Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 June 1913 — Newsy Paragraphs Clipped From the Brook'Reporter. [ARTICLE]

Newsy Paragraphs Clipped From the Brook'Reporter.

Jerome Franklin has been very low with a diabetic trouble for the past ten days, and during the last few days the complaint has been in a very aggravated form, and at present his condition is very serious. Miss May Park, at one time principal of the Brook high school, but now teacher of English at Grand Junction, Colo., arrived here Wednesday for a two weeks’ visit with relatives. She will go to her home in Chicago to spend the balance of her vacation. Messrs. Duffy and Jordan, of Indianapolis, and state accountants, were in town this week auditing the books of the town of Brook. Geo. Merchant, of the firm of Bossung & Merchant, was seized with a hemorrhage of an artery, just back of the nasal passages on Friday evening. Unable to check it here, he was taken to Chicago Saturday morning and placed under the care of specialists, who, until Wednesday morning, were unable to stop the reoccurrence of hemorrhage After the memorial exercises in Brook several auto loads of Knights went to Pleasant Grove cemetery and conducted memorial services. The marriage of Miss Hazel Louise Lawrence and Mr. Everette Downing Hess, took place at the home of the bride’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John F. Lawrence, at 4 p. m., June 19th, the Rev. T. J. Everett being the officiating clergyman. Miss Leila Foresman acted as maid of honor, and Mr. Paul Hanson, of Watseka, as best man. ——— ——

George Ade was visited at his Hazelden farm a few days ago by Profs. Abbott and Wiancko, two soil experts from Purdue university and they informed him that they were quite anxious to experiment with the black soil in Newton county and would open up an experiment station if six acres of land for the purpose could be procured, and the arrangements were at once made. Various fertilizers will be used in the growing of oats, corn and clover and the results will be watched with interest by progressive agriculturists.

An Underwood tariff bill amendment adopted Thursday by the ma- ; ority of the senate finance committee gives the president authority to suspend certain tariff rates in the proposed lawand to proclaim special rates against nations that discriminate against products of the United States. It was appended to the clause giving the president .authority to negotiate reciprocity agreements. _ .

Ben B. Miller, of Mt. Ayr, was in town Friday and to the writer stated that his New Mexico land Investment had proven a splendid success. He bought a section near Wagon Mount, in the northwestern part of that state and his son, R. B. Miller bought almost 200 acres. His son paid sll per acre, while Ben paid $lO. The eon recently sold his for $25 an acre and Ben was recently offered S2O for his. He will not sell at this time, however, as he can afford to hold and expects to get more later on. He expects to make another trip there next jjdl.

Walter Keiley, of Newton township, had ‘a runaway Friday morning that bruised him up quite a little and. might easily have resulted very much worse. He was unhitching a team from the cultivator at noon, when a 3-year-old' colt became fussy. He caught her by the bit and she threw him down after dragging him for some tanc and the plow was pulled over him. The right side of his face was scratched and bruised and hte right shoulder was sprained and he had a severe pain in his left side and feared that a rib might be broken. He came to town in the afternoon to have his doctor treat hte injuries.