Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Goodland Herald: Mr, Howard Burr of tin* place and his daughter, Mrs. Ralph Johnson, of near Foresman, returned home Wednesday, from a two weeks’ visit in Addison, Michigan, with Mr. Burr’s mother. Last week’s Lake County Star: It is said the Gary teamsters are coming to Rqss townshipand loading up corn from the farmers’ cribs at 70 cents per bushel, and the oats sold bring 56 cents. These are higher prices than are paid in Chicago. Our dealers here offered 60 cents for corn last weekj(and took in but little. Joseph Lane of Newton tp., spent Monday with his daughter, Mrs. Harvey Messman of Kentland and on Tuesday took the train there for South Dakota. He was accompanied by Herman Messman. They will visit various points in South Dakota including Sioux Falls, the home of the former’s daughter, Mrs. E. E Pierson. An exchange says that the tennis girl goes out to play her nerveproducing game; the flippant girl goes out larking because her life’s too tame; the reading girl betakes herself into a land of books; the flirting girl goes anywhere she thinks there is a man; the dressy girl goes to Paris to buy a drees and fan, the beauty goes upon the stage to show her handsome looks; but the girl that get/ the husband stays right at home and cooks. Monticello Journal: & Son are getting the dredge that they will ft use in the Hoagland ditch, in good running order. In building the machine three sticks df Washington fir were used, one is in the boom that is one hundred feet in length, without a knot in it, and two others that are thirty inches square and forty foot long. The crane weighs nearly eighteen tons and required two traction engines to haul it to the dredge. The boat to carry all of this heavy machinery is forty feet wide and one hundred feet long. The scoop will have a capacity of two and a half yards. Boswell item in Fowl*r Leader: After two or three days of hustling and overcoming obstacles, Mr. Charles Fay and Miss Acemiah Myer were married at Fowler last Saturday. The couple at first proceeded from here to the home of the bride’s mother near Rensselaer and expected to be married there on Thursday. Fay neglected to get his license here and had to return to Fowler for the document. Here he found that he had to have the bride with him and he returned to Rensselaer for her. By Saturday the law was satisfied and the marriage took place at Fowler. The bride and groom are well and favorably known here where he engages in building and contracting. The bride is a sister to Mrs. Harley Anderson. They will reside here.