Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

C. P. Wright was down through the gas belt on business Wednesday. Elizur Sage is preparing to build a fine $3,000 residence on hi* farm in Newton tp. Mrs. Frank Wolfe of Michigan City, is visiting Mrs. C. W. Duvall and other friends here this week. Frank was also here a day or two. He is still traveling for a wholesale lumber company. The Democrat’s mention last week of a Fourth <sf July celebration here again this year seems to have stirred up our neighbors, and several of our exchanges are urging a celebration in their own town. Jack Montgomery and Charlie Chamberlain were over to Windsor, 111., last week where they purchased an automobile that was somewhat out of order, and will have it shipped here and put it in shape for running once more. \ZMiss Alice Shedd of Rensselaer, nas been elected by the Senior Class at Northwestern University at Chicago, to deliver the Ivy Oration. This is a much coveted honor, the recipient being one of the speakers for Class Day, commencement week. Wm. Woodward of Lapel, Ind., who owns a large tract of timber land in Milroy tp., is establishing a sawmill at Wolcott and will clear his land, hauling the logs to his sawmill at Wolcott. He estimates it will take two years to cut the saw timber from bis land. Ad&r. and Mrs. Addison Parkison, woo have been spending the winter at Burnett, Cali., expected to leave to-day on their way home. They will come via Portland, Oregon, where they will stop for a brief visit with Dr. and Mrs. A. L. Berkley, and will reach Rensselaer probably some time next week. J. M. Wasson was called to Winchester, Ind., Tuesday by the serious condition of his brother, Peter Wasson, Who is suffering from a kidney trouble. The latter was taken to Indianapolis for a consultation and examination by specialists, but at this writing we have not learned the report thereof. * E. V. Ransford has traded bis stock of goods in the Nowela House block for a 3-story brick business block in Franklin, and the goods were shipped aWay this week. This was simply a surplus stock and was independent of Mr. Ransford’s regular store. It is‘ said the building he traded for rents for S6O per month. We saw John Makeever going over to the county treasurer’s office Thursday morning with a wad of greenbacks that would choke a threshing machine. He was going to pay his spring installment of taxes, and there was $2,200 in the wad. He says it costs him that much to live in Rensselaer for six months. Mr. in Jasper county, we believe, owning a great deal of farm land and