Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 January 1913 — Graduate of Rensselaer High School to Be a Missionary. [ARTICLE]

Graduate of Rensselaer High School to Be a Missionary.

Miss Emma, Tanner, daughter of Ed Tanner, of Barkley township, who graduated from the Rensselaer high school in 1909, will complete a four-years’ course in the Taylor Theological Seminary at Upland, Ind., in June, Her course has been in special preparation for-mission-ary work. Miss Tanner is to be married the coming summer to a Methodist minister, who will serve two years as a pastor in this country and it is their plan then to go to China, where they will become missionaries. The many friends of Miss Tanner here will be interested to know that she has made splendid progress in her college work and also to hear of her future plans.

O. C. Halstead will hold a public sale on February 12th at his farm in Newton township. He has rented his farm to J. U. Iliff, of south of town, and will board with them and look after the marketing of his corn and some fencing and other Work on his mother’s farm. George H. Marr was down from DeMotte today. He reports that C. D. Shook has been able to work right along during the winter on his stone road contract north of DeMotte and that he has it all completed but about a half a mile. The contract was for 3% miles extending south from the Kankakee river to within a half mile of DeMotte. It will probably be the most popular route between Rensselaer and Chicago. Sain Zard, son of Fritz Zard, of Mitchell, S. Dak., arrived yesterday for a visit of several weeks with friends in and near Rensselaer. Sam played some baseball with Rensselaer when he was here two years ago and indicated that he would be willing to remain here all summer if there was anything doing in that line. He gave promise, of Ing Into a first-class pitcher when he was here before.

Otto Braun, the band instructor, was in Rensselaer Tuesday and stated that he well knew both of the Hebron young men who were compelled to run through the street at Kouts while people poured ice cold water on them. He says that both are regarded as good boys at home, that they had gone to Kouts to a dance and had imbibed at the saloons in that place and evidently becanie badly intoxicated. He thinks the firing of the bam was accidental and he was very indignant at the people of Kouts for the punishment they meted out to the boys. He said that the town is disgraced with five or six saloons and that ft would have been better if the people had devoted their energies to eradicating the saloons instead of indulging in barbarous punishment of some one debauched in them.

W. H. Beam found an old picture at his home a few days ago and took it to the depot to exhibit to friends. It is a picture of the old depot at Reynolds, where he worked when he first secured a job telegraphing. The depot was an old passenger coach set off on one side of the track and slightly altered. The coach was the first one built for and used by the New Albany and Salem railroad and the lettering could still be seen on the side at the . time the picture was taken in 1883, thirty years ago. Billy recollects some unpleasant things as well as some interesting ones in connection with the picture. The most unpleasant-was the fact that the floor was thin and the coach set up about four or flve feet from the ground and in the cold winter weather of that period it was next to impossible to keep warm.

Will Bond, son of W. D. Bond, formerly residents of the latter’s farm near Pleasant Ridge, but for the past two years of New Buffalo, Mich., is here for a visit of a week with his grandmother, Mrs. Peter May, and other relatives and many old friends. Will finished the junior year in the Rensselaer high school two years ago and the following year graduated at New Buffalo, the course being much the same. Before his graduation he bought out a grocery and market business at New Buffalo and has since been conducting It and very successfully, too. The town has a population of only- about 600 people in the winter time, but In the summer It is a popular resort for Chicago people and the population swells to about 1,500. Will reports that his father has a good farm investment there and Is quite well pleased, notwithstanding the fact that the farm he sold in Jasper county for SBO per acre before he left here has since sold for $l5O an acre, which generally causes a fellow to feel tolerably homeSickf