Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 148, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 June 1914 — PARR. [ARTICLE]

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Several from here were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Lee Kinilble is adding another loom on his house. The ball game here Sunday between Parr and Virgie was won by Parr. Miss Florence Iliff took Sunday dinner with Miss Mabel Gunyon. Several from here attended the dance at Lawman’s Saturday night. Otto Shreeg, who Is working for the Rensselaer Dredging Co., at Pendleton, Ind., visited Saturday night and Sunday with relatives here. He left on the midnight train Sunday for Pendleton again. About forty were present at the lawn party Saturday night given by Mr. and Mrs. Harry • Thomas. Refreshments of ice cream and cake were served. All returned home! at a late hour and report a good time. Mr. and Mrs. Walter English returned to Parr Saturday morning. Mr. English has been teaching at Mclntosh, Minn., for the past nine months. Mrs,, Mattie Porter visited with relatives here Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. Russel Harmon, of west of Fair Oaks, visited Sunday with. Mr. and Mrs. Lee Rardin. tMrs. Fred Iliff visited in Chicago Tuesday and Wednesday of last week. Mrs .Taylor Woo*i and Miss Ocie Wood were appointed as delegates to the international Sunday" school convention, which was held in Chicago this week. The Fourth of July committee is working hard now so as to get the ground in good condition. Dannie Linitner, who intended to ri.de a bicycle from New York to Rensselaer, must have gotten tired o,f his job, because he came to Parr Sunday evening on the milk itrain. Mrs. Harry Thomas gave a very pleasant surprise on Mr. Thomas Sunday evening. A splendid supper was served at 8 o’clock. Those present were Mr. and Mrs. Blankenbaker, Mr. and Mrs. Abe Vlyres, Mr. and Mrs. Hartley, Joe Thomas and children, Mrs. Perry Griffith, Mrs. J. N. Gunyon, Harry Norman, Miss Martha Shreeg, Ed Gilmore and Otto Shreeg, Mrs. called on Mrs. G. E. Murray Saturday. C. E. Stibbe, daughter Augusta and granddaughter Marie, called on Mrs Perry Griffith Saturday. E. O. Gunyon, who got his . arm cut on a mowing machine one day last week, had to go to the doctor Saturday and have it dressed. A number of Miss Ocie Wood’s friends of Rensselaer, gave a shower for her Friday of last w eek. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Luers and daughter, Madeline, motored to a Lawler farm near Chicago Sunday. S. A. Brusnahan and family went by auto to Crown Point, and from there went to Gary, returning home late in the evening. Mr. and Mrs. Theodore Warne and Miss Marie King were in Rensselaer Tuesday.