Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 April 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mtay Hopkins has entered Wabash College for the spring term. jAire. C. P. Wright visited her Brother, Mrs. Vondersmith, in Kentland over Sunday. Advertised letters Miss Ollie Bradey, Wm. Chidester, C. A. Howe, Joe Hall, Ed Johnson, Miss Josephine Muller, Edd McSweeney, Chas. Miller, E. S. Nihma, Mrs. Margaret O'Shea, Mrs. Allie Potts, Mrs. Geo. Winters, Miss Marie Yaeger, Wm, Robinson. J. Lawler of Chicago has bought the Monnett land west of town which Miss Cordelia P. Monnett gave to a Chicago training school last Friday. The consideration is stated in the deed to have been $48,325 for the 966.51 acres, or exactly SSO per acre. ME. V. Ransford left Wednesday mV Edgewood, lowa, to look after the three story brick hotel that he traded a stock of goods here to B. W. Shepard for last week. He took Zern Wright and Ross Benjamin along to run the hotel for him until he .trades .it off. pW- D. Bringle of Jordan tp., has Bought Dr. Turfler’s auto and will hereafter farm by gasoline power. Billy enjoys the distinction of being the first man in. his towaship to sport an auto. We hope we will not be called upon to publish his obituary any ways soon because of the pesky thing. Hordeman writes us to change the address of his Democrat from Frankfort. Ind., to Battle Creek, Mich., where he has gone to work in the engine erecting department of the Nichols A Shepard threshing machine company, and where he expects to remain until the threshing season here. Out In Kansas the women can now sit on* election boards, and at the election last Tuesday two women were on each election board In Wichita, at least. Mrs. D. A. Stones, formerly of Rensselaer, was chosen as one of the ladies on the board In her precinct, which was quite an honor surely. Geo. Ketchum who has been •pending the winter with her father, Addison Parkison and wife at Burnett, Cali., intended to start home last week, but her father was taken quite sick and she has delayed her return until there is a change In his condition. Mr. Parkison is some 85 years of age. N, Alfred Collins has traded his section of Knhsas land for one of the houses owned by J. T. Randle on North Cullen street and occupied by Mrs. Grace Pumphrey. He expects to move into same in a few days. Mrsa Pumphrey has moved into one of .A. Leopold's houses on Division street, just north of Dr. Horton’s residence. Remonstrances containing a majority of the voters In all the wards of the mining and railroad town of Brazil and the first, second and fourth wards of Valparaiso, were filed the boards of commissioners of Clay and Porter counties last week. . If they are held good forty-six saloons will be put out of business In Brazil and fourteen in Valparaiso. The Brook Reporter says that Fred Longwell, the republican candidate for prosecntor, has horse sense enough to keep out of petty spite cases that some prosecutors delight in furthering, and that no citizen has cause to fear a spiteful prosecution if he la the next prosecutor. It is Indeed hoped that this 'ls true, and that he will not be owned by a political machine for the purpose of doing its bidding or to gratify its, spite.