Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 162, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1912 — Planning For Big Sunday School Day on July 21st. [ARTICLE]

Planning For Big Sunday School Day on July 21st.

At a meeting of Sunday school workers of Marion township held Sunday afternoon it was decided to hold the Marion township Sunday school convention on Sunday, July 21st, and to endeavor to make _it a big Sunday school rallying day. While all the plans were not completed, it is probable that the Sunday schools will hold their separate services in the morn; ing and that the separate services will be held at the morning church hour also, the sermons being about Sunday school work. In the afternoon the union services will be held and the union vesper services in the evening. At the afternoon meeting the report of the state convention will be made. It seems that Jasper county has a excellent Sunday school record and is now both a “star” and “banner” county, but there are a , few things to be considered and accomplished to place it in the front rank of counties in the state. It is hoped to do these things and the aid of all Sunday school workers is implored along this line. Mrs. W. M. Hoover has been quite sick for the past week with bronchial trouble. Frank Hoover has also been suffering from a pain in his side, a trouble that has bothered him off and on for two years or more. Owing to the condition of Mr. Green’s health bread will be baked only every other day during the excessive hot Weather, at Mrs. Green’s bakery. Will our patrons please take enough for two days on Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday of each week? Oh the off days Howard would like to mow your lawn. The White City Carnival Co. left today for Momence, 111., where they will show this week. They were to have shown here from July 3 to 6, but the car containing their equipment was delayed on the road until TirarsdayTllglrt lir a consequence they were not permitted to show at all, and have been staying here waiting for an engagement. ; J. C. Hubler, chief of railway mail service, came here to conduct a civil service examination for W. A. Davenport and Miss Fame Haas, employes at the post office, both of whom passed with a high percentage. These examinations are held every year in accordance with the civil service laws, for the purpose of maintaining efficiency in the mail service. Mr. and Mrs. R. A. Parkison and daughters, Ruth and Jane, will leave here the latter part of this week on account of Ruth’s health. They will first go to Bucklin, Kans., and then gradually go farther west, probably stopping at Boulder, Colo. ThO length of their stay there will be determined by the condition of Miss Ruth’s health. If the climate proves sufficiently beneficial, Mr. Parkison and family will probably make Colorado their permanent home. Mr. and Mrs. Kenneth Rhoades came from Gary Saturday and will remain here during ;the absence of her parents. Dr. A B. Cray, of Monticello, who talks glibly about the time when he stumped Kansas with John J. Ingalls and how he could have had the nomination for governor of the sunflower state when he was 23 years of age, is the leader of a third party movement in White county. Cray has doubtless informed the colonel that he has White county in his vest pocket Both himself and the colonel will wake up at the same time some sweet day and will have a true vision of “the power that gift wad gie us.” Aunty Newton and B. B, Baker, of Monticello, are also among the self-confessed puritans who have asserted their willingness to diart a third party and be candidates for all the appointive offices that there will be In the event that ambition is ever perched on the banner of success. Our Classified Column Will find you a purchaser (or most anything you have tor sale. Try tt.

.. • a V J . ■ ■ As far as could be leaned there was very little damage done in town Sunday evening as a result of the storm. An electric light wire«was broken and lay stretched across the road in front of the E. T. Harris residence on Division street 2,300 volts of electricity were passing over the wire. When if fell to the ground a circuit was completed and it wasn’t long before the insulation was burned off. Two passersby were attracted by the crackling and flashing blaze that extended across the street and notified Mell Abbott of the light plant, who came to the scene and clipped the wire. The intense heat emanating from the live wire as it lay across the street melted little sand particles, forming a narrow strip of glass. About 7 o’clock the fqse box on an electric light pole at the corner of South Division and Scott streets was .. f- .i • , struck by lightning and turned the fust lead into' thefransformer, causing all the electric lights in the houses in that end of town to go out. With the exception of those who retire with the barnyard fowls, dozens of people were forced to revert to primitive customs of lighting. Oil lamps, dust laden and tarnished, long since forgotten by many people, were ruthlessly dragged from obscure corners of attics and closets and filled with John D.’s well known kerosene oil.