Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 42, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 January 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

*«lan. 11, to Mr. and Mrs. Obas. Reas of Barkley tp., a daughter, J# Jan. 13, to Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Moore of near Pleasant Grove, a daughter. Tillie Malohow, who has Been sick for a few weeks with inflamatoryrheumatism,is improving and will be out in a few days. Mr. and Mrs. R. B. Vondersmith of Grant Park, 111., are visiting the former’s sister, Mrs. O. P. Wright, this week and will attend the meeting of Parker bank creditors at Remington today. Any subscriber having paid his subscription to The Demoorat within the past 60 days can, by paying 35 cents additional, secure one of The Democrat’s popular Wall Charts. They are worth many times the price asked for them, and to non-subsoribers we charge 75 cents for them. n Lo. M. and F. M. Cooper of Berkley tp., are expecting to go to Gregory or Pierre, So. Dak., this spring where they will take up homestead claims in the new territory to be opened up for settlement near there. At present Ollie is laid up with a broken leg, received last weekrfrom a kick by a horse.

The republicans of the Tenth district met in Lafayette Tuesday in delegate convention and elected A. J. Hickey, a Laporte attorney, for district chairman to succeed Henry W, Marshall of Lafayette. Hickey was the only candidate for the place, and Bro. Carr of the Fowler Leader hopes that he may prove an immune.

Bowers has not ruled as yet on the Delos Thompson proposed compromise case, wherein some 154,000 due the MoCSoy bank estate from the old Rensselaer Stock Farm proprietors is at stake, but it is expected will announce his decision here today while on bis way to Remington to meet the creditors of the Parker bank. ■ \A large number of the neighbors and friends of Mr. and Mrs. Barney Kohloff of near Aix, gathered at their home Tuesday morning with well tilled baskets and reminded Barney that another birthday anniyersity had rolled around. There were eome fifty guests present and a fine dinner was served and a general good time had by all Fowler Leader: Most of us have read of that strange hog—the mule-foot. John and Homer Yoakum have five head here in Fowler. They claim them to be cholera proof, having eaten the flesh of hogs killed by cholera. They also butcher to a better advantage; common hogs shrinking 22 pounds to the 100, while the mule-foot only shrinks 16 pounds. A. Lee 8- Adams, the 13-year-old sob of Marion I. Adams, won third oa best ten ears of corn exhibited at the oorn school at Purdue this week for District No, 1. The corn was yellow dent, and was the same ten ears that he won first on in the county contest here recently. W. T. Littlejohn of Kentland won first, Moses Bigo of Remington third, Grant Hayden and C. G. Blaok of Lowell, second and fifth, respectively. 'mMl A. Smith, corporal of Jasplr cottage, has jost reoeived a beautiful flag for that building, whioh is perhaps the only one in camp containing all the stars, including Oklahoma, recently admitted. Ttfe flag was presented to the cottage by’ the Rensselaer W. R. C, No. 39. It is a beautiful flag, Bxl2 feet, and will ornament the Jasper bnilding whenever the occasion requires it. Lafayette Journal.

The annual meeting of the Farmers Mutual Insurance 00., of Jasper, White and Benton counties was held at Remington last Saturday and the old officers were re-elected. The losses the past year'have been the heaviest the company has ever had, and as a consequence the assessments are larger than usual, being 33£ cents on each 1100 insurance. The farmers institute was also in session at Remington Friday and Saturday and was quite well attended.' Mr. and Mrs. S. B. Thornton write us from Ohewanah, Wash., in renewing their subscription, and among other things say; “We are having fine weather, with but two very slight snowfalls, the heavier being only 3$ inohee. The lowest temperature was 20 above zero. We are highly pleased with our location and are both in fair health and have a double appreciation of our fine weather when we read in The Democrat of the “all kinds of weather three times a week” back with the folks in Indiana. The 0. M. & St. P. Ry. work is progressing nicely. The road ip only four miles Bouth of oor homestead.” /