Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1915 — Page 4

THREE ESCAPE DEATH IN FIRE

Mother and Two Daughters Flee Flames. * LEAP FROM BURNING HOUSE Two Houses Are Destroyed by Blaze in Town of Summitsviile —Loss Is Estimated to Be About $3,000. Anderson. —In a fire at Summitsviile, in which two houses were destroyed, Mrs. George Pointer and two daughters escaped with their lives only by leaping from a secondstory window. The loss on the Pointer house was $2,000, without insurance. The Dennis Spitzmesser house, adjacent, was destroyed, entailing a loss of SI,OOO, partly covered by insurance. Couple Married 66 Years. Hartford City.— Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Owens of this city recently celebrated their sixty-sixth marriage anniversary. Mr. Owens is nearing his eighty-seventh birthday, and Mrs. Owens is eighty-six years old. “Of all the sixty-six years of our married life pa and I never had a quarrel," Mrs. Owens said during a recent interview. Mr. end Mrs. Owens were married in Randolph county in 1849. Both rode horseback to the church for the ceremony. Their acquaintance began in early childhood. They lived only four miles apart and attended school together. Mrs. Owens is very active and recently made a trip to the southern part of the state unaccompanied.

Victim of Renaud’s Disease; Laporte.—Mrs. Paul Cole of this city is one of the twenty victims of Renaud’s disease in the United States, and has just passed passed through her fifteenth operation. Mrs. Cole's case began with the swelling of the small toe of one foot, then the toes of her other foot began to swell. The physicians then began to operate, in hopes of arresting the progress of the disease, until now both of her feet have been removed above the ankle. It is said that in cases which have been reported, and only twenty are known, the disease progresses until the body frequently becomes almost dismembered, legs and arms being amputated, until death finally results Masonry Inspector Asked. Fort Wayne.—The twelfth annual conference of the Indiana Association of Bricklayers, Masons and Plasterers was held here, with sixtyfive delegates from fifty-three locals present. The conference indorsed the movement to create the office of state' inspector of masonry, the incumbent to be a mason of long experience. Officers were elected as follows: President, Harry D. Kendrick. Port Wayne (fourth time V; vice-president. Charles E. Cosatt. Indianapolis; secretary, Harry Bone. Kokomo (twelfth year); treasurer, Charles E. Blood. Terre Haute. The conference settled seventy-five disputes and appeals. No Trouble at Huntington. Huntington. Although suffrage workers here, who are preparing for the Eleventh District Equal Suffrage league convention, to be held Thursday, are sorry that friction has come to the surface in the state or-. ganizatipn on the eve of the. district meeting, they believe there will be none at the Huntington meeting. Mrs. W. 11. Piatt, district chairman, has expressed herself as an admirer of both Mrs. Clark Fairbank and Mrs. U. O .Cox, and the convention here is expected to avoid any subject that may bring the state board's trouble to the surface. | Body of MissinqMaTPPiii*|*^^ Michigan City.—Week’s search for Carl Moore, 1334 West Madison street. Chicago, ended when his body was found floating in the harbor here. Moore was a steel structural worker in the local plant of the Haskell and Barker Car company. He disappeared the night of Hallowe'en. When last seen he intoxicated. Mrs. Moore of above address had asked the police to institute search for her husband. Meeting Planned for Suffragists. Laporte,- That Indiana woman suffrage leaders have determined to fight developed with the calling of conferences to be held in thirteen congressional districts of the state. Meetings to urge the ballot for women will be planned to be held in every city and town in the state during the next year. Police Chief Goes to Jgil, Goshen.—Before Judge Drake in the circuit court here Edgar J. Vesey. chief of police, pleaded guilty to extortion in the levying and collection of fees in police courts and was fined $25 and costs and sent to Jail for five days. Married After Sixty Years. Hammond. —James Thorington of Romeo, Mich., eighty years old, and Mrs. Ametia Bailey of Lowell, seventy-five, were friends sixty years ago. A quarrel separated them

COY PURNELL GUILTY

SON OF HEAD OF HOUSE OF DAVID MUST PAY SIX CENTS. Mrs. Holliday, Former Member of Cult, Awarded Damages by Jury at Benton Harbor, Mich. St. Joseph, Mich., Nov. 12. —The Jury returned a verdict of guilty as charged in the $25,000 Augusta Holliday slander suit against "Prince” Coy Purnell, son of the reigning monarch of the Israel House of David, assessing damages at six cents. Under the verdict the defendant must pay the costs. Mrs. JloHMav was her own last witness. She was called to the stand for cross-examination just before the attorneys began their closing addresses. Before a crowd that jammed the courtroom to suffocation the girl told her story. It was a recital of the life of the “inner court” of Shiloh, "King” Benjamin's headquarters. Benjamin was pictured by Mrs. Holliday as a “debaucher of young girls, operating udder the cloak of religion.”. She told of her own intimate relations with the "seventh angel,” as Benjamin was styled, and asserted that she was only one of more the" a score who were forced to submit to the advances of "the king."

JAP RULER CONFERS HONORS

Many Dead Men, Including an American, Decorated by Emperor Yoahlhito, Following Coronation. Kyoto, Japan, Nov. 12.—Many honors were conferred by Emperor Yoshihito in connection -with the coronation ceremonies. A feature of the decorations was the large number of posthumous honors conferred upon men who have played a part in Japanese history in the past. Chief of the living who were honored was Count Okuma. the premier, who was elevated to be a marquis. Lafcadio Hearn, the American author, who lived and married in Japan, although long dead, was given the fourth grade of court rank. The shade of Hideyoshi, the six-teenth-century conqueror of Korea, and the spirits of the Japanese negotiators of the Townsend-Harris treatieswere also decorated.

THE MARKETS

Grain, Provisions, Etc. Chicago, Nov. 11 Open- High- Low- ClosWheat— ing. est. est. Ing. Dec. ...... 1:04%-% 104% 10344 1.0344 May ...... 105-054-4 106 1.M% 1.0474 CornDec. 6044-% 60% .59%-% ;597fc May .......,.63%-44 .6344-% .62%-% .62% Oats— Dec. .........33% .38% .3844-% .38%-% May ~...,..,39%-% .39% .3944 . 3944-% FLOUTI-Rpring wheat, patent. Minneapolis, wood or cotton, $6,10 to retail trade: Minnesota and Dakota patents. $5.10@5,30; jute, straight. $4.9f)@5.10; first clears, $4.20@4:35; second clears, jute. S3.OC @3.25; low grade, jute, [email protected]; soft wheat, patents, $5 [email protected]: rye flour, white, patents. ss.]o®r>.99: dark. S4.GO@4 TO. HAY—Market steady; choice new timothy, $17,6o@18,00: So l new timothy. $15.00 @l6 00; No. 2 timothy, '[email protected]; light clover mixed. 513 W'@ !4.<«h heavy clover mixed, $7:[email protected]; No. 2 red top and grassy miXecl timothy. $9 00@ IO.Oy threshed timothy, $01*0X00; clover; S4..T>@X«O; heated and damaged, s3,oo@f> 00: alfalfa, choice $15:[email protected]; alfalfa. No, !, S!3'[email protected]; alfalfa, No 2, $1" 00@ il.f'O

Chicago, Nov. It. ' 'BUTTER— Creamery,.' extras. 30@3044c; extra firsts. 29@2T ,•; i'rs's. 26@ 2744 c; seconds. 23*[email protected]. dajri s, extras. 2sc;- firsts, ' 24@2(>c; seconds. 20@2]c; packing stock. 19*4 @-20%c; ladles. 2 1,! » 12* EGS—Firsts, 30@304L-c; ordinary firsts.. 27 @2Sc: miscellaneous lots.'' cases included, i’o@?,Oc; cases returned, 19%@29*4c;: extra, ;3!@35c: checks.: ; .]s@lSe: dirties. TOfilOc, v I IVK l*OUl.TliV—Turk 1 vs. 16c per lb:: spring turkeys, ISc; chickens, fowls, 1044® 1244 c ;. springs, 1.3 c; roosters, hie; ducks 12 @ 1344 c: geese, 13@134 5 c. P'ED Pot I.TKV —Fowls, 12@13c; spring chickens. 33@1344c: roostets, 11*4.0; ducks. T2@l3c: turkeys, 14@15c- geese, 10@T2e POTATOKS—Minnesota, white. 30@5Sc: per htr,; Wisconsin, ’white. t.VT;T-V New York. Nov. It. AVTI KATr-Higher. h :sjn -ss brisk; No. 1 northern, $1.1644; No. 2 red, $1.26; No. 1 Manitoba, $1 19; No.. 1 macaroni. $1.13; December. $1.1(i%; May, $1.12%. St rori ger, business moderate: O A wh: te. nominal: No. y white, 4(j@ 4644 c; ungraded, '4o'® Live Stock. , Chicago. Nov. 11. CATTLE—Steers, good to choice. sS.ls@ J 0,40 ; yearlings, good to choice. $T [email protected]; inferior heifers, $4,[email protected]; good to choice heifers; $5.7;>@5.00; good to choice cows, $4.78>@6.40;- cutters, [email protected]: canners. $3 0£ @4.00: butcher bulls, $5.50® 7.00; bologna bulls, [email protected]; good to prime veal calves $9.50@10i75; neavy calves, [email protected]. HOGS—Prime to light butchers. $6.90® 7.20: fair to fancy light. [email protected]; prime medium weight butchers, 240@270 lbs:. $6.85 @7.20; prime heavy butchers, 270@310 lbs.; [email protected]; heavy mixed packing. $6.40@ 6.75; rough heavy packing, $6.1C@6:45; pigs, fair to good, [email protected]; stags. $5:[email protected] East Buffalo, N. Y., No.v. 11.' CATTLE—Market fairly active: prime steers. [email protected]: butcher grades, $6 00@ 8.25 CALVES—Market active; cull to choice. [email protected]. SHEEP AND r.A.MBS-Market slow; choice lambs, $9:[email protected]; cuupto fair. $5.50 @8.50; yearlings. [email protected]: sheep. $2.50® 6.25. : . UDGS —Market Active, 15@25c lower: Yorkers, $6.7£@'.10; pigs, $6:50; mixed. $7.10 @7,20; heavy, $7.25@7,35; roughs, $6,[email protected]; stags, [email protected]. ; ’ -

Omaha. Nov. 11 ltOGS—Market lower; heavy, [email protected]; light, [email protected]; pigs. [email protected]: bylk of sates, SG.4O@6 50. CATTLE—Market steady; native steers $6.50@10 00. cows and heifers, $5.50@7,00; western steers. $6.00®8.50: Texas steers’ [email protected]; stockers and feeders. $5 00® 7,75 SHEEP-Market steady; yearlings, $6.00 •"••’0 wethers, [email protected]; iambs. $8.60®

Happenings of the World Tersely Told

European War News JMeager reports reaching London from various sources estimate The dead on the torpedoed Italian liner Ancona as high as 356, of which as naany as twenty-seven were Americans. •* ■ * The news of the Occupation of the coast district as far west as Kemtfiern means that defenses of Riga have been further improved, says a message from Petrograd. The Russian line now runs northwest, opposite Kemmern, across the marsh land, past Lake Babit to the River Dvina. The Overseas News agency of Berlin announced that the liner Ancona had been sunk by an Austrian submarine, "The Ancona attempted to escape and thus forced the submarine to use its guns." added the statement. • • • Seven thousand Serbian soldiers and fifty cannon were captured by the German troops who took the Serbian arsenal town of Kruxvac, the war office announced at Berlin. • • • Newspapers of Berlin, according to the correspondent of the Exchange Telegraph company at Amsterdam, say the allies have landed 300,000 men at Saloniki, Greece, and that the transports are still coming in. • • % At a recruiting meeting held at Toronto, Gen. Sir Samuel Hughes, minister of militia, announced that when the big drive for German territory started he Intended to lead the Canadian forces on their march to Berlin, which would start sooner than was at present dreamed of. * • * The Italian steamer * Ancona, bound from Genoa for New York, has been sunk in the Mediterranean by a sub marine flying the Austrian flag. The Ancona carried 422 passengers and a crew of 60, says a dispatch from Rome. Two hundred and seventy survivors have been landed at, Bi/.erta. on the North African coast Some of them were severely wounded. About 150 passengers have been lost. • » * Recapture from the Bulgars of the Serbian city of Veles, 30 miles southeast of Uskub. on the Nish-Saloniki railroad, is announced in a dispatch from Saloniki to the London Times. * * * The French steamship Yser, formerly the American steamer Dacia, has been torpedoed and sunk by a German submarine off the Algerian coast. The Dacia was purchased by Edward N. Breitung. a New York millionaire, and sent to Germany with a cargo of cotton. She was confiscated by France.

British steamers Buresk of 2,278 tons and the Glenmore of 1,636 tons have been sunk. The crews were saved Copenhagen reports the steamer Birget was sunk by a German submarine. * • * The small German cruiser' Undine Berlin admits, was torpedoed and sunk ,by a British submarine off the Swedish coast. The Undine was of 2,672 tons. Nineteen of the crew went down with the Undine and ‘ \ died later of wounds. * * * Domestic That justice for American citizens is more important than a desire to restore peace in Europe or keep the United States out of war, was the doctrine laid down by the executive council of the American Federation Of Labor in its report to the convention at San Francisco. * * * The injunction issued by Circuit Judge Claire Edwards of Waukegan, 111., restraining the state board of live commissioners from slaughteri Guernseys Durand was ignored and the catUeSlarin. under orders issued direct by Governor Dunne. • • * The supreme court at Topeka. Kan., held that the Webb-Kenvon and Ma- ' hin acts are constitutional, that their exercise is not a delegation of interstate commerce power. The decision means that the names of persons receiving liquor shipments in prohibition j Kansas are public property. •* * * i With returns from all counties in ; Kentucky totaled A. O. Stanley (Dem.) is elected governor by 366. Contests by Republicans in two counties involved 307 votes. By losing them the Democrats have won by 59 votes. * * • William R. Gray, assistant postmasj ter at Mount Morris, 111., was sen- ! teneed at Freeport. 111., by Judge K. M. Landis a year and one day in the federal prison at Leavenworth, Kan., on guilty plea of misappropriation of funds, • * • The senate of the Georgia legislature completed its part of the prohibition legislation by passing the antiadvertising bill which makes it unlaw- ' fwl to advertise liquor in any way in the state or solicit liquor orders.

Twelve persona were killed and more than one hundred injured, many of them seriously, in a cyclone which swept through the residence section of Great Bend, Kan. » • •' The Chicago & Northwestern railroad has granted an increase in wages and improved working conditions to station agents, telegraphers and lever men in interlocking plants, it was announced at Chicago. * * • With only the charred skeleton of No. 4 machine shop of the Bethlehem Steel company, at South Bethlehem, Pa., standing as the result of a fire, officials of the company began planning immediately for the extension of their capacity to its former figure. Estimates of the loss placed it in the neighborhood of $4,000,000.

Jewelry to the value of $20,000 belonging to Gen. Francisco Villa was seized at El Paso, Tex,, by customs officers. A charge of smuggling was entered against Jose Castro. • * • Foreign Yoshihito was crowned emperor of Japan at Kyoto in_a glittering ceremony which combined all the pomp of the modern world with the weird and impressive rites come down from the dim beginning of the national life. The emperor has really ruled since July 31, 1912, the day after his father, Mutsuhito, died. • • • A decree dissolving the Greek chamber was published at Athens, according to a dispatch to the London Daily Chronicle. • • • Nine hundred Irishmen who intended to sail from Liverpool for New York on the Cunard line steamship Saxonia were prevented by the steamship company from taking passage. Crowds took the view that able-bodied men should not be permitted to evade liability to milß -y jservice. */ • » M. Skouloudis, new premier of Greece, has declared his intention of observing an attitude of very benevolent neutrality toward the entente powers. * * * Personal Dr. Edward Lee Greene, perhaps the best known of American botanists, died in Providence hospital at Washington. He was for years connected with the Smithsonian institute in Washington and was a member of the faculty of Notre Dame university. Doctor Greene w r as seventy-two years old, having been born in Hopkinton, R. 1., in 1843. * * • Miss Adelaide Walsh of Chicago has been chosen to represent the Illinois State Association of Graduate Nurses at the National Red Cross meeting in Washington December 7. * * * Mrs. Thomas ,T. Dockery, a wellknown club woman in Missouri and a leading figure nationally in the Women’s Relief corps, is dead at her home in Kirksville, Mo., after a brief illness..

Peter A. B. Widener. veteran financier and for years a dominant factor in the street railways systems of Philadelphia, New York and Chicago, died at Lynwood hall, his home in Elkins Park. Mr. Widener was eighty one years old. * • • Washington About twenty-seven Americans are believed to have been lost on the Ancona, according to a cablegram received by the state department at Washington from American Ambassador Page at Rome. Alexander Pattattivo, his wife and four children of New York and Mrs. Frances Mascola Lamura and about twenty unnamed third-class passengers perished. : 'V. * ■■ Secretary of State Lansing confirmed at M ashington press reports that M. DeleVal, counsel of the American delegation at Brussels, had been removed office as a result of a protest by the German government. * * * President M ilson and his advisers at Washington contemplate a special tax on munitions manufactured for export to raise funds for support of the administration program for preparedness, which is to cost $1,000,000,000. * * * In a note made public by the state department at W ashington, Germany makes emphatic denial that her government agents have manufactured fraudulent American passports. * * * X nited States Ambassador Page has been instructed by Washington to make a formal request for information from the British government relative to the action of a British cruiser in forcibly searching the American steamship Zealandia, while that ship was lying at anchor in the Mexican harbor at Progreso. * * * Ambassador Gerard at Berlin has been instructed by Washington to protest to the German government against detention of the American sailing ship Pass of Balmaha, which, after being seized by a British warship, was captured with the prize crew aboard by a German .submarine. * * * American marines have captured Fort Capois, Haiti, Admiral Caperton reports to the. navy department at Washington. He said there were no American casualties, but made no mention of Haitians..

HOOSIER NEWS BRIEFLY TOLD

Brookville.—Joseph Kuntz, a farmer, living about five miles west of here, was kicked by a mui and instantly killed. Indianapolis.—O. O. Tucker of the Cates Marble team of Indianapolis Commercial Bowling league was hailed as the champion bowler of Indiana for having made the perfect score of 30b in a regularly scheduled match. Tucker'3 feat entitles him to a gold medal from the American bowling congress. Indianapolis.—Wanted in Wichita, Kan., for the robbery and assault on Mrs. Cora Wheeler, Arthur Hauser, alias “Buck” Weaver, who confessed to a series of local holdups involving loot aggregating $2,000, was arrested. South Bend. —Health officers of the Thirteenth district will meet here November 17 to discuss Indiana health laws and bring about a higher state of sanitation in the district. Besides the officials, it is expected that not less than one hundred physicians and undertakers will be present. Huntington.—Sentences were pronounced, two days after capture, on automobile and clever seed thieves as follows: Henry L. Watt, twenty-two years old, one to fourteen years; William O. Overstreet, nineteen, one to eight years; Robert Aker, twenty-seven, one to eight years in the state reformatory. Wabash. Mrs. Francis Hinkle, sixty years old, an extensive land owner, Is occupying a cell In the county Jail at her own request, declaring that such protection is necessary. Mrs. Hinkle will remain in her cell until Tuesday, when her daughter-in-law, a tenant on one of her farms, will move from the state. Laporte.—Northern Indiana racetrack owners have been invited to attend a meeting to be held at Grand Rapids early in December to organize a racing circuit, to be composed of the principal cities in Michigan and Kendallville, Goshen, South Bend, La Porte, Valparaiso, Rochester and Crown Point in Indiana. South Bend. —County agents are closely watching farms along the border of St. Joseph and Laporte counties, following the discovery of a strange disease, believed by veterinarians to be typhoid fever, but having a resemblance to cholera, In Thomas Jackson’s herd of 200 Poland China hogs, near here. Anderson. About 200 delegates from Delaware, Henry, Tipton, Miami, Hamilton and Madison counties attended the second annual district convention of the Royal Neighbors here. The principal speakers were Miss Fannie Voitz of Indianapolis, state auditor of the order, and Mrs. Rex Winkle of Terre Haute, deputy supervisor of the state organization. Tipton.—Because of lack of evidence, Mrs. Viola Allen Baugh was freed in circuit court on a charge of complicity in the murder of Walter Varner of Greenfield last July, on the motion of Prosecuting Attorney Clinton Brown and C. W. Mount, his assistant. Mrs. Albert Robinson is still in jail, charged with murder, but it is reported she, too, may be acquitted.

Logansport.—.Mrs. Ella Brockman, fifty years old, was found unconscious on the floor of her home here by her nephew and is believed to have been attacked by an unidentified man while asleep. She was gagged with a handkerchief and bound hand and foot. She is in a critical condition. Her nephew, George Long, says he has no idea what the motive of the assailant was. - Hammond. Two minutes before Riley Lane, the oldest business man in Petersburg, died, watchers at heard a noise at the door, and when it was opened in walked Mr. Lane’s old horse, Dobbins, which stood at the bedside of its master until led away by friends. How the horse got out of the stable and to the house no one knows. Baltimore.--Gen. Clinton L. Riggs of this city, a member of the Philippine commission and secretary of commerce and police, announced that he had.resigned his post and that his resignation had been accepted by the president General Riggs said that he took this step because he “found it impossible to submit my views and actions to the apparent wishes of the administration, as expressed by the governor general.” Fort Wayne.—Ten persons were injured, five seriously, when two heavily loaded jitney busses crashed into each other here. The busses were loaded with passengers on their way to work in factories. Charlotte Doenges, Fred Bickness, William Firke and Sophie and Mary Huesner were taken to hospitals, where it is expected they will recover. Scores of jitney busses have been in operation ; during the street railway strike here. Terre William Huffman, convicted of participation in the election crookedness in connection with the muriicipal election here in November, 19\3, was taken to Michigan City by Jack Beattie, a member of the police force, and a deputy sheriff. Beattie is an old friend of Huffman’s, and it was at the request of the latter that he accompanied Huffman to prison. Greenwood.—Rev. H. Randal Dookabill, pastor of the Christian church here during the last four years, has tendered his resignation. He intends to take up evangelistic work.

QpssifieaAa ■> tender this head notices will be published for 1-cent-a-word for the first yH!. ert . n ; 1-2-cent-per-word for each additional insertion. To save book-keeping cash should be sent with notice. No notice accepted for less than twenty-five cents, but short notices coming within the abeve rate, will be published two or more times —as the case may be—for 25 cents.here replies are sent in The Democrat's care, postage will be charged tiser^ n& suc ** replies to the adverFOR SALE For Sal©—My residence property on Franklin street, can give possession Nov. 20, 115.—C. W. EGER. For Sale—House and barn in fi st class condition. Can be sold on monthly payments.—AßTHUß H HOPKINS. ts For Sal©—An armload of clean old newspapers for a nickel at The Democrat office. Just the thing for putting under carpets, on pantry shelves, etc. ts For Sale—4 or 5 highly improved farms in Walker township; also 100 acres in S. E. Marion; partially improved; also a small business house in Kniman for sale or rent. Any one doing business with me will avoid paying a commission.—ROßEßT MICHAL, Kniman, Ind. d-1 For Sale or Trad©—l2o acre farm I>4 miles south of Fair Oaks, 80 acres in cultivation, 40 acres of which is now in rye, balance timber and timber pasture new 4-room house, good new barn, both on cement foundations, good well of water, etc. All clear, will take as part payment residence property in Rensselaer at its cash value.—F. M. GOFF, Fair Oaks. n -i 5

For Sale—A choice lot of pure bred Hampshire boars, sired by State Fair winners. My herd is cholera immune by use of the simultaneous method. Pedigrees furnished with each hog.—JOHN R. LEWIS & SON, Rensselaer, ;Ind., R. D. 1, or phone 912-J. For Sale—loo good quality business size white envelopes with your return card printed in the upper left-hand corner, for only 50c, cash with order; 250 for $1; 500 for $1.50; 1,000 for $2.50. Mailed postpaid to any address in the United States for the above prices. Samples mailed free on request.—THE DEMOCRAT, Rensselaer, Ind. For Sale—The undersigned has for sale 280 acres of land of the William P. Baker estate which is now owned by Lawrence Baker. The land is beautifully located with reference to the city of Rbnsselaer, and the soil is exceedingly fertile, and is much better land than that recently sold in this community for from S2OO to S3OO per acre. The same may be had at its raesonable cash value if taken at H. PARKINSON, Attorney, Odd Fellows’ Building, Rensselaer, Ind. FOR RENT For Rent—Good barn.—MßS. TAYLOR BOICOURT, phone 603. n-18 MISCELLANEOUS Fstrays Taken Up—Two horses, one a sorrel and one a black horse, also two mule colts.—At J. J. LAWLER RANCH, Telephone 938-H. Storage Room—Storage room for household goods, etc., on third floor of The Democrat building. Prices reasonable.—F. E. BABCOCK. Typewriter Ribbons—For all tha standard makes of machines, the celebrated Neidich brand, also cai • bon papers of the same make, 04 sale at The Democrat office.

WANTED ■ I _ • Wanted—To rent a 80 to 120 acre farm, good, well improved land, grain or cash rent, by first-class, well equipped farmer.—Enquire at Democrat office. ts Wanted—Woman for general housework in small family.—Address P. O. Box 200, Rensselaer, or call at Democrat office for particulars. n-18 FINANCIAL Mutual Insurance—Fire and lightning. Also state cyclone. Inquire of M, 1. Adams, phone 5.33-L. I arm Loans—We can procure you a five-year loan on your farm at 5 per cent. Can loan as high as 50 per cent of the value of any good farm. No delay in getting the money after title is approved.—CHAS. J. DEAN & SON. Farm Loans — l can procure you a five-year loan on your farm at a low rate of interest. See me before placing your loan. Office, west side public square.—P. R. BLUE. Farm Loans—Money to loan on farm property in any sums up to SIO,OOO.—E. P. HONAN. Varm Loans—rT can now furnish 5 per cent money on good farm loans, and With the least possible delay.—JOHN A. DUNLAP. flnt hnl Withoyt Delay * nil If Wlthout Commission Uul II) f Without Charges for W Making or Recording Instruments. W. H. PARKINSON An arm load of old papers for 5 cents.