Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1910 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

AT THE Princess tonight — * — PICTURES. Tbe Tenderfoot’s Triumph. SONG. Somebody Wants You, by . Miss Myrtle Wright.

I. M. Lewis, who has been teaching in the Texas University at Austin, has returned home to spend the summer with his mother, Mrs. Margaret Lewis, of Barkley township. The Christian Mothers of the CAtholic church will give a lawn festival Wednesday, June 22nd, in the church grounds. Ice cream and cake and coffee and coffee-cake will be served. Music will be fujraJshed by the Boys’ band, beginning at 8 P. M. Everybody invited. Delphi’s pearl button factory started last Thursday with seven men at work. Only the blank buttons are cut from the mussel shells in this establishment. These are then sent to another place to be ground down, the eyes pierced and the button polished and carded. It is said no finishing will be attempted before next year. A dispatch from Peru says that the farmers are having trouble with the Hungarian pheasants they have been keeping on game preserves. The pheasants became very tame and walk into barnyards and eat up the feed spread for other fowls. They particularly dislike turkeys and one man had two turkey nests destroyed by them and the old gobbler licked to a frazzle.

The latest is the “wind wagon,” driven by hot air, of course. The wagon is an automobile on which a propeller, the same as used to drive an aeroplane, is attached to the drive shaft at the rear, and the car simply coasts on the four wheels, driven by the rapid revolutions of the propeller. The Overland company built one of these “wind wagons” that made 70 miles an hour on the Indianapolis speedway. We were temporarily out of Aristos flour last week, but we have now received another car, making the seventh car that we have unloaded since Jan. Ist. More flour than all tlie balance of the merchants have had in the same length of time. If it was net for the high quality of the flour, we could not have sold it. If you have not tried it, do so. Every sack guaranteed or money refunded. JOHN EGER. Charlie Lewis is home from Orons, Maine, where he is a teacher in the State University,,to take part in an' interesting ceremony this afternoon. At three o’clock he will be united in marriage to Miss Clifford Moody, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Granville Moody. The ceremony will take place at the home of the bride’s parents in Barkley township. Rev. E. M. Kuonen will officiate. Only % few of the relatives and friends will be present. After the ceremony Mr. and Mrs. Lewis will leave for Maine, their future home. The groom is the son of Mrs. Margaret Lewis, of Barkley township.

The residence of Isaac Davis at Monticello was destroyed by fire yesterday. Mr. Davis is the father of City Marshal Davis, of Rensselaer. The fire started In the attic or roof above the kitchen and was not discovered until it had eaten its way under the roof over the dining room and up into the space under the roof over the main portion of the house. As soon as the fire was discovered the neighbors rushed in and carried out the furniture, clothing, carpets, etc., saving about all except the contents of one bed room up stairs and that was not seriously injured except by yater. The origin of the fire is not known but is ; suspected to have been a defective flue in the kitchen. The damage ihay reach SI,OOO, but is protected by insurance. Mr. Hayner, expert piano tuner and repairer, from Chicago, is in town and respectfully solicits the patronage of his many clients and others that would like to have their pianos tuned or repaired. Please leave orders at Clarke’s jewelry store.