Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 144, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 June 1914 — Leonard M. Elder and Bride Are Visiting Here. [ARTICLE]

Leonard M. Elder and Bride Are Visiting Here.

Mr. and Mrs. Leonard M. Elder arrived here Thursday evening from Franklin, Ind., where their marriage occurred at 8:30 o’clock that morning at. the home of the bride. Miss Lillian C. Cover, daughter of Mr. I. H. Cover. The marriage was performed in the presence of albout fifty relatives and friends, the rites being spoken by Rev. H. E Clyver, D. D., of the First Baptist church of’that city. Mr. Claud Hanna sang “Perfect Day” and “Love’s Old Sweet Song,” and Miss Gflda Spencer played Lohengren’s wedding march. It was a very beautiful ceremony. The bride and groom were both graduates of Franklin college in, the class of 1913. Mr. Elder taught school the past year at Fargo, N. Dak., and has been employed for the coming year at Monroe, Wis., a city of 5,000 people, and they expect to go there after a visit of two weeks with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. David EldCr and family, and other relatives in Rensselaer. He will teach mathematics and also e be the athletic director. His sister, Mrs. E. L. Hammerton and husband, were the only relatives at the wedding. Leonard was one of the star football players on Rensselaer’s high school team a few years ago and his athletic ability furnished the inspiration for him to enter college, where he has made good and he is now successfully launched in educational work. His many friends will join The Republican in wishing ■them a most happy married life.

Mrs. W. G. Winn and daughters, Madge and Virginia, went to Irving Park, Chicago, today, to visit for several days with Rev. Winn.

There are now about 125 Roumanians working in the onion fields at Newland. Most of them are said to be very good workmen. The onions had been very weedy but are getting cleaned up now.

Theo. George, agent f° r Canadian Pacific farm land, today received a letter from Mrs. L. M. Imes, of Indianapolis, informing him that her sister, formerly Miss Amanda Paris, now Mrs. Frank M. Lewis, now resides at Langdon, 12 miles east of Calgary. Mr.s Imes expresses the wish that the Rensselaer excursionists will meet Mr. Lewis while on their trip to Alberta.

The Sisters of St. Augustine’s Catholic school are about to organize a class in instrumental music, preparatory to giving lessons on piano, organ or violin on their return in September. Should any one contemplate taking lessons they are kindly invited to make application at the sisters’ residence within the next three weeks, or before July 4. Male pupils under 14, and females of any age are accepted, without regard to creed. ZZZ .

John Guss, of Union township, is one of the old residenters of this county. He was born in a frame building that occupied the ground where C. Earl Duvall’s clothing store now stand.s There was an outside stairway and John first saw the light of day on the second floor of the building. That was 58 years the sixth of last January. He don’t look it, however, and don’t feel it either, tor he says that outside of being finable to work as hard as he could earlier in life he feels just as good.