Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 310, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 December 1912 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

T. G. Wynegar and wife went to South Bend today for a short visit. Rev. W. G. Winn and daughter, Miss Madge, are spending today in Chicago. Ross Bringle left this morning for Des Moines, lowa, on a prospecting trip. R. S. Moe, drug clerk for A. F. Long; went to Valparaiso* today to visit his mother on New Years day. Dudley Myers, the Parr young man who has been having a very bad attack of erysipelas, is reported no better today. Loren Sage, instructor at the Military Academy at Bunker Hill, 111., has been spending the holiday vacation at home. y Robbers broke into the Wabash railroad station at Rich Valley, six miles west of Wabash, Friday night and broke open the cash drawer, obtaining ten pennies. » Ralph Sprague and wife and two children returned here this mornlhg from Goodland, where they spHii several days visiting F. P. Morton and family. Expecting some folks from the city, a farmer near Salem, Pa., stopped a Lake Shore train with a red lantern and asked the conductor is his friends were aboard. Miss Gladys Pierce entertained about twenty-five young ladies and gentlemen last evening at her home south of town and a most delightful time is reported by all who were present. Immense deposits of oil have been struck on the reservation which was literally forced on the Snake Indians in Oklahoma and each aborigine will be worth thousands of dollars through leases on land and royalties on the output. The last of the holiday vacation dances will take place tonight, when the Jefferson Club will again give one of their big balls at the armory. The Douglas colored orchestra will again furnish the music. Henry Eigelsbach w r cnt to Chicago this morning for a visit with his son, Tom, and wife. He carried two grips with him and from the way the sides bulged out we’ll wager that Tom and his better half are going to feed on some homemade sausage for the next two weeks and that it will be finer than any city manufactured sausage that was ever served in the LaSalle hotel. One of the famous baseball men of the present day is John Evers, who has been selected to manage the Chicago Cubs this year. John has a namesake in Jasper county, being John Evers, a young man of near DeMotte, who was a Rensselaer visitpr today. He states that he is not even a baseball fan, but he is glad to know that his baseball playing namesake has made mighty good at the job.

A jury at Greenfield Saturday gave a verdict of $7,000 to Carrie Kellum, administratrix of the estate of Claude Kellum, against the National Motor Vehicle company and the Indianapolis Speedway Co., in a suit in which SIO,OOO damages for the death of Claude Kellum was asked. Kellum was the driver of a racing car at the speedway during the 1909 races when it ran into a fence and he was killed. ___________ \ The Jackson Club banquet at Lafayette last evening was attended by the following Rensselaer democrats: N. Littlefield, F. E. ,pabcock, C. A. Tuteur, E. P. Honan, C. Earl Duvall. J. A. McFarland and Joe Nagle. Mr. Honan was the first speaker on the program, which included short speeches by a number of democrats, including Franli Davis, of Brook. All returned home today, looking as though they had not done a thing that was not democratic. A little more than a week ago John Nagle moved to Rensselaer overland from Plymouth. The trip was made with three wagons, John and his brother, Al, each driving one team, and his brother-in-law, Clement Gangloff, driving one, while John Gangloff came with two light rigs. It took the wagon drivers three days to make , the trip, while John with the buggies made the trip in two days. Next year Mr. Nagle and wife will run the Overton farm, where-Will Murray now lives.

Goodland is coming tomorrow for their basketball game in the evening with Co. M’s. fast team, which they defeated at Goodland some three weeks ago. The Goodland fellows have a fine team and last week swamped Brook by the seore of 83 to 16. Russell Morton, formerly of this township, is the Goodland center and the Herald says he can shoot baskets from the center of the court right along. He is- a splendid The. soldiers will be much better than they were when they played at Goodland, owing to the acquisition of Morgan and the general improvement of the team. It will be a line game and apparently will be played before a capacity house, as everyone seems to he going. The admission will be 25 cents for men and boys and 15 cents for women and girls. Use our Classified Coliimn.