Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 201, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1910 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. C. O. Spencer is down from BeMotte today. B. J. Moore made a business trip to Monon today. Attorney John Greve is down from Wheatfleld today. Don and Madge Beam are spending today in Chicago. A. S. Laßue made a business trip to Stanford, 111., today. ' S. Leopold returned this morning from a business trip to Chicago. Mrs. E. C. English went to Chicago today for a short visit with relatives. Rufus Knox returned to Chicago today after a visit of a week with the home folks. Art Cole and daughter, Miss Bright Cole, of Lafayette, are spending today in Rensselaer. Shoe bargains for men, women and children in the shoe department at the Home Grocery. . Mrs. John Phillips returned this morning from a visit with her brother, Sam .Robinson, at Morocco. Mrs. David Hines and son Clarence went to Boswell today to spend a day or two at fair an£ to visit her daughter, Mrs. Robert Smith. Sylvester Gray left today for his farm near Bluffton, where he will spend about a week or ten days, overseeing some improvements. Clyde “Gunyon, who has been working on a dredge in Minnesota and lowa, arrived home today. He still suffers some from the rheumatism. There will be another excursion to Chicago next Sunday; 75 cents for the round trip. Train due here at 9:15. The Cubs and New York will play ball. Mrs. Bayard Clark and daughter, Miss Mary, of Pueblo, who have been visiting in Indiana for several weeks, are vißiting E. L. Clark and family here. Eli Arnold returned this mornltig from a trip to Wabash and Ft. Wayne. He reports that the recent rains were good in that section of . the state and done great good except for a heavy wind that accompanied the rain of Monday night and badly blew the corn down. Rev. C. O. Johnson, who has been pastor of the "local M. P. church for the past year, has been sent to Cass, in Sullivan county, by the conference. He expects to move the latter part of . this week. The Rensselaer church will be without a pastor until one fs supplied by the president of the conference. The viewers, J. E. Alter, S. A. Brusnahan and John Ryan, are now at work on the Newlana gravel road report. This road was petitioned for by Ed Oliver, et al., and will be built in Barkley township, north and south, passing the old Nelson Randle and Simon Dowell farms, with a branch east to . Newland, having a total length of seven miles with 33,414 acres of land to build it. > I T~ Chas. Parks, of near Surrey, was a visitor at the Republican office Tuesday evening and told of the burning of thj barn on the James Shindelejr farm, south of Mt. Ayr, last Wednesday. The main barn was 40x60 feet and a cattle barn 30x60 feet adjoined It: Contained in the barn was 25 tons of fine clover hay and considerable straw. No stock was lost, but the barn, hay and straw was burned. Lightning caused the fire. Mr. Barkis, who is selling lightning rods, had been working in the neighborhood and was Just driving by the house when the fire started. \