Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1906 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. Jefferson Davis, widow of the noted president of the confederacy, died at her home in New York City Tuesday. Remember the great Enamel Ware Sale at the Racket Store today. Read about it in the big 2page ad in this paper. Rev. J. C. Parrett has been confined to his home the past week with malarial fever, but is reported some better at this writing. G A. Strickfaden, accompanied by Walter Porter, is reported as being in Muncie this week looking after a location for a saloon. ■ The 5-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. August Rosenbaum got kicked in the forehead yesterday afternoon and was perhaps fatally injured. The Woman’s Home Missionary Society of the M. E. Church will have a "market” the Saturday before Thanksgiving, November 24. Notice of place will be given later. Dr. Rose Remmek, optical specialist, will make her next regular visit to Clark’s jewelry store Oct. 24-27. Thorough examination of the eyes according to latest approved methods. Monticello Herald: Delphi has hadits.fun, and now it is having its headache. The Delphi Journal remarks: “It must be conceded that a street fair does not elevate the morals of a community.” Mr. Will P. Finney, son of Everett Finney of Wheatfield tp., and Miss Bessie Tabler of the same place, were united in marriage at the M. E. parsonage here last Saturday by Rev. Kindig. The case of E. W. Stahl vs. A. B. Claspel, appealed from justice court here and taken to Newton county on change of venue, is set for trial over there next Tuesday. This is the famous gasoline engine case. Dr. Smith, a Laporte physician, who came into possession of a large tract of land between Wolcott and Pleasant Ridge, is improving the land with underground drainage. John Unroe has sold him several carloads of tile to be shipped to and unloaded at Pleasant Ridge.— Wolcott Enterprise.

The Goodland Plaindealer says that Howard Burr of Jordan tp., has purchased the old Lemaster residence property in that town, across from the Lutheran church, and will move there at once, and that he will make extensive improvements to the property. >LThe freeze last week is said to have done quite a good deal of damage in this county, as well as other sections of the state. Here onions and apples were quite badly injured, in fact, all onions exposed to the weather were ruined, it is said, and apples that were still on the trees were frozen. The neighbors and friends of Charles Phegley, south of town, “surprised” him Monday afternoon by coming in without notice and reminding him that another milestone in his life journey had been reached, but they didn’t know the precise figures on the stone, and Charley was too bashful to tell them. A fine time was had. - One week has now gone by since Rensselaer became a “dry” town, and during this time not an intoxicated man has been seen on the streets, day or night, something that is very unusual. Many citizens—and they are not the radical temperance people, either —freely say that they think the people will be so much better pleased with the condition of a dry town than they were with it wet, that they will never let the saloon back again. Last Tuesday was the second anniversary of the blowing up of the Tom McCoy residence in this city, the political banker who is now serving a short sentence in the penitentiary for stealing, with bis father, a quarter of a million dollars from the poor dupes who entrusted their hard earned dollars in their “sheep-skin” bank. The house looks now as it did the next morning after the explosion, nothing having been done to tear it down or repaia it in any way. For Rent—Grocery Store building, with cellar, located opposite depot at Remington, a good stand and will be rented reasonable from Nov. 1,1906. Joseph Osborn, Remington, Ind,