Evening Republican, Volume 15, Number 302, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1911 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. James Maloy went to Steger, 111., this morning to visit her son, Dr, Bernard Maloy. Miss Vera Parker went to Brook this morning to visit her sister, Mrs. W. M. Parkinson and family. * Miss Blanche McClannahan returned to her home in Union township this morning after a visit n Rensselaer with her brother John and family, Ed Kanne arrived from Chicago yesterday evening at about 5 o’clock with the new Buick autobus and it was put into commission today. It is a 22-horse power, double chain drive, solid tire, 10-passenger machine and a very easy riding car. Ed Kanne has gone into partnership with Tone and the firm will hereafter be Kanne Bros. • R. A. Wolcott, manager of the Wabash College Glee Club, was in Rensselaer this morning and submitted a proposition to the 'Presbyterian church to include Rensselaer in the spring tour of the club. Arrangements were not completed but probably will be made. The Wabash Glee Club was here three years ago and made a very favorable impression. Mr. Wolcottt is the son of Ebon H. Wolcott, who formerly lived In Wolcott. He Is now located at Marion and engaged in the manufacturing business. 4 Lafayette’s new high school, the Jefferson, will be completed Boon and by Jan. 1 the present high school building will be abandoned and the mammoth new structure occupied. The new school, representing an expenditure of nearly 8400,000, is said to be the finest high school building In point of architecture, arrangemem and equipment in the middle west The school Is designed to accommodate 1,200 pupils. It has a frontage of 240 feet and a depth of 170 feet The official weights and measures of the city of South Bend were stolen Wednesday from the public market and the theft Is laid to the peddlers, who have bpen driven oat of business by tbs activity of the market official*.