Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 197, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 August 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Big crowds attend the bankrupt sale every day., Mrs. J. F. Murphy returned to Chicago Saturday. • Mr. and Mrs. Will Zard spent Sunday in Reynolds. If you want real bargains attend the bankrupt sale. Miss Flora Harris returned Saturday from a week’s visit at Oregon, Hi. Vern Haas and Forest Morlan went to Bass Lake today for a week’s visit G. W. Dunn went to Tefft this morning to visit his father, Hon. I. D. Dunn. George Hemphill came from Chicago Saturday for a week’s visit at home.. The bankrupt sale is genuine. They are actually selling goods at 50 cents on the dollar. Henry Hoag and wife returned Saturday from a week’s visit in Livingston county, Illinois. Mrs;<Alto Shigley and children, of Richards and family. George O. Pumphrey has just received notice of a pension increase from $24 to S3O a month. ,< A. Leopold ha.' begun the erection of a 10-room house on Van Rensselaer street, near Matt Worden’s residence. Mrs. L. A. Bostwick went to Chicago Sunday to meet Mr. Bostwick, who has been working for some time at Key West, Fla., and came home for a visit. Mrs. O. Lambert, daughter Gladys and son Earl went to Monon Saturday to visit relatives. Mr. Lambert will move next spring to the Charles Mal‘chow farm, west of town.

Mrs. Catharine Col vert is visiting friends this week at Battle Ground and Oxford. She accompanied Mrs. Ed Heath to Oxford, after the latter had visited here for several days. Barney Kolhoff. John Kolhoff, Jack Warner and Henry Hoag, of Rensselaer, and George A. Hemphill and Gum Pefley, of Remington, went to the Kankakee river this morning for a week’s fishing. Mrs Kate R. Watson and •’augh’.ers, Myra and Catharine, Mrs. Sain Borchardt and sons, Norman and Bernard, and daughter Jeanette, left this morning for Bass Lake to spend the week. Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fendig will join them there tomorrow. Miss Orpha Timmons passed through Rensselaer this morning en route to Chicago, and thence to Seattle, Wash., where 'she will again teach school. For the past two months she has been visiting her mother at Remington and she also spent a few days in Rensselaer with Miss Nettie Price and other friends. Rev. C. U. Harper took the following members of the Boys’ Benevolent Brotherhood to the Tippecanoe river, near Monticello today for a week’s camping experience: James Warner, Russell Parker, Walter Randle, Clark and Stewart Short, Paul Chaffin, Flint Harper, Russell VanArsdel and Floyd Platt Frank Lakin, of Union township, almost had a serious accident Saturday afternoon. He was driving to Remington to visit friends and was accompanied by Mrs. Lakin. His young mule team refused to” cross the bridge on College street and making a sudden jump to the left almost carried the rig over the high embankment. The tongue of the bugxy snapped and that is about all that saved them. Undaunted by the mishap, Mr. Lakin borrowed a wagon from Charlie Pullins and hitched the mules to it and made the trip to Remington in safety.

John I. Gwin and wife returned Sunday from Jamestown, N. Dak. Mrs. Gwin took quite an extended trip before reaching Jamestown, visiting the San Luis Valley, in Colorado, in company with Mrs. Alta Parklson and Mrs. Bert Hopkins. They also visited Denver, Salt Lake City and Yellowstone Park. Mrs. Parklson arrived home Saturday and Mrs. Hopkins stopped off at Townsend, Mont, to visit her sister, Mrs. Brown, and family. Mrs. Gwin says that the conditions at Jamestown are very prosperous and that they have an abundant crop on their farm. The San Luis Valley, however, exceeded anything, she ever saw in the way of fine crops. Mrs. Gwin had expected to teach school near Jamestown this winter, but gave this up and will remain in Rensselaer.