Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1906 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

C. W. Coen and Mrs. J. H. Chapman attended the state D. A. R. meeting at Madison this week. The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Frank Osborne died Tuesday and.was buried in Weston cemetery. < And now Goodland proposes to climb on the “water wagon” and a movement has been started there to remonstrate the saloons out of the town, it is said. Guss Yeoman of Newton tp., presented The Democrat Saturday with a small basket of large, finelooking apples that tasted just as good as they looked. Thanks. Wm. Haley, who has been living in Bloomington, 111., for the past few years, was here this week a few days looking after a piece of land that be still owns in Jasper county, a few miles south of Rensselaer. Bros, have bought the A, L. Howard farm, formerly known as the H. C. Harris farm, 3 miles south and 1 mile east of Rensselaer, paying S4O per acre therefor. There is 100 acres in the farm. This makes them a half section. A-Mr. and Mrs. Hugh Leavel of Wabash county visited relatives here a few days the first of the week. He informed us that his father, I. A. Leavel, had not yet decided upon a location, but might buy again in Wabash county instead of going west. Spokane (Wash.) SpokesmanReview. Oct. 4: B. F. Ferguson of Rensselaer, Ind., has purchased lot 11, block 2, Hay’s Park addition, on the south side of Harvey avenue, near Martha, from the Big Land company. This lot is 50x130 and has cement walks and a graded streets. Charles Crisler, formerly of Mt. Ayr, died Tuesday at 1 a.*m., after having been in poor health for several months, at the home of his son-in-law, Frank Roan, in Rensselaer. A post-mortem was held by Dr. Miller Tuesday and it was found that catarrh of the bladder and somach was the cause of his death. The funeral was held here Wednesday and burial moe at Mt. Ayr. s(There was a taffy pulling and popcorn social at the home of Mr. and Mrs. W. P. Michaels in Jordan tp., Saturday evening that was a very enjoyable affair. About ninety of the neighbors and friends were in attendance. The evening was spent in music and telling stories, and at about eleven o’clock all departed for their homes, declaring that they had had a very pleasant time. F. B. Ham, who was quite badly shaken up in the Monon wreck at Broad Ripple last Thursday, was paid SSO damages, while Geo, F. Meyers, who was with him, was given a round trip ticket to Indianapolis. They had started to Indianapolis on a business deal but the wreck so upset them that they made no attempt to transact any business, but returned home and will try it again later. The motion for a new trial in the cases against John M. Winkley and Mrs. Ellen Riley of Monon, for the fraudulent execution of a deed, as mentioned in this paper recently, was overruled in the White circuit court last week and sentence was passed upon both. John gets one to three years at Michigan City and Mrs. Riley the same at the Woman’s reformatory at Indiananpolis. They were taken to prison Saturday.