Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 November 1906 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The republican nominee for county assessor won by 200 majority, but he is not eligible to office from the fact that he was no freeholder four years previous to taking possession of this office. This turns the office over to the democratic nominee. Just another scheme on the part of the county ring to turn offices over to the democrats.—Brook Reporter.

The remains of Mrs. Rachel Blair, wife of Alonzo Biair, were brought to Fair Oaks for burial Thursday, Rev. G. H. Clarke, of Rensselaer, conducting the funeral services. Deceased died at Western Springs, a suburb of Chicago, where she had gone for treatment for cancer of the stomach,Monday night. She was 67 years of age, and leaves a husband and five children, three sons and two daughters.

There was a rummage sale on at Marion last week for the benefit of the “heathen,” and one man thinking to help the cause along, bought an overcoat for $2.00. When he got the package home he opened it to take a more careful look at it, and you can imagine his surprise, when he discovered that he had bought his own overcoat which his wife had given to the rummage sale. What the man said to his wife when she got home, deponent sayeth not.

O. Cline leaves this week again for Winnipeg, Canada, where the Barnett & Record contracting company of Minneapolis, Minn., for whom he is working, has a contract to build a grain elevator. Mr. Cline has been working for this company for the past few months, and worked for them at Britton, So. Dak.,going from there to Winnipeg, Canada. He is quite taken up with South Dakota, and says he is going to locate there next spring.

The infant child of Mr. and Mrs. Will Smith of the east part of town died Tuesday night and was buried in Weston cemetery Wednesday afternoon, brief funeral services were held by Rev. Clarke at the house. The babe was but 16 days of age, and it seemed to have strangled from a cold during the night. They were up with it a part of the night and it finally seemed to be resting all right and the parents dropped off to sleep. In the morning it was found to have died during the night.

The farm house of William Wetli, north of Fowler, was burned Wednesday night, and Bert Borders, a young farmhand, and two children, aged about 5 and 6 years, were burned to death. The fire started in the night, out on a porch, and Mr. Wetli was awakened and went down stairs to investigate. He threw a pail of water on the flames, but the water struck a jug of coal oil, which broke and spread the burning oil all over the side of the bouse. His wife and one child were gotten out, but it was impossible to reach the others.

Complaint has been made to this office that the package of Democrat’s sent to Brook does not arrive there of late until Mondays. The papers are mailed here the same as usual, and leave Rensselaer on the north-bound mail at 6:35 p. m. each Friday. There is no good excuse for their failure to reach Brook Saturday morning, in time to catch the rural routes running out of Brook. The matter is being taken up with the railway mail superintendent, and will be corrected as soon as it is found where the trouble is.

A subscriber asks us to publish the price of produce in the Rensselaer market, as well as the prices of corn and oats. This is something that is next to impossible to do, because the prices paid fluctuate so much and are not always uniform, some merchants paying for produce according to the immediate necessity of having it, while others may be well stocked up and therefore not caring to pay as much as the one whose stock in that particular article is exhausted. We have tried this a few times, but the reports have not been satisfactory. / A George Davisson and son Clyde came up from Havana, 111., Tuesday to look after their public sale the next day, returning yesterday morning to their work. They are working on a dredge contract for John Hack of Lowell, as heretofore stated in this paper, near Havana, near the Illinois river, some twenty miles southwest of Peoria. Persimmons and pecans grow in considerable abundance about where they are working, and they brought home with them quite a number of eachXremembering the Democrat with several. .Their families will join. them at Havana in about three weeks. A