Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 5, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The big rain put a stop to rock crushing and road making this, week. t. - Several cases of chicken-pox are reported among the children about town. - A. Three dollars gets The Democrat and Chicago Daiiy Examiner eaph a full year. J>The dredge on the Iroquois ditch is now working south of the old Rensselaer stock farm, cutting a new channel. A 15 lb. babe was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ploughema of Keener tp., a few days ago, but it lived only a few hours. -\pt. Joseph’s College base ball team defeated East Lafayette high school team at the college grounds Saturday, score 10 to 4. Cecil Rutherford, daughter of Firgian Rutherford, has been dangerously sick with pneumonia, but is now getting better. Mrs. Nelson Randle and Mrs. J. N. Leatherman attended the wedding of the latter’s cousin, Curl McFarland, at Delphi Tuesday- . M. B. Peterson and Mrs. Sherman Richards went to Lafayette Saturday to attend the funeral of their uncle George W. Peterson, who died at the soldiers home there.' . , Thomas Meyer is the latest Rensselaer purchaser of an auto. He has bought a 6-horse power motor buggy or carriage, something similar to the first one Dr. English had, but later improved. He looks for it here this week. Rev. G. W. Bundy, the new M. P. pastor, has moved here from Ft. Wayne, and occupies the parsonage at Rose Bud. He will have charge of the Rensselaer circuit, composed of Rensselaer, Mt. Hope and Rose Bud .churches. Mrs. Bessie Parker left Saturday for a few weeks visit with her sisters, Mrs. Frank Robfnson at lola, Kan., and Mrs. Clarence Sigler at Tulsa, I, 1* Mrs. Jessie Grant, Alice and Emerson Coen accompanied her as far as Chicago. '—>