Jasper County Democrat, Volume 13, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 February 1911 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

.~,Qpginnmg Saturday- and lasting seven days will be the time for you to buy that extra pair of pants you’ve been needing.— Rowles & Parker’s.

Buy your clothing and furnishings from an exclusive clothier and furnisher, as we can give you better clothes for less money than any concern in our city. Try us.—C. Earl Duvall.

Wm. Spurgeon of Vallonia, Ind., who recently traded with G. F. Meyers for 100 acres of land near Gifford, came yesterday with his family preparatory to occupying his farm.

If our preachers want an appropriate text for a Sunday sermon with a local application, we suggest that they take up that of submerged sidewalks. It is a live topic these sloppy days and one that it sure to interest their hearers, and especially the ladies.

A number of friends of J. H. Cox, helped him celebrate his 78th birthday anniversary last Saturday and presented him with a fine rocking chair. Mr. Cox also received a number of letters and post cards from old friends and f business acquaintances among which was one from A. L. Branch of California enclosing a $lO gold piece.

V. M. Parr and daughter of Alfalfa county, Okla., spent Friday night with G. D. McCarthy and family, and Saturday’ went to Morocco to visit relatives. They have also been visiting relatives at Sheridan and Wm, Gratner and family of Barkley tp. Mr. Parr is a former resident of this county, but has lived in Oklahoma for the past thirteen years. , . < S. Baker and daughter returned Sunday from Headlee ’White county, where they were called, as they supposed when they left here, to attend the funeral of his aged mother. He had misunderstood the message, however. and it was his step-father, Josiah Pritchett, aged 68, who was dead. The widow is in poor health and being past 80 years of age she cannot long survive her husband.

There has been considerable discussion of late about oiling the streets next summer. All of the towns that tried the experiment last summer are going to oil this year, and the general verdict is. that there is nothing better for the streets, or owners either. After considerable experimenting the government is even advising the oiling of country roads, claiming that it is the cheapest repair that can be made. —Brook Reporter.

The annual financial report of St. Augustine’s Catholic church for the year ending Dec. 31, 1910, shows total receipts of $6,029.77, and expenses of $5,871.20, leaving a balance of $158.57. The present debt of the church is $3,350. The item of expenditures for 1910 includes $3,198.15 for the new Parochial residence built last summer. The salary of the pastor is but SBOO per year and that of the Sisters conducting the Parochial school but $450.

The warm weather has played havoc with the cold storage men this winter, and the price of eggs are now the lowest in they have been for February in a number of years. Local dealers are [paying only about 14 cents per dozen now for strictly fresh eggs, and the price promises to go still lower, owing to the large quantities of cold storage eggs that are being dumped on the , market in the cities, crowdng the price of fresh eggs down to 20c at retail there.

If, as some of the radical local republican temperance advocates would still have one believe, republicans are all “dry” and democrats all “wet.” there should be no great wailing or gnashing of teeth over what will happen .in Rensselaer or Other parts of Jasper county, in local option elections, as the republican vote in Rensselaer is about two to one, and the county over about five to three. They had better shut up their “yapping’’ or admit that they deliberately lie when they talk any such rot.

COAL AND WOOD. Try us for your coal and woodJackson Hill and Lehigh coal for ranges. Pittsburg Splint, smokeless, for heating. AH sizes of hard coal. —RENSSELAER LUMBER CO., Phone 4, An armload of old papers for a nickel at The Democrat office.