Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 July 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

It pays to trade at Worland’s. M. H. Hemphill is resting better than he did recently, and In this respect his condition Is Improved, otherwise It remains about the same. Mrs. Mary Beadenkoph of Baltimore, Md., came Tuesday to visit her brother, George D. McCarthy and family, for a couple of weeks. Mrs. Beadenkoph’s parents lived in the property where Mrs. W. H. Rhoades now lives, in the early fifties, and her father conducted one of the first newspapers in Rensselaer. Jacob D. Rich and his brother-in-law, John Sunderland of Brook, were in town on a business trip Wednesday. Mr. Rich is interested in a string of grain elevators located at Julian, Percy Junction, Goodland and Sidney, 111. He says he Is preparing to» handle the oats and corn crops in their respective seosons, or his share of them, and the prospects are reasonably good for a bountiful crop. Rensselaer people will divide their patronage the 4th, some going to Parr, some to Fair Oaks, some to Monticello, McCoysburg, Lee, Dunn’s bridge and other points, while a still greater number will remain at home and have fried chicken, lemonade, ice-cream, etc., under their own vine and fig tree. And no doubt the latter class will have the most real enjoyable time of them all. J. F. Roy writes us from Yukon, Okla., and 'says that although a great many acres of crops are ruined by water he has not yet noticed any dead or drowned farmers floating about. The harvest fields, he says, are a busy place at present. There are many acres of corn in tossel and some fields that are yet to be planted. It has been an unusually wet season there but they are not drowned out by any means. For the Newton county democratic convention at Mt. Ayr next Thursday a special train will be run, leaving Morocco at 9:30 a. m., And making stops at Beaver City, Brook, Goodland and Foresman to take en passengers for Mt. Ayr. Returning special will leave Mt. Ayr at 7 p. m., to take the visitors back home. The Brook and Mt. Ayr ball teams will play ball. A big turnout to the convention is assured.

Jake Wagner, at one time a drayman here, was in town Wednesday. H® reports crops looking very good in his section, between Remington and Wolcott. The cut-worms and birds have destroyed considerable corn, and they have not had any rains to speak of for five or six weeks. The last rains here did not reach them, or at least it only sprinkled over there. Notwithstanding all this he says corn has good color and seasonable weather will still help them out.

William Kenton of Mitchell, So. Dak., came to town Tuesday evening, directly from home. The neighborhood where the Kentons live in South Dakota was visited by a and in a few minutes seven inches of w*ater fell. This was about seven weeks ago. On the section where Mr. Kenton lives a considerable amount of the crop was drowned out, but the rest looks very well. On the section where Mason Kenton lives there was only a good shower, although it is the section next east from his father’s land. This heavy rain fell over a very limited area, extending a little west and then south from the Kenton’s. Mr, Kenton says more rain fell at this one time than had fallen in years before, and is probably the first time that anyone living there had ever seen a crop drowned out. Mr. Kenton’s visit will extend over two or three weeks, and possibly longer. A temporary interlocutory decree, or Injunction, was Issued by Judges Sanborn, Hook and Adams at St. Paul, Minn., Tuesday declaring the order made by the Interstate Commerce Commission in reducing the terminal charges on car loads of live stock at Chicago from $2 to sl, to be unreasonable, and setting it aside. If this injunction is made permanent, it will enable the Union Stock Yards and the railroads to mulct every stock miser, or stock shipper in the -sum of $1 as has been done for years, on every car of stock sent to the Chicago market, and they run into the hundreds of thousands yearly. Wouldn’t it appear from this proceeding that Federal courts are assuming authority that should not be exercised until after a full hearing has been had, and the evidence fully weighed? The stock men have been fighting this $2 terminal charge for years, and had finally succeeded in getting the .Commission to take action favorable to them, but now theySre worse off than ever.

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