Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 47, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 July 1895 — DEMOTTE. [ARTICLE]

DEMOTTE.

Rain plenty, weather warm, crops growing and farmers happy. The Canning factory is running day and night taking care of the first crop of peas, while the farmers are still planting more. G. B. Antrim’s new house is about complete; when finished he will have a fine residence built on the latest improved style.

Mrs. Troxell’s new house or addition to the hotel is now completed. It adds great convenience to both guests and land-lady as the fast improvement of our town and the increased patronage of the hotels demanded more room. The west bound local had two box cars to run off the track at this place last Friday. They were delayed for an hour or two was the only damage done. Frank Geirings’ new house on DeMotte street is about finished. Miss Annie Erwin who has been visiting friends in DeMotte for a week or two, will start for her home in Tennessee in a few days. Henry Brockway who has been detained in Indianapolis Asylum for the past nine months, arrived home last Saturday pronounced cured. Sam Luce’s new house on DeMotte street is making rapid progress toward completion. C. O. Spencer is doing the work. Wm. Call is going to build a house in town. Warren & Antrim have the contract.

And now a word of advice to the correspondent to the Wheatfield Sheaf. We like a man with a large imagination but he suits most too well. It is well enough to boom a town through the medium of the papers and tell of the improvements but it does more to hurt the town than to help to build it up, now in regard to the water-works tower being up and the pipes being layed. While it is a fact that the tower is •now heing put together ready for raising, there is no work done as yet in laying pipes to supply the town with water, and the man who is to put in a mattress factory here next season. If your correspondent has been rightly informed it is to be a mat factory that will use up our surplus prairie hay. These are small matters but neighbor stick to the truth is our motto.

J. F. Bruner is soon to start a new house on Lilia street that will eclipse J anything in town in regard to beauty and convenience. F. M. Headly, our canning factory superintendent is building a house on Iris farm amrihrwest of town. Born —since July Ist. ' - A boy to Mr. and Mrs. James Erwin. A boy to Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Gerry. A girl to Mr. and Mrs. Tim Curtain. A girl to Mr. and Mrs. Sam McGinnis. A boy to Mr. and Mrs. Fay Granger. A girl to* Mr. and Mri. Bert Robbins. A boy to Mr. and Mx* What town can beat tius?