Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 28, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 February 1911 — A Second Hand Defendant In A Snit for Damages. [ARTICLE]

A Second Hand Defendant In A Snit for Damages.

Roy Staton, the Maxwell agent at Chalmers, and partner with N. C. Shafer, who manages the Rensselaer branch, has been made a defendant in a suit for 81,000 damages, brought by Russel Ward, of Chalmers, who alleges that one of Staton’s machines which was being driven by a young man named William Burns, struck his rig and inflicted injuries to himself, his horse and his buggy. Staton is held responsible in the complaint because he let Burns drive the machine. Manager Ellis, of the Rensselaer opera house, pronounced the performance by the Jordan Dramatic Co. at Lowell Monday night, one of exceeding quality and even better than the first performance by that company, which found so general favor in Rensselaer last Friday night. The same show will be presented by the same Company in Rensselaer Friday night and is deserving of a full house and Manager Ellis wishes to give his personal endorsement to the show. The title of the drama is “The Man of Mystery.” It is a society drama, whereas the play, “Under Arizona Skies,” presented last week, was a western drama. So long as the Jordan Stock Co., which is playing a circuit of towns, during the week, and at the Mabel theatre in Chicago on Saturdays and Sundays, is able to attract crowds, it will come to Rensselaer, and persons are thus offered an opportunity to see much better acting than is general in Rensselaer and other towns of this size. Get your tickets early at Jessen’s.