Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 244, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 October 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

James Halligan returned Saturday from Bedford, lowa, where he spent last week trying a suit to set aside a transfer of land made by Sim Dowell to his drltd, In order that Halligan Bros, may collect a judgment of SI,BOO against Conway. The court stated that he would not rule on the case for twenty days, as there were a number of legal questions involved. Mr. Halligan, however, came home feeling that he had won the case. ■■■>*.' ■'—- James Matheson is now in a very critical condition and the end is apt to come at any time. At 1 o’clock this morning and again at 6 o’clock he almost passed away, but rallied. He is conscious of the approach of death and has everything planned for his passing- to the great beyond. Mrs. Mary E. Drake is having a steam heating plant placed In her residence south of town. The wqrtrM being done Sundays by her brothers and son, Who are plumbers and who come from Chicago to do the work.' Ray Mansburger, a construction company foreman, and Miss Cora Baket, both of Roselawn, were married at about 1 o’clock by Squire 8. C. Irwin at the county clerk’s office. Miss Olive Rinehart, trimmer at Rowles JI Parker’s millinery department, was visited Bunday by her parents, of Wk ve land. and her mother remained for a longer visit. » Mrs. John Pettit, of Walker township. Is visiting her daughter, Mrs. Gaylord Michael, southeast of town, for * few days. : Mias Wilma Burns, age 18, a senior In the Worthington high school, committed suicide by shooting herself in the right temple with a revolver. She was a daughter of Mrs. Olive Burns, a widoW. She was literary editor of the Purple and White, a monthly paper published by the high school. Tho girl’s mother had refused to permit her to go te Lyons to a street fair. Do yon want to rant your property? A classllled adv. In The Republican will dad yon a tenant