Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 33, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 February 1911 — STRICKEN WITH PARALYSIS ON HER WEDDING DAY. [ARTICLE]

STRICKEN WITH PARALYSIS ON HER WEDDING DAY.

Hiss Grace Grant Stricken at Eleven O'clock This Morning—Was to Be Wed at 8 This Evening. Miss Grace Grant, daughter of F. M. Grant, deceased, and who has resided with her brother Ed and sister, Miss Nellie, on the old home farm, just west of the county farm, was stricken with paralysis at about 11 o’clock this Wednesday forenoon. Her entire left side is affected and her condition was regarded as very critical. Miss Grant was to have been married at 8 o’clock this evening to Allie Francis* son of Joseph Francis, of Newton township. Mrs. J. c: Thompson returned today from a visit since last fall witfi relatives at Orland, 111. She was accompanied here by her grandson, J. Knupp, who will remain for a few days with his uncle, Henry Nevill and family.

Ed Oliver returned this afternoon from a business visit to Peoria and Springfield, 111., relating to the settlement of the Joseph B. Kennedy estate in Carroll county.

Captain Ed Davis and Lieutenant Gardner, of the Monticello militia company, arrived this afternoon to witness the military drama to pe played by Company M this evening. Several others will be over from Monticello on the evening train.

Louis Welsh and sister, Miss Ella Welsh, returned several days ago from Hoquiam, Wash., to which place Louis was called because of the serious sickness of his sister. Miss Welsh was taken sick with bronchial and catarrhal troubles and also with abscesses on the lungs and for forty days was in a hospital at Hoquiam. She is now considerably improved. Louis. did not like what he saw of Washington very well. Harry Hendricks and family are at Hoquiam, and Mort Murray is also there:

The county council was oalled to meet today,’ but by 2 o’clock this afternoon only four members of the board were on hand. There are several new members on the board, including F. E. Lewis, of Kersey; A. O. Moore, of Carpenter township; 8. T. Comer, of Union township, and John Hudson, of Carpenter. The old members are Frank Babcock, of Carpenter; W. V. Porter and John B. Martindale. The absent members of the board are Hudson, Moore and Martindale, the .alter of whom is prevented from attending by sickness.

Manager Bills has a number of attractions booked for the near future. The Jordan Dramatic Co. has a standing arrangement for Friday night and this week will present “Beyond the Law.” Next Tuesday night, Feb. 14th, the popular Damon Musical Co. will be here. This is the colored company which has been here twice previously and which has given tho very best satisfaction. On Thursday night, Feb. 16th, “Peck’s Bad Boy” *ill be the attraction. The title of this play alone should bring out a crowd. Several other attractions are to follow. On Saturday night, Feb. 18th, the wrestling match between “Billy” Stewarc and Roy Maple will take place. Thus, there will her something doing at the opera house four out of the six nights of next week.

As surmised by The Republican, there were several applications for saloon lioenses presented to the boards of county commissioners over the state at the February term. The applicants got in before the commissioners had ordered elections and in counties that become legally “wet” the latter part of this month. At Petersburg the commissioners held the applications up until the March meeting and ordered an election on Feb. 28th In the parts of the county affected. At Qreenaburg, Influenced by temperence workers, the commissioners held up the applications until a special meeting of the board to be held Feb. 15th. There is a possibility that some Judge may rule that the applications should have been granted whenever Hied, because at the time the application was presented the election had not been held. This was doubtless one of the schemes the backers of the bill had in view and the tardy signing of the bill contributed to the scheme by keeping petitioners for an election in the dark as to whether it would be signed at or not At Oreensburg there is a chance that the special meeting of the board to bejtold next Wednesday will grant tbe licenses applied for.