Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Misses Ruth and Esther Harper went to Monticello today to join, their father at Edgewater camp, where the Boys’ Benevolent Brotherhood are haying a week’s outing. A W. Sawin has sold about 25,000 melons from his Fair Oaks melon farm this year and there are about 10,000 still on the vines. Everywhere his melons met with favor. He has some fine muskmelons ripening and which he will have on the market in a few days. Charles and Pierre Thomson returned last evening from their trip to the west, which was made for the benefit of the former’s health. He is very much improved and went to work th)s morning for the Monon railroad on the new block signal system, now being installed between Lafayette and Chicago. Dave Overton returned Saturday from South Dakota, where he worked with a threshing machine for several weeks. Small grain crops were very poor, but a number of fine rains within the past several weeks have helped the corn a great deal and the prospect is excellent except in sections where hail struck it. A dozen and a half girls of ages from 11 to 15 enjoyed a camping party last night at the home of Vera and Ivah Healey. They had a picnic supper, spent the night in little shelter tents on'the lawn, prepared their owi breakfasts and went to the woods for dinner. All seemed to enjoy the experience and expressed regret that their camp was for only one night. J. C. Clipp, a poultry man from Saltillo, Ind., and a representative of The Poultry Tribune, is a Rensselaer visitor today. He had heard of the fine poultry raised in Jasper county and -Came here particularly to see bronze turkeys and barred rocks raised by Pullins Bros.; White Wyandottes and Indian Runner ducks raised by Mayhew Bros., and Rhode island Reds raised by George W. Hopkins. He expects to buy some thoroughbreds if he can.

Miss Judith Woodward, who has been visiting at the home of S. C. Irwin for the past week, left this morning for Chicago and will visit there and at Janesville, Wis., before returning to Madison, where she will again attend the university. Miss Woodward is probably the only girl that ever took an agricultural college course after graduation from the Rensselaer high school. She is much in love with , her work and plans to bring it to practical use when the course is completed. George Morgan was in Indianapolis the latter part of last week visiting his son Kenneth and family. Kenneth’s little daughter, 4 years of age, was recently quite severely burned. She was playing with a toy street car and tried to light it. Her clothing caught fire and it was all her mother .could do to extinguish the flames. Mrs. Morgan was badly burned on both hands. The little girl is getting along nicely and Mrs. Morgan is also getting better, but it is probable that the fingers of one hand will be stiff. It was a narrow escape for both of them.

Many auto parties are guests daily at the Makeever Hotel. Among arrivals Monday were H. C. King and wife and Miss Rudy and J. Louis Goebel, of Henderson, Ky„ who were en route to Michigan. J. S. McAllister and wife and Miss Wathen and James Weir, of Louisville, were guests of the hotel over Monday night. They were northbound. Four young fellows composed a good natured party in a Ford touring car that also remained at the hotel over night They were p- D. Miralle and P. H. Weilan, of Mt. Gilllad, Ohio; A R. McFadden, of Cadiz, Ohio, and P. S. Miller, of Columbus.

Auto touring is not altogether carefree. Readers of The Republican may recall that Sidney Thompkins and Harry Anderson, of Nashville, Tenn., who were touring in an E. M. F., had a breakdown near Remington last Wednesday night After getting repairs they were enabled to resume their trip to Chicago. Another E. M. F. car, also from Nashville, contained Mr. and Mrs. John Vertrees, he being the Nashville agent of the E. M. F. company. The auto occupants were traveling together and had visited Chicago and started home Monday of this week, and Mr. and Mrs. Vertrees arrived in the evening to be met with a telegram informing them that their traveling companions had come to grief at Crown Point, their car having been wrecked. Mr. and Mrs. Vertrees at once returned there to ascertain the extent of their accident ,