Jasper County Democrat, Volume 9, Number 46, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

xHenry Hildebrand was down from Chicago yesterday, Sharon items were received too late for publication last week. Omar Day, who has been attending school at Purdue, is home sick with mump*. JW. C. Mill iron has bought a at Knox and took charge of same last week. Read what Buster Brown has to say about Rowles & Parker’s shoe sale elsewhere in this paper. W. A. Rinehart of Queen City, Mo , ’A. McCoy’s son-in-law, was in the city Tuesday and Wednesday. . A good crowd greeted “Uncle Josh Perkins” at the opera house Monday night, and a good show was put up.

JE. D. Rhoades and son Leonard attended the national meeting of the retail hardware dealers at Chicago this week.

Mr. and Mrs T. A. Besse of near Surrey are visiting at Ridge Farm, 111., this week. They will move to South Dakota shortly. Remember W. E. Rich’s public sale of pure bred horses and cattle at Remington next Tuesday See ad elsewhere in this paper. Rev. C. D. Boyce, of Spencer, lowa, a former pastor of Trinity M. E. church of this city, stopped off here Tuesday while on his wav home from a visit to Indianapolis,

New subscribers to The Democrat this week by postoffices: Rensselaer, R. R. 4,2; Rensselaer, R. R. 3,1; Brook, R R. 3. 1; Hegewisch, 111., 1; Chicago Heights, 111., 1.

Lost, a heavy lap robe, between Good Hope church and River Side farm on Sunday, Feb. 3, ’O7. Black on one side and brown on the other. Rather woolly. Finder please i eturn to this office and receive reward.

The remains of Mrs. Frances Murfitt, who died at the home of her son John Murfitt, Jr., of near Mt. Ayr, were shipped from here Wednesday to her old home at Orland, 111., for burial. Deceased was about 71 years of age.

The paper trust has put the screws on so heavy on the price of firint paper that the Chicago daiies have advanced the price of Sunday papers to the newsdealers to 4 cents per copy, and the latter now retail them at 6 cents.

VCooney Kellner put up some 61\ven-inch ice Monday and Tuesday from the river, near the Gangloff farm, east of town. We understated be has much more ice up this year than he had last, and that it is thicker and of better quality.

Mrs. Ponsler, the aged mother of Mrs. L. Strong and Mrs E. T. Harris of Rensselaer and Walter Posler of Mt. Ayr, died last week at the home of her son Lute Posler at lola, Kan. Her remains were brought back to Brook for interment Tuesday, beside her husband in the Brook cemetery, She was about 80 years of age.