Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

not In a position to give very much information about it, but one of these days we will see Osa and make him “come through” with the whole story, as he should have done immediately after the ceremony.

Attorney Arthur Tuteur and Guy Gerber talked to a crowded house at the K. of R. Hall In Demotte Wednesday night. There was a very enthusiastic audience present and the speeches were the talk of the town. The traveling men, of whom several were present, were loud in their praise of the speakers. Reports from there by outsiders are very encouraging as the result of this meeting.

*Walter Tharp, formerly of Rensselaer, who is working at the Frankfort light plant, came near meeting with a fatal accident Tuesday night resulting from the breaking of the governor belt on the engine. The plant was ruined as a result of the high speed developed without the use of the governor, and the bursting of the fly-wheel. No one was injured as all of them got out of the way in time.

vJohn Moore of Barkley tp., has purchased the 80 acre farm of George Tudor of this city known as the G. W. Payne farm. The sale was made Wednesday and the price paid was >BO per acre. Mr. Tudor will go to the Dakotas next week and if he finds anything that suits him w<ll buy there. He expects to remain here, however, in any event. The sale was made through A. J. Harmon’s real estate agency.

Myrtle Kurtz, a i4-year-old Delphi girl was run over by a Wabash train at that place Thursday morning and so badly hurt that she died during the afternoon. W. F. Cunningham, a farmer of near Flora, was struck by a Vandalia train at a crossing north of Flora the same morning, both horses killed and himself so badly hurt that he died at noon. A ten-year-old boy who was in the wagon with him was also badly hurt but was alive at last reports.

Mrs. Martha Smith will give a reception Monday evening at her home north of town in honor of her son, Roy B. Smith v and bride, who were married at Hebron Porter county, last week. The bride was formerly Miss Bequlah Wilcox, a charming young lady of Hebron. Roy has held the position of telegraph operator on the Pennsylvania lines at Hebron for the past two years or more, and the young couple will reside there. The Democrat extends congratulations.

. .n.i,!.. » The Rensselaer Republican objects to The Democrat’s refering to the Indianapolis News as a republican paper. Well, we have known the News for many years, and it has always supported every republican candidate for the presidency since we have known it up to this campaign, and has been classed by practically everyone as a republican paper. This campaign it doesn’t appear to be supporting anyone—simply telling the truth—ana of course the Republican now classes it as a democratic paper!

Angela Hammond Horner, daughter of Edwin P. Hammond and Mary Virginia Spitler Hammond, died during the night Tuesday, of heart failure, at her home in Lafayette. The funeral was held at the Catholic church in Lafayette Friday morning at 10 o’clock and the body brought here at 3:30 p. m., and Interment made x>n the family lot in Weston cemetery. Mrs. Horner was born in Rensselaer July 19, 1870, and was the second child of the above named parents. She is survived'by a son, husband, her parents and three sisters. She was