Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 February 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

New zephyr ginghams at Rowles & Parker’s big double store only 10 cents a yard; no limit to the number of yards a customer can purchase. The Democrat bought a ton of print paper this week and had to pay $8 more for it than for the last ton bought, and about sl2 more than it paid before Roosevelt “busted” the paper trust. It also received notice from its paper house that all grades of bond and flat writing paper had been advanced, in some cases two to three cents per pound. If “Roosy” keeps on “busting” (?) the trusts and the trusts keep on advancing the price df their product, we don’t know what the poor printer man and others who must buy their goods is coming to. Harry Graves, an employe in the round house at Monon, was assaulted at an early hour Sunday by a footpad who struck him over the head with an iron bar and robbed him of his watch and $3 in money. The watch, badly damaged, was found later in the day in the yards, where the robber had evidently dropped it in his hurry to get away. Graves said his assailant was a negro, and that evening a strange negro was arrested at South Hammond and brought back to Monon where he was identified by Graves and was bound over to the Circuit court, and is now in jail at Monticello. Regarding the item appearing in The Democrat last week mentioning the Monon News being offered for sale and that the present lessee would remove to another state, we will say that the information was taken from the Garrett, Ind., Herald of Jan. 25, 1907, a paper owned and published by Geo. T. Weeks, who also owns the Monon News plant. It is probable that if the rumors afloat in Monon and Rensselaer regarding chicanery in the voting contest being conducted by said paper are investigated by the postoffice department and found to be correct, that the lessee may move to Columbus, Ohio, instead of Kentucky. Squire Irwin and Drs. English, Merrill and Miller held an inquest Thursday to determine the mental condition of Mrs. Mildred Mikels, who resides with her brother-in-law, Stephen Mikels, on River street. She was found insane and application was made to take her to the asylum. The family formerly came from Kentucky and moved here from Fair Oaks a few months ago. There are nine children in her brother-in-law’s family, one a recent arrival, and they are quite poor. The insane woman is 27 years of age and childless. She has formerly been confined in an asylum in Kentucky, previous to coming to Indiana, and is said to have a husband now some place in Pennsylvania, but lately of South Bend, who has done nothing toward supporting her of late. Now is the time to buy your Electric Weld fencing before another advance at the Chicago Bargain Store.

Four foot and block wood for sale in quantities to suit. ’Phone 624-D. C. H, Leavel.