Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 304, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 December 1912 — THEY’RE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS VACATION [ARTICLE]

THEY’RE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS VACATION

College Boys and Girls Are Here to Spendl Tuletide With Their Parents and Friends. The college boys and girls are home for the Christmas vacation and the hearts of many parents are glad to have their children again with them. Rensselaer is a good patron of the colleges and does not confine itself to any particular school. Purdue usually has the greater nii'mber and that is probably the case at this time. From there came Walter Lutz, Faye Clarke, Virgil Robinson, ’Walter English; from Indiana Dental School at Indianapolis came Wade Laßue; from Michigan College at Ann Arbor came Selma Leopold and Alfred Thompson; from Virginia University at Charlottesville came James H. S. Ellis, Jr., who will probably go his father one better in military rank and be called “Colonel,” although he has not cultivated the southern tongue nor gotee whiskers; from Illinois University at Urbana came Cope Hanley; from Wisconsin came Livingston Ross and Helen Murray; from DePauw at Greencastle came Nell Meyers and Jennie Parkison; from Hanover came Jay Nowels; from Rockford College came Mae Clarke; from Colorado University at Boulder came Floyd Meyers; from Western College at Oxford Martha Long came three weeks ago because of her sickness; from Miami at Oxford came Marceline Roberts; from Terre Haute came Bernice Rhoads; from Hillsdale, Mich., came Ruth Harper; from St. Elizabeth’s Academy at. St. Louis, Mo., came Lucy Healy and Martha Ramp, and there may be some that we have been unable to learn about, but that it a good, big list of college folks and they will probably make things busy about the old town during the holidays.

Genuine Jackson Hill coat at Hamilton & Kellner’s. Mrs. John Behrens is visiting at Michigan City this week. Mrs. Herman Walters, south of town, is quite sick today with stomach trouble. Walter Craihpton is here from Chicago ,t,o spend the holiday vacation with his uncle, C. E. Prior. Mr. and Mrs. H. C. Hoshaw will spend Christmas day with Mrs. Frank Burns and family at Mt. Ayr. Mr. and Mrs. P. L. Davis, of Hammond, are here to spend Christmas with her brother, W. L. Frye, and family, Joe Larsh took his son, Jack, and daughter, Doris, to Kokomo yesterday to spend the week with their grandparents. Joe returned this morning and will go after them next Sunday. Mrs. John Kohler and daughter, Mrs. Fred Chapman, accompanied by the former’s aged father, Peter Minicus, went to Chicago Heights this morning to remain for several days with George Minicus and family. “Uncle” Peter is in his 89th year and Is enjoying very good health. % “Uncle” John Groom is now quite low and it is hardly believed that he has the strength to combat with the fractured hip which he sustained last week. His son, Joe, has been with him constantly since the accident occurred and reports that the old gentleman has been failing quite a little. His son, Jack, of Kingman, Kans., will arrive here tomorrow.

Miss Ethel 'Clarke, 18-year-old daughter of Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Clarke, is quite sick at their home and the exact nature of her illness can not be determined at this time. Saturday and fainted while talking at the telephone and her physician believes that her trouble is nothing more than an attack of grip coupled with some bilious trouble. Serious results, however, are not feared.

N. Schmitt, Joseph Geis, Peter Schmitt, Peter Hoffman and John Hardman, of Dyer, attended the funeral of John Pipter today. They came to Rensselaer Sunday evening on the milk train, being of the impression that they could get from Rensselaer directly to Wheatfield by train. They found out after their arrival here that the best they could do was to wait until this morning and go on the milk train to Shelby and thence over the Three-I.

The house Wednesday Burnett literacy test immigration bill The measure, a substitute for the Dillingham biil, would bar from the United States immigrants over 16 years old unable to read, except those proving of religious persecution at home.