Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1906 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Regarding the report that an effort was being made to close the saloons at Crown Point, in be. nighted, whiskey soaked Lake county, via the remonstrance route, correspondence from that plaoe says the rumor is incorrect; that not enough signers could be secured to make the effort worth while.

r-Judson Paul, of near Monon, ’died quite suddenly Tuesday evening of appoplexy. Deceased was an uncle of B. J. Moore, the rock contractor on the Iroquois ditch, was a former county commissioner of White-county and a prominent citizen. He was a comrade of Capt. J. M. Wasson of this oity during the civil war and they were in Libby prison together.

Pulaski County Democrat: This story is going the rounds of the papers hereabout, and we wonder if it is sc: “Farmers over in Huntington county are making use of rather an unique plan to get rid of the water on their marshes. They are digging deep wells in the low places, and when the sand is reached it seems to act all the parts of an open or tile ditch, and is much the cheaper.”

J. O. Cline returned from Lafayette Wednesday where he had been in the .hospital having his injured eye treated. He says the doctor wauted to remove the eye, but this he objects to having done. The pain he has experienced for the past several weeks has bad the effect of almost shattering bis nervous system. His friends hope that the eye may yet be saved, although this is almost a forlorn hope.

JlThe little son of F. P. Morton, of near Pleasant Ridge, whose eye was injured several weeks ago by a nail which he was driving into a board flying back and striking him, is recovering slowly from the injury. He is being taken to Lafayette once each week for treatment by an eye specialist there, who says he can save the eye, but that he will never have quite as good vision from it as from the uninjured member. %fts. Henry Wood and son Carl weht to Chicago Sunday to visit her son, Dr. Aaron Wood of Brook, who has been in the hospital there for some weeks recovering from an operation for appendicitis. He had been getting along nicely, but the drain tube was tsken out too soon and he suffered a relapse. He is now reported on the mend once more. His wife is at his bedside and the two elder children are staying here with Mr. and Mrs. Wood.

Wolcott Enterprise: A report has been in circulation for the past week or two to t he effect that Wolcott had gone “dry,” and the report is as yet untrue. No notice of application has been given and no remonstrance has been filed, though it is pretty generally understood that there are enough names to make a suitable majority for one, and that it will probably be filed at the proper time. The exact majority is known, if at all, to only one or two.

Big “Bill” Rinehart, of Queen City, Mo., the ex-republican boss of the Jasper county republican central committee, accompanied by his wife, formerly Miss Mattie McCoy, and through whom “Bill” achieved greatness, was in Rensselaer Thursday. One of the numerous cases in which they are connected, growing out of the failure of the McCoy sheepskin bank had a hearing at Monticello Wednesday and they were here to attend to the same.

Mrs. Victorine Wood died at the home of her son George west of town Monday, aged 66 years and 6 days. The funeral was held Wednesday from the M. E. church, Rev. H. L. Kindig conducting the services, and interment made in Weston cemetery. Deceased had been in poor health for a good many years, and her death was not unexpected. She leaves three sons—George and Harry of Rensselaer, and Will of New Mexico—and two daughters—Mrs. Elmer Gwin of Rensselaer, and Mrs. Florence Green wait of Taylorville, XU. s/Miss Candace Brown of Lisbon, TOo. Dak., is visiting her aunt, Mrs. Candece Loughridge, and other relatives and friends here. She has been visiting relatives over in Champaign and other parts of Illinois since September, and only came to Rensselaer Tuesday evening. She tells os that Miss Lizzie Reiddle of Rensselaer, who is teaching in North Dakota, is boarding with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Brown, her sohool being but a short distanoe from their farm. Miss Candace’s folks are all well, she states, and like their new home very much.