Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 January 1912 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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LOCAL HAPPENINGS. Mrs. A. P. Burton is spending today in Chicago. Mrs. Alda I'arkison is spending today in Chicago. I. N. Best, of Roselawn, visited in Rensselaer today. W. F. Smith and Delos Thompson made a business trip to Chicago today. ‘Mrs. J. J. Weast went to Lafayette today for a visit of two or three days. Mrs. C. W._ Hanley, Mrs. Bert Brenner and Mrs. Geo. W. Hopk’ns are spending today in Chicago. The teachers' training ciass will meet at the M. F church after the evangelistic meeting tonight. The Jefferson club will give a dance at the armory Thursday evening resi rU ted to invited guests. Mrs. John Copsey, of Sheridan, is here visiting her parents, Mr. andMrs. Monroe* Carr, for a short time. George W. Infield arrived in Rensselaer this morning from Pennsylvania, where he has been for several weeks, visiting his mother. The German navy now possesses what is believed to be the largest and most powerful gun in existence, the 15-lnch weapon manufactured by Messrs. Krupp. i < . II ■.l Mrs. C. Earl Duvall left this morning for a visit of several "days with her sister, Mrs. G. B. Rollings, at Jamestown and her-brother Harry Biggs in Indianapolis. E. R Brown, who was engaged in the furniture business in Monticello for several years, is soon to move to Akron, Ind., where he will engage in the banking business.

The Twenty-seventh infantry, now at Fort Sheridan, near Waukegan, 111., will be one of the five regiments eent to Hawaii. It is fourth the list for foreign service. Harry B Darling, the versatile editor of the Laporte ArguS-Bulletin, has been confined to his home the past week with an attack of quinsy .and it will probably be ten days or two weeks before he Is able to be down to the office. Girls carrying snow in their aprons and the boys making balls of it and throwing them on the fire was the method adopted by the pupils at a country school in Monroe county, to fight the flames which threatened to ■destroy the building. r Fashion’s decree in favor of the hobble skirt has hobbled the service on the Elgin lines of the Aurora, El«ln and Chicago railroad. Motormen declare that it takes three and four minutes longer to make thir runs than it did before the hobble skirt came In vogue. Benjamin Harris made a business trip to Chicago this morning to meet his wife and daughter, Mrs. H. L. Barnes and baby. Mrs. Rainier has been there since the baby was born and is bringing her daughter and grandchild to Rensselaer for an indefinite stay.

Russell Sluyter returned to Monon today after a visit of several days here. He is fast gaining strength from his recent siege of typhoid fever and expects to go to work at the barber trade soon and probably at Lafayette. He plans to return to South Dakota - later in the spring. After nearly a year’s consideration the supreme court of the United States yesterday gave Its approval to the employers* liability law enacted, by congress in. 1908 to take the place' -of a similar act declared unconstitutional. The decision .jnarks an epoch in ikSor legislation. The ladies of the M. E. church, unMissionary Society, will give a kitchen shower, Thursday afternoon at the. church. Everybody la Invited to at--tend. .