Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 164, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 July 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Frank A Hooker, justice of the supreme court of Michigan, a resident of Lansing, died suddenly in the New York Central station at Auburn, N. Y., early Sunday. Lightning killed Hovitt Ripley, a farmer, while he was sitting on a mowing machine in his oat field near Terre Haute Monday. The machine was wrecked. Mrs. Harry Boothroyd and little son, of Monticello, came this morning for a visit of a week or ten days with her sisters, Mrs. Floyd Robinson and Mrs. Mel Abbott. The grade for the side track at the factory site has been completed and is ready for the ties and rails. The work of making the cement blocks for the factory building is in progress. Soothes Itching skin. Heals cuts or burns without a scar. Cures piles eczema, salt rheum, any itching. Doan’s Ointment. Your druggist sells it. -It is reported that Eugene Purtelle now has a force of 150 men at work on the roadbed of the interurban near Thayer, where hS has the papers sigped up for fourteen miles of right-of-way.

C. G. Spitler, secretary of the Commercial Club, and P. T. Longacre, of the match factory company, went to Indianapolis today to see about getting the bond provided for in the factory contract fixed up. — John McNew, age 25, was found guilty of robbing freight cars in the Big Four railroad yards at Anderson, and sentenced to the reformatory at Jeffersonville for one to eight years. Mrs. Carrie D. Short returned home yesterday afternoon from a short visit with hfer mother, Mrs. H. M. Baughman, in Monon. Mrs. Baughman has been quite poorly in health but is now somewhat Improved. She is 74 years of age. Her son, U. M. Baughman, of Oklahoma City, is expected next week, to remain for about a month. A postal card from Sergeant Frank Crosscup, Who is still with the 10th U. S’, infantry on the Texas-Mexican border, states that he does not expect to return to Indiana before September. Fred Steel, formerly of this county, recently joined the regular army and was assigned to Crosscup’s section in Company I of the 10th. William Nowele drove out into Newton township today and found the crop disaster from the hail much worse than than he had expected. He says that he believes the corn crop on the D. 8. Makeftver, Bove Makeever and Bert Yeoman farms will be a total failure, while others will suffer extensively. The storm extended west of Mt. Ayr, where the damage was also extensive. Much of the corn, Mr. Nowels states, is broken off at the ground. .

The wrestling matches at Lafayette Wednesday night attracted a fart- sized crowd. Charles Olsen threw Sam Murbarger in two straight falls and Polos, the Greek, gave up after 15 minutes on the mat with Olson’s younger brother. Polos claimed that he had Injured a rib which he recently had broken and was unable to continue. Lafayette Is getting busy with the wrestling game and another event is to take place shortly. Olson has written here asking for a date, stating that he will wrestle here or at Lowell, Remington, Monon or Francesville with any wrestler that can be procured. Calling Cards at The Republican. ‘