Jasper County Democrat, Volume 11, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 January 1909 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Remember the free offer to subscribers on those wall charts means that they must be taken from this office. If we are to mall them 10 cents must be added to pay postage and for the pasteboard tnftßing tube. ■T. J. Richardson received a letter from his brother at Kingman, Kan., Thursday, written the 11th, saying that they were having the biggest snow storm there they had had for years, and that several of the railroads were likely to be blockaded.

jSMr. and Mrs. O. A. Jacks of Lee were In the city Wednesday to take their three-year-old son to a hospital in Lafayette. He has been sick since his birth with a disease common to children, and local physicians deem an immediate operation advisable. One of Ellzur Sage’s valuable mares had her leg broken Sunday and the veterinary was compelled to shoot her. This mare was sold by Sage for $246 last spring; she came Into his hands the second time only a few hours before her leg was broken. The funeral of Mrs. Franciska Bingham, mention of whose death was made in Wednesday’s Democrat, was held from St. Augustine’s Catholic church Thursday morning, by Rev. Father Geitl, and burial made in Weston cemetery, beside her first husband. Another insight into republican financiering is given the country in the Panama canal construction. The first estimate of its cost was under $200,000,000, which included the $40,000,000 paid the syndicate for the old canal. Now the limit has been raised, to $500,000,000, and when that is gone of course more cash will be asked for.

\rDr. Hansson, the veterinarian, yyno has an office here in the Harris bank building, brought over his big St. Bernard with him from Monon Tuesday. The dog is a fullblooded St. Bernard, and is the largest dog w r e have ever seen. He is about 18 months old and weighs 205 pounds. The doctor has refused SIOO for him several times. Frank Eck was in from WestTCarpenter Wednesday and took three dollars worth of Democrat and Chicago Journal. Henry Huffman and son and his two son-in-laws, Henry Simonin and q Mr. Robbins will move to Dakota this spring where they have bought or rented farms. Frank himself is talking some of making a trip to Arkansas on a little prospecting tour. President Robinson of the Commercial Club received a letter yesterday from the Chicago Industrial Co., who are to conduct the sale of lots here in the "Factory Addition,” stating that Air. Deam, who is to have charge of the lot sale, will likely be down to-day to remain until after the sale. The mat-, ter of a definite proposition' from the metal furniture factory people Is still hanging fire.

Mllavid Zeigler, the oldest sou of Sir. and Mrs. Noah zeigler of north of town, and Miss Esther Sage, daughter of Elizur Sage, of Newton tp., were quietly married in a little town in Illinois one day last week, and returned to Rensselaer Tuesday morning. They will make their home for a short time with his father. They had intended to keep the marriage a secret, but what’s the use—it’s too easy to recognize all Mr. and Mrs. Newlyweds, and they both "fessed up.” Mr. Ray Kenton, son of Frank Kenton of near Pleasant Ridge, and Miss Estella Huffman of Rensselaer, were united in marriage Thursday at 1 p. m., at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Huffman. The bride has been for. the past couple of years been employed as telephone operator in the local telephone central. They took the afternoon train Thursday for Monticello for a few days visit after which they will return and take up their residence with the groom’s parents.

In a letter to a friend here, Vern Shcak, who emigrated to South Pasedena, Cali., last summer, and is clerking in a grocery store there, says that he is not sorry he went but intimates that the chances of becoming a John D. Rockefeller are not of the best for a poor, man there. He is getting SSO per month, but living expenses are out of sight. As an example, Gold Medal flour sells at $2.50 per 50 pound sack, butter is 40 to 50 cents per pound, eggs 35 to 45 cents per dozen and other necessaries in proportion.. The insurance adjusters were here Wednesday and the loss of Frank King’s on blacksmithing and wood working shop was paid to the full amount of the policy SSOO. Mr. Glazebrook’s policy was in a different company, and his insurance of S4OO on the store building north of the shop—he had no insurance on the shop or building in the rear—was not adjusted Wednesday, the adjuster having to go to some other place and leaving on the 2 o’clock train, before the matter was traightened up. He will come back later. Genuine "Quaker Parchment" butter wrappers, blank or printed, for sale at The Democrat office in Pattt: ~ Gold Medal Flour Is very highest Quality. Ijavinia.