Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 June 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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LOCAL AND PERSONALBrief Items of Interest to City and Country Readers. To-day’s markets: Corn, 55c; oats, 45c. Misses Loretta and Ella O’Conner are visiting in Wolcott this week. jpKrank Leek and wife and Chas. 8. Chamberlain and wife spent Tuesday in Chicago. John Mahara, living north of Mount Ayr, was in town Wednesday a few hours. Mrs. Frazer of Crescent, Mo., and two children are visiting Jay W. Williams and wife. arcus H. Hemphill is about folding his own, there being no apparent 'change in his condition. Mrs. Mary Devlin of Burnettsville has been visiting her brother, Joe Sharp, here a few days this week.

|\Mr. Hamilton of Parr, aged 90 teaVs, the, father of Mrs. Ed Barkley, is very low with kidney and bladder trouble. August Rosenbaum returned from the Chicago hospital Tuesday, and the visit seems to have benefited him a great deal. Joseph R. Kight was down from Thayer on a little business trip Wednesday. Joe now lives on farm east of Thayer. Daily report)/ from Mrs. B. Forsythe continue to be reassuring, and with a few days more of treatment she may be able to come home. ~ t A nine pound boy was born recently to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Stover, now of Larimore, No. Dak., but formerly of Jordan tp., this county.

Wm. Bowers left for Rockville, Mo., Wednesday morning where he has a good job on a steam shovel. The Democrat will visit him regularly of course. We are pleased to note a decided improvement in the condition of Charles Ramp’s health. He has been in poor condition of health almost all spring. MP. W. Clarke spent Wednesday bh his farm near Lowell, where he is making some improvements in drainage. He reports everything looking good tn that section. Mrs. A. W. Cleveland’s condition is reported by her physician to be no worse, and in fact no better. The status of the case is about the same as it has been for some weeks. E. R. Osborne has not as yet concluded to move his family from Goodlapd here, but may decide to do-so, this decision depending on how much well-making can be secured here. The Schroder saloon at Reynolds was destroyed by fire Monday night, and Tuesday the proprietor was in court for selling liquor without a license. The liquor dealers are certainly up against it these days.

The concussion from the explosions in the river channel shake the strongest buildings in town, and the shaking Is so violent that If the ear does not detect the sound the nerves easily detect the jar caused thereby. XJohn F. Tillet of Gillam township yas In the city for a few hours yesterday, having come down on a little business. Mr. Tillet is nearly 83 years old, but is enjoying very good health, and has the appearance Of a man much younger in years.