Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 276, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 November 1912 — MRS. A. GALBRAITH DIED SUNDAY A. M. [ARTICLE]

MRS. A. GALBRAITH DIED SUNDAY A. M.

Cancer Brought Close to Life of Aged Lady—Funeral to Be Held Tuesday at Residence. Mrs. Alcana Galbraith died Sunday morning at 10:05 o’clock after a sickness of several months. She had, how.ever, been confined to her bed but about ten days. Cancer was the cause of death. She leaves a husband and two children, Mrs. Sarah Hopkins and Mrs. Maul Trulley, of Rensselaer, and several stepchildren. Deceased was 72 years of age. Tlie funeral will be held from the late residence at 2 o’clock Tuesday afternoon by Rev. Parret. Burial in Weston cemetery. Mrs. Will Porter and little Elizabeth .Mead, of Hammond, are visiting E. L. Clark and family and other relatives. Superintendent W. F. Clarke attended the meeting of the city school superintendents of the state at Indianapolis last week. Orders have been issued by th& management of the Chicago and Northwestern Railway 'company for the construction of locomotives and freight, baggage and passenger cars that, will represent an expenditure of more than $8,000,000. The design of the new nickel to supplant the 5-cent coin now in circulation, will be perfected by Secretary of the Treasury MacVeagh within a few weeks. George E. Roberts, director of the mint, and J. E. Fraser, of New York, an artist, who is working on the design, conferred with the secretary Friday. An Indian head will adorn the face of the coin and the figure of a buffalo the reverse. Charles L. Jeffrey, Edward L. Morgan and Charles O. Wiltfong, of Chesterton. have filed a suit in the Porter circuit court against the Mineral Springs Racing Association, by which the plaintiffs ask for the foreclosure pf a mechanic’s lien filed in the recorder's office November 13th, and judgment of $750. The Chesterton dealers allege that they furnished the racing association with $628 worth of tanks, a steel tower, gasoline engine and othet accessories, for which they have received no money. The Gary Trust and Savings bank is named as a defendant, for the alleged reason that it holds a mortgage on the property held by the racing association. H. H. Loring, of Valparaiso, represents the plaintiffs.

Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur Sayler, of Bend, Ore., arrived Sunday evening for a visit until after Christmas with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. D. Sayler. Wilbur (vent west about six years ago and for some time worked in a bank at Hartline, Wash., but two years later moved to a farm be bought near Bend, Ore., which at that time was about 100 miles from a railroad. Since then, however, two railroads have been built, from the north, following the DeSchutes river and at present make Bend the terminus. The farming there is done by irrigation and, Wilbur and about a dozen others have a private irrigation plant, having filed on a couple of springs and mountain streams. They raise alfalfa and grain. The country is rapidly developing and Bend is an important shipping point, as freight is carried from there a hundred miles by stage. Mrs. Sayler’ was operated on for appendicitis , a month ago and they came there to Rensselaer as soon as she was able to stand the trip.