Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 April 1911 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. E. C. English and son Harry went to Glencoe Saturday for a short visit Miss Edna Kays left Saturday for a.visit of three months with relatives at Lake Geneva, Wis. Mrs. Ira Galbraith and children returned' to Chicago Saturday after a week’s visit with friends here. —==* The new things in clothing, shirts, hose, underwear and Bhoes at Rowles & Parker’s, Rensselaer’s growing store. * A good many are trimming their fruit trees this year that have not done so for a number of years. They will doubtless be rewarded by a muck better quality of fruit.

If you are not using White Star flour, we want you to try a sack. We guarantee every sack. Money refunded if you are not pleased. Only $1.35 a sack. RQWLES ft PARKER. Robert T. VanGundy, who recently purchased the Smith farm in Barkley township, arrived here last week and his and baby and his sister, Miss Carrie VanGundy, arrived this morning. Their home was at Sullivan, HI. Mr. and Mrs. J_E. Spaulding and daughter Margaret, of Anderson, came Saturday to spend the week end with his sister, Miss Elizabeth Spaulding, manager of the Western Union office here. They also visited A. W. Sawin and family, Mrs. Spaulding being his cousin. They left on the early morning train for Chicago. Sixty-seven babies, two of them twins, joined the King’s Daughters and Sons at the seventh annual convention of the Indiana state branch of the organization at Ft. Wayne. The babies’ mothers signed the membership rolls for them and Mrs. B. C. Whitney, of Detroit, wife of the theatrical man, who is a national officer of the organization, pinned the membership badges upon the babies.

Edward Everdon defeated George Flynn in an egg eating contest at New Albany and is claiming the championship of the city. The eggs were hard boiled and the men were evenly matched. Everdon ate twenty-four. Flynn stayed on even terms with Everdon until he ate his twentieth egg. Everdon appeared to be as fresh as when he started and Flynn quit after eating three more. Neither appeared to suffer after the feat. A half dozen chickens were stolen last night from L. H. Hamilton’s hen roost and there were footprints in the snow that enabled Marshal Mustard and Fred Hamilton to track the thieves clear to Lee. They were apparently hobos and just swipe a few chickens now and then to keep themselves in tobacco. After tracking them to Lee word was dispatched to the marshal at Monon to be on the lookout for them and arrest them if they hove in sight. W. I. Leatherman. who came from Missouri to visit his aged father, James Leatherman. after an absence of thirty years, was disappointed at not meeting more of his old comrades of Company K, of the 48th Indiana. He found only two residing in Rensselaer, viz., I. N. Hemphill and B. L. Sayler, and one, Joseph Galey, living south of town. He had expected to find moat of his old comrades! still here and looking young as be does himself and feeling good. He is a carpenter in his home town and has considerable work on hand for the spring which will Uece—itate his return within the next few days. His father continues about the same. He h— improved slightly from his condition immediately following the slight stroke of paralysis he suffered. A Classified Adv. will rant it