Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1908 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

A GENTLEMAN’S GAME. Football is to be restored at Northwestern University, the faculty having decided tqpt it is a gentleman’s game. They’ve made football a harmless game; let joy be unconflned! Poor Willie’s nose, once beautiful, is wrecked, but never mind; Heaped on the field the players writhe and jab and claw and tear Ank knock the breath from those beneath and gouge without a care; They buck the line and nobly strive to pull joints out of place And here and there is one who gets his teeth kicked from his face. The freshman and the sophomore, all smeared with grime and mud, Go gallantly to get the ball and faint through loss of blood; The senior knocks the junior down and kicks him In the chest, The high school boy Is carried home and gently laid to rest. While now and then a crowded stand collapses ’neath Its weight And 40 people get more than they paid for at the gate. Oh, brave, oh, splendid, manly game! Think of the mother’s joy Who picks thq, paper up and sees a picture of her boy; How thrilled she is to read about the courage he displayed, How gleefully she tells us of the record that he made! With honest pride she lays away his amputated ear And puts his eye in alcohol to be a souvenir. —Chicago Record-Herald.

STORE NEWS i »nd bring to you that InercaM of buaineas you are looking for if you give u your store news to paint. There is not a firm in the state that can give you the prices and quality that we do and we can back up everything we say. Call and see if we are not right. DUVALL & LUNDY. Subscribe for The Democrat I Notice of Collection of Ditch Assessments. Notice la hereby given to Jeremiah J. Shea; Michael Robinson; Mary E. Long; John Mitchell; John Mitchell Heirs; James Long as administrator of the estate of John Mitchell, deceased; James Long and Mrs. James Long and all other persons Interested In the Jeremiah J. Shea Ditch, that the construction of said ditch was ordered established on July 7, 1908 and that under the statute I will expect all of the foregoing named persons to pay their respective assessments at the rate of ten per cent of their respective assessments eaob month, beginning on Monday August 24, 1908, and ten per cent each month thereafter until enough has been collected pro rata ,to pay the full expense connected with said improvement. Parties may pay their entire assessments at any time ft they so desire. Dated this 24th day of July, 1908. JOHN P. RYAN, Superintendent. Foltz & Spitler, Attys, for Supt.