Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 May 1910 — John Kaupke Dies Suddenly At Home in Barkley Township. [ARTICLE]

John Kaupke Dies Suddenly At Home in Barkley Township.

John Kaupke, a well known farmer residing about 4 miles northeast of Pleasant Grove in Barkley township, dfed suddenly this Tuesday morning. He had been in rather poor health for the past year, but worked Monday. Early this morning he complained that he was not feeling well and a inember of the family went to call a neighbor in. Before he returned Mr. Kaupke had passed away. He -was about 50 years of age and leaves a wife, two sons aqd one daughter. Only one son is at home.

Fred King has gone to Winona where he will again be employed this summer in the flower garden and landscaping work of that beautiful chatauqua park.

Mrs. A. B. Scott and son, A. C. Scott and wife, of Oxford, came over iu an automobile yesterday and spent the day the guests of the former’s sisters, Misses Lizzie and Mary Comer.

It in safe .-to say that a hundred automobiles have passed through Rensselaer each way between Chicago and Indianapnis to at'end or returning from the automobile races on the Indianapolis speedway. Soma mighty fine cars, whose owners are evidently very wealthy, have stopped here, sometimes for meals and sometimes over nigor and sometimes for short rests only. They help to make business good for the hotels and restaurants.