Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 212, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 September 1910 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Jimmy Brown went to Goodland today to attend the horse show. Miss Estelle Sage went to Martinsdale today for a visit with friends. Mrs. R. H. Eib is attending the Danville association of the Baptist church at Roachdale. Don t forget that you can hear an excellent lecture at the Christian church tonight. Mrs. Maggie Clouse and Mrs. J. V. Whiteside, of Southern Illinois, are visiting relatives herer Miss Maude Scott, of south of town, went to Chicago yesterday, where she will teach iir the city school. W. Ray Miller, who has been the guest of Miss Grace Peyton, returned to his home in Piqua, Ohio, today. The last call for peaches for this season in car lots. . .. r JOHN EGER.

A delightful evening’s entertainment awaits you tonight at the Christian church. Admission 15 and 25 cents. J. Emerson Nye, impersonator, humorist, poet and monologist, came today and is ready to deliver his lecture at the Christian church tonight. Mrs. Mary Corcoran, of Goldfield, and Mrs. James O’Leary, of Victor, Colo., came today for a visit with the former’s fat.ier, William Walters, and other relatives. '» We are going to ship in another car load of fancy peaches, in bushel baskets. Leave your order now. If the quality and price is not satisfactory you do not have to take them. JOHN EGER. Frank Henkle is visiting his aunt, Mrs. J. H. Loughridge. Mr. Henkle was raised in Rensselaer, and for a number of years was night operator on the Monon here. He is now located at Lewiston, Pa., being employed as a night watchman. Yesterday was the forty-ninth wedding^, anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. D. E. Hollister and the 68th birthday of Mrs. Hollister. No special observance was made of the day, but next year Mr. and Mrs. Hollister expect to celebrate their golden wedding anniversary if still living. Mr. and Mrs. Mell Abbott, Harry Parker and Irma Kannal returned from their fishing trip on the Kankakee near Lake Village today. They caught 125 pounds of fish and had the goods to show when they got here. Mell and wife had not finished their vacation and took the afternoon train for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Landis, at Delphi. A peculiar situation has arisen in Wisconsin where the LaFollette candidate for the nomination for attorney general committed suicide. It is too late to change the ballots and the order has been sent out to the LaFollette faction to vote for the dead man. This will be the first Instance

in this country where a corpse was a candidate for office, though a good many ‘‘dead ones” have been elected. Mrs. R. H. Eib has arrived home from Bloomington, 111., at which place on September Ist she attended the reunion of her mother’s family, at Miller’s Park in that city. The Hougham family are able to trace their ancestry in a direct line back to <»bout the year 1700 to their ancestor who came to America from England and settled in Maryland. About one hundred and twenty-five of the descendants were present. They formed an organization and voted to hold the reunion annually in the future. Get your peaches for canning Wednesday and Thursday, September 7th and Bth, at Bowles * Parker's.