Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1912 — HANGING GROVE. [ARTICLE]

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lives at Morocco *“ Mrs-.—J.* E. -Rose and sell were in Rensselaer doing some shopping- Friday. ’f Mr. Mrs. Charles Lefler and family spent Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. J. E. Ross. Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur German entertained friends and relatives from Montmorenei—atuL Terre Haute last Thursday. Mr. and Mrs. Grant Lutes came up from Monon Sunday to spend the day with her parents, Mr. -and Mrs. D. W. Johnson. They have procured a house in Monon and will begin housekeeping very soon. Gifford Marrs and Earl Foulks went to Valparaiso Saturday and returned home Sunday. . They made the trip oif the former’s motorcycle, lie having a tandem attachment for same. They spent the night Saturday at Mr. and Mrs. George Stalker’s. Owing to the box social and Thanksgiving programs and school examination work all coming before Christmas this year, it was decided it would be taxing the pupils too much to prepare for a Christmas entertainment so the Christmas tree exercises will he, omitted th.isTyear-.

John F„ Shellhart has moved from Milroy township to the N. Hopkins property on Dayton and Elm streets Mr. Hopkins^«aid family have movedto Surrey. Sylvester A. lamg gave one of the strongest lectures ever heard by a Jackson audience.—-Jackson (Miss) News. At M. E. Church, Tuesday evening, admission 35 cents. The action last winter of the Gary. 'Common council in reducing city saloon licenses from SSOO to S2OO has been declared void by.-hhe Indiana supreme court and as a result the majority of the saloon keepers in the steel city may have to close their saloons. It is believed that 160 licenses' have been automatically forfeited. - Ellis-" Strong, who livod i-n Jasper, county from 1857 until twenty years ago, died last Tuesday at Glendale sanitarium, near Los Angeles, Cal., and was 80 years of age last March. Lucius Strong, of Rensselaer, is a hrnther of the deceased. One sister, Mrs. Harrison P. Baker, lives at Onarga, 111. Deceased was never married. Mrs. Zelma Rayher Roth and baby, of Fowler, are visiting her sister, Mrs. Lester Speaks! In company with Mr. Roth they spent Thanksgiving at Forrest with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. William Rayher. ilr. Roth is a carpenter and for some time lias been working on the construction of the plant of the Northern Indiana Utilities Co„ at that place. Prof. Ben Coen, of Fort Collins Colo., “and his brother, Jesse Coen, of Chicago; were in Rensselaer a short time Sunday, visiting their father, William S. Coen, and their sister, Mrs. Jud Maines. Ben is an instructor dr the state agricultural college and his visit to Chicago was on business and necessarily in great haste, which occasioned suea short visit here. The Republican was in error in saying that The Boswell Enterprise was the only republican newspaper in Benton county that remained loyal to the cause during the recent campaign. The Oxford Tribune, published by Charles S. Craw and son, Roland, never wavered in its devotion and support of the G. O. P. Their combined work doubtless more than qffset the influence of the bifurcated organ of the county seat. Ellis Thomas had quite a fall while working with Snyder Bros, building a hnrn on C. G. Spitler’s farm, occupied by Will Eldridge, a mile north of Pleasant Ridge. A scaffold about ten feet-high fell last Friday morning and Ellis severely sprained his left ankle and it is now causing him so much trouble that it is feared a bone may be broken. He was brought into town soon after the accident and is at his home in the east part of town.

Perry Horton is coming in for a lot of favorable comment in the Huntington newspapers. He has been playing the piano there for several having a traps partner named Ayers. They played for two big balls last week, one on Thanksgiving night and the other Friday night, the latter by the Kappa Alpha Phi fraternity. One of the papers says: “Several piano selections cleverly rendered by Mr, Horton were highly appreciated by the guests.” Mrs. Frank Leach, of near Remington, came to Rensselaer yesterday to see her father, Eli Critser, who has been in poor health for some time This morning Mrs. Leach went to Chicago, taking with her two large pearls, eight small ones and a number of slugs. Mr. Critser found these pearls in clams in the Iroquois river .last summer. He received at- number of offers for the pearls, Jiaving refused $450 for the largest one. Mr. Leach took them to Chicago to try to find a buyer.

November went out last Saturday with an unblemished record. It was from-start to finish about the finest behaved November we have ever seen. Today is a little gloomy and the wind, which blew from the south during the night, has shifted around to the north. The weatherman says it will be much colder tonight-.' 'it rained a trifle Saturday night and quite a little Sunday night and still looks like rain but the weatherman has a program for fair weather which he proposes ta usher in tonight and which sounds good to most everyone, lElbert E. Martin, stenographer, who grappled with John Sbhrank, after. Colonel Roosevelt was shot while in Milwaukee, Thursday! received a gold watch as a Thanksgiving gift from the Colonel: , ' / • Although eggs are selling in New York at 38 to 65 cents a dozen, an official report made Thursday shows 1,447,000,000 eggs are being held in local storage warehouses.