sunday school was going on, too. He thinks this was bad enough, but for a republican editor to gather blackberries for home consumption in a rank democratic township like Jordan is beyond his ken.