Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 107, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 May 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Goodland defeated Wheatfield 11 to 1 Sunday. Lou Jensen was ineffective and was given poor support. Goodland, was handy with the stick and had a good battery.

. Harry Thomas returned Sunday evening from a short visit with his sister, Mrs. Estel Myres, and husband at Chicago Heights. Estel has a good job in the express office at that place.

A small shower Sunday, afternoon and another of greater proportions this morning have helped the gardens and the grass some, but much more is needed and -to all appearances we are going to have it.

Miss Lottie O’Connor, of Kniman, who is now working 1n the- millinery department of the Minas store at Hammond, was in Rensselaer over Sunday, visiting her uncle, A. Halleck, and family. Saturday she attended the funeral of the little Wells girl at DeMotte.

R. A. Parkison and family arrived home Sunday from Kingman, Kans. The daughter, Ruth, whose failing health caused the removal to Kingman, stood the trip home very well. She is quite poorly, however, but it is believed will do as well here as in any other climate.

Mrs. J. R. Barnes, of Frankfort; Dr. Ward Smith and wife, of Otterbein; Mr. and Mrs. Elda Jones, Chas. Snyder, Mr. and Mrs. William Vanatta, Jr., and Miss Florance Van atta, of Fowler, and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Longwell, of Brook, attended the funeral Saturday of Mrs. Charles A. Roberts.

County Superintendent Schanlaub, of Newton county, reports having already engaged instructors for the teachers’ Institute to be held in Kentland the first week in September. Hon. F. C. Willis, of Ada, Ohio, and Dr. Frank S. Fox, president of the Capitol College of Oratory and Music at Columbus, have been engaged.

Very often persons making trips that involve travel over the C., I. & S. railroad through Shelby are disappointed upon their arrival at the depot to find that there • are no trains run on that road on Sunday. Persons who want to go to Kankakee or Momence, HL, or Wheatfield, Knox, South Bend or other points to the northeast, should make their trips other than on Sunday.

Mrs. E. S. Tillman returned to her home in Hammond yesterday after a few days’ visit in Rensselaer. Mrs. Tillman was a delegate from the Hammond Woman’s Club to the District Federation of Clubs, held in the Presbyterian church Friday. Mr. Tillman was in Indianapolis Saturday on .business and stopped in Rensselaer to accompany his wife home.

Joe O’Connor was down from Hammond over Sunday, visiting Mrs. O’Connor, who has been staying with her mother, Mrs. Mattie Grant, most of the time since the flood, as Joe’s work is in bridge construction and he has been sent to many of the cities where bridges were destroyed by the high wtaers. He has an interesting collection of photographs showing the great damage to big steel bridges.

Miles & Rinehart, of Star City, came this morning and will do most of the carpenter work in the rebuilding of the Sternberg dredge. Mr. Miles estimated that all of three months will be required to get the big boat ready for digging.and it is, therefore, certain to be the middle of August or later before the construction of the Borntrager ditch is begun, even if there is no delay on the legal proceedings now being heard.

Henry Hildebrand, who has been In the hospital in Chicago for the past eleven weeks, is now very much improved and will be able to leave the hospital this week, it is believed. His daughter, Mary, 19 years of age, who was also in the same hospital with a severe case* of pneumonia, is better and they will probably leave the hospital at the same time. She was there five weeks. Henry’s recovery will be good news to his many friends here.

Louis Alter came this morning for a short visit with his brother, Frank, so short, in fact, that he left this afternoon for his home at Dayton, Ohio, where he is engaged in the carpenter contract business and also in the coal business. Fortunately,' his headquarters were well above the flood district of that city and he suffered but little damage. He says that the work of reconstruction has scarcely begun and that it will take a year or more to put the city back in good condition again.

Supplying intoxicated persons with weapons is prohibited by a new law, which says “that whoever barters, sells, gives or delivers any pistol, dirk, bowie knife, dagger or other dangerous or deadly weapon to any person, who is at the time intoxicated, knowing such person to be intoxicated, or whoever sells or gives a dangerous or deadly weapon to any person, who, he knows, is in the habit of becoming intoxicated, shall be fined in any sum not exceeding SI,OOO, or be imprisoned In jail not less than thirty days nor more than six months, or both.” ’

Orders for piano tuning can be left with any of the band boys and Prof. Otto Braun will give them attention and guarantee satisfaction.