Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1903 — Asphaltum, [ARTICLE]

Asphaltum,

The farmers have most of their corn planted in this locality. What is up looks very nice. Mrs. Murphey and Mrs. Walter Hershman are not recovering from their serious illness very satisfactorilv. m R, E. Farlow started for California last Thursday, where he calculates to make his future home, his wife and little daughter Laverne are going as soon as he finds a suitable location,

Mr. and Mrs. Otto Kennedy of Mortimer, O. visited relatives near Asphaltnm, last week. They were called to Wheatfield on account of the serious illness of his s'ster Mrs. Dora Denison. At last account she was a little better. Bert Snyder the pamper at Asphaltnm, spent Sunday at Monon with relatives. A beautiful little daughter came to the home of Wm. Hershman last week, the 17th. She weighes 7 lbs. John Brad berry oame very near losing a good horse last Saturday by giving it too muoh water while warm.

The ladies of the Christian ohnroh gave an ioe cream supper last Wednesday evening in R. E. Farlow’s store bni ding in Asphaltnm. The proceeds goes for the benefit of the church. R. E. Farlow has sold hie property in Asphaltnm to Marion Marker, the pamper for the Federal Oil Co. He is talking of putting goads in and running a general store. The stock holders in the oil com. panies have been Very unconcerned about the interests of the farmers in this locality, leas'ng their land and promising to operate and failing to

comply with their agreement, and go on selling stock and leases until they are rich. But the farmer* are getting tired of this, end the lews of Indiana I think will be tested in the near future, and see whioh owns the land, the farmers or Oil Companies. Grave Bouse joined Heno’s show and went as far as Lafayette with them and returned home Saturday for a few days visit with his folks, but he is going to join them at Kankakee and go to the Dakotas with them. He is going to be a trapeze performer,—