Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 118, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 May 1911 — Electric Railroad Meeting at Court House at 8 O’clock Tonight. [ARTICLE]

Electric Railroad Meeting at Court House at 8 O’clock Tonight.

Eugene Purtelle is here and has called a meeting of citiiens at the east court room at 8 o’clock tonight He says that if the right-of-way 1b procured the road building will begin right away. He asks that all who can, attend the meeting. The people have never given Purtelle an audience. Now is the time to do it. Maybe the road will be built and maybe it will not, but it will be the right thing for our people who have voted a subsidy 1n favor of the road to turn out and hear what Purtelle has to say.

The Nowels House is again opened tor the public. Rooms and bed, day or night Resolved—That Rensselaer needs an electric railroad worse than a knocking newspaper. The band concert begins at 7:30 tonight so as not to interfere with the grade performance at the opera house. The condition of Mrs. Rebecca Hemphill remains about the same at Hahneman hospital. She has a very high fever and the outlook for her recovery is not reassuring. A party of twelve men from the Overlaid automobile works at Indianapolis went into camp at Edgewater Saturday evening, with their agents, Dye & aOrdner, as their hosts.—Montlcello Herald. Karp Stockton was the ‘‘big chief” in the shot-put and discuss events between Purdue and Northwestern at Lafayette Saturday. He won first in both events, making 40 feet 8% inches in the shot-put and i 24 feet in the discus throw.—Monticello Herald. A 15-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. William Cooper, of near Gifford, died yesterday of brain fever. The funeral will take place* tomorrow. A 3-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. George Spangle, northwest of town, died early this morning. It had been . very feeble since birth. It will be buried Friday at Wolcott

Miss Mary Washburn is here from Chicago for a short visit with her brother, Dr. Washburn, and to complete some work on a child fountain being erected at the residence of Mrs Mary E. Thompson, on River and Washington streets. Miss Washburn designed the figures and they were exhibited at the art institute in Chicago and received such favorable mention that there has been quite a demand for the group, and the fountain at the Thompson home is a very beautiful one. i i — mmmmm — • Marshal Mustard has acceeded to the wishes of some property owners near the triangular park on Division street and’ spaded up two fiower beds which the property owners have agreed to put in flowers and attend to the cultivation. The flowers were set out but yesterday. Some of them were pulled up and it was later found that school children were the marauders. Parents should warn their children that they will be punished if flowers in public parks are molested. A lot of automobiles are expected to pass through Rensselaer to and from the races scheduled for Decoration day at Indianapolis. Last evening W. E. Siddall and Frank Farber, in a National 40, stopped for supper at the Makeever house and stated that this route had been determined upon and that many hundreds of cars will pass through here between the 28th and the 31st Of course, most of them will not stop, but there will be tire and gasoline troubles and the local garage proprietors are preparing for a big business.