Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 139, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 June 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

TONIGHT’S PROGRAM PICTURES. LAUNDRY LADY’S LUCK. THE DERELIST REPORTER.

Miss Meta Oglesby came over from Knox yesterday to spend the week with her aunts, Misses Grace and Fame Haas. Next" Monday she will go to Attica to remain during the summer with her uncle, Rev. C. W. Postill and wife. Purdue defeated the Japanese ball team Monday by the score of 5 to 1. The Japs have been touring America and play a really remarkable game of ball. They are from Waseda university, a great Japanese school with an attendance of upward of 8,000 students. David Nowels, his son, W. R. Nowels, the latter’s daughter, Mrs. Ada Wheeler and her 4-year-old son, Joe Wheeler, had their pictures taken Monday afternoon. This is a fourgeneration picture and will doubtless prove very interesting to all who secure one of-them. W. S. Strowbridge and wife, of Hanford, Kings county, Kansas, was in Rensselaer Saturday. He has been visiting relatives In Kouts, DeMotte and Goodland. Mr. Strowbridge is a grandson of Sampson Irwin, who lived in Rensselaer a number of years ago. Attorney William Darnica was over from Kentland today. He had expected to find the court grinding away on the Marble ditch but learned after his arrival here that the judge, some of the lawyers and some of the interested parties were going over the’ ditch on the line of survey and that court would not re-convene until July 10th. McColly & Coen, the carpenter contractors, have just completed the building ..of a fine porch to the residence of Granville Moody, of Barkley township, Also a porch to the Hanging Grove township residence of John L. Osborne and family. They will now erect a large horse barn for M. L. Ford, of Hanging Grove. It will be built of oak lumber sawed on the place. . r Mrs. M. J. Cole returned to Lafayette today after a visit of ten days with Rensselaer relatives, including her brother, F. W. Bedford, and her sister, Mrs. J. P. Warner. Mrs. Cole is now 78 years of age, but enjoys very good health for her advanced years. Prior to 26 years ago she lived in Rensselaer. Art Cole, the railway mail clerk, is one of her sons. Samuel A. Michael, the farm\owner who shot and killed his tenant, Levi Pippinger, not far from Delphi, last summer, must serve from 2 to 21 years in the penitentiary. He was recently sentenced by Judge John S. Lairy, of Logansport, and pending the argument for a new trial he, was released under a $30,000 bond, furnished by his attorney. Judge Lairys overruled his motion for a new trial and he must go to the penitentiary. The Lafayette Journal tells of the big meeting of the Catholic Order of Foresters held in that city Sunday, 'fhirty-five new members were taken into the order and the initiation was preceded by a parade, a banquet and a smoker. The Rensselaer Foresters’ band led the parade, which was composed of about 250 Foresters of the Lafayette court and several visiting members of the order. E. P. Honan, state trustee of the order, was one of the speakers. Mrs. Rose B. Graf and son Homer, of Des Moines, lowa, came Saturday to visit Mi’s. Goetz, J. M. Sauser and other relatives. Her son Homer received an appointment to the U. S. naval academy at Annapolis, Md., and will 'start for that place Thursday. He has already passed the mental examination .and thinks he will have no trouble in getting through physically. He will take the same course now being taken by James E. Brenner and will become a naval officer after he completes the * course of study required. ~ You need a stepladder about the house. They save scratching the chairs and are useful in many ways during the year.' We have thefnJta lengths from 5 to 8 feet Order one today.— J. C. Gwin Lumber Co.