Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 April 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Clinton county has a lady assessor this year, Mrs. Lamar having been appointed a deputy of the Michigan t< wnship assessor and filed her in the sum of SI,OOO as required .by law. Any one having an old calender of 1887 may successfully utilize it fbJ* this year, as 1898 is an exact reproduction, holiday and all. Tliis will not again occur until 1996. Mr. Albert C. Farmer and Aliss Lida Richey were married Thursday April 7th, at the home of the brie’s parents, Mr. and Airs; O. K. Richey four miles south of the city. The bride was until recently a student in the high school at this place. The young couple will make there home on the Dr. SUgpkwell farm in Milroy township. Last Friday evening Air. Hammond, the school teacher, was pleasantly reminded that it was All Fools’ day. Pupils to the mtgiber of thirty-two gathered at his home and spread a delicious lunch upon his table. After the good things had been dispatched the little folks siiont the remainder of the evening very pleasantly with games and all had a good time.- Morocco Courrier.

A noted American actress who rgsrelttly arrived in Chicago from a three-months engagement at Alndrid, Spain, says that the Spaniards showed her marked courtesy during her stay it that city, some of the young men even going so far ns to spread their capes upon the ground for her to wmlk on while passing from’the theater to her carriage.- -Ex. j i ... The tde factory at Mt. Ayr, Itffh‘ffie•%nrn that sio6ff‘ just north of it. two good horses, a ■cow and a carriage, were consumed by fire Tuesday noon of last week. The tile factory and burn and all ! the other property, with the ex- | ception of one horse, owned by ! Phil Seecore. belonged to Stacker ! A Coo vert. The fire was started by some children who were playing in or near the barn.

The Kankakee Reclamation Company, which proposes to iv- ! claim 50,000 to 75,0!X) acres of ; land in the counties of Porter. Lake, La Porte, Starke. Jasper and | Newton, along the Kankakee river, has been incorporated under the State laws. It is the purpose of the company to make the river as straight as possible, remove all 1 debris and then cultivate, t; e land i for sugar beet raising. —Morocco ! Courrier.