Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

All coats and suite delivered, at out- opening Thursday, Oct. 15th. ROWLES A PARKER. Mrs. William Bussell living In the south part of town, was*taken sick Tuesday evening anA Is In a serious condition. Her great age, now being in her 82d year, does not give much hope of her recovery. Lev\ Renlcker Is debating the matter whether to go south this winter, or stay In the land of snow and Ice. The south, with its warm days and summer flowers, its birds and green trees, appeal to the average man very forcibly, and then there are those oysters that Bro. Meyers of Wheatfield tells about. You can have them any time if not to lazy to go In to the water and grabble them out. Say, wouldn’t that be fine?

At the home of William Moore, in the east part of town, a wedding ceremony was performed Wednesday, Oct. 7, the contracting parties being his son, Frank Moore and Miss Etba Fleming, youngest daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ephrian Fleming. After the ceremony a wedding dinner was served. Only the immediate friends and a few relatives of the family were present. The bride and groom left on the 2:01 train for Indianapolis and Crawfordsville where they will visit for a few days. jKpus Grant has got married. AV hen Nat Scott took unto himself a wife, Gus began to show symptoms. But when George Scott did likewise, Gus just couldn’t stand it any longer. He went to Franklin Tuesday and was married Wednesday evening to Miss Anna Brown of that place. Mr. and Mrs. Grant will probably live in Rensselaer upon their return from their wedding tour. Mr. and Mrs. Nat Scott and Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Bolser were in attendance at the wedding; also Joe O’Connor and Bart Grant. John Robinson was hauling stone with Wm. Murray’s team Wednesday afternoon down on the Bunkum road, and when he got onto Jackson street opposite Mrs. Chaffin’s he began to feel dizzy. Fearing that he would fall off the load he got off in some way and crawled over into the yard in front of Mrs. Chaffin’s house and was found a little later in an unconscious condition, lying on the grass. A physician was called and soon had him in shape again. The attack is attributed to indiscreet eating. He is able for work again today. “Daddy” White came down from Lowell Thursday morning to look after his interests here. He was at a sale Wednesday near Lowell and from his report of it, it is not very encouraging to those who contemplate unloading their surplus in this manner. Horses sold very well, but cattle, both stock cattle, cows and calves, went at ridiculously low prices, and the shoats and stock hogs brought little over three cents a pound. Calves ready for the butcher were bought for two or three dollars less money than they could have been bought for in a regular way.

Last winter A. B. Lowman, then of Pleasant Ridge, closed out his business there and went to Whiting to engage in the grocery business. At Whiting is the great Standard Oil Co., refinery, and the business men are expected to carry their customers for thirty days, then on pay day their bills are liquidated. If these bills are not paid they can be presented to the paymaster and he takes it out of the pay, giving the employe the rest. This scheme works all right when there if any pay days, but now during these prosperous republican times, the pay day at Whiting is’ almost obsolete, and it don't work well, so Mr. Lowman has concluded if he can find a suitable room in Rensselaer he will move his stock to this place. He was down £his week to look after a location.

flour >6 per barrel, blitter 3p cents per pound, potatoes >I.OO per bushel, meats away up out of sight, wood >4 per cord,, coal up to the top notch and wearing apparel, shoes, etc., the highest price for years, thfe average laboring man in Rensselaer will be scarcely able to see where he is going to have any soft snap in getting through the winter. And he has had work all summer, too, owing to the public improvements going on here, the Iroquois ditch, road and street work, etc. How many family of the city laborer—where prices of food and other necessaries are still higher, and who has been out of employment practically all the time since last fall, except for a day or two now and then—will fare can only be conceived. And there are thousands of sutfli, tco. Later reports from the Roselawn fire gives the insurance on the livery barn and residence as >1,510. Two of the horses burned belonged to Zack Seifers, a prominent democrat living west of Roselawn, and one of them was a very valuable mare. Mr. Seifers looked at his horses less than an hour before he saw them surrounded by flames, and remarked to the attendant. “I guess they are all right and I want you to take good care of them. That is a mighty fine team. The old hotel was not occupied and the building next to it was not. The lumber company estimate their loss at >5,000, which is believed will be total.