Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1907 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Item* of Interest to City and Country Readers. Sale bills printed while you wait at the Democrat office. Francisville’s last saloon closed last week and that thriving town is now in the “dry” belt. The ball game here Saturday betweeta Pleasant Ridge and Parr resulted in favor of the former by a score of 19 to 13. North Bend and California townships in Starke county climbed on the water wagon last week by substantial majorities. Morocco Courier: Hiram Day of Rensselaer has the contract for building the chimneys and plastering John Kennedy’s new house. Editor Baughman of the Mt. Ayr Pilot has organized a carnival company and is giving his principal attention to it nowadays. It is rumored that he is about to sell the Pilot. It is estimated that there were 20,000 people at the big democratic meeting at Bloomfield last week. Hon. W. J. Bryan was the attraction, and the big turnout demonstrated the feeling in that neck o’ the woods toward the talented Nebraskan. Last Wednesday was the third anniversary of the blowing up cf the Tom McCoy residence in Rensselaer. The house still stands in practically the same tumble-down condition that it was the next morning after it was dynamited. The Democrat was held up again this week by the print paper trust. Bought two tons and paid $5 more per ton than the same paper cost sixty days ago. But we had to have the paper, And this is one of the trusts that Roosevelt busted, too! Another large invoice of bond and type-writer paper just received at The Democrat office. We carry the largest line of bond papers of any office in Jasper county and can fit you out with anything you want in this line, either as to weight, quality and price. The old Marshall bouse on East Washington street was moved last week to the former Spitler lot, South of the Presbyterian church where it will be converted into a tenant house by B. S. Fendig, who purchased the house of Dr. Washbum, the present owner of the Marshall property. Ed Oliver, the Newland real estate agent, reports having sold three more farms last week, two in the Gifford district, and one, the Page farm of 160 acres in Gillan tp., to Ernest Rover of Lafayette, at 112,000, The Gifford farms are an 80 and 160 adjoining, sold to Thomas Pratt and sons, of Newland, for >IB,OOO.

It is said that President McDoel of the Monon will soon make his annual trip of inspection over his system for the purpose of securing data to assist him in making his annual report. The engineering department will recommend that several old depots be replaced with new ones, and it is hoped that Rensselaer may be included in this list. An election has been called for Thursday, Dec. 4, to vote a one Ser cent subsidy in Gilboa tp., enton county for the proposed Lafayette-Chicago electric road. If the elections carry in Carpenter and Gilboa tps., it will probably bring about $50,000 in the two townships, and with the subsidy already voted in Marion tp., will make about $90,000, with a whole lot more townships yet to hear from. v Joseph Gunyon of Union tp., was arrested and arraigned before Squire Irwin Saturday night for imbibing too much from the cup that cheers. He was fined $5 and costs $13.05 in all, which he paid. He stated that he got the liquor in Rensselaer, but the party he got it from was a friend and he would not give him away. This, we believe is only the third or fourth arrest in Rensselaer for drunkenness since the town went “dry,” over a year ago. Frank Burns was attacked Saturday evening with a severe case of strangulated hernia. Dr. Milller was called in and recognizing the necessity, for prompt action, telegraphed Dr. W. W. Bacon of Englewood, 111., who with Dr. Starns, an interne of the Englewood hospital, arrived on the early train Sunday morning and as soon as it got daylight an operation was performed which saved his life and he is no w getting along as well as could be expected from the operation.