Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Depot Grocery phone is the same old number—2o2. Try it! ■ ■ —n, Mr. apd Mrs. R. R. Smith and son, of Chicago, are guests this week of Mr. and Mrs. ? Van Grant. - Mrs. Walter Gibson Went to Brookston today to see her brother. Will McCoy, who is quite sick with typhoid fever. Our Holden home grown tomatoes are finer than ever this week, with price reduced .to 5c a pound.—Home Grocery. ' x • - 4 The Ladies’ Aid society of the Baptist church is having the church building papered and otherwise interiorily improved. ; > , Misses Grace and Fame Haas returned this morning from their visit of fwo weeks with their sister in Pittsburg, Pa. 4. ;* Oliver Greenfield and son, of Hutchinson, Kansas, and Miss Mattie Warne, of Rensselaer, spent part of last week at the home of the former’s uncle, T. F. Warne, at Parr. The Missionary Society of the M. E. church; which was to have met Tuesday afternoon with Mrs. Geo. W. Ketchum, will meet that afternoon with Mrs. J. D. Allman, by rearrangement. Alfred Donnelly, of the Globe Onion Farm, reports that his onions, which suffered considerable damage from the recent hailstorm, have about recovered from the damage and are looking fine. A. L. Padgitt was home over Sunday. He went to Logansport this morning, where his horses will race this week. His daughter, Miss Esther, accompanied him and will remain during the week. Miss Lula McAllister, of Atwood, 111., returned to her home today after a visit with her sister, Mrs. L. H. Wiley,. on the former J. K. Davis farm. Her little niece, Luree Wiley, accompanied her home for a short visit A premature male child was born Saturday afternoon to Mr. and Mrs. L. B. McKay. It weighed but one pound, but for a time there seemed a chance for it to live. It died about midnight last night, however, and burial was made this morning. Prof. Ben Coen, one of the instructors in the Colorado state agricultural college at Fort Collins, was here over Saturday and Sunday, visiting relatives and old friends. He will be at Fort Collins again this year, where he has made good in every particular. Sol Meyer and wife and two boys, of Indianapolis, and N. S. Marcus and wife, of Chicago, were dinner guests at the Makeever bouse Sunday. They were just starting out on an automobile tour. Mr. Meyer is the main stockholder in the Indianapolis baseball team. » ’ ‘. A New York paper notes that a few days since there passed through that village westward a freight train having a carload of cigarettes, a carload of whiskey, a carload of strychnine, two carloads of fast automobiles and three carloads of coffins. Evidently the yardmaster had an idea of consistency. Work was started on the M. E. church remodeling, several workmen starting the job this morning. It is expected to veneer the old part of the building in addition to building the additions, thus giving the entire building a new appearatfee and when completed the church will be one of the largest and best arranged Methodist churches in this part of the state. Mr. and Mrs. F. P. Meyer and her mother, Mrs. Mary Brady, left this morning for their home in Danville, 111., after a visit since last Tuesday with relatives here. Mr. and Mrs. Meyer will leave from Danville in a few days for a western trip, which will Include visits to Denver, Colorado Springs, Salt Lake City and other points. They will be absent about three weeks. Rev. Frank H. Vernon, of Evansville’, who was to have preached in the Rensselaer Christian church Sunday, sent word that he would be unable to come, and Rev. W. G. Wlpn, of Pittsburg, Pa., who happened to be in Chicago, came in his place. He preached at the Christian church in the morning and at the evening vesper service, and pleased all who heard him. He may possibly be engaged as pastor of the church. • * Very nice—Miller and Hart bacon—20c a pound at the Home Grocery. Typewriter ribbons for sale at The Republican office.