Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 198, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Band concert tonight R Phone 273 for feed and coal Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fendig made a trip to Chicago today. Born, today, to Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Perkins, a daughter. Ivah Healey is spending today with Mrs. Lee Rardin at Parr. Mrs. John Kolhoff and Miss Leona Kolhoff made a trip to Lafayette today. Buy Thrashing Coal at Harring ton Bros, elevator. Phone 7. Born, this Wednesday morning, to Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hemphill, a daughter. A good line of baskets specially bought, specially priced at the Home Grocery. Miss Gladys Grant went to Hammond today to spend a week with Miss Ethel Fisher. Miss Geneve Reynolds went to Elkhart this morning fpr a visit of two weeks with relatives and friends. County Auditor and Mrs. Hammond and son, Maurice, returned yesterday from Wheatfield, where they had been since Saturday. Miss Bel Laßue has gone to Marion to join a party of friends, fifteen couples in all, who will spend a week or more at Lake Tippecanoe, near Leesburg. Special for Saturday, Aug. 23, and Monday, Aug. 25, a can of Mennen’s Talcum Powder for 10c, with a 50c purchase or over, at the New 5 and 10 Cent Store. Frank and Harry Kresler, W. J. Wright and Geo. W. Hopkins spent yesterday fishing on the Kankakee river and caught a total of 92 catfish and goggle-eyes. Mr. and Mrs. P. W. Clarke went to Hammond this morning and will visit there and attend the Lake county fair at Crown Point during the remainder of the week. Mrs. Mary J. Cole came from Lafayette this morning to visit her sister, Mrs. J. P. Warner, and her brother, F. W. Bedford, who has been in quite poor health lately.

Remember, that the band concert will be held tonight instead of Thursday night, and that many will go to Fountain Park tomorrow to hear the world-famous Innis band.

Dale Thompson left today for a visit at Appleton, Wis., after a visit with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. C. W. Duvall. From there he will return to his home in Kansas City. .

The Unique Club of the Pythian Sisters will meet Friday afternoon of this week with Mrs. W. A. Davenport, the postponement from Thursday being occasioned by the Innes band being at Fountain Park Thursday.

Mrs. Charles Kasson, of Hammond, who has been visiting in Lafayette and Battle Ground, stopped off the 10:12 train this morning to visit today with her daughter, Mrs. Orlan Grant, at the home of Mrs. Mattie Grant.

An 8-month-old boy of Mr. and Mrs. Roy Haste died at Fair Oaks Tuesday morning of cholera infantum. The funeral took place this afternoon at 4 o’clock, Zern Wright going there this morning to superintend burial.

E. E. West and wife and their three children, of Bridgeport, 111., have been here for the past week visiting his mother, Mrs. James West and family and today all went to Thayer to spend the day with Mr. and Mrs. Mann Spitler.

Miss Emma Rishling returned yesterday from Indianapolis, where she had attended the millinery opening. She has secured a position as trimmer in a leading millinery store at Lebanon and will go there about the first pf September.

E. V. Ransford, formerly a Rensselaer merchant, is now engaged in the grocery business at Streator, 111., and is doing splendidly according to his son-in-law, George Thornton. He runs a non-delivery, cutprice store, has four clerks and keeps them all busy.

Mr. and Mrs. George Thornton and baby, of Kankakee, 111., are visiting his parents, Mr. and Mrs. G. L. Thornton, at Surrey. George bas a good position with the-Inter-national Harvester Co., and is in the advertising department, where the prospects of promotion are very good.

The body of Joe Klassen, 18 years old, of Laporte, was taken from Stone Lake Monday after his bicycle and clothing were found on the bank by boys who had returned to the Stone Lake swimming hole. Klassen presumably went Into the water to .cool off and Jost his life when he wertt into a deep hole.

Blackbirds, forced to leave their feeding grounds elsewhere by the drought, have appeared in Pike county in largo numbers and in flocks ofthousands swoop down into corn fields, eating everything in flight. Farmers have organized and are guarding their fields with shotguns. Hundreds of the birds have been shot and killed. Try ottr Olaaalfled Column-