Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 55, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1908 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

future in North Dakota like he has the few yean he has been there, we may reasonably look for him to show up in a big touring car the next visit he makes to Jasper county. * At practically all the public sales held thus far this season property has sold a little under the prices of last year, we are told. This applies not only to horses and cattle but to farm tools and machinery. Just why this is so is not apparent. Of course the high price of feed no doubt has considerable to do with the decreased price for live stock at this season of the year, but why farm implements and machinery should also be effected is unexplained. Saturday afternoon, at a farmhouse about 2Vi miles south of here, while all the family were away, some hungry persons went in the house and helped themselves. The lady had left one apple pie and a half of one which had been left from dinner, on the dinning table, and all were eaten. They had used a knife to cut the pie. Had used one cup for coffee and two for milk. Had also been in the bread box. We know they were in two rooms and probibly searched the house. It is supposed there were three of them, as three drinking cups were used. xx MT. AYR. (From The Pilot.) Rev. Noland Is holding revival meetings at North Star. Gregory White spent Sunday with home folks at Demotte. George Peck of Wadena, is here working in the meat market for Elmer Hufty. Wm. Shindler has so far recovered from his recent illness as to be about once more. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Gebhart visited Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Ray Adams at Rensselaer. Pete White of Demotte, came the latter part of the week for a visit with friends and acquaintances here. Miss Jean Sigler, who is working in the Chicago postoffice, came yesterday for a visit with home folks. Mr. and Mrs. Lawrence Gebhart are making preparations to' move near Kankakee, 111,, about the first of the year. • Mrs. John Frye has returned here from Ohio and will make her home with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Stutzman. Walter Blankenbaker and Chas. Fleming left Thursday for Michigan, where they each purchased a farm some time ago. Chas. Elijah and wife returned last week from a visit with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. A. K. Sayler, at Big Rapids, Mich.