Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 September 1911 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Hon. 1. D. Dunn was down from Teift today. -- Additional today's locals will, be found on page three. b Max Smith, of Chicago, is plaiting his sister, Mrs. Vern NOweld. „ Order tomatoes to can of E. S. Rhoads, the grocer. Do it today. A. Leopold is able'to be out again after a quite severe attack of his old trouble. ■ ' Herbert Zea is down from Hammond. Work is dull there and he came home to spend horse show week. Dave Warner came down from Gary yesterday for a short visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jack Warner. A. S. Laßue yesterday concluded.a deal for the purchase of the George W. Marshall farm of 111 acres, near Fair Oaks. Mrs. Ellen Yeoman and daughter-in-law, Mrs. S. A. Yeoman, of Claypool, Ind., came this morning to visit S. E. Yeoman and wife. Mrs. J. W. McConnahay returned today to her home in Pullman, 111., after a visit here with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Henry Randle. William Baker left this morning for Mitchell, S. Dak., where he will remain for a couple of weeks during the time his crops are being harvested. The old depot will be torn down as soon as the new one is occupied and the useable lumber will be employed in the building of a depot at Bainbridge. The ladies of the Methodist church will give a market Saturday, Sept 16, at the Home Grocery. All members are requested to bring or send something.

Miss Grace Norris left this morning for Fulton, Ind., to take up her work as assistant principal and instructor in Latin and German in the high school. Mrs. B. G. Oglesby and three little daughters returned to their home in Knox this morning, after a visit of two weeks with her sisters, Miss Grace and Fame Haas. Mr. and Mrs. George Robinson, of Hanging Grove township, started this morning for Mitchell, S. Dak., to visit their son Charley and wife. They will be gone for several weeks. Mrs. Ella Kelley, of Marion, came this morning to visit the families of R. B. Harris and W. V, Porter. She is the daughter of George McCoy, who recently died at his home in McCoys* burg. Clarence Smith, 6on of Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Smith, and a member of the 1911 graduating' class of the Rensselaer high school, has entered Purdue university. Ho will take the civil engineering course. Please bear in mind that the ladies of the M. E. church will give a market Saturday, September 16, at the Home Grocery. Cakes, pies, salads, home made breads chickens and everything for a Sunday dinner. S. E. Yeoman had a fine time at the fiftieth anniversary of his regiment, the 51st Indiana, held at Indianapolis last Thursday. Sixty-three members of the regiment were registered. One came from California and another from Alabama.

Miss Ruth Makeever, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. D. S. Makeever, will enter the Monticello Seminary at Godfrey, 111., this week and take a course in music and art. She would have been a member of the Rensselaer graduating class this year. Miss Elizabeth Spitler left this morning for Oxford, Ohio, where she will enter Western College for Girls. Misses Martha Long and Jane Moody, who attended the same school last year, will go there tomorrow to reenter for the ensuing term. Miss Marceline Roberts will also go to Oxford to re-enter Miami University. D. L. Brookie has purchased another grain elevator. He owned two before he made the purchase of the third one yesterday at Monon. It is a very large one, being used both for transfer and local business. The others are located at Tefft and San Pierre. Mr. Brookie says he can operate the three to much better advantage and at less cost comparatively, than he can one or two.— Frankfort Times. Lawson Meyer, formerly of Rensselaer, and now the superintendent of the Gary Telephone company, bought an air rifle for his little daughter and took it home last Sunday. Mrs. Meyer was afraid it was loaded and cautioned Lawson about it Lawson was sure it was not loaded and to show his wife that it wasn't he put one finger over the muzzle and pulled the trigger. Much to his surprise a BB shot Went almost through his finger and had to be probed out by a doctor. y