Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1907 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

New subscribers to the Democrat this week by pOstoffices: Demotte, 1; Haviland, Kan., 1.

While the frost of last week may not have done so much damage in Jasper county, or the southern and western part, yet practically all the corn is killed on the low ground between Rensselaer and Chicago, at least it so appears from the trains.

Ex-township trustee John P. Ryan was down from Gillan tp., Tuesday and Wednesday. He says the frost of last week did little apparent damage in his locality nor between his place And Rensselaer. His own corn is as good as he ever raised and there will be at least an average crop in Gillam.

Christian Gottier aged 76 years, fell dead with heart disease one day last week in the hog lot at the home of his son six miles south of Francesville and the body was not found until toward evening, when it was horribly mutilated by the hogs. The face was destroyed, one arm gone and the head almost tom from the body.

Another soaking rain fell Tuesday night. So much rain and the weather generally turning off very warm after each rain has caused the potatoes to rot badly. Our Four Corners correspondent, from near Wheatfield, says that thousands of bushels have rotted in the ground in that locality and no attempt will be made to dig them, so completely rotted are they.

Francesville Tribune: F. B. Schultz has returned to this vicinity from Lamar, Col., where he moved two years ago in hopes of benefiting his wife’s health. The change of climate availed very little in the way of improvement and they decided to return here with the prospect that nature will return to its true course and she will be restored to health again.

Mr. and Mrs. Jesse E. Wilson and two children left Saturday for their home in Washington, D. Ov J ease had been here about ten days while Mrs. Wilson and children had been visiting here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Wasson, for about two months. Mr. and Mrs. Wasson expected to leave in a couple of weeks after their departure to visit them awhile, but the latter got poisoned on her arm, hand and face from poison ivy, and is having quite a serious time of it She got poisoned while in the garden,and the doctor thinks it will be two or three weeks before she fully recovers from its effects.