Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 129, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1911 — LEE, [ARTICLE]

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Vernon Jacks and wife and her mother came Tuesday morning from Lafayette to visit his patents, Mr. and Mrs.. Alf Jacks. Saturday evening Mrs. Maude Woodworth and son Delos, came to visit O. A. Jacks and family. Mrs. Woodworth returned to her home at Rensselaer Monday morning, but Delos stayed till Tuesday morning and Dollie and Oscar Jacks accompanied him home. Mrs. Mattie Tyner, of Monon, spent Sunday with her brother, O. A. Jacks and family. Mrs. Westphall’s aunt is still quite poorly. * Children’s Day will be observed at Lee, Sunday. Miss Tillie Koepke spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. O. C. Hughes. Mrs. Grace Lefler, of Lafayette, has been visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Alf Jacks, for the past week. Mr. and Mrs. Sam Jacks and baby, Mr. and Mrs. Alf Jacks, Mrs. Grace Lefler and Mr. and Mrs. Alvin Clark spent Sunday with Wm. Jacks and family, near Rensselaer. Uncle David Culp and family spent Sunday with his son, J. H. Culp and family.

Born, Sunday, May 28th, to Mr. and Mrs. Aca Holman, a son, their first child.

Hoy Rishling, of near Rensselaer, visited his mother, Mrs. Ann Rishling, Monday. T. L. Overton and family called on Mr. and Mrs. Aca Holman Sunday. Tuesday word was received from St Joe, Mich., of the death of Paul Stiers at that place. Convicted of the murder of his wife, and under a sentence of life imprisonment, Grant Wlnroot committed suicide by hanging In his cell in the St. Joseph county jail. He made a noose by knotting two handkerchiefs together. Nathan Weeks, 70, representative from Rush county in the last legislature, former treasurer and a lifelong republican politician, is dead at Rushvllle of heart failure. He became ill while in the legislature and was unable to attend the entire session.

A quid o i tobacco, a baseball bat and a shotgun were items in the conviction of Jacob Bevinger, Evansville. Bevinger stopped the bail bat with his head and then ran for the shotgun, wadding it with the quid. The load missed William Enlow, who made the base hit. A large shepherd dog that was running about the streets of Lawrenceburg biting eveiy dog In its way, bit Robert E. Braun, the thirteen-year old sob of Phillip C. Braun, cashier of the People’s First National bank, on the leg, and George W. Peterson, age ten, son -of Mrs. Katherine Taylor Peterson, on the left arm. A physician cauterised the wounds and a mad stone was applied. The dog was rapposed to be suffering from hydrophobia. Want to rent your property? Use our olasslfled