Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Get our prices on stepladders, from 5 to .8 feet high. J. C. Gwin Lumber Co. Hershel and Orville Collins went to Mt. Ayr Monday morning to visit their grandparents. Mrs. Roy Cheesman went to Lafayette today and will visit relatives there and at West Point. Fred Waymire and John M. Moore, of Barkley township, took in the biplane flight ?t Purdue today. Mr. and Mrs. Ross Goble and daughter Martha left this morning for a visit at Lafayette and Frankfort. Mr. and Mrs. tvan Carson have again taken up their residence in town. Mrs. Carson is considerably improved in health. Fred and Jim Hemphill had their launch taken to the Kankakee river last week and now have it in good running order. Art Cole, Sr. and Jr . of Lafayette, are spending today in Rensselaer. Art, Sr., is taking a lay off from his work as mail clerk. Elmar Humphrey returned last Thursday from Terre Haute. He found his father very much improved and on the road to recovery. John L. Sullivan and W. F. Powers went to Lafayette today to attend the reunion of the 15th Indiana regiment to which each belonged. “Uncle” Joe Parkison and wife, who have been in the Northside Chicago hospital for the past six weeks, are • xpected home tomorrow. Mrs. E. L. Fidler and daughter went to Hall, Ind., todayrto attend a reunion of the_ Crimmel family. They will be absent only a few days. Mrs. Kenneth Rhoades and Miss Bernice Hammond will go to Big Rapids, Mich., to visit the family of Chas. G. Hammond next Friday. Miss Madaline Ramp is now at home and will give vocal and piano lessons to a few more piipils. Phone 1.4. Miss Minnie Hemphill, teacher in the Rensselaer schools, went to Winona'* this morning to take the summer term at the teachers’ normal. Kenneth Rhoades went to Lowell this afternoon, where he will go to work for the Chicago Telephone Co., which is erecting new work there. Fay Clarke and Paul Glazebrook came this morning from Purdue. Omar Osborne, who had been visiting there for a few days, returned home with them. Mr. and Mrs. A. Beebe, of Loogootee, Ind., came this morning to visit his brother, Guy Beebe, and family, of Newland. It was their first visit to Jasper county. D. E. rtollister has been laid up for the past two weeks with a very painful and large carbuncle on his back and it will be some time before he can get around again. The Foresters’ Band, of Rensselaer, played at Lafayette Sunday and their music gave the very best satisfaction. Rensselaer now has two mighty good bands, for the first time in its hlstor, - , we believe. About two dozen girls and boys drove to the home of Gladys Pierce, •routh of town, Monday evening, for a picnic supper. All report a fine time, until the shower drove them inside. ’ William Whited and family returned this morning from Wheatfield. The house they had occupied, which was damaged by fire one day last week, has been re-roofed and he will move into it again. J AW. Bawin, who lives in Rensselaer and farms a large tract of land In Union township, is this year growing 40 acres of watermelons near Fair Oaks, He thinks they are going to be about, the best melons ever grown in Jasper county. He will probably ship them to the Chicago market