Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 209, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 September 1911 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

ADDITIONAL TODAY'S LOCALS. G. J. Jessen made a business trip to Chicago today. . John Martin made a business trip to Monticello today. / ... _ , 1 Russell Harmon and wife have be-, gun housekeeping at Parr. Mrs. C. E. Mills has been quite sick for several days, threatened with pneumonia. Miss Merle Ackerman returned to Monticello today, after a short visit with Miss Myrtle York. Mrs. Everet Brown and little daughter Thelma went to Chicago this morning for a visit of several day*. Austin Moore is having a big silo erected at his farm in Barkley township. McColly & Coen are building it. Mr. and Mrs. Dolphis Marqules, from southeast of town, went to Kankakee, 111., today, to visit friends and attend the fair. Allen Catt went to Wilkinson, Ind., today to attend the reunion of his regiment, the 99th Indiana, which is being held therd.' ’ — D. S. Makeever is going to have a burned brick silo erected on his farm. It will be one of the best silos ever built in the county. ■ ■ -J I t -■ > Mrs. Sherman Logue, on the W. L. Myer farm north of tqwn, is suffering from a lung congestion that threatens to develop pneumonia. Rev. W. G. Winn and family have moved into the property of Mrs. J. H. Cox, on Van Rensselaer street, just north ot the light plant. W. S. Parks returned this morning from a visit with his father, Thos. Parks, in Kosciusco county. His father is now 83 years of age. R. N. Moore and son, A. A. Moore, of Trafalgar, returned home today, after a short visit here with the former’s sister, Mrs. Joseph Yeoman. -—— r-f ■ - ■ , Itching, tormenting skin eruptions disfigure, annoy, drive one wild. Doan’s Ointment brings relief and lasting cures. Fifty cents at any drug store. Fred Schreiner, formerly a resident of Barkley township, has been here for a few days looking for a small farm to rent and visiting L. B. McKay and family. He now lives at Sheridan. 111. It is reported that Billy Stewart, the erstwhile wrestling champion of Jasper county, had a mix-up with Ben Fogli, the Kankakee .river saloonkeeper, last Sunday, and got the worst of it.

St Joe College boys are getting in. This is the day for the arrival of new students, but some of the older ones are also arriving. The attendance this year will probably be close to three hundred.Miss Selma Leopold returned this morning from Kentland, where she attended a house party given by Misses Ada and Ruth Bush. It included an auto ride to Hazelden Saturday night and a pleasant dance at the George Ade home. Hugh Kirk has returned home from a seven months’ trip in the south. He made headquarters at Meridian, Miss., but traveled around a great deal, getting as far south as the Pananma Canal. He expects' to remain home during the winter. Lee Catt, whose wife recently died at Greenfield, is here with his younger children and will probably decide to locate in Rensselaer. His oldest daughter remained with relatives at dreenfleld and will attend the high school there this year. Thus. Sharp arrived yesterday from Guthrie, Okla., to visit his brother Joe. Mr. Sharp made his first visit here for thirty years last year and found it so good a place that he returned again this year. He and Joe went to Burnettsville today to visit other relatives.

E. V. Ransford and George Thornton were well pleased with Decatur, 111., at their recent trip of investigation and they have about decided to engage In business there. Just what line they will put in they are undecided. They expect to move there about October Ist Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Austin, of Chicago, who have been visiting her parents, Edwin P. Hammond and wife, at Lafayette, passed thrpugh here this noon on their return to Chicago, traveling in their Haynes auto. They were accompanied by Mrs. Austin’s sister, Miss Nina Hammond, and Mr. Williard Brockenbraugh, of Lafayette. Muck land in the Gifford territory is said to be burning in a number of places, and smoke from it is thought by a Rensselaer physician to be responsible for considerable bronchial trouble in that section. When this soil gets to burning it is practically impossible to extinguish the fire, which often continues to burn for months, heavy rains and even the heavy snows of winter felling to put it out.