Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 30, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Corn husking has begun .to some extent hereabouts. Mesdames Fred Phillips and Grant Warner are visiting in Fowler this week, J. A. Teter, the Carpenter tp, prize swine breeder, was in the city on business Thursday. ; W, H. Wyncoop of near Kniman, left Tuesday on a prospecting trip to Chamberlain, So. Dak. David Alter, a former resident of this county, died at his home near Frankfort this week, aged 80 years. A. F. Long is going to have another big corn show this fall. See adv. on last page of to-day’s Democrat. The Mt.'Ayr grain elevator has been sold by Ponsler & Johnson to Arthur Herriman and Harris Martin of that place. A Starke county potato grower raised 16,000 bushels of potatoes this season, the yield being about 225 bushels to the acre. Mr. M. 0. Kenton, of Olobe, Arizona, formerly a resident of near Surrey, was married last week at Long Beach, Cali, to Miss Emma E. Coleman of that place.' Mrs. Alfred Hoover, south of town, got her right hand quite badly hurt Wednesday by it caught in a wind pump. The forefinger was so badly cut and lacerated that several stitches were necessary to sew up the wound.

Mrs. Thresie Dudek died Sunday evening at the home of her son-in-law, Joseph Berenda, in Newton tp.. and the funeral was held from St. Augustine’s Catholic ohurch in Rensselaer Tuesday morning and burial made in Mt. Calvary we metery south of town. Deceased was 78 years of age, and was a native of Bohemia..

Ray Adams, who has been at Belle Foutohe, So. Dak., for the past three months, returned home last week and will remain here during the winter at least. It is a good stock country where he was but not good for farming. Bert Goff has a good claim there.which he is holding- dowp, but he expects to visit home folks here some time the coming winter.

This thing of opening the government treasury for the relief of the Wall Street gamblers every few weeks is an innovation of the Roosevelt administration that it would seem ought not to be relished by the public generally. The government never comes to the relief of the smaller banks or business men when they are hard pressed, and it ought not go to the relief of the stock gamblers. The precedent is a bad one. and one that they will come to depend on whenever they get in a pinch.

The banquet to be given Nov. 18 by the Jackson Club at Lafayette with Hon. W. J. Bryan as the star attraction, will be the most largely attended banquet ever given by the dub. Nearly two-thirds of tickets were taken last Week, and the, rest were taken early this week; so not another one is to be had. There will be 600 reserved seats among the 2,500 seats outside the banquet tables, and these will be sold at 50 cents each as long as they last, which will be but a very few days. x

Henry W. Marshall of Lafayette, republican chairman of the Tenth district, is coming in for a great deal of adverse criticism through his connection with the Western Construction Co., which has been robbing the city of Indianapolis of thousands of dollars in asphalt contracts. Marshall is president of the company and the investigation has grown so warm that he has taken to making fiublic explanations. The affair ooks mighty bad and before the grand jury gets through with the investigation it is likely to look worse for Marshairs company. Mti Ayr Pilot: Ton Dowling of near Morocco, is in a serious condition, and fears for his recovery are entertained, all the result of a dispute and a fight with Orin and Art Elijah, last Friday. Tom is supervisor of' the distriot in which they all live and was sitting in an open buggy in front of Elijah’s home talking about some road work. Tom had a spade in the back of the buggy and it is reported that when the disputf arose Orin grabbed the spade and struck Tom over the head, immediately after which Art climbed upon the buggy and stabbed him several times. Tom was very weak from the loss of blood but owing to the prompt action of a physician is still alive. The Elijahs were arrested and placed under >5,000 each to await the outcome 'of Dowling’s injuries. v