Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 230, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 September 1913 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

William Gray to Be Buried In The Osborne Cemetery. William Gray, the aged soldier who died Thursday after a long sickness, will be buried in the Osborne cemetery in Hanging Grove township. The funeral service will be conducted here at 8:30 o’clock Saturday morning, comrades of the G. A. R. holding their service. He was 74 years of age. ‘ Fresh oysters at Fate’s College Inn. Carl Sternberg came in today and visited the big dredge soon to start digging the Borntrager ditch. The dredge is ready to start now except for some castings for the anchors, which are some time past due and as soon as they arrive operations will be started, probably the first of the week. Three large barns on the Frank Vanatta farm near Fowler were destroyed by fire Thursday morning at about 9 o’clock. The 4-year-old son of Joe Senasac, the farm manager, is believed to have set them on fire. No stock was lost, the only horses in the barns, two in number, being saved. The Amos Alter home in Union township is nearing completion and will be one of the handsomest residences in the county. McColly & Coen have done the carpenter work and are now engaged at the finishing work and expect to have the house ready for the painters within two weeks.

Mr. and Mrs. Philip Blue plan to leave soon for New Boston, 111., to spend the winter with their daughter, Mrs. V. O. Patterson. They have rented their house furnished to Mrs. C. George and son, Theodore. Mrs. Hurley Beam will go to Chicago and herself and husband will board during the winter. A traveling man who stopped at the Makeever hotel over night stated that he had a letter from his wife, who is at Calumet, in northern Michigan, this morning, and that she stated the snow was 3 inches deep and it was still snowing. He was caught out without an overcoat and was chilled clear through just to think about it.

The Ladies’ Industrial .Society of the Presbyterian church have -had the dining room and kitchen of the church expensively remodeled and refinished and next Wednesday afternoon they will give a kitchen shower, to which every one is most cordially invited. Come and enjoy a pleasant afternoon and bring some article to help furnish the kitchen. Several slight accidents have occurred within the past few days. A son of Dave Hines, the blacksmith, dislocated a thumb while playing football. A founyearhold daughter of Riley Miller has a bad abscess on one foot and it is yielding slowly to treatment. Will Smith, son of J. L. Smith, was playing with a 32 caliber revolver yesterday and shot himself through the index finger of the right hand, tearing the.flesh Badly andt damaging Lire bone. Rev. J. Ford Raimer, of Indianapolis, was here yesterday for a short visit with his father, O. K. Rainier, and wept from here to Hammond to spend a day or two at the conference. He has for some time been pastor of the King Ave nue M. E. church in Indianapolis and as such was a member ot the Northwest Indiana conference, but he recently transferred to the Indiana conference and was given the Hall Place church/in Indianapolis. The Indiana conference met this year at Rushville and he was in attendance.

T. G. Wynegar, the traveling plow salesman, reports fall plowing almost impossible in much of his tei*ritory on account of the drouth. While there have been sufficient rains to keep the pastures fairly green, the ground became so dry during the August drouth that the recent rains have not wet it down more than an inch or two and fall plowing has been abandoned in many places. This condition exists in Jasper county, where the acreage of wheat will doubtless be greatly reduced because fall plowing could not be done. Then She Kissed Him. "You have not kissed me,” she? pouted, "for fifteen minutes.” "I know It,” he said. ‘T have a very sensitive tooth, which is liable to ache If I do.” -I "What do you mean, sir?” “Why, you’re so sweet, you know!” “I «M<f Thkilc Yom WooMJ* A beautiful Gypey gM wua emoJoy ed by a German artfat to sit tor one of hie studies. She noticed in his studio an unfinished picture of the cniciflxlon, and asked who “that wicked man" was, and what his crime was to be punished so. The artist e» plained pfctaw, and, In anewee to her many geesttoM, gave her a rather gsudging account of the Goepri story. He had no sympathy wtQ Christian themes, and hta coM mem ner roused her wonder “Why,” she said, "I shcaM thfnk you would ion Him li He died tor you*" Envelopes, all sizes, printed or plain, at The Republican office.