Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 October 1910 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. « —■■■ .. Jim Babcock is here from Bluffton for a short visit. Miss Anna Marion, of Parr, is spending today in Morion. Ijeave your order for kraut cabbage at the Horae Grocery now. Mrs. Joe Luers and Miss Elizabeth Luers visited in Chicago over Sunday. The ladies of the Christian church will hold a Thanksgiving market on Wednesday before Thanksgiving. Take no chance on your flour, buy the 'Best,” at the Home Grocery, and have the best, only $1.50 a sack. J. F. Irwin made a trip to Wolcott today. The tile factory is very busy there and there are lots of buyers. Benjamin Hopkins, son of S. H. Hopkins, of Barkley township, left today on a trip to Delphi, Logansport and Wabash.

Those who use the Puisbury flour never have any trouble in getting good bread. Rhoades Grocery handles this celebrated flour.

Mrs. Jean Crowell and Miss Ellen Sayler went to Thayer this morning, where the former is teaching and the latter keeping house for her.

For those who failed to get pears out of our car, we will have another pear sale. Leave your orders at once. JOHN EGER.

Mr. and Mrs. William Swisher, of Redkey, who were here Sunday to attend the funeral of James Spriggs, left for their home this morning.

Mrs. Ed Heath returned to Oxford today after a short visit here with her sister, Mrs. George Col vert. Mr. Colvert, who has been quite sick, is somewhat improved today.

Miss Anna Peregrine, who has been visiting Jasper county relatives, mostly in Hanging Grove township, for the past month, left this morning for her home in Chillicothe, Ohio.

Mr. and Mrs. J. L. Adams, Mabel Waymire and John Norman went via automobile to Winona Lake Saturday lor a visit Sunday with Delos Waymire, Vannie Arnold and Van Norman, who are attending school there.

Mr. and Mrs. Russell Sluyter, who left Rensselaer several months ago and located at Redfleld, S. Dak., are now in San Francisco, Cal., to which place they have ordered their Republican sent. Mrs. Sluyter is a daughter of Mrs. H. I. Adams. Russell is a barber.

Miss Myrtle Davis Swain, who has been visiting H. W. Kiplinger and family here for about five weeks, left this morning for her home in Louisville. Miss Swain is a talented violinist and possessed of other accomplishments that made her very popular here.

We are just unloading this week our thirteenth car of flour Bince January Ist, 1910. More flour than all the balance of the dealers in town have handled. Quality is what tells. Aristos $1.50; Puritan $1.40, and Diadem $1.35. Every sack warranted satisfactory or money refunded. V JOHN EGER.

Jess Coovert arrived home Saturday from Lorburn, Saskatchewan, Canada, where he had been for some six months. He worked on a farm and at harvesting and received fine wages and arrived hojnp about $250 ahead of what he Took away with him. He expects to take things tolerably easy this winter and return to Lorburn again in the spring.

Dr. Bernard S. Maloy and wife came from Steger, 111., this morning to attend the funeral of his grandmother, Mrs. O'Meara. They did not arrive until the 10:55 train, expecting the funeral to be held after that hour. It had occurred, however, at 9 o’clock, but they were taken to Mt. Calvary where the burial took place. Mr. and. Mrs. Frank Maloy, of Lowell, came Sunday to attend the funeral.

Judge Hanley and Court Reporter Folk returned to Kentland this morning to resume court. A busy calendar is reported there, with a number of state cases charging perjury growing out of the Bumgardner confession. These will not be tried until next week and Judge Hanley will not hear them, having been sworn ofT the bench and Judge Darroch appointed. The case of the State vs.- Chas. Spinney, former county treasurer, will be tried the fourth week.