Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 7, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1913 — HIGH SCHOOL WILL START BASKETBALL [ARTICLE]

HIGH SCHOOL WILL START BASKETBALL

Will Play First Game of Season Friday Night—Opponents Will Be Announced Later. The Rensselaer high school will inaugurate basketball at the high school gymnasium Friday night of this week, when the high school boys’ team will meet a team probably from Lowell or Medaryville, the arrangements not having been completed. It is possible that the representative girls’ team will be chosen by that time and that a game may be arranged for them. The game conflicts with the militia game with Monticello, but there will be crowd enough to go around, perhaps, especially if Monticello brings its customary crowd of rooters. By Thursday it is expected to be able to state what team will oppose the high school team Friday night. 'a suit case advertised as lost in The Republican of Tuesday was restored to its owner. A reader of this paper reported that one of her childrep had found it in the street, where it had probably dropped out of an automobile. The jiffy curtains are a feature of the.R-C-H cars that are meeting with instant favor by the public. At Logansport last Sunday Lonzo Healy was initiated into the Catholic Order, the Knights of Columbus. A number more will go into the order soon. For several years Edward P. Honan was the only member in Rensselaer. Miss Julia Leopold went to Chicago Saturday and today Mrs. C. C. Warner, Mrs. A. R. Hopkins and Miss Edith Shedd went there. Tomorrow they will be joined by Mrs. A. R. Kresler and Mrs. J. A. Dunlap and all will attend grand opera. Stewart Short has returned to the Boys’ Training School at Louisville, Ky., after a two weeks’ vacation at home. He is very much pleased with his school there. Stewnrt wore his military uniform while home and it was quite becoming to him.

Morrow Bros., who had been booked by a lyceum bureau for a tour of the western states, received word the first o tthe week that the, WSgemenF liacTEcen cirTcXd for the time being, owing to the severe weather in the west. How long the delay will be for they do not know. ' "■ A. C. Stauffenberg, of Manhattan, 111., who recently bought the former Michaels farm, southeast of town, was here yesterday and today, looking after the renting of it. Mr. Stauffenberg has refused an offer of $5.50 more an acre than he paid for the farm, when he bought it two weeks ago. Mrs. E. P. Honan and Mrs. F< E. Babcock went to Indianapolis this afternoon to visit Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Blodgett, the Indianapolis News correspondent. Mrs. Honan Will also spend a week with Mrs.,M. A. Ryan. Both will be on hand for the inauguration of Governor Ralston next Monday. The township trustees are filing tlwlr'reports with the county auditor and within the next few weeks The Republican wiM print the receipts and disbursements of all the trustees during the last year. Every taxpayer should study the report from his township and thus familiarize himself with the township business.