Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 4, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 April 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Parr schools closed Wednesday, and the last day was celebrated by giving a big dinner. • Two teachers! were employed and about 65 pupils enrolled. _i ;; Sarah H. Folger, a widow aged 63 years, died at 5:30 a. m. yesterday at. the home of her son William Folger in Barkley tp., of pneumonia. The remains were shipped last to her old home in Redmond, 111., for burial. '/.Ross Dean went to Sheridan Saturday to attend the marriage of an old college classmate, Prof. A. L. Hickson, to Miss Chloe Sims. The bride and groom will leave early next month for the Philipwhere they will engage in teaching. »

Mrs. True Wood worth, Mrs. Ancel Woodworth, Mrs. Anna R. Mills, Mrs. Walter Porter, Mrs. P. W. Clark, Mrs. Grace Pumphrey, Mrs. Charles Morlan, Miss Blanche Hoyeb and Mrs. J. A. Grant attended the district convention of Pythian Sisters at Lowell Tuesday. ‘ Uncle David Nowels, who has been quite poorly of late, while some improvement is noted, is still in a feeble condition, being able to sit up about half the'time. It is to be hoped that the pleasant weather prevailing will be helpful in restoring him to his usual health. William Hyatt, a cook at the Rosenbaum hotel, was , arrested Thursday •morning in a beastly state of intoxication and lodged in jail. At 3 p. m., he was arraigned before Squire Irwin, where he was fined $1 and costs, making $lO.lO in all, which he is laying out in jail. . N W. L. Bringle went to Fair Oaks yesterday to visit his children Abe Bringle, and Mrs. Bruce Moffitt a couple of days, and Sunday he will go to Hibbard, Ind., accompanied by h(s niece, Miss Anna Bringle of Newton county, to visit the family of his youngest; daughter, Mrs. F. L. Yeoman. \F. W. Fisher of Kankakee tp., Was down Tuesday, eniwute to his farm in Hanging Grove tp., to look after some repairs thereon. He stated that oats sowing in his locality had been very backward, owing to the ground being too wet to w’ork, and there are still a great many acres to be sown there.

Fred Barger of Jordan tp., who was indicted by the grand jury last week for shooting a sheep belonging to Thomas Reed, a neighbor, and whose trial was set for Thursday, came in Saturday and plead guilty to the charge and was fined $5 and costs, which he paid. There had been some trouble between the families which led up to the shooting. Advertised letters: Willard Abbett, Maude Warden, Mrs. Nena Ulm, ■ David Tanner, Miss Maggie Richmond, J. M. Pante, David Moore, Mark Moore, Dennis Marquire, Wm. M. Lawrence, Mrs. Mildred Kenlda, David Jordan, Wm. Jennings, Mrs. Myrtle Havens, Mrs. Ida Gant, R. H. Gulnnup, Flossie Ford, Clara Fechner, John Francis, Libbie Barnett. j.Frank Donnelly got word this week that his brother-in-law, Charlie Murray and one of Sam English's boys have been having the smallpox in a' light form at their home near Stokes, Okla. Grandpa and Grandma Murray had intended to tome back to Rensselaer About May Ist to spend the summer, but this will probably delay their return somewhat.

The north bound local met with an. accident at McCoysburg Thursday morning. A cut of four cars Was thrown on the siding with a brakeman in charge. Whether the brakes failed to work or the barkeman hadn’t time to control them, is not stated. One car ran over the derail and into the ditch. No one was hurt and a short delay only marked the wreck.

A. B. Cowgill of Riverton, 111., in renewing his subscription to The Democrat says that he has been having a spell of sickness, but is now about as good as ever and is doing a good business. He says: “We have just voted the saloons out and I think we will have a hard tfrne keeping the foreigners sober. We only had ten saloons, with a population of 2,700. We are all well.”

Bill N. Jones arrived home Tuesday from spending the winter with his children in Bellwood and David City, Neb. He is looking very well indeed now despite his 77 years, but says he has not been well all winter. Last Saturday they had a sort of family reunion at one of their homes, at which there were present four generations of the Jones family—Bill N., his daughter Jessie, her son Ralph and his daughter. . Crown Point Star: A~recent letter- from B. J. Gifford to one of our citizens doesn’t say he has sold his railroad yet, but claims it is now paying expenses, and that he is glad the north end of it is so near Gary. He claims to have 20,000 acres of land left yet in Jasper county and is selling it in parcels, expecting to have 400 Russian Jews located there this year apd* eventually dispose of Ml Of It to those people, who are now ceding hr squads and all have “money to make the first payment on a qmall farm. I . .