Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1906 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Those school shoes at Murray’s beat the band to wear. Don’t miss reading the Racket Store’s big two page ad. Mrs. Anna R. Mills is visiting her son Ed in Chioago this week. jMrs, Geo. Williams went to Carthage, 111., Tuesday to visit her mother. The Democrat would like to hear from all its correspondents more regularly. Rev. G. H. Clark of the Christian church, is holding a secies of special meetings at the Good Hope church in Union tp. This is the second week of the meetings and good success has attended his efforts. Joe Bilile, an inmate of the poor asylum from Remington who is sufferihg from cancer, is reported in a bad condition and will probably live but a short time. Joe is an example of what too much booze does to a man-. V • A successor to Henry Hildebrand for councilman from the first ward will be elected by the city council at its regular meeting next Monday night. It is said, there are several “receptive candidates,’’ but a dark horse may win out.

Mrs. Huffman and family who have been living in Lafayette for the past year, have returned to Rensselaer and taken up their residence in the northwest part of town. She has been suffering with rheumatism for several months. The democrats of Marion tp., at their convention Saturday nominated James Donnelly, A. F. Shesler and Wm. Hoover for advisory board; John P. Warner and John Healy for Justices of the peace; Horatio Ropp and Wm. Irwin for constables. Emily Chadwick of Columbus, Ind., a sister of Elizur Sage of this city, will also come in for $50,000 of the wealth of her uncle, the late millionaire Russell Sage. Mrs. Chadwick’s husband died in 1000, and since that time she has been living on a sl2 a month pension. E. T. Joneß, who has been employed for the past year or more on The Democrat, has gone to Monon to try to injeot a little prosperity into that forlorn hope, the Monon News. If be succeeds he certainly deserves a chromo, for several able men have given np the task in disgust. O. E. Eller, of northwest of Fair Oaks, in Union tp., left a couple of mammoth ears of corn at this office Tuesday which he raised on the Hutohinson farm. It is of the “yard' long”variety, and the largest ear measured 13£ inches in length, He says he has eight acres of this variety.

Something should be done to better regulate the public drinking fountains, to keep them in order so the water will not overflow and make a wet, sloppy place about each fountain. And it might be a good idea to take a broom and scrub them out every week or two. They would certainly present a more attractive appearance for both man and beast. Abput a soore of old neighbors of Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Bellows, when the latter were residents of Carpenter township, drove over Saturday and spent the day with them, bringing baskets loaded with good things to eat, so their “surprise” would not be an unwelcome one by finding them unprepared to feed so large a multitude on short notice, It is needless to say that everybody had an exoellent time.