Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 August 1911 — ADDITIONAL TODAY’S LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL TODAY’S LOCALS.

Mr. Charles March, of Winamac, and now a resident of Lucerne, Wyo., arrived here today for a short visit with Miss HaXel Jacks. Better shoes for' less money—our motto. We do not fear contradiction, as we have the goods. Come in and let us prove it VanArsdel’s. Emery Comer returned to his home in Owen county, Indiana, today, after visiting since last Friday with his son, G. H. Comer, north of Rensselaer.

Mrs. J. P. Engstrom, field secretary of the Board of Home and Foreign Missions, will deliver a lecture on the evening of Sept. sth at the Presbyterian church at 7:30 o’clock. A cordial invitation is given to all the other churches and missionary societies to be present at this meeting. The lecture is free, but a collection will be taken for the benefit of the “Jubilee Fund."

E. J. Smith and family, of Pafragould, Ark., passed through our city in their Stoddard-v Dayton machine on a tour of the middle states, boosting Paragould and northeast Arkansas. Mr. Smith says that during the past few years they have dug and completed over a dozen large dredge ditches in his county (Greene) and that his county is now dry and well drained, that immigration is cpruing in fast and land values increasing rapidly, that they have the best crops this year they have ever had.

Ray Burns arrived home recently from Williard, Mont., where he has aclaim of 320 acres, which he took two years ago. He is getting it fixed up in the matter of fences, etc., and now has a number of neighbors, whereas two years ago he was almost by himself. His nearest railroad station is Baker, on the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul, but he gets his mail every day, the mail being carried overland by relay. He has .procured a six months’ furlough and will spend it with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Burns, northwest of town. He thinks that by the time h& gets the place proved up he will have no difficulty in selling it for $6,000. \ It looks like the mausoleum promoters have decided to pass Rensselaer up for the present. Mr. Austih addressed the council Monday night, speaking in a very pleasing manner and charging that the newspaper had been in error in quoting construction cost of the plant as they proposed to build. His own figures, however, were not very much at variance with those used in this paper. He stated that 76 mausoleum's had already been built lu the United States and that if Rensselaer dfd- not want to get behind the times, now was the proper occasion to build a mausoleum. The talk did not seem to influence the city council and no action was taken. The proposition to build outside the cemetery was probably a bluff to try to get the cemetery trustees to provide a building place within the cemetery, if outside cities that are building mausoleums are going in on the basis proposed here it looks like they are paying about 35 per cent too much. There is no occasion for haste about a mausoleum. They are to a great extent experimental and when they are perfected the cemetery trustees can build one and save a lot of moltoy to the purchasers of tombs, and give the N guarantee of permanent care for the building.