Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1914 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Joe > Dawson, the Indianapolis boy who was injured at the auto races, is reported somewhat improved and indications point to his recovery.

Abe Martin says: “If a high brow didn’t git color blind, now an’ then who’d keep th’ books in our penitentiaries? ’Bout as close t’ th’ front as some fellers ever git is th’ rear row of a group photergrrph.”

Geo. F. Meyers has sold the former John L. Turner farm of 80 acres in Jordan township to Chas. Robinson, of Battle Ground. Mr. Robinson is ttie son of Mrs. Geo. M. Robinson, of Rensselaer. He will move to the farm in the spring.

The entertainments given by H. W. Graham were just Immense, As a pathetic reader he has but few equals, and as a humorist he is superior to any we have heard in the west. AH were more than satisfied, —Oberlin (Kans.) Eye. At Christian church Tuesday evening, June 9ffli. Admission 25 cents.

“Uncle” John Casey visited Hammond and Chicago the first of the week, calling on old friends and acquaintances and relatives. He visited the plant of the Boditone company. Tuesday he returned to Wheatfield, where he visited friends until Thursday. He arranged to have Simon Fendig, the druggist, sell Boditone for him. He returned Thursday totals home at-Fair Oaka

Mrs. George H. Healey received word today from her sister, Mrs. J. L. LaFlower, of Teague, Texas, stating that she was to enter St. Luke’s hospital at Dallas June 4th, to undergo an operation. Peculiarly this is the same hotel at which the mother of (Mrs. J. A. Dunlap is receiving treatment. Mrs. Dunlap still remains there with her mother, whose recovery has been very stow.

Up to Thursday morning the whereabouts of young Wiverly, a state witness who suddenly disappeared just before being called to the stand last week, on the murder trial, is unknown and the officers have exhausted nearly all the trails Which might lead to his capture. It is surmised he was (furnished means to go on, as he is not a subject who travels much from his own resources.—Crown Point Star.

The Mexican mediation program has assumed one of “watchful waiting.” It is Carranza this time who is holding up the game. It is Quite impossible to determine upon a plan of action until it is learned what the constitutionalist chief win stand for and Carranza is apt to ask for a whole lot and a good many of our people believe he v is entitled to a great deal. If hie ideals are as lofty as he has claimed and he will set about the problem of rejuvenation of his country and the establishment of a fair land division, permitting industrious peons to purchase fams and be protected in their pursuits, he will be entitled to the control He has, in fact, won the right to be given a chance, and any plan of mediation that would eliminate him would be extremely unfair. Then, there will be Villa and Zapata and a few other military leaders, whose purposes seem to lack the honor that Carranza claims prompted him, but who will expect something fine when the melon is out. The A B. C. mediators will have a lively time when it comes to an effort to pacify these ambitious leaders. Here’s hoping, however, that they are equal to the job, even though the United States will feel a little cheap to have acknowledged its inability to cope with the situation and will have transferred its sovereignty in this continent to its South American neighbors.