Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 240, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1912 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS. ** r ; Mayor G. F. Meyers made a business trip to Momence today. Just received, a car of Jackson Hill coal. J. C. Gwin Lumber Co. Albert Witham and wife made a trip to Monticello Saturday. Remember us with your order. Phone 202. •* ROWEN & KISER. Remember the concert at the M. E. church this evening, October 7th, 8:15 p. m. T 7 v ~ Mrs. C. W. Bums went to South Bend today for a two weeks’ visit with her daughter, Mrs. Della Belcher. When in need of heating coal try Gwin’s Virginia Splint r J. C. Gwin Lumber Co. Miss Flora Parke and Mrs. Bruce Hardy, of Mt Ayr, were in Rensselaer Saturday. Miss Parke teaches school there. Hear the Euclid Male Quartet at M. E. church, Monday evening. Admission 35 cents. Mr. and Mrs. John Hoffman and baby returned to Dyer this morning after a visit since Saturday with Anton Trulley and family. Lon Healy’s new song, “It was Only a Golden Leaf that Fell,” is on sale at Fred Phillips’ music store. Mrs. A. C. Robinson and daughter, Eva Grace, and Miss Clara Mitchell went to Medaryville Sunday for a visit of a week with relatives. Ralph Donnelly, Louie Ramp and Gerald Hollingsworth went to the Kankakee river this morning for a camping trip of a week or ten days. The last call for Michigan peaches, Tuesday and Wednesday. Fancy yellow Michigans, $1.25 to $1.50 per bushel. JOHN EGER. The price of season tickets for the Lyceum Course is SI.OO for five numbers. Single admission 35 cents, or a saving of 75 cents for the course.

A broken journal on a box car on the main track in the Monon yards here caused the delay of the milk train this morning. A side track was cleared for the train to pass over. Mr. and Mrs. Ves Richards were home over Sunday from Wanatah, where he works on the stone roads for W. F. Smith & Co. Ves registered this morning and will be back to vote in four weeks. The Ladies’ Industrial Society of the Methodist church will hold their regular monthly 10-cent social at the home of Mrs. B. J. Moore, Tuesday (afternoon, October Bth. i Everybody cordially invited. Harvey Rodifer recently returned to his home in Jordan township from Emeraldo, N. Dak., where he worked for a month In the harvest fields. He also spent a couple of days in Canada but d?d not like the country very well. 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. County Superintendent Lamson spent Sunday in Chicago, where Mrs. Lamson is a patient at Wesley hospital. She is getting along very nicely and will probably be well enough to return home 'by the last of the week.

Oxford, O.—l have not heard as good a program in years. Every member is an artist —Dr. Minnich, Dean of Oxford College. At M. E. church, this evening, Oct 7 th, admission 35 cents. There will be special work in the first and third degrees of Prairie Lodge, No. 125, F. & A. M., on Monday evening, Oct. 7,1912. Lodge will open at 7 p. m. The members are requested to try and come promptly. W. A. Davenport is finishing his vacation period. He is allowed 15 days annually from the postofflce and has been taking it a little at a time. Today he and Mrs. Davenport are spending at the Kankakee river. Mrs. James Norris went to Indianapolis Saturday and met her daughter, Miss Grace, there, and they spent the day together. Miss Norris is teaching Latin and botany at North Vernon, has a good position and is getting along splendidly. Mrs. William Daniels and daughter, Miss Pearl, returned last Friday from a visit of a week with Guy Daniels and wife at Rock Island, 111. Both Guy and his wife are employed at the government arsenal at Rock Island and are getting along splendidly. Mrs. John Roadifer and son, Harvey, of Jordan township, were in Rensselaer Saturday and went on up into Barkley township to remain over Sunday with her mother, Mrs. Louise Gratner, at the home of William Gratner. “Grandmother” Gratner is in her 86th year.

F. X. Busha did not get relief from his job with the Monon at Lafayette until last Friday and was delayed in starting for Denver, He came here Saturday and remained over Sunday with his wife at the home of her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Beam, and left for the west on the milk train this morning. He will work" for the Denver & Rio Grande railroad and Mrs. Busha will follow him as soon as he gets located. Rev. W. G. Winn returned home from Pittsburg, Pa., Saturday. He had planned to return to Monticello Friday and was on the program to speak at the Christian church convention. His dely was occasioned by a sad accident that resulted in the death of a Presbyterian minister and his son and three other people at Pittsburg. They were in an auto and were run over by a Pennsylvania train. The minister >• was well known to Rev. Winn and he remained to assist in conducting the funeral i