Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 21, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1899 — DEMOTTE. [ARTICLE]

DEMOTTE.

T. M. Bums of Hebron was visiting relatives at DeMotte last Sunday. Mr. Jim Bunrs, who has been working out west, returned home last week. The duck season is about over. One man succeeded in killing 286 in five days. Jerome Massey, of Medaryville, Ind,, was out visiting relatives near here last week, We will have a Christmas tree here a week from Monday. W. O. Nelson has moved out in the country three miles from town. Rev. Skinner preached here Sunday. Miss Florence Fairchild is staying at A, O. Nelson’s going to school. Pie social at Gleason school house Friday night. Chas. Spencer is home visiting for a few days, from where he has been working for the last nine months. C. Mulder has sold his farm to A. Maybaum of Lake Co. Mr. Mulder is going to Washington next March. Chas. Thompson has moved into town and Ed Freels has moved out on Thompson’ farm. Chas. Freelin har sold his farm and is going to move to Rensselaer. Senator Hoar, in 1895 at the 275th anniversary of the Landing of the Pilgrims, said in referring to the growth of the tree the Pilgrims had planted: “Its boughs hang over the Pacific, and in good time, it will send its roots beneath the waves and receive under its vast canopy, the islands of the sea.” This sounds very expansiony, if not stiffly imperialistic. The Senator has not been talking that way much lately, but he is coming around that way slowly but surely.