Jasper County Democrat, Volume 10, Number 44, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Special discount sale on men’s heavy pants at Rowles & Parker’s clothing store. Don’t forget that horse buyers will be in Rensselaer next Saturday from Chicago (see ad elsewhere) and if you have any horses for sale it will be a good time to dispose of them. Don’t fail to attend Rowles & Parker’s'February clearance safe now in progress —the big discounts they are giving on heavy weight goods will interest you, besides our assortments are always the best and our prices the lowest on ginghams, domestics, embroideries and everything you need for your spring sewing. The mercury Wednesday morning was down to one degree above w.% tha lowest i?nint reached, this winter. There is no snow on the ground at present and if the weather keeps cold the dirt roads fill soon be worn down in good condition. Considerable shelled cprn has been coming in the past jew days, that is, considerable for this year, as its bad condition has delayed shelling greatly. E. Duvall of near Allentown, 111., was in the city last Friday on business. Frank says they raised much better corn in his locality than here, yet it is not of extra good quality by any means. He attended a public sale last week at which some twenty to thirty bushels of seed corn —new corn—went at $1.40 per bushel. He and another gentleman examined several ears of it and were of the opinion that not a blamed bit of it wonld ever grow. John W. Walker of Tombstone, Arizona, former court reporter for the Jasper-Newton circuit, was here this week visiting old friends while on his way to visit bis folks at Bloomington. He will take pis parents back to Tombstone to spend the remainder of the winter with him, but expects to visit here again before returning. He is still holding down his position as reporter for the U. S. district court at Tombstone. '-Lcieve Eger will give up his studies at Purdue and take charge of the business of his father, the late W. H. Eger, and it is likely the business will be carried on by him and his brother Harry under the name of Eger Bros., after the necessary legal steps are taken. Cleve is a bright, well balanced young man and is well qualified to be the active bead of the business, while Harry, who is considerably younger, has also bad considerable experience in the store and will likely develop into a good business man. & olcott Enterprise: Tom Robn took his departure Tuesday morning for a trip through lowa and Minnesota, which is partly for pleasure. This was the trip Tom figured on making two weeks ago but didn’t.... Ed patt has severed his connection with the Lux store where he has been employed as clerk for nearly a year and left Sunday for Lafayette where he will prospect for a situation. While a resident of Wolcott Ed made a host of friends whose best wishes will go with him wherever be may locate. Dr. A. L. Berkley of Portland, Oregon, was in the city a few hours Tuesday. He had been at the bedside of hia mother, who is sick at her home in Newman, HI., it is stated, and came here to see some of his old friends before returning home. He was in Lafayette Monday and went up to Michigan City Monday night to see his father-in-law, T. J. McCoy, coming from there here. He stated that Tom was still in the prison hospital as a result of his broken leg, which was broken last summer, and was still using a cratch to get about.

William Connell, a Monticello young man, was fatally burned Friday evening while filling a lighted lamp from a coal oil can. The bowl of the lamp had become quite hot and when he went to fill it a gae seems to have been generated that ignited from the lamp flame and going into the mouth of the oil oan exploded ft with great force, covering the unfortunate young man with the blazing oil. He ran out into the yard with the blazing oil dripping from him, and before the flames could be extinguished he was so badly burned that he died next morning. Several members of the family werebadly also burned in extinguishing the fire. . BIRTH ANNOUNCBfIBNTS. rJan, 22, to Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Timmons, in town, a daughter. A»lan. 23, to Mr. and Mrs. John Robinson, south of town, a son. \jan. 24, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred Renicker, north of town six miles; a daughter. >