Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 301, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Home made candies at Leavel’c T.akery. 1 Miss Lottie O’Connor came down from Holman today to visit relatives. Attend the Rensselaer Gun Club sho'ot next Thursday. You are invited to come and bring all your shooter friends. The Rensselaer Gun Club will conduct another blue rock shoot at their traps in Rensselaer on Thursday ; Dec. 28th. A dozen ladies participated Thursday evening in an enjoyable dinner party given by Mrs. Mary D. Eger, it being her birthday. Following the dinner an exchange of presents was conducted and a merry time enjoyed by all. A very small error sometimes causes a very material change in tbe thing affected. In a brief mention of the death at Hamilton, Ohio, of John J. Egbert a railway mail clerk, the accidental insertion of a figure “J :L caused the item to say that he had been a mail clerk for 471 years. It should have said 47 years. He was 66 years of age and began running on the road when only 19. Miss Elizabeth Spaulding returned yesterday to take charge of the Western Union office, after an absence of two months. She went first to Greencastle to visit relatives and after remaining there two weeks was called to Indianapolis because her sister, Mrs. M. J. Ford, bad snffered a stroke of paralysis. Her sister grew gradually worse' and on Dec. 10th passed away. She was 48 years of age and left no children. T. P. Rowe, who has had charge of the office for the past two weeks, left today for Martinsville, to relieve the manager for the Western Union at that place Butter wrappers, any quantity, plain or prilvted, may be bad at the Republican office.