Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 December 1906 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Misses Edith and Mary Miller are visiting in Mt. Ayr. The Catbolio fair next week promisee to be one of the best ever held here. X’Geo. Markin was called to Nbirth Dakota Saturday by the serious sickness of his son. Begin the new year right by* subscribing for the Jasper County Democrat, “the taxpayers’ friend.” JA daughter was born last week 4oDc. and Mrs. Wallace Parkison of Ambia, formerly of near Rensselaer. Mr. and Mrs. Natt Scott were called to Franklin Thursday by the death of the latter's grandmother. Monticello Herald: Miss Manda Hoyes left here Monday evening to spend Christmas with her sisterat Aurora, 111. Mr. and Mrs. B. M. Michael of Chicago returned home Saturday after a visit here with the latter’s sister, MfibA. Prewitt. The report that Cooney Kellner, in view of the recent decision of the supreme court, would open up a “wholesale” liquor shop here, is not correct, he states, and he has no intention of doing so. Monticello Journal: Marshall O. A. Rothrock went, to Monon last evening and arrested Wm. Goldsbury as a deserter from the 26th Coast Artillery. He will be turned over to Federal authorities at Sheridan. Saturday’s Hammond Times: Miss Frances Hamacher will leave Hammond the middle of next week for Parr, Ind., where she will spend the holiday vacation. Miss Hamacher will give two elocutionary recitals during her visit there. In connection with the Farmers’ Institute there will be a bntter show. B. D. Comer has offered the following prizes for the best pound of butter made by a DeLaval cream separator: Ist prize, $1.50; 2d prize, $1.00; 3rd prize 50c. Judged by a competent judge. The Chinaman he eats rats and mice, the Frenchman he eats frogs, the Canibal he eats human meats, the African native dogs. Various tribes like various things, each cooked on his special plan, but the American gobbles ■ the whole layout when he takes his grub from a can. —Ex. M. Worland of Newton tp., ’who sold bis farm last fall, has bought the C. A. Roberts brick building just north from The Democrat office, and will move back to town and engage in the carriage and implement business. The consideration for the building and ground was $3,600, all cash. Attorney E. P. Honan returned from Indianapolis Monday night where he had been for nearly a week on a case in which the Catholic Order of Foresters was defendant. Mr. Honan was one of the attorneys for the defense and the defense won out. It was a case where a man joined the order and seoured insurance under false representations regarding hereditary diseases in his family. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Carter of Silver Lake, lnd„ visited friends and relatives near Mt. Ayr a few days this week. They have sold off their personal property and rented their farm at Silver Lake and will go to Pueblo, Colo., and may remain there for a year or two, where they have a son who has lung trouble. Charlie says he has refused <IOO per acre for bis farm, which he paid only $57 for some five years ago, and he has bad good crops from it every year also.

At the special meeting of the ooanty commissioners Saturday only one bid was filed on stationery classes 1. 2,3, and that by the Burt-Terry-Wilson 00., of Lafayette; two bids—F. E. Babcock and Leslie Clark—were made on class 4. No bids made on olase s—janitor’s supplies. The matter of awarding contracts was continued to the regular January term to allow the auditor time to go over the bids and see that they were within the appropriation and whioh was the lowest.

A package postmarked Hartline, Wash.* and direoted to Mias Ellen Imler (or Climer, or Elmer) Rensselaer, Ind., R. R. 3, is bothering the carrier on this route, as he oan find no one to deliver it to and the last name is so written that it might mean any o! the above names. The package is evidently a Christmas present and 16 cents postage was paid on the same. Any reader knowing who this package is intended for will confer a favor on the lady, no doubt, by telling her about it.