Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 190, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 August 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Mrs. Rachel Scott went to Medaryville today to visit her brother, R. L.. P. Massey. Sam Duvall, the Western Union messenger boy, went to Chicago this afternoon for a short vacation. Mrs. J. T. Francis returned to her home at Fithian, 111., today, after a visit with the family of Joseph Francis, west of town. : Mrs. Sarah Garrott and daughter, Miss Minnie, of Brookston, came this morning from Brookston to visit Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Hitchings, in Jordan township. '■ Bankrupt Sale will be continued for ten days longer. Prices cut again. Beginning Monday, any article in the Ransford Bankrupt Stock at 50c on the dollar. > Mrs. N. Manahan and children returned to Wellington, 111., today, after a visit with relatives here. Miss Eva Hammerton returned home with her for a visit. -Dale Warner has returned home and is again at his post in Haskell's barbershop. He has been spending a week . recreating, largely with relatives in Mt. Ayr. There will be another 75 cent Chicago' excursion tomorrow. The Sox will play Detroit and the Cubs will play St. Louis. Fans will probably go in vast numbers. . ' ' Mrs. E. Young returned to Jonesboro today after a visit of three weeks with the family of C. J. Hopkins at Mt. Ayr. Miss Leota Dirst returned home with her for a visit. Mr. and Mrs. Mel Abbott and little daughter went to Monticello today for a week's visit. Mel expects to spend most of his time on the banks of the Tippecanoe, emulating Isaac Walton at his favorite pasttime. .The Evening Republican collector was taken sick while making his rounds this Saturday morning and was unable to complete* his collections, Subscribers will please bear this in mind next Saturday when he makes his collections. Rev. O. S. Rardin, of the Rosebud M. P. church, went to Frankfort today to assist over Sunday in a big tent revival meeting being held there. He will go Monday to Muncie to attend the M. P. conference, which will probably send him to a new field of labor. Grenville Moody bad a couple of cars of cattle on the market Thursday of this week that brought >7.35 per hundred, the same price that Ad Parkinson's best load brought a week before. But the market was about a quarter better on the average this week. ’r. - - Miss Ethel Hermansen, of Gillam township, who is taking a nurses* training course in the Presbyterian hospital in Chicago, was here yesterday. She is taking a five weeks* vacation and spending part of the time with her sister, Mrs. Lou Robinson, and the remainder at her parents’ home. ——ur—. B. J. Gifford came over from Kankakee this morning. He states that the Crown Point paper misrepresented him when it printed that he was working part of the time on his railroad exten*sion. He says he is working all of the time and has been all summer long, and that he is now within three miles of the Pennsylvania railroad. Chester Zea, acting under the direction of the'city marshal, cut a number of weeds that were growing to treelike proportions in a very conspicuous place on Washington street this morning. Ches is always on the job and certainly is one of the city's faithful employees. There are many other places that need attention and a little prodding around will locate them, and they should be given attention. The campaign might be made in overalls with a scythe, thereby fulfilling a demand that was Very general when Billy Parks was dropped from the dty payrolL . .