Rensselaer Democrat, Volume 1, Number 10, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1898 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Thanks to N. S. Bates for a fine box of Strawberries. The railroad rate will be one fare for the round trip from all points in the district along the line of the Monon to the Congressional convention at Rensselaer next Saturday. Gertruda Welsh who has been teaching fa the city schools of Marion, Iris., is visiting her parents in Remington and other relatives in the? county. She will go to Terre Haute in a few days to attend the summer session of the State Nonas! School. George Ifevison who has been at Washington Gulch, Montana, running’ a steam shovel for a mining company, returned home the first of the week. He stopped in a Dakota town to change cars and went a shdi*t distance from the depot to get ft tench and on returning was assaulted by three' thugs, who robbed him of £Bo—all the money fee had with him. The conductor bn the next train loaned him enougll money to come home on. An extdiimge says that a Milwaukee preacher averts that ••nude figures” on five dollar bills are “iadewnt.” Perhaps this is so. but we never have had one of these enough to examine it But we don’t think •'nude figfares” would shock us very miicdi. We have attended social entertainments where the ladies were in “full dress” and wore but little more than a necklace above the belt and we still live. The figures on a five-dollar bill which have the most attraction for us.is the figure 5.

Dr. Pratt, Dr. Traugh, Fred and Ike Col born have recently engaged in fishing in the Stewart pond, and the results have been remarkable, as usually follow this sport. Pratt hooked an ounce and a half bass, the other evening, and the boys claim that he made more noise landing it than a battle-ship in action. Fred Gilman reached into his pocket for a match, Saturday evening, and pulled out a frog which had crawled into the dark recesses to hide from its misery. He said Ike gave it to him for bait, and in his excitement over Pratt’s bass it must have escaped.—Goodland Herald. . The Fowler school board oonBttxii’ed sometime ago that it would be a good plan to discriminate against married women in the employment of teachers and the new contract requires them to agree to not get married during the term for which they are employed. Whether or not all have signed this contract willingly or otherwise, we have not heard but some might consider that in so doing they were signing away certain rights that might in the meantime become of considerable importance to them.—Fowler Review. . , ■ ■ ■ ' -■--T ■