Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

In last Sunday’s ball games Rensselaer was defeated by Shelby at the latter place by a score 6f 9 to 4, and Pleasant Ridge was defeated by the Alter tile mill team by a score of 14 to 13. Chas. Hansen, the blacksmith, has sold his farm in Gillam tp., t'o John Smallfieid and will prospect in Oregon a little before deciding on a location. He is thinking of buying a fruit farm there if pleased with the outlook, The price received for his farm was $65 per acre. Hemphill and Elbert Antrim, of Rensselaer, who hold positions in the C. B. & Q., railroad freight offices at Chicago,leave today on a two weeks’ vacation, during whioh they will visit Niagara Falls, New York City, the Jamestown exposition and other points. Wm. McCord of Mt. Ayr, who has been suffering from a sore on the bottom of his left foot, came over Sunday and sore was lanoed. A piece of steel about a half inch in length was found while washing out the wound. It is supposed to have been there for many years and was what caused the trouble. 2 Smith Newel, who lives on the Abel Grant farm in Barkley tp., tells us that 16 big rattlesnakes have been killed right in his immediate neighborhood this season, eight of which he has killed himself. People wonder where all of the rattlers come from this year, as more have been killed in Jasper county than for the past 20 years.

Bro. E. A. Walker, who for sixteen years has been at the helm of the Wolcott Enterprise and has built up a good newspaper plant and business, has sold the plant to E. N. Thacker, formerly city editor of the Frankfort News, and will probably 4eek a larger field. Possession will be given Sept. 1. The Democrat extends best wishes to both the retiring editor and to Mr. Thacker. The threshing machine to be run with a gasoline engine, purchased by Frank Lambert, Albert Sturgeon and J. Stanfield, has proved a failure and they have decided to'return it. The engine did not have the power sufficient to do the work. The object of this machine is to enable two or three farmers to own one and do their own threshing without having to wait long turns and great numbers of men. —Benton Review. Herbert Steel of Porter county, who has relatives here, made off with D. H. Yeoman’s bicycle Tuesday morning but abandoned it northeast of town a few miles when Constable Ropp got too close to him for oomfort, and took “leg bail” off through a cornfield. The wheel had oeen left standing in front of Grant & Rowen’s store, near the depot, by Mr. Yeoman for a few moments, when the boy hooked it. He has not yet been found.

\So far as heard from Sam Scott, on the Bruce White farm 1| miles northeast of Rensselaer, has the banner oats crop of Jasper county. He had 30 acres that yielded 33£ bushels per acre machine measure and weighed out 35 bushels a? the elevator. They were sown March 26. A field of a neighbor, just across the road from Sam’s field, that was sown considerably later, did not turn out quite 20 bushels. Twenty to twenty-five bushels seems to be the general average yield. Mt. Ayr Pilot:. Sunday was Reuben Yeoman’s 31st birthday and after Sunday School was over about 60 of his relatives and friends gathered at his house, each with well filled basket, and such a feast and visit was never expelled. The visit, if repeated every day, would no doubt place Reuoen’s mind free from all worldly care, but as to the feast, it is possible that his digestive organs could not stand the ordeal. The guests speak very highly of Mr. and Mrs. Yeoman as entertainers and of the pleasant visit they had. Here’s hoping that you will be honored on several scob occasions. " 1 - 1 1 *■ A Mrs. Maria Peregrine of near Lee died Saturday morning and was buried Sunday afternoon at the Lefier cemetery in Hanging Grove tp. Deoeased was 82 years of age and leaves seven children, four sons and three daughters. One son, Glare, and two daughters, Ann and Nancy, all unmarried, lived with her at the home plaoe. The other children are John Peregrine of Nauvoo, James Peregrine of near Wolcott, Michael Peregrine and Mrs Kate Paroels of □ear Lee. Mrs. William Bussell of Rensselaer a sister, and one brother, North Lefier of Gordon, Neb., survive her. Her husband died some twenty years ago.