Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 239, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 October 1911 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

ADDITIONAL TODAY’S LOCALS. Good 4-foot wood delivered at your residence at $4.00 per cord, at Hamilton A Kellner’s. mi, i, Mr. and Mrs. John Merritt were in Hammond Sunday, spending the day with Alfred Hickman and family. Alfred is now foreman in the chemical factory, having an excellent position. A Wabash freight train at Delphi less the track owing to a broken rail Sunday morning and crashed into the Don]in & Ryan elevator, causing damage to the railroad equipment and elevator estimated at about SIOO,OOO. The cars were telescoped and piled up several oars ,in height One car was loaded with automobiles, which were badly damaged. The plan of Earl Barkley, whose marriage to Miss Lottie Marion occurred last week, is to occupy the Stewart Hammond property, which contains the household furniture of Mr. and Mrs. John Gwin, until about the first of March, when they will go to the Barkley farm in Barkley township, which is now occupied by Mr. and B. B. Smith. Mr. and Mrs. Vernon Balcom came over from Remington last Evening for a day’s visit with Mrs. Balcom’s sister, Mrs. Matt Worden and family. Mr. and Mrs. Balcom have decided to leave Remington and will leave Friday of this week for Portland, Oregon, where they expect to locate. Vern does not know in what business he Will engage but expects to find something after he gets out there.

Mrs. Sarah Beal, of Macon, Mo., and her daughter, Mrs. Ruby Morris, of Kansas, have been visiting the former's sister, Mrs. W. M. Hoover, southwest of town and will leave Wednesday for their homes. Sunday was Mrs. Beal’s 69th birthday and the event was made the occasion of a big dinner gathering at the Hoover home, about forty being present. Mrs. Beal was the recipient of a number of presents. Often several in one day and many in the course of the week call The Republican by telephone to order either the Evening or Semi-Weekly Republican. The Evening Republican is delivered by carrier any place in Rensselaer for 10 cents a week, or is sent by mail at the rate of $3.50 per year. The Semi-Weekly Republican is sept any place in the United States for $1.50 per year. The rate to Canada is $2 per year. Call No. 18 and leave your order for the best paper in the county. Four young men on motorcycles will canvas in Jasper and adjoining counties for the next three or four weeks. They are employed by the Orange Judd publishing company and each is supplied with a motorcycle and a camera with full photographing outfit. Many of the pictures they take will be published in the Orange Judd farmer, one of the leading agricultural papers of the central west. They fiave been working in Minnesota for several months. They appear to be great hustlers and should do a good deal of business in this county.

Some people are very thoughless and others are downright destructive. Marshal Mustard has been superintending the filling and leveling of the east corner of Milroy park, about the monument, and any one who had eyes could see that the filled-in ground must not be driven over and yet some people have already made a roadbed across the point. The marshal has given notice forbidding sueh trespass and if violators are arrested and fined they will get what they ought to havT? coming to them. All should take pride in the improvement and none should contribute to its undoing. W. S. McDonald and wife are over from their home near LaCrosse to visit the Lowman brothers, the Scott brothers, and other relatives. He has been quite successful in farming there and reports that land at and near LaCrosse has greatly improved in recent years and the price is going up rapidly. There is a great deal of wheat grown there but this year there is an Indication that tie fly will tau great* amount of darauge, as itjhas already started depredations. Mr. McDonald's' father, Gary McDpnafd, also lives near LaCrosse. v Ssg! jjti’p - 5. C. M. Archer, who lived in Rensselaer for some time about four yean ago, arrived here Saturday will spend a few days visiting bis brother-in-law, C. D. Britton, and family and with old acquaintances. He came from Oklahoma last week to see his aged mother at Medaryville. Mr. Archer bought a quarter section of land near Yukon, Okla., and only about ten miles from Oklahoma City, about four years ago and recently sold it for 110,000 mote than it cost him. He had to give possession on Oct. Ist, and held a public sale os Sept. 21st, and everything brought a good price. He thinkß of going to the Pecos Valley, N. Mex., to locate. * ; Cheapest accident insurance—Dr. Thomas' Rclectic Oil. Stops the pain and heals the wound. All druggists sell it