Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Jacob French and family* of Goodland spent Saturday and Sunday here with Mrs. French’s mother, Mrs. Hester Hoyes. Advertised Letters: Lyman Zea, Walter Smith, Miss Jennie Rogers, Louis fieusch, Mrs. Lib McCord, James Mason, Marie King, Pauline Knouff, Mrs. Mary Holman, Frank Garrot, Roscoe Clawson, Will Collins. The Chicago Giants, a “coon” ball team, phyed the Wheatfield Regulars here Wednesday afternoon to a good sized crowd in Riverside Park. The game was a very good one. Score 4 to 3 in favor of the coons. Word came from Mr. and Mrs. J. O’Leary, of Victor, Colo., last week that a bouncing boy had been born to theft. Mrs. O’Leary was formerly Miss Anna Walter of Rensselaer and a typo in The Democrat office for a few years. The Democrat editor and wife and youngest son left Thursday for French Lick to attend the mid-summer meeting of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association, of which be is a member. They will return tomorrow or Monday. While G. D. Gregory expects to move to Wheatfield some time in October, he will continue to travel for the Dr. Baker Medicine Co., and makes the change of residence only to be located more in the center of his territory, Jasper and Starke counties. The 17 months’ old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Harry Reed of Chicago, formerly of Rensselaer, was buried here Tuesday.’ It’s death was caused from tubercular meningitis. Mrs. Susie Lister and daughter Bessie accompanied Mr, and Mrs. Short here from Chicago. The apple crop in Lake county is the nearest to a total failure ever known, and perhaps there are not more than a few dozen cherries in the county. The birds are astonished over the shortage," and squint about the trees with a downcast appearance.—Crown Point "Star; —-- Attorney E. P. Honan and The Democrat editor have been invited by Supt. Parker of Fountain Park to act on the reception committee to meet Hon. William J. Bryan at the train on “Bryan Day” at Fountain Park, August 14, and to take dinner with Mr. Bryan, a high honor indeed. We are glad to see that a number of property owners are following The Democrat’s suggestion of some time ago and cutting little channels the edge of the cement walks in front of their residences, which allows the water to run off the walk and greatly adds to the neat appearance of their property. It has been claimed that through an error of the late legislature every legal voter of the state regardless of age is subject to poll tax, but the attorney general has given it as his opinion that the 1907 act does not supercede the act of 1901 and 1905, exempting those over 50 years of age, and militiamen and militia officers. Therefore all may breathe easy once more. Francesville Tribune: There-' monstraece fight at Winamac is the absorbing topic at that place. The remonstrators claim they have enough signatures to win while the saloon men assert that they are still on easy street. Since the fight began the “lid” has been put on the Sunday business and Bass Lake is now taking care of the crowds from Winamac and _elsewhere that need refreshments. |Harry Murray, carrier on Route 4,’ is another Rensselaer man who is nursing a sore hand. While on his route Tuesday, at Mrs. Luers’, his left hand got caught in the mail box as he closed it and a heavy gold ring worn on the third finger caught in the cover as his team started and about all the flesh was stripped from the finger before he extricated it. The wound was a painful one, but Mr. Murray went ahead and finished his route before having it properly dressed by a doctor. AjChe rainy weather has not only Been pretty hard on corn plowing the past two weeks but it has also practically stopped all work on the stone roads in Marion tp., and l last week only two days were got in. At this writing (Thursday) no work at all has been done this week, This makes it very hard on the rock haulers, who are on heavy expense for feed, and “nothing doing.” At this time there is between eight and nine miles, or about one-fourth, of the MarionRensselaer contract completed. Subscribe for the Democrat.