Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 80, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 January 1911 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Sale bills printed while you wait at The Democrat office. ■■ $ John Finn was down from Kankakee tp., on business Thursday. Isaac Miller of hear Rensselaer transacted business in Flora Tuesday. Mat Moosmiller returned home Thursday from a few days visit in Chicago. 7 » Mrs. Mary E. Travis went to Marion Thursday to visit her daughter, Mrs. Wade Loop. Naval oranges are good now. The Home Grocery is selling some fine ones at 20c a dozen. It is a wonder Purtelle didn’t include the Jasper county court house in his list of assets. Louis Miller and Henry Hordeman left Thursday for Burlington, Wis., to visit relatives a few weeks.

5 per cent of the cash receipts of the Home Grocery goes to the Monnett Orphan’s Home this week.

Elizur Sage and son Russell made a business trip to Payne, Ohio, Wednesday near which place the former owns a farm. They will probbaly be gone a few days.

Mrs. Amanda Gasaway, aged 98 years, an aunt to H. W. Wiley the government chemist and ex-appel-late judge U. Z. Willey, died at her home in Goodland Wednesday.

By a strict party vote- the Hon. John W. Kern was elected to the U. S. senate by the Indiana legislature Tuesday afternoon, the republican complimentary vote going to his predecessor, Mr. Beveridge.

A. Gray of Remington and Edward ePterson, of Saunemin, 111., were in the city yesterday. Mr. Peterson is the owner of the A. E. Malsbray 228 acre farm in Barkley tp., which he purchased last September through Mr. Gray’s agency.

C. W. Platt of this place and Wm. Zacher of Iron Junctiop, Minn., went to Chicago Thursday and from which place the latter left for home. Charley transacted business there a few days. Mr. Zacher had been visiting numerous relatives in and near Rensselaer the past two weeks.

H. E. Wade arrived home a few days ago from Mississippi whete he had been on a land prospecting trip. He left again Tuesday for Colorado to see if anything looked good to him there. Bert Sparling,who had been sojourning in the southern states has also returned, but did not buy anything.

rSMrs. C. P. Wright accompanied by Tier son Zern and wife as far as Chicago left Wednesday for San Diego, Calif., where she will spend the next two months with the family of her foster son, George Belcher, who is loaded there and quite wealthy. He "sent Mrs. Wright SIOO to pay her expenses of coming to see him.

The Republican thinks the Purtelle railroad scheme, together with the subsidies voted, should be turned over to the Rensselaer Commercial Club. We are rather surprised at this suggestion of the Republican, for next to Bucketshop Purtelle we had been led to believe that the Winamac Bridge Co., was its first love.

The Chicago horse buyers who were at Knapp’s livery barn Saturday bought thirteen head of draft and driving horses and shipped them out the same night. These buyers seemed to be gentlemen and it is said they paid a price as the market woqld permit. The same parties will be here again Saturday, Jan. 28.

rXjlev. Clarke, Charlie Simpson and P. W. Clarke went out to John McColly’s in Newton tp., Wednesday and tried their hand at rabbit, hunting. The preacher bagged one rabbit and the jeweler two, but it was a poor day for the groceryman, and he didn’t get any. A big hot dinner set before them by Mrs. McColly was enjoyed most of dll.

NOTICE TO LOT CONTRACT HOLDERS IN FACTORY ADDITION. Notice is hereby given that at a meeting of the Directors of the Rensselaer Commercial Club, held at the rooms of said Club on January 11, 1911, the following resolution was passed:

“That all contracts for lots on which the contractors have not paid a sum equal to SIOO be declared forfeited, if such payments have hot been made on or before the first day of April, 1911. CHARLES G. SPITLER, Secretary-Treasurer. LECTURE DATES. March 13—The Beilharz Entertainers. April 7—Byron King.