Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 179, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 July 1912 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. Thomas Thornton arrived from Detroit, Mich., yesterday for a few daya’ visit herd. From here she will return to the soldiers’ home at Lafayette, where she lives, having been on a furlough since last spring.

You can secure Mica Special Roofing from any dealer in Jasper or Newton counties. .. If your dealer does not have it in stock, call me up and I will supply you direct Prices the same everywhere. HIRAM DAY.

Mr. and Mrs. Waldo F. Congdon are here fur a week’s visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Morgan. Mr. and Mrs. Congdon have been living In California the past year, but are now on their way east, where they expect to locate.

Have you noticed the ne ,r electric lighting system of the R-C-H car sold by Johp Knapp? The cars are equipped with 12-inch Bullet electric head lights and double parabolic lens, and 6-inch Bullet electric side lights with parabolic lens.

H. W. Klplinger received word today of the death yesterday of Chas. Younts at Eaton, Ind., near Muncie. ■Mr. Klplinger and Mr. Younts were boyhood chums and Mr. Kiplinger left for there this morning to attend the funeral which will be held tomorrow.

ReV. A. G. Work, who with his wife has been visiting here for the part week or two, went to Lafayette yesterday afternoon and at 2 o’clock today he will conduct the funeral services of Mrs. Elizabeth Price, a former Rensselaer resident, who died in Lafayette Thursday.

John M. Knapp is going right after ’em with the pretty R-C-H automobile, for which he is now agent. Yesterday he sold another machine, this one going to Albert DeFries, of Thayer. This car i£ seemingly as substantial as it is beautiful and is meeting with much favor around here.

Leslie Fisher was over from Remington today to see Vincent Eisele and to try to induce him to erect a business room on a well located lot he owns in Remington. Mr. Fisher, who has been in the cream business for some time,* wishes to enlarge his business and embark in the grocery business and offers to rent the room if Mr. Eisele will build it

Mr. and Mrs. A. H. Hopkins and two sons, of Rensselaer, accompanied by her aunt, Mrs William Keever, of Monticello, will leave Monday morning for Conover, Wis., where he owns 920 acres of land and where he has a cottage in which they will live until the first week in September. Art is a hay fever sufferer and finds that he can run away from it it he pulls for the north in time and don’t come back until the heated period is over. Mrs. Keever is also a hay fever victim.

The Monon park at the depot will be very attractive when all the arrangements for its beautification have been carried out Sometime ago Ben Smith, the concrete man, installed two beautiful pedestal flower pots at either end of ths park, in which hardy geranium plants have been placed. This did not look complete so, to create a balance, a circular flower bed was dug midways of the pots. Canna Hilles fill the center of the garden, surrounded by rdd collus and two rows of geraniums. To create harmony the garden is surrounded by a green border of alathenenthum, and the effect is very pleasing. This garden of Eden will be surrounded by a fence of steel bars Joined in concrete posts and When the work Is completed and the fencing painted white the Monon will have accomplished a task to be proud of.