Jasper County Democrat, Volume 12, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 February 1910 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

If the g. h. is to be depended on there is six weeks more of winter in store for us.

Miss Milocent Work, the Latin teacher in the Rensselaer high school, was called to Chicago Thursday by the serious illness of her mother. Uncle J. C. Norman of north of town was in Wednesday for the first time in nearly six months. His health has not been very good for the past few years and he doesn't get out very .much any more. Edwin M. Lee, former Mayor of Lawrenceburg, and at present special revenue officer for the Ohio district, was elected Chairman of the Republican State Committee Saturday. No other name was offered. A new' ruling of the postoffice department is that, commencing February 15, rural carriers will not be required to collect loose coins from rural mail boxes. Patrons should procure stamps from the carriers. Considerable of the ice made on the streets and sidewalks from the snow of early December still remains, except in cases where the sun can get full play. We have had very Hattie thawing weather as yet.

Arvel Bringle was down from Fair Oaks Thursday. He has a few days vacation because of his school in Union tp„ known as the Fuller school, having been ordered closed on account of measles in the neighborhood. It is expected to open the school again Monday. Jesse and Ethel Ropp of Brook and Cincinnati, respectively, visited their uncle, Horatio Ropp, here a few days this week. The former is working at the Darber trade at Brook and the latter is a trained nurse in Cincinnati. They are orphans, their father having been killed several years ago in a starch factory at Hammond and their mother in a storm at East Chicago a few years later

Elzie Miller of Milroy tp., was in Wednesday getting a set of sale bills printed at The Democrat office. His sale will take place on Monday, Feb. 14, and he has an excellent lot of stuff, including eight head of extra good horses. He and George H. Hemphill will have a sale together. Both will go to Dakota, where Mr. Miller was successful in drawing a quarter section of land in the Standing Rock Indian Reservation recently. Readers of The Democrat who may reply to any of the advertising of Clow & Hendricks, the Lisbon, No. Dakota, land agents who have contracted for a series of advertisements in this paper, will do us a favor if in writing them they will mention that they saw their advertisement in The Democrat. .. We want our advertisers to know that their advertising irf being read. This will not cost the reader anything, and will be much appreciated by us.

John Werner, the tailor, has moved his shop front over Fendig's drug store and his family from the west side of town into rooms over the Savings Bank. The rooms he vacated have been rented by Bert Hartley of Goodland for a Chicago firm who will operate what is commonly termed a “buckets'hop” therein. A. M. Lipsey of Grand Rapids, Mich., will be the manager, and G. W. Loveless of Lafayette will be the operator and boardmarker. The strike In the Standard Steel Car works at Hammond has been declared off, a compromise having been effected by which the company agrees to advance the wages of Its workmen “when conditions improve,” and the mien have gone back to work. We are told that the wages of most of the “Hunkies” employed in the works only reaches 11.25 to $1.50 per day, and these are prosperity times, with living expenses higher than most people can ever remember of seeing. The ptrike' cost the city of Hammond nearly $1,0.00 for extra police.