Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 September 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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E. M. Parcells came from Indianapolis Wednesday evening. He has sold his barbershop there and will be at home for awhile. ' Grant Warner, Floyd Robinson and William Holmes went to Delphi on the early morning train yesterday and hired a livery rig there and went to the country where they gathered a couple of bushels of pawpaWs. Miss Selma Leopold left for Ann Arbor, Mich., this morning to re-enter Michigan University. She went by way of Delphi; to which point she was accompanied by her mother, Mrs. Simon Leopold. Mrs. D. S. Makeever returned this morning from Godfrey, 111., where she went yesterday with her daughter, Miss Ruth, who will be a student the coming year in-the Monticello seminary for young women. * Luther Modlin, 74 years old, one of the best known farmers of eastern Indiana, is dead at his home in Harrison township, Henry county, northeast of Cadiz. Mr. Modlin was known as “Henry County’s Corn King.” Mrs. Ray Wood is at the West Side Hospital in Chicago, where today she expected to be operated on. A difficulty of the same kind that caused a previous operation necessitated this one, which is thought to be more severe than the former. The Ladies’ Industrial Society of the Presbyterian church is giving the Salisbury Family Concert and extend an invitation to all music lovers to attend the entertainment Thursday evening, October 5. Admission 35 cents; children 25 cents.

Mrs. Belle Dickey returned to Indianapolis today, after a visit of five weeks with her brother, James M. Torbet, of Barkley township. Wirt Torbet, who works in Indianapolis, also returned there today, after a short visit at home. * Mrs. Mary E. Lowe received a letter the first of the week stating that there had been no change in the condition of Sidney Holmes, near Jamestown, N. Dak., since he took down with typhoid fever. He is still quite sick and'the outcome is uncertain but the prospects of his recovery are better than they were two weeks ago. Milton Fuerst, a Chicago traveling man, got a bad fall while getting off the Hoosier Limited here Tuesday evening and suffered the fracture of two or three ribs. He remained at the Makeever House until Thursday afternoon, when he went to his home in Chicago. He is said to have taken $lO and to have signed a responsibility release for the railroad company. Sherman Thornton was in town today for the first time since he was kicked by a horse about two weeks agtf. He was struck on the right knee and fell in such a manner as to render him unconscious. Hemorrhages followed and it'was feared that internal injuries had been suffered, but he has come out all right ahd aside from the knee injurjr, Is about well again. John W. Norman was a caller at The Republican office this morning. Be brought in a.clußter of millet grass that is very heavy and the seed of which is in unusually large bunches. The tallest blade of millet is 6 feet, 2% Inches In height, while the seed cluster is 6 inches In circumference and 8 inches in length. The millet was not sown by Mr. Norman but came up voluntarily. Mr. Norman did not have any corn tall enough to compete with the n&ammoth stalk brought in by Millard Froas, but he brought in a dwarf stalk for comparison. It is the “Tlnymlte” of the corn belt and while only 16% inches in height, it has two ‘‘nubbin” ears growing on it The stalk has been placed alongside th,e giant stalk and will recall the story of Gulliver’s travels into the lands of the dwarfs and the giants. The millet may also be seen displayed in front of The Republican office. mmmm him ... ■ . . i Lest—A silver watch, between East Walnut street and Hemphill's feed barn, Saturday, Sept. 23. Return to The Republican office and receive reward. f