Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 136, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 June 1914 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

■ Sylvester Gray, George liiff and Tony lveiper are new Ford owners. G> —— . Mr. and Mrs. Rex D. Warner returned this afternoon from their wedding trip. Charlie Jensen, who has been playing bail with Goodland the past two years, has returned to Wheatfleld and will play ball toe balance of the season with his old home team. The third degree team of the K. of P. lodge will go to Wheatfleld this afternoon to have ebi&ige of the work there tonight in giving that degree to a candidate. The amplified work will be given, which the Wheatfleld lodge has not been prepared to do. Hiram Day has sold to J. A Snyder, the contractor, tour acres of land on the east side of town, toe consideration being $1,109. Mr. Snyder expects to budld a residence there in toe spring or possibly yet this fall. Miss Lizzie Putts will accompany her sister, Miss Loretta, who is taking the training course for nurses in St. Mary’s hospital, Chicago, on a Take trip out of Chicago next Saturday. Several others who are in training at the hospital will go on the trip.

J. W. Robinson and mother, of Glendale, Ariz., where he is engaged in the mercantile business, and who had been visiting toe family of R|ev. J. M. McNtary, at Remington, for the past two weeks, werp in Rensselaer this morning- and left on the 10:46 train for their western home.

Leonard M. FMer will be home in ia“few days from Huron, S. Dak., where he taught school toe past year. He writes that he a very pleasant year there aside from the time he had v the smallpox. Crops had been looking fine in his section. of North Dakota, but there had been an excess of rainfall toe past few days. On the night of June 6th in about an hour there was 2.66 inches, while there had been 7 inches in four days and many fields were under water.

Wilson Schafer is beyond doubt the leading “rejuvenator” of run down property in this city and- as such deserves special credit. It would be a fine thing if Mr. Schafer could spend a year in every property In Rensselaer. Last year he bought and moved to the property at the comer* of Forest and Vine streets, and he built fences porches, new buildings and painted everything up until it made one of the coziest places in town. This year he moved .to toe former Zard property near the cemetery and he has been applying himself with the same activity. The result is marvelous. Next year he expects to build a nice new residence just north of the one he now occupies.

There is a lot of fine corn in this section, as may be observed by a trip into the country. In company with Frank Foltz the writer went to Brook via Remington and Goodland yesterday and 'returned by way of the “Old Bunkum” road. We have been blessed with good rains and warm weather and that is the secret of good com. There are other considerations, to be sure; such as careful seed selections, proper fertilisation and careful tending, but nature’s part, the rain and the warmth, has been supplied with generous hand and our splendid farmers seem to have generally taken care of their end of toe work. There is not much wheat in that section but wherever there Is any it is mighty fine. We noticed a field on Charley Sternberg’s farm south of town and another on one of toe George Ade farms north of the river in Newton county. Oats also are looking very good.