Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 286, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1913 — MILROY. [ARTICLE]

MILROY.

Mrs. Ogle visited relatives in Hamilton county for several days past. Mr. and Mrs. Mahlon Lamport called on T. A. Spencer and family Friday. J. R. Clark and family, Mrs. Geo. Foulks and Martha Clark ate dinner Tharrksgtving' with J. ,1. Clark and family. Ollie Clark spent the last week with her grandfather, J. J. Clark and family. Martha and Amy Clark spent Friday night with Frank Mays’. Rev. Sutton will preach here Sunday, Dec. 14, at 3 p. m. All invited. Albert Wood, of Momence, 111., _ came home to spend Thanksgiving with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Wood, and other relatives and . friends. Mrs. Morgan Sterritt, who teaches the Queen City school, went to her homo in Lafayette to spend Thanksgiving vacation, accompanied by her little son. Mrs. Mary McCashen and Miss Ettie, Mrs. Alice Osborn and Miss Laura Clark visited Mr. and Mrs. A. J, McCashen in Jordan township the first of the week and spent Wednesday night and Thursday with F.iank May and family. Born, Nov. 26, to Mr. and Mrs. Fred May, an S’/o-pound daughter. Miss Ara Griswold, who is teaching in, Kokomo, came home to spend Thanksgiving with her parents and other relatives. Chas. and Albert Wood called on Lud Clark’s Friday evening. Rev. Sutton called on Mr. and Mrs. Geo. Foulks Tuesday. You can’t make a homely woman believe that Confederate money is good currency, but you can tell her that she is beautiful and she will believe you. The planets have been weighed and are no longer a mystery. But you never can tell what is under a woman’s hat or in a small boy’s pocket A delegation of Grand Army men protested Wednesday to President Wilson that veterans were being demoted in the government service to make way for young democrats. The president promised to investigate. 3 J - South Bond observed Thanksgiving by inaugurating three charity campaigns as follows: Fifty thousand dollars for the Epworth hospital, $50,000 for the First Methodist church, and $5,000 for tho children’s dispensary. It is expected to have the entire amounts raised by Christmas day. The campaign for a $4,000,000 fund for the Young Men’s Christian Association and the Young Women’s Christian Asociation, which had been in progress for a fortnight in New York City, closed successfully Wednesday night, when it was announced a total .of $4,061,500 had been reached. While returning from clearing up a wreck at Stinesville, the Monon wreck train, left the rails at Cloverdale. The jumbo derrick and three cars blocked the track for an hour and the seven men composirfg the wrecking crew were all badly bruised about the body. Foreman Martin Deck, who was taking a nap, was thrown out of his bunk, and Roy Coleman, the cook, was badly scalded about the head and aijins. The men were preparing to eat their dinner when the wreck occurred, and all were knocked to the floor.