Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 296, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 December 1913 — FAIR OAKS. [ARTICLE]

FAIR OAKS.

Born, Dte. 4, to John Bhoarda and wife, a son. "■< Mrs. Isaac Kight has returned from a visit with relatives in Indianapolis. Knicken family have moved from the Kent ranch to the house southeast, of the cemetery. Orvil'Bringle went to Lafayette the first of the week on business. The teachers are arranging to have a literary program in the afternoon on Friday before vacation. Lora Brouhard and wife are here visiting George Brouhard’s. There elevator seems to be doing quite a*bit of business. Harold Blake, who has been quite sick for two weeks, is better. Several from here attended the stock show in Chicago last week. Miss Fawn Casey came from Mt Ayr and spent Sunday at home. Mrs. Fihser, of .Wheatfield, visited with Aunt Hannah Culp Monday. John Casey has had an attack of indigestion which has laid him up for several days. Tom Johnson has moved into the Lambert property. Josiah Thompson has been quite poorly for. several days.

• Senators Fletcher and Gore and the entire commission appointed by President Wilson to study rural credits abroad, presented their report Wednesday at the White House. It will be made public in a few days after the president has examined it At the request of Representative Lincoln Dixon, of Indiana, the ways and means committee appointed Representative Finly Gray, of Cona member of the committee on naval affairs to succeed Representative Mitchell, of Massachusetts, resigned. The hostoric White House mint bed, said .to have been planted by Andrew" 9 Jackson, has disappeared. During all the changes in the grounds and buildings it has survived until now, but the place where it grew has been covered with fresh earth. Thousands of working men have been made idle by the closing of large enameling and stamping plants in Granite City and Madison, 111., opposite St. Louis. The enameling and stamping company blames the business depression to the national democratic administration. Attorney J. A. Dunlap went to Hammond this niormng on legal business. He will try to get the cast against John Hack and his bondsmen for alleged failure to complete the Jungles ditch, set for trial. Also the case of Lewin vs. Sheriff Hoover. Lulu Lay, the oldest woman prisoner in Illinois and the only woman serving a life penal term in the state, was pardoned Wednesday by Governor Dunne. She is in prison at Joliet She is a colored woman, sentenced from St. Claire county in January, 1899, for murder.

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Phoebe Couzins died in St Louis a few days ago. She was one of the ablest woman lawyers the country ever had, but she misapplied her life. Talented and scholarly she became a foe to the cause of temperance and accepted employment by the brewers to lobby against temperance measures in various states. She accepted large fees but misapplied the funds that fell into her hands and she died ln x a one-room tenement a pauper.

Indianapolis Is still having troubles. Tuesday night at about 2 o’clock a non-union street car motorman was attacked by four men in a mysterious gray automobile. They fired upon him and he returned the fire and the chauffeur drove rapidly away. It Is believed one of the men in the car was wounded. Wednesday .evening at 6:30 o’clock burglars attacked and bound three men in a down town business office and robbed them of $3,500, making their escape.

' J Laurent and his magic were in every sense high class and artistic, clever and mystifying. The most remarkable feat performed was to disappear from the center of the stage and appear on the floor of the theatre.—Omaha World Herald. At High School Auditorium, Wednesday evening, Dee. 17th.