Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 200, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 August 1910 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Cyril Steel made a business.trip to Reynolds today. B. F. Fendig made a business trip to Chicago today. Mrs. I. M. Washburn is spending today in Chicago. Will Woodworth left this morning for Belle Fouche, S. Dak. / . _ Shoe bargains for men, women and children in the shoe department at the Home Grocery. F. O. Adams and wife,, of Hinsdale, Mich., were in Rensselaer over nigtu. They are land prospecting. Miss Minnie Scheurich went to Indianapolis today to spend several days in the wholesale millinery houses. Mr. and Mrs. Joseph Nagel went to Lafayette today after a short visit here with her daughter, Mrs. Hugh Leav.l. Miss Marie Northlane returned to her home in Union City today after * short visit here with her sister, Mrs. Haselmire. Mrs. Rosa Thayer, of Indianapolis, returned to her home today after a short visit with her brother, Douglas Smith and family. There will be anothe.r excursion to Chicago next Sunday; 75 cents for the trip. Train due' here at 9:15. |/he Cubs and New York will play ball. Born, Sunday, Aug. 21, to Mr. and Mrs. Oscar McClure, of Hammond, a daughter. Mrs. E. Peacock is with her daughter, and “Uncle” Blaine visited there Sunday. The little son of Will Whittaker, of Barkley township, has been quite sick with intestinal- trouble for the past two days. Slight improvement is reported at this tipe. Mrs. Mary D. Eger and Mrs. C: W. Duvall left this morning for a visit of two weeks with felatives at Grand Rapids, Mich. Mr. Duvall expects to go there later and participate in a family reunion of the Duvalls. John W. Walker returned last evening from the west and will make a longeF stay with old friends here. T'.e Republican was misinformed about him returning to Tombstone, Ariz. Instead he only went to Jefferson City, Mo., where Mrs. Fletcher M. Doan, the wife of Judge Doan, died at the home of her sister, arid where the burial took place. Judge W. .1. Wood, chairman of the Railroad Commission of Indiana, will hear evidence at 10 o’clock this morning on a petition filed recently by the Monon Crashed Stone Company at Monon'asking a reduction of rates on crushed stone from Monon to Battle Ground, Delphi and Lafayette. The petition, filed by the complainants against the Chicago, Indianapolis and Louisville Railroad Company, asks the commission to establish a. rate of not more than 30 cents a ton net. The present rate is 45 cents. V. J. Crisler left Chicago Monday night at 2:45 expecting to reach Rensselaer this morning at 4:49,- but he @Md not get in until 10:65, owing to *fhe wreck at Paisley. The tralp backed up to Hammond and would have come around by way of Wilders, but there was difficulty on the Erie road and the train had to wait. It finally reached Rensselaer shortly before 11 o’clock. There was a heavy wind storm in the north part of the state and Vern reports that corn north of the Three I railroad was blown down flat on the ground. A traveling man whe came over from Kankakee, 111., also reported that the corn was badly down in that section. Train No. 5, due here at it):ss, was about 40 minutes lath, Ho. 31 having run on No. s’s time. \