Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 65, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 March 1910 — ADDITIONAL TODAY’S LOCAL HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL TODAY’S LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

E. B. Smith. O. R. Lewis and Mrs Cleve Harkrider left this morning foi Chenoa, 111., where Henry Stiles, a relative, died yesterday of cancer of the stomach. Mrs. Smith was there when death occurred. The funeral will take place tomorrow. Mrs. Jennie Wishard, who was operated on at the Deaconess hospital in Indianapolis last Friday, is very much improved, so much so, in fact, that she was able to write a postaj card herself yesterday to her sister Mrs. John Kresler, This will ge glad news to her many friends and relatives in and about Rensselaer. Peter Parks, formerly of Remington, who has been living in Valparaiso for some time, and who has been in the grocery business there for about a year, was here over night at the home of his uncle, Lyman Zea. He recently traded off his store to M. M. Tyler, a former resident of Rensselaer. He is not certain in what he will engage the coming year. A letter from the family of Bruce Porter, near Mt. Vernon, S. Dak., states that his family are all well and getting ready for the spring farm work, and that the outlook there is fine for a good year. The snow is now all off the ground and spring is opening up in good shape. There has been a great deal of smallpox about Mitchell, but no former Jasper county people have had it. B. J. Gifford is here from Kankakee today. He says that the water in the Kankakee river this year is 2 feet lower than it was a year ago and he feels convinced that the many ditches in the north end of Jasper county will be better able to care for the spring rains than at any previous time. This, of course, leads to the belief that more course, the belief that more and better crops will be raised in the Kankakee river district than ever before. Chas. Grant has moved to the Joe Jackson farm in Barkley township. His father-in-law, H. M. Shipman, has rented his farm southwest of town to Robert Overton, and Mr. Shipman will leave tomorrow for Central City, Neb., to visit a sister for about three weeks.

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