Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 September 1912 — VIRGIE. [ARTICLE]

VIRGIE.

Jasper Cooper has returned from South Bend, where he has been working. Frank Meader took Mr. and Mrs. Jack Reeder and Mr. and Mrs. Thos. Florence in his car to Remington Sunday to visit their children, Waitman Reeder and wife and Mrs. Ernest Meisure and husband. Little Ruth Mlllspaugh has been quite sick, but is much better at present. v John Reed was at Goodland two days of last week looking after the interests of his farm there. Miss Frances Petty, of Chicago, and Ora Yeoman, of Rensselaer, were visiting here Sunday. Miss Carrie Hahn spent Sunday with home folks. Dr. Austin Lakin and children, Opal and Frank, and brother-in-law, John Petty, autoed here from State Line last Monday. Mr. Lakin and children returned Tuesday but Mr. Petty stayed for an extensive visit with relatives here. (Last Friday was Mrs. Mary Petty’s seventy-sixth birthday and her old neighbors and friends gathered with well filled baskets about 7 o’clock in the evening, at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Will Petty, and gave her a pleasant surprise. She received several useful presents.