Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mr. and Mrs. Chas. Warren returned to Parr this morning after a visit of several days with relatives here.

The Ladies of the G. A. R. are preparing for the annual dinner to be given the old soldiers following the decoration of the graves Tuesday, May 30th.

- ■ y When you buy Burlington hosiery, for ladies, misses and children, you buy the very best hose you could possibly buy at the price. ROWLES & PARKER. The Rev. J. A. Lewellyn, age sixtythree, one of the best known ministers in Indiana Methodism, died at his home in Muncie Thursday. He had been a member of the North Indiana M. E. conference for more than thirty years.

Leon, son of Mr. and Mrs. Harvey Messman, is suffering from a painful wound in his throat caused by falling on a brass curtain rod with which he was playing. One of his tonsils was almost severed and a bad gash was cut in his throat.

The C. A. Balcom store in Remington, which has been in the hands of his son, Vernon Balcom, for some time, is closed and it is understood Mr. Balcom will file a petition in bankruptcy.. He is now said to be in Chicago.

Frank J. Reed, general passenger agent of the Monon, and O. C. Carter, the general freight agent, accompanied a party of eight friends from Chicago to Rensselaer yesterday and went from here overland to George Ade’s Hazelden farm.

j We had a good rain this morning. The precipitation continued f<W most of the morning and was not severe at any time but it was a real good, soaking rain. It looks. like more this afternoon and more will be needed to thoroughly moisten the ground, which yias very dry.

1 A movement for a city library will ■te started in Franklin May 25, when solicitors will start the work of obtaining pledges for the institution. The committee having charge of the work plans to raise enough money to equip a library and later to ask subscriptions for a br.ilding.

Mrs. John Merritt went to the hospital in Chicago Sunday to see her brother, E. W. Hickman. At Hammond’she was joined by Alfred Hickman. ’ They found Eph recovering very satisfactorily and he hopes to return home the last of this week or the first of next.

Members of the Blackfriars club of the University of Chicago last Friday and Saturday nights and Saturday afternoon at Mandell hall in Chicago presented a musical play entitled “Capturing Calypso,” and Donald Hollingsworth, son of Mr. and Mrs. Geo. K. Hollingsworth, had the part of Thermocephale, Commander of the Island of Philoponnesus. William Beck came up from Terre ; Haute yesterday and returned there today. Mrs. Beck and their daughter have been here since Easter and will remain for a time longer. Will is the foreman of a large lumber yard at Terre Haute and has from a dozen to twenty-five men working for him. He Is getting along nicely, after the fashion of Rensselaer young men and likes Terre Haute as a place of residence.