Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1910 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

ADDITIONAL TODAY'S LOCAL HAPPENINGS. About a thousand bushels of wheat a day are said to be received by Babcock & Hopkins at their Parr elevator, Warren Robinson, who has been confined to his home by illness since last Friday, got down town again today. » Today is a scorcher. The temperature at 1 o'clock in front of Larsh’s drug store was 92. Seemß like a hundred. 200 pairs children’s shoes, sizes 8 to 1, were sl-00, now 95 cents. Fendig’s Exclusive Shoe Store, Opera House Block. Mrs. Frank Paul and little son, of Paoli, are visiting her brother, H. R. Kurrie and wife. They will remain for about a week. Attorney and Mrs. G. A. Williams returned this morning from a month’s visit at his parents' home back on the farm, near East Liberty, Ohio. Robert Vanatta came yesterday and returned today to Marion. He paid i short visit to his parents, Mr. and M s. John R. Vanatta and his little daughter. F. F. Moore, of Indianapolis, is here a short time today. He is a nephew of Mrs. Joseph Yeoman and a son of J. J. Moore, who died a few months ago at Trafalgar. Perry Gwin arrived from Marion last night for a three weeks’ vacation. He will then return there and complete the commercial course in about another montE7 The Home Grocery is introducing a new sealer for Mason fruit jars, known as Keeran’s Vacuum sealer, which docs away with rubbers, seals instantly and is absolutely a sure keeper. 10c a box. Try them. N. C. Shaffer, the Mitchell auto agent, was notified by telegram thia morning of the death yesterday at Star City, of his aged grandmother. Mrs. Schafer went at once to Star City and Mr. Shafer will go tomorrow. Rev. C. L. Harper went to Indianapolis today, where he will deliver the funeral address of Thos. Burns, a member of the St. Paul M. E. church, of which Rev. Harper was the former pastor. Mrs. E. E, Stephenson, who returned some time ago from Montana, in very poor health, has not regained any strength since coming here. She is at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Ed Kirk, and is confined to bed. Her heart is in a very bad condition. Simon Phillips had 30 acres of wheat adjoining the corporation which threshed out 780 bushels, thus making 26 bushels to the acre. Henry Eigelsbach had 18 acres at his farm, which is said to have made 40 bushels to the acre. Wheat is quoted at 97 cents today. The Unique Penny Photo Co. has located in Rensselaer east of the court house in a tent for a short time. Now is your chance to get a photo of each ■member of your family at a small cost —lO photos of yourself for 10c. They are nice size and fine finish. It will pay to investigate. Miss Edith Shedd left this morning for an eastern trip. She will go first to New York City to visit her brother, Harry, and from there will go to Boston, Mass.; Walpole, N. H., and then to Lake George, N. Y., where she will join Miss Ethel Perkins, who is now there. After a visit at that beautiful place they will return home by way cf the great lakes. Frank J. Sears recently received a postal card containing a picture of his father, Elijah Clark Sears, of Canton, S. Dak. The photograph was taken on the 105th birthday of his parent and he looks to be a very hale and hearty man. He lives with one of his daughters. His son in Rensselaer, Frank J. Sears, will be 83 years of age in September and says when he thinks of the great age of his father, he begins to feel that he ought to start up in business again. Among the treasured family possessions of the family of Joseph Hummei, of Muncie, and carefully preserved beneath a glass case, are two small loaves of bread, each weighing an ounce and a half, were baked ninety-three years ago and are relics of the famine that swept Germany in 1816 and 1817. Wheat then sold for 284 a bushel. The loaves are heirlooms in the Hummel family and came into Mr. Hummel’s hands when he was visiting his old home in Wurtemburg, twenty years ago.