Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1913 — NORTH NEWTON. [ARTICLE]

NORTH NEWTON.

Joe Lane’s attended church at Rensselaer Sunday. Joseph Thomas is busy assessing through the township. James Lane and family attended church at Rensselaer Sunday. Wm. Bierley and Ed Lane were in Rensselaer last Wednesday. Miss Katherine Lane spent last Thursday afternoon with her grandfather. Gerald Grimes spent Tuesday with his grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. Milt Grimes. Misses Rose and Amelia Lane spent last Thursday afternoon at Wm. Blerley’s. Jesse Bierley was absent from school a few days last week on account of being sick. Milt Grimes, wife and daughter, Dile, took dinner Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Evert Grimes. Miss Dile Grimes spent last Wednesday afternoon with Misses Katherine and Elizabeth Lane. Mr. and Mrs. Chauncey Huntington moved last week to the iffacc where Mr. Keeney moved from. A nation-wide campaign to introduce to the American farmer the wonders apd profits of raising alfalfa will be started early in April by the International Harvester company. The advantages of raising alfalfa, both as a profitable and as a soil Improver, will be described by trained lecturers, whose talks will be illustrated with charts and lantern slides.

With only four more states needed, Delaware Tuesday refused to join the affirmative states in ratifying direct election of United States senators. The senate killed the house resolution favoring direct election.