Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 June 1911 — From the Monticello Herald. [ARTICLE]

From the Monticello Herald.

Miss Ida Murray attended the funeral of her uncle, Wallace Murray in Jasper county Saturday, returning home Mondey. He was buried in the Barkley cemetery. Mr. Will Babcock and family, of Rensselaer, were guests of Mrs. Wm. Daugherty and daughters Sunday, coming over in their auto. The two families spent the afternoon at Oakdale. While fishing in the Tippecanoe near Warsaw, A. O. Lehman found an otter caught by the feet in a muskrat trap. The otter is very rarely seen in these parts now and was thought to have entirely disappeared Mayor O’Connor picked up a mammoth insect last week on the sidewalk under his shade trees, which he was .puzzled to Identify. With its wings spread it covered a space about six Inches square. He gave it to Will Bushnell, who sent it to his son Tom at Purdue, and it was pronounced a Luna moth by Prof. Troop. It belongs to the silk worm family and is very rare.