Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 140, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1912 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

ADDITIONAL.TODAY’S LOCALS. The J. I. Case gopher is the best on the market Sold by Hamilton & Kellner. , ~ If you are tired of sour or clammy bread, and if you are tfced of baking the cook to get something better, try some of J.hat delicious bread baked by the National Biscuit Co. Sold by J. A. McFarland. Mrs. Maud Ballington Booth, president of the prison league, volunteers of .America, has written to Governor Marshall, telling of several visits to the Indiana reformatory and declaring that the recent criticism of the institution in Indiana newspapers was unwarranted. The prison authorities, she declared, are selected carefully and she urges that the administration give its support to Superintendent D. C. Peyton. Ancel Pruett, a young man of Jordan township, and son of W. C. Pruett, met with a strange accident last Sunday afternoon. He was playing base ball and was in the act of catching I a “fly.” There was a stiff wind blowing at the time which caused him to nrisguage the ball. When ' it came down it wedged between his ring and little finger, splitting the hand open for about an inch. The wound was immediately dressed and is now causing him very little trouble. The steeplejacks have been engaged for several days in repairing the tile roof at the court house and taking down some of the stone ornaments from the steeple. The ornaments had , become loose and parts have fallen during heavy windstorms and it was feared that somf one might be injured. The workmen on the repair job are paid 75 cents an hour or $6 for a day of 8 hours. They also receive traveling expenses from South Bend. The steeple roof has leaked some for several years on account of the broken tile. 1 Mrs. Marilla Parcels died last Sunday evening a few minutes after nine o’clock at her home on North Illinois street, aged 87 years. She has been failing for months and her death came from the infirmities of old age. The funeral will be held from the home of her son, Phillip Parcels Tuesday afternoon at three o’clock. Grandmother Parcels was among the oldest residents of the city, having lived for 56 years in the little house where she died.-sjMonticello Journal. She is the daughter of Ed Parcels of this city.

Twin wireless stations to communicate direct with London will be btyilt along the New Jersey coast within a year by the Marconi Wireless Telegraph Company of America. The first will be near Belmar, N. J., upon a site purchased Thursday. The second will be built at ,Toms river or Barnegat; The estimated cost will be $750,000 each. Options have been obtained upon sites at San Francisco and Honolulu. A plant will be constructed In the Philippine Islands which will communicate direct-with the one at Honolulu. The condition of Joe Nagel, who was a patient in St. Elizabeth’s hospital at Lafayette for about seven weeks, is much better. £ie was allowed to come home about ten days ago to recuperate, but today he went back to undergo a final examination. He is feeling good now and Though somewhat weak, he hopes eventually to be entirely well. Mr. Nagel has not been able to do any work this year so he vested the management of his farm in the hands of his three sons and they have taken charge of the place in a very creditable manner. They finished planting corn two weeks ago and are plowing it over for the second time. Mr. Nagel says his field is better than any he has seen this year between here and Lafayette, and states that in a hundred acre field and another forty acre field the corn will average a height of eight or ten inches. Bennet B. Lyons and son Fred, H. M. Light and Attorney Frank Davis came over from Brook this morning in Fred’s new National automobile. Fred has just purchased a National--40, a roomy 5-passenger car and a beauty in every respect He drove it home from Indianapolis Sunday. Messrs. Lyons and Light are remonstrators to the Borntrager ditch and Bennet says this Is the first public improvement he has ever fought. He bought 480 acres of the former McCoy land last December from W. L. Hill and his assessment on this land is $5 per acre. He claims that the farm already has sufficient outlet and that the proposed drain cannot possibly benefit him, while the ditch would divide the farm and be an actual damage. Mr. Light, who owns a farm near the southwestern end of the proposed drain, also regards the proposed ditch as detrimental to his farm. He says that it is impossible to get enough fall to benefit his land If the channel were lowered to the Kankakee river at Watseka. Bennet Lyons and son are strong Taft men and were greatly pleased to learn that the Indiana contested delegates had been awarded to the president ; ...