Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 215, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Judge Hanley has purchased a new Haver Six automobile, trading his Reo in as part payment. The new car was brought down from Chicago Sunday. L Samuel Slabaugh and wife returned to their home at Greentown, today, after a visit of several days with his sister, Mrs. Simon Chupp, and family. John Daniels, son of George Daniels, of near Aix, left this morning for Devils Lake, N. Dak., where he will visit his brother, Walter Daniels. • Mr. and Mrs. Nattie Scott went to Indianapolis today and will spend, the succeeding three days at the state fair and visiting her relatives at Franklin, Mr. and Mrs. Fred Weis returned to their home at Tonica, 111., today, after a visit of several days with Mr. and Mrs. Oscar Hauter, she being Mr. Haider's sister.

Mrs. James Cftiswold, of Valparaiso, autoed to Rensselaer with friends Saturday and will visit her sister, Mrs. Mary D. Eger, and her brother, C. W. Duvall, for several days. " " •?.' Abe Martin says: “Tell Binkley says that next t’ work in’ fer your Wife’s father, th’ hardest thing is t’ carry a baby with a stogie in your mouth. It feels mighty good t’ go back t’ work an’ get rested up after a vacation.” There is an abundance of apples again this year and some of the fruit is of a very high class, The Republican is indebted to Ed Ames for a xnarketbasket full of very large and fine apples, the larger ones weighing 10 ounces each. Democrats in Lafayette are in the throes of a bitter fight. Two sets of precinct committeemen will probably be elected Thursday. The antiDurbin faction has a considerable following and it is possible that there will be two candidates far mayor.

James Thorpe, the noted Indian athlete, who is now a member of the Giants, will be married in October. Thorpe has announced his engagement to Miss Margaret Miller, a Cherokee Indian girl, who is at present in California. Miss Miller’s home, however, is in Otoe, Oklahoma. J. G. Drain, of Gary, has been elected secretary of the Lake County Agricultural Society, which holds an annual fair at Crown Point. He succeeds Fred Y. Wheeler, of Crown Point. J. J. Beattie was re-elected president, J. J. Claussen, general superintendent; J. H. Lehman, treasurer, and J. H. Donnaha, superintendent speeding. Mrs. Frank Rundels and three children left today for their home in Detroit, Mich., after a visit of six weeks with Mr. and Mrs. James Kennedy. Mrs. Kennedy accompanied her home and after a visit there will go to Wabash to visit relatives. Mrs. Rundels had not visited this county before but has a very favorable impression of it. Charles F. Banta, age 26, employee as a mechanic at a garage in Lawrenceburg, after filling the transmission of several automobiles with oil, washed his hands in gasoline and then rolled a cigarette and struck a match. In an instant he was enveloped in flames. His clothing was consumed. He is in a serious condition.

D. L. Frawley, employed by the senate lobby committee to audit the books of the National Association of Manufacturers, testified to the committee Saturday that between 1903 and 1913 the association paid $245,000 to Martin M. Mulhall for legislative and campaign work. The audit confirmed in a great many particulars Mulhall’s testimony to the committee. Mrs. L. B. Simonson, of Whitestown, Tnd., came yesterday to visit at the home of Ed Tanner, northeast of town. Mr. Tanner’s daughter, Miss Emma, who graduated last June from Taylor University, will be married Wednesday evening to Rev. L. Chester Lewis, who graduated frbm the same college in 1912. He will enter the northeast Ohio conference as a minister in the M. E. church. Miss Elizabeth Spaulding returned last evening from a visit of five weeks at Indianapolis and Greencastle and this morning resumed her work in charge of the Western Union telegraph office. During her absence the office was well conducted by R. A. Overman, of Hartford City, who had his wife and children here with him and did light housekeeping. Mr. Overman has secured employment in the Western Union office in Indianapolis and left with his family for that city today.

The report of the special board having charge of the preliminary survey of the Lake Erie-Lake Michigan canal, which if dug will cross Northern Indiana and connect Michigan City and Toledo, Ohio, has been approved by the war department, according to information sent out from Washington by Col. John Mills. The board recommended that a survey be made and that plans and estimates be prepared. The sum ,of $25,00Q is to be made immediately available by the war department and the work will be started without further delay.