Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. C. D. Nowels and daughter Floy of Parsons, Kan., are visiting relativfjs4hd friends here. r JUy W. Williams is stilloonfined (e the house from sickness, but is reported considerably better. The Rensselaer high school will have no football team this season, but a team has been organized in the militik company in which several high school students are members. Lesli returned this week from a visit with hisfatner J. M. Lesh, near Menomonie, Wis. He was so well pleased with the country that he will locate there himself next spring, The district convention of the W. R. C., for the Tenth district was held here Thursday, There was a good attendance from all over the district and a most interesting meeting is reported. Mr. and Mrs. Wallace Murray who have been spending the summer with their daughter, Mrs. Frank Donnelly, left Tuesday in company with their son Charlie for their home in Stokes, Okla. Geo. Striekfaden was up from Noblesville on business Thursday. He is not extra well pleased with his business there. Noblesville is having a reform wave of the radical sort and the liquor selling business is not what it might be. The remains of Daniel E. Powell were brought here Wednesday for interment in the Powell cemetery in Newton tp. Deceased was a former resident of Mt. Ayr, and died Tuesday at the home of his daughter, Mrs. Harrison Warren, near Peru, of kidney trouble and paralysis. He was about 84 years of age. Mesdames. Pumphrey, Hagins and Powers served John A. Logan Corps, No. 191 of Lafayette and other ladies who were attending the district convention of the W. R. C„ with breakfast and supper at the home of Mrs. George Pumphrey. The house and dining room was beautifully decorated with the national colors and flowers.

The failure of the Democrat subscribers on the star route out of Rensselaer to get their paper last Saturday was the fault in the postoffice here. The papers were put in the office as usual Friday evening but were not distributed until after 8 o’clock the next morning. Complaint has been made of this negligence and we trust it will not occrtir again. Some fiend incarnate or insane devil is amusing himself by cutting the tongues out of the mouths of fine horses in Berrien county, Mich. In the past two years seven fine horses have been ruined and the people are up in arms about the outrages. Rewards have been offered and watches have been placed over many stables but the fiend has so far evaded capture. ’ Moses Sigo of near Remington was in the city on business Thursday. The frost did no damage in his neighborhood so farasnoticed Mr. Sigo is one of Jasper county’s most prominent and up-to-date farmers and grows some of the best corn in the county, it being much in demand for seed, His crop this year is mot all out of the way of frost and there are not many fields thereabouts that is.