Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 103, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 April 1910 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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. LOCAL HAPPENINGS. T. W. Grant went to Monticello on business. Try four cans of fancy kidney beans for only 25c at John Eger’s. Omar Elder went to Monticello today where he is contracting ditching. James Ellis, Jr., went to Monticello today for a visit with his grandfather. Hurley Beam will return to Indianapolis tomorrow to work as reporter for the Star. .' James Mohler and family returned to Francesville today after a visit with Everet Greenlee and family. Matt Moosemiller has resigned his position as delivery boy at the Rowles and Parker store and will take up farming. Parties having in their possession any baseball suits or gloves will please turn them in to the management immediately. L. A. Harmon, Manager. Riverview is to be the name of a 'town that is to be built on the Kentucky side of tbe Ohio river, opposite Evansville, which may rival Gary. •Capitalists the deal for •the land. Wm. Knox graduated from the Illinois University, where he has ?been taking a course in pharmacy, this week. His father, Thomas Knox, and sisters, Leah and Lucille, and Mrs. Mary Howe, attended the exercises. • We have just ordered out our sixth car of flour for 1910. Quality and price are what tells. $1.50 a sack for -the best flour mace or money refunded. . JOHN EGER. The Janesville, 0., Times-Recorder, in Speaking of the progress that the Chamber of Commerce - of that city is making toward reaching the 600 membership mark, notes that Chas. •G. Wiltshire, a former Rensselaer boy who is making his mark in the world, has become a member of the organization. x

Strange as it may .seem, there 1b Yet a chance for a part of a fruit crop. Persons who have made careful examination, state that part of the cherry, pear and apple buds remain unblasted, while a goodly portion of. the strawberries are yet safe. Young clover is in danger, but is thought to be safe yet. - Wheat and oats are not 'damaged materially. i ■ The populatlhn of the Indiana reformatory has shown a remarkable falling oft in six months, since the present management took charge. Jn a little over six months the population has fallen 205 from a maximum of .1,298 poon after tyfajor David A. Peyton became general superintendent, to 1,093 at the present time. The present number is even now more than the institution can accommodate with comfort. Mrs. Alice Landis, of Middlebury, has in her library a copy of Lindley Murray’s grammer, the pioneer American text book on language, issued more than one hundred year* ago, and for half a century the standard in the schools of England and America. It was used by her grandfather, Isaac Heaton, an experienced* teacher of many years in the days of the oM county seminary system of Indiana. The petition of the Lake Shore and Michigan Southern Railroad company to have its case against the. South Shore road transferred from the Supreme court to the appellate court of Indiana has been granted. This is the celebrated high tension case, the L. S. ft M. S. road being one of the three plaintiffs in the case.