Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1910 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The democrats of Benton county at their convention Saturday nominated the following ticket: Clerk, Arch T. White, ot Oak Grove; sheriff, Frank Shackleton; treasurer. J. S. Portteus; commissioners. Tames H. Gilbert and Frank Gretencord; assessor. Tames Howarth; coroner. Dr. Carl McCaslin. ' jDelos Thompson. wife and two children went to Chicago yesterday morning. Mrs. Thompsu.< left from there for Boston. Mass., where she will attend the commencement exercises at the Bradford Academy, . next Tuesday, where her daughter,/ Miss Lois, graduates. Alfred and Emily went to Saginaw ancTßattle Creek, Mich., where they will visit friends for awhile.

Announcement is made of the approaching marriage of Mr. Ivan Carson, of Rensselaer, and Miss Mary Adams, daughter ot Mr. and Mrs. Marion I. Adams of just southeast of town, the wedding to take place on Sunday, June 19. Mr. Carson has clerked in different stores here for several years but at present is traveling for a wholesale shoe firm. Miss Adams is a popular young teacher of Jasper county.

Mr. William Roth and Miss Zelma Rayher. daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Rayher of Rensselaer? will be married tomorrow at about 11:45 a. m., and will leave on the afternoon train for Monticello, whe,re Mr. Roth has employment as a carpenter and where they will commence housekeeping. Mr. Roth had been in the employment of B. S. Fendig, the poultryman, for the past several months, and Miss Rayher is a well known teacher in the Jasper county schools. The Democrat joins in congratulations. George Casey and Harry Kelley of Union tp., returned Wednesday morning from Lafayette, where they had gone the day before and the latter had expected enter a hospital for treatment for rheumatism. He decided not to do so, however, at present and will take local treatment from a Monon doctor .While in Lafayette they saw Geo. Strickfaden, who is also suffering greatly from rheumatism and who went to French Lick for treatment Wednesday. George recently traded his saloon business at Lafayette for a farm west of Winamac. and is now out of the liquor business altogether.

Newton County ,En terprise: All the attorneys interested in the suit of Newton Couny against Chas. W. Spinney, to recover 'an alleged shortage, appeared in court Friday. The county, believing it would be impossible to secure an impartial jury here, asked for a change of venue to the Jasper circuit court. The attorneys for Spinney then agreed to try the case before Judge Hanley, and th’e motion for a change of venue was withdrawn. An attempt was made to agree on a date 1 for the hearing of the case during the summer vacation, but being unable to fix a date agreeable to the court and to the various attorneys interested, the matter was continued to* the October term.

PET DOG BIT HER. x Lafayette, Ind., June 9.—Mrs, Michael Plapes was'bitten about the hands and arms to-day by a mad dog, her pet. The dog was killed, and, it is alleged, was found to .have been suffering with the rabies. There is an epidemic of rabies in the county, and 15 people are taking the treatment. Scores of dogs have been killed bv the authorities. . URIAH THE HITTITE. Now David was a merchant man, Uriah kept his books; And Bath-Sheba came a-shopping— And David liked her looks. The beautiful Bath-Sheba Longed for diamonds and for furs, But Uriah couldn’t buy ’em, So David made ’em hers. Once David sent Uriah To a moving-picture show While he came to woo Bath-Sheba (But Uriah didn’t go). He journeyed home and ‘‘rubbered” (No matter what he saw). „ But he, too, went a-courting— A-courting in the law! He sued that naughty David For alienating the Affections of Bath-Sheba. His grief was sad to see, And David got th&lady But at a sad expense. That thrifty Uriah got i Fourteen thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine dollars and nine-ty-nine cents. —Baltimore Sun. Read The Democrat for new*.