Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 39, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 December 1907 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL AND PERSONAL. ■ ■ ;•, » Brief Items of Interest to City and Country Renders. y Corn, 40o; oats, 420, And it will soon be Leap Tear again. Yes, and write it 1908 after next Tuesday, too. * Mrs. F. E. Babcock and son George were in Chioago 'Monday. Bruoe Baker is spending the holidays with relatives in Steuben ORanty. 'Misses Grsoe and Fame Haas spent Christmas with relatives in Winamao. ~ - - A prophecy of good weather goes with every set of sale bills , printed at this offioe. * The Jasper Bavings and Trust x Co., will get moved into their hand* some new bank room, the first of the week. Mrs. Lizzie Hanb has recently moved baok here from Madison, Wis., and is living with her brother, T. J. Richardson. New subscribers this week to The Demoorat by postoffioes: Remington, R-R-l, 1; Remington, R-R-4,1; Stookton, Cali., 1. Abe Hardy, who has been in Montana working with a railroad constr notion gang for several months, returned to Rensselaer Monday. Only one week of vaoation in the city schools for the Christmas holidays, and school will take up again Monday, closing Wednesday for New Year’s. Rev. T. L. Ketman, D. D., of Chicago will preach in the First Baptist ohurch tomorrow, both morning and evening. Everybody is invited to attend. The subject of the Sunday morning sermon at the Christian church is, “The Annual Journey Ending.” In the evening the choir will give a Christmas recital. In the biography of Robert Parker, last week, in connection with the bank failure article, the compositor made us say Mr. Parker was born Jan. 18, 1848, when it was written June 13. Mr. and Mrs. Henry Thompson, formerly of tbts county, now of Los Angeles, Cali., will celebrate their golden wedding Deo. 30. Mr. Thompson is a brother of Mrs. S. A. HempUll of this city. The Presbyterian choir and Sabbath school will repeat their Christmas Cantata next Sunday evening at 7 o'clock. An offering will be taken for the Sabbath school. Everybody invited. J. P. Warner had the misfortune to slip and fall from his porch Tuesday morning, spraining his left arm quite badly, Fortunately no bones were broken and he will soon recover from the injury. - Will F. Michaels, who has been living on Peter May’s farm northeast of town the past year will return to Jordan tp., next season, having rented of Ben and Lewis AVelsh their 270 acre farm there. ■Mi Mrs. Mayme Porter came down \ ifVom Chicago Monday to spend the holidays with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jay W. Williams. Mr. Porter also came down Tuesday bat could only remain for a couple of days. Bro. Leslie Miller of the Mt. Ayr Pilot, was in the city last Friday afternoon and made The Democrat a fraternal call. Bro. Miller is publishing an excellent local paper at Mt. Ayr and deserves the united and liberal patronage of his constituency.! The irony of fate was again demonstrated in the failure of the Bank of Fowler last week, where Grant Hall, trustee of the lately failed Fowler Mitten Factory, had deposited what funds be had collected and was soon to make a distribution of same among -the creditors. North Judson News: The San Pierre schools were closed last week on account of a oase of diptheria. Tom Maloney’s son, a Jasper county boy attending the school, has the disease, and it was thought best to close the school until Dec. 80. Some repairs to the building will be made daring this.time. , I —:— i J. L. Peetz, whose wife is now editor and proprietor of the Mon- \ on News, has announced his qandidaoy for the republican nomination for State Statistician. Mr. Peetz has been a clerk in the statistician’s office for several years, is thoroughly familiar with the work and thinks his claims for the nomination are deserving of recognition at the hands of his party*