Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 49, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1895 — DEMOTTE. [ARTICLE]

DEMOTTE.

John Keptner, of Marion, Ind., visited friends in DeMotte Saturday and Sunday. Frank Gearing has got moved into his new house. Lee Story moving into the house vacated by Gearing. A house doesn’t stay empty 24 hours in DeMotte. W. W. Cheever’s new house is about completed. It is reported upon good authority that there will be a house keeper for it when done. That’s right Bill. The side walk is- now laid from A. Hallecks Office along 1.1. I. Ave. to the corner of Lillia street then along Lillia street to the M. E. church. Our streets are all being cleaned of brush and stumps, preparing them for grading where they need, and for covering the sandy part with muck or clay. Ice Cream. Social next Saturday night for the benefit of the Mutual Friends Library. Come all, and help a good cause. Mrs, Swab, of Kensington is visiting at her nephew’s Chas. Ginderis. Mr. and Mrs. Charles Osenburg, of Gano, are visiting friends and relatives in town. We have often heard of folks taking a drink on the 4th of July that would multiply and enlarge the vision, make men see two objects where there was but one, or figuratively speaking, make a mountain out of a mole bill. But we must confess that we never heard of the drink that the Kniman correspondent indulged in the 4th, that would so work on his vision that he could look into the future, or that would make men and women look like babies; then to stretch his imagination so that he could hear those same babies “Hurrahing” for the Glorious Fourth. Brother isn’t there something wrong with you? Don’t be jealous because your little burg can’t compete with one of the most enterprising towns in Indiana. Since our last report there has been two more births to add to the list, that made our brother feel so bad over. A boy to Mr. and Mrs. Theo. Potter and also a boy to Mr. and Mrs, Geo. B. Antrim.