Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 193, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1911 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Rev. A. 0. Work returned to Rensselaer this morning after a week’s visit at Brookston, where he was the pastor of the Presbyterian church before he came to Rensselaer. His vacation continues throughout August but he will only remain in Rensselaer a few days. He will preach at South Bend next Sunday and go from there to Harbor Springs, Mich., for the remainder of his vacation period. He is now pastor of the First Presbyterian church at Fenton, Mich.

Prof. Otto Braun, the boys’ banta instructor and leader, has been in quite poor health for some time and is having trouble getting himself righted. He came down from Lowell yesterday and gave the boys a hard practice last evening and after going to the Makeever house was taken quite sick and bad to call for the doctor in the night He is able to be out this morning, but is feeling very poorly. The concert here will be tonight and the band will go to Fountain Park tomorrow and play there in the afternoon and evening.

The DeMotte correspondent of the Wheatfield Review says that Charles Schatzley raised 1,800 bushels of oats on 20 acres. This would be an average of 90 bushels to the acre. With all due regard to the well meaning of the correspondent, we are inclined to doubt the report, but if Charlie will send in his statement that he raised that kind of a crop, we will pull in our horns about big yields down in this section of Jasper. Mr. Sipkema, of .that section, is also reported as having had 30 acres that averaged 50 bushels. We are glad to hear it, and take off our hats to the north end.

Mrs. James F. Murphy, of Chicago, better known here as Miss Essie M. Kendall, is a guest of Carr brothers, her uncles, and friends in Rensselaer this week. Miss Kendall was a successful teacher in the public schools of Jasper and Newton counties and left here to accept a position as clerk and assistant treasurer of Hahnemann ♦ Medical college of Chicago, which position she held for five years. Two years ago she was married to James F. Murphy, of Boston, Mass., who entered Hahnemann Medical college at that time and will receive a degree of doctor of medicine and surgery In two more years.

Two aviators were killed in Chicago at the Grant Park exhibition Tuesday. St. Croix Johnstone fell with his machine about 600 feet and was drowned in the lake about a mile from land. William R. Badger, an inexperienced aviator, who was trying to do some fancy stunts with his machine, fell only about 50 feet, into a pit on the aviation field. He suffered a broken neck and died on the way to a hospital. W. C. Babcock, of Rensselaer, was watching the aviators and was only a short distance from where Badger alighted. About 50,000 people witnessed the two horrible deaths, which occurred only a short time apart.