Jasper County Democrat, Volume 23, Number 81, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 January 1920 — TWENTY YEARS AGO [ARTICLE]

TWENTY YEARS AGO

[From The Democrat of Jan. 5, 1901.) Frank King hag disposed of his hitch barn to John Kresler. D. B. Nowels left for LaMar, Colo., last Saturday on a business trip. Ice about fire inched thick is being put up by some of the local ice dealers. B. M. Donnelly of Monticello has succeeded Mr. Soneback at the Pavilion Photo Gallery. Bruce White went to Crab Orch- i ard, Va., this week to superintend ’: some well drilling. The mercury registered 10 degrees below zero Tuesday morning, the I coldest of the gentury. Miss Grace Jacks will leave next Tuesday for Danville, 111., to enter a training hospital for nurses. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Catt of Greenfield spent the holidays with the former’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. Al Catt, of this city. Mrs. Richard Schanlaub and four children of Wabash county are visitIng the family of her brother-in-law, John Schanlaub, and other relatives here this week. Today’s Rensselaer markets (all top prices): Wheat, 65c; corn, 32c; today the prices were: Wheat, 65c; corn, 26c; oats, 21%c; rye, 45c. State Chief Ranger Edward P. Honan goes to Elwood today to install officers of the Catholic Order of ’ Foresters of that city tomorrow, and I will deliver an address to the order.. The “Good Roads movement” in be- j Ing agitated in Newton county, espe-l dally tn the south end. It is also, talked of building a north and south! gravel or stone road the entire length of the county. Marriage licenses: Dec. 29, Vernon Nowels to Rozella Smith; Dec. 28, • Henry 6. Gilbransen to Della Smith; ' Dec. 29, Charles Ross to Netta Collins; Jan. 4, Chase Burns to Anna) Nightengale; Jan. 4, Charles Hickman to Maud Barbour. A. B. Cowgill and David M. Wort-’ and have formed a partnership in! the undertaking and the buggy and carriage business. The office for the present will remain at Mr. Cowgill s old stand on East Washington street, but they expect later to move into quarters on South Cullen street, opposite the court house square, where Judge Thompson will erect a building for them. The 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. A. P. Burton died at Champaign, 111., last Monday of typhoid fever. The parents went to Champaign to spend the holidays and Fred was taken ill soon after arriving there. He was their only remaining child, they having lost an infant a little more than a year ago. The remains were brought back here for interment and the inneral was held from the Presbyterian church Wednesday afternoon.