Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 June 1904 — Page 8 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Church Fair and Social. At the Barkley M. E. church Saturday evening June 25th there will be combination of good thing’. No charge for admission to the social. Rev. W. H. Fertich will assist in the literary program and will render something that people will want to bear. Aprons, bonnets, fancy work and other things will be on sale Ice cream strawberries and cake. 15ots. w2t

Church Festival At Mt Ayr. The Lidiea of the Mt Ayr M, E. church wilt give a festival, in the Mt Ayr Park, Saturday afternoon and evening. beginning at 4 o’clock. Strawberrb s and ice cream, and straw-berry snort cake will be served. Everybody invited. Lafayette Journal: W. F. xHanna, Purdue ’O4, left yesterday for DeMotte on the Kankakee to superintend the survey of 25,000 acres of land recently purchased by the Potter syndicates. The land is well known as the Nelson Morris ranch, Mr. Hanna has for his corps of assistants R. D. Kneale, David M. Allen, W. A. Carson, R. S’ Horsmark and Paul Sloe rm.

Southeastern Lands. Charles J. Dean, Rensselaer, Indiana. Rich prairie lands in Northern Texas adjoining-to Oklahoma line; smoothe as a floor, rich, black, deep soil covered with a thick growth of Buffalo grass; eoil will produce all crops, and fruit and alfalfa ti perfection. Prices run from $4, to $8 We are cutting these up in small tracts at $8 per acre for a short time. One-third cash bilance in yearly payments at 6 per cent into rest. Pecos Valley, New Mexioot irrigated lands excells California for fruit and climate. Finest stock, and alfalfa proposition in the Unit ed States. Water is supplied by natural water course a, Irrigation Company and art* sian-wells. These lauds are < ffered at $25 to SSO per acre, in small tracts ’or fruit growing, wiihiti 3 to 7 miles of Santa Fe railroad and txoellent towns in large tracts for grassing purpose. The lands are selling from $6 to sls per acre. Oklahoma—l have a large list of lands in Oklahoma, and Kansas, can sell you'land in any County in Oklahoma, at from $lO to $35 per acre. Cheap rates, less than half fare on the first and third Tuesdays of each month. For further information, write or call on J Dean, Rensselaer, IndiMsi. 1

Bay Dealer’s Notice. Wanted-Men to Cut Hay. The highest price per ton will be paid persons for cutting and stacking 10,000 acres of hay, by the Northern Indiana Land Company, who also have 5,000 acres of hay for sale by the ton, to bay dealers or persons to do their own cutting and stacking. The Northern Indiana Co, calls the attention of bay dealers and others to the faot-tbat this will be good opportunity to get good ey at reasonable price The hay ill be ready to out about June Ist. lontrauts and terms can be bad by pphing to W. N. Pence, De M lnd. w 4

A Kankakee River Hermit Disapepars John Tuoker a recluse, living in an abandoned cabin in an out-of-the way place in the Kankakee swampe, near Lacrosse, disappeared April 13. He was a qui t, unobtrusive fellow, sive when dissapating and was last aeen within two miles of North judson, carrying a pack of furj of anim t’.s which he had trapped The Baughman Bros,, owners of a sawmill, exchanged the time of day with him, and from tfiat moment no trace of him is discoverable, Numerous hun ing parties endeavored to locate him, and it is now the belief that he was murdered for the furs and his body secreted. Suspicion rests on several local characters who have kept North Judson in constant turmoil during the last winter and spring by their drunken brawls The uutho ities hav made no effort to solve the mystery, but the incoming grand jury may take the matter up.