Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. Brief Iteou of Interest to City and Country Renders. Oom, 58c ;> oats, 45c. Next Friday is Arbor day. "Faust,” at Ellis opera house Monday night. > Squire Thornton is visiting in Danville, 111., this week. 0. P. Wright was in Burnettsville on business Wednesday. Miss Oena Oarr is visiting in Chicago and Joliet, 111., for a few weeks. < A. B. Oiaspel moved to Parr this week where he has bought a small place. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Wood visited their son, Dr. Aaron Wood and family, at Brook this week. Geo. Stoudt and daughter of Remington, were guests of Mrs. F. E. Babcock Saturday and Sunday. New subscribers to the Democrat this week by postoffices: Ft. Hancock, N. J„ 1; Rensselaer, 1. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Sayler left Tuesday for Spokane, Wash , where tney expect to locate permanently .

The first number of the Lecture Course will be given on Thursday, Oct. 24, at the Christian Church. Miss Orabel Duvall is in Indianapolis attending a library training school. She will be there until June. 8. E. Yeoman was up to Medaryville a few days this week looking after his fall delivery of nursery stock. A. Daugherty and Frank Kresler accompanied C. J. Dean and W. L. Porter to South Dakota this week. The Gilmore dredge on the big Howe ditch, which was started at Lee recently, has cut over half a mile in its progress west. A football team from here composed of school boys, went to Monon Saturday and done up a team there by a score of 6 to 0. Mrs. Wm. Augspurgerof Newton tp., returned home Monday from a visit with relatives and friends in Eureka and Deer Creek, 111. Mrs. M. B. Leslie of Connorsyille is holding meeting at the Baptist church, commencing Wednesday night. They will continue indefinitely. Old Jack Frost’s handiwork was visible on everything last Monday morning, everything having a good coat of white. All vegetation susceptible to frost was killed. John Guss, who has been working on a railroad in Minnesota for several years, has thrown up bis position, owing to the big strike there, and with his family has returned to, his farm near Virgie. Leslie Miller, a Mt. Ayr boy who has been getting type for the Morocco Sentinel the past summer, has purchased the Mt. Ayr Pilot of W. F. Baughman. The Democrat wishes him success - in the business. x v_W. F. Hayes of Mt. Summit, Greene county, was here a few days this week on business and visiting his parents, Mr, and Mrs. F. M. Hayes of Barkley tp. The corn crop in his locality is good, Mr. Hayes states, and is further dried out than here. Mt. Ayr item in Kentland Enterprise: Spencer Greenlee has lost several head of cattle lately, with sores forming on their body and legs, causing itching, which the veterinarian pronounced mad itch. This is quite a loss to Mr. Greenlee* as they were fat cattle and * contracted to the butcher.

Medaryville Advertiser: Mrs. Martha Oglesby was appointed guardian of the minor heirs of Chas. H. Oglesby yesterday. ~ Her bondsmen are John Benn, Chas. Odom, Wm. I. Querry, Sam Swisher, Tbos. H. Robinson and Chas. H. Guild. Deceased had had his life insured in different organizations to the amount of $5,500. Next Sabbath evening and following, the service will begin at 7 p. m., at the Presbyterian Church. The subjects of the discussions next Sabbath will be, at 10:45 a. m., "Our Duty to the Emigrant;” at 7 p. m., “Esther,” a character study. Strangers cordially invited to worship with us. J. C. Pabrbtt, Pastor.