Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 187, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 August 1913 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Rev. and Mrs. Clinton Thornton, of Grand Rapids, Mich., are visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. B. H. Sheffer, at Parr. They will also take a lake trip during his vacation and he may spend part of the time at Northwestern University. Miss Elizabeth Spaulding has gone to Greencastle and will spend the month of August visiting relatives arid friends there and at other places. R. A. Overman, of Hartford City, is substituting for her at the Western Union offlee. i—— a— Mr. and Mrs. J. C. Crofoot, of Addison , Mich., are here to visit with their daughter, Mrs. O. G. Barrett and husband. They brought Mr. and Mrs. Barrett’s 4-months-old bay, which they had been earing for while the Barretts made their removal here and got straightened up. ■ Judge Robert M. Vanatta and daughter, Miss Marjorie, came last evening from Marion, ( the judge for a week's visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. R. Vanatta, and Miss Marjorie to again take up her residence here after a month’s visit with her father. M. I. Adams was in The Republican office a day or two ago with some photographs of alfalfa fields In the Demopolis, Alabama, country, where his sons, Ray and Lee, are located. The alfalfa Is of luxurious growth, apparently being almost three feet in height. Mr. Adams reports that Ray and Lee sowed a field of alfalfa early this spring and harvested the first crop five or six weeks ago. The rain of Tuesday night was quite general in this part of> the state according to many with Whom the writer has talked. It was Just the kind of a rain that was needed,, coming slowly and lasting for several hours and not being act eompanied by any wind. Cbm was firing in some parts of the eounty and everywhere there was great need for the rain. The precipitation was about an inch, to be exact .91 of an inch. Harrison Timmons, the American express agent here, has purchased of C. W. Hanley, a 5-room house on South Cullen street, across the street from the C. G. Spitler residence. He will at once begin some extensive repairs, putting a new foundation under the house, a large porch across the front and having it all painted ana modernized. When completed he will occupy it for a residence. W. D. Bringle went to Lafayette yesterday to see his old friend and former neighbor, Alpha Christley, who is still at St. Elizabeth’s hospital suffering from an ulcer on his right eye. Alpha visited his farm in Jordan township the first of July and while helping Joe Branson put up hay he got something in the eye and believes that was the cause of the ulcer. He is required to stay in a dark room and it may be some time before he can leave the hospital. The confinement vexes him considerably but he left the hospital once against the advice of the surgeon and is now determined to remain until the uleer heals. County Agent Barrett has been on the jump this week and has met and conferred with quite a number of farmers. On Tuesday he was at the Frank Smith farm, near Wheatfield. where he met a number and talked over various farm problems. On Wednesday he was at Remington, where he again met quite a number. That day he visited the Lewis Alter farm in west Carpenter township and found Mr. Alter thoroughly alive to the possibilities of modern scientific farming. He also met and had an exebange of opinions with County Agent McFarland, of Benton eounty, who has met with quite so many farmers as has Mr. Barrett A. J. Bellows made the trip Wednesday with Mr. Barrett W. A. Davenport took a civil service examination the first of the week and massed it with the creditable grade of 97.5. The examination is required annually of all postoffice clerks. This examination lasted an hour and 10 minutes, during which time he handled 1,317 cards and all but 39 of them correctly. The examination was on Indiana by routes. Next year It will be by counties. Miss Haas passed the examination in June. Samuel Schumacher of Chrtoney, Tnd., stopped his automobile to fix a punctured tire. He tried to find the pUncture with a lighted match and the gasoline exploded. The machine was destroyed by fire. His loss is almost two thousand dollars. Try onr Classified Column. Order your Calling Cards at The Republican office.