Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 156, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 July 1914 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

George W. Infield, who has been spending a few days at his farm north of town, went to Lafayette today to remain over Sunday. ‘Mrs. Geo. I. Reeves and children returned to Mooresville, Ind., today, after a visit since Monday with Mr. and Mrs. F. W. Tobias. George H. Gifford, executor of the B. J. Gifford estate, was here a short time yesterday and today, returning to Tipton thia morning. Mrs. Peter May and daughter, Mrs. Maggie Karsten and three children went to New Buffalo, -Mich., today, to visit Mr. and Mrs. Wilbur D. Bond tor several days. Mrs. Ellen Leech, widow of Alex. Leech, is again very low and the children have been called home. Mrs. A. O. Garriott came from Valparaiso and Earl from Hammond. Rev. and Mrs. Cunnick will entertain the Sunday School board of the M. E. church at the parsonage tonight. All officers and teachers are earnestly requested to be present. The business of the evening will be followed by a social hour. Miss Day Jordan and brother, Homer, went to Aurora, 111.,. today, tovisittheirsister,MissNettie,and from there will go to Evanston for a short visit iwith their brother, Rev. O. F. Jordan, who will probably return home with them. — Lyman Zea will go to Hammond today and spend the night with his son, Herbert. Tomorrow he will attend the big republican rally at Gary, and will hear Hon. Will R. Wood, candidate for congress, make the Fourth of July address. The work of putting the washed gravel on the Halstead road is nearing completion. The top coat is to be McOolly pit gravel or as good. The road will be a very good driemtheopinionofO.C.Halstead.

Henry V. Childers and daughter, Mrs. Robert Mahanna, returned to Delphi today after a week’s visit with J. W. Childers and family. Mr. Childers is 87 years of age and was not feeling well when he left for his home this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Chas. M. Greenlee, of Yeoman, came this morning and will spend the fourth with Jasper county relatives. Charley has just completed a deal l by which he traded his store at Yeoman for an 80-acre farm northeast of Buffalo, White county. Leonard Elder returned last evening from Monroe, Wis., where he is to teach school the ensuing term. He went there to see about getting a house to reside in and expected to engage in writing insurance until school begins, but he found all desirable houses taken and returned here to remain until near the first of September. Father M. B. Koester, of the college, left this morning for St. Mary’s of the Woods, near Terre Haute, where he will remain until Aug. 18th, relieving the chaplain. He will then go to St. Louis to remain until the opening of St Joe in September.— The harvesting of the set onions at Newland will begin next week. The onions are not very large but are of good quality. The seed onions are very fine, so reports say, the bulbs being about the size of one’s thumb, which is very good for this time of year. They are generally free from weeds and indications favor a big crop. A 3-yearold daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Ralph Sprague has been in a quite serious condition for several days as the result of infection, which was caused from a ruptured boil. The boil was on the under part of one knee. It ruptured on the inside and the infection spread very rapidly. The child’s fever became high and the case seemed critical for some time. The boil was lanced Wednesday afternoon and the little one is somewhat better today.

Mr. and Mrs. George Lowery, of Texahoma, Oklahoma, and daughter, Mrs. Pearl Campbell, of Missouri, have been visiting his aged mother, Mrs. Elizabeth Gordon, at the home of Sam Lowery, north of town, for severaldays, and left today for Warren, Ind., to visit other relatives. He will return here to visit longer and to assist Sam in harvesting his oats crop. Sam thinks he has about the best oats in the county, having had some fine rains that many localities did not get Firman Thompson has completed the cutting of his 20ftacre wheat crop. He has his own threshing outfit and will probably begin thrashing it the first of the week. J. W. Smith, of Union township, has cut his 40 acres of wheat. He has been a wheat grower for a number of years and says he never saw as good wheat in thia part of Indiana before; The heads are large and apparently well filled out He mentions the following persons and their wheat acreage, all on the same run: Amos Davisson 50, Sol Norman 50, Emmet Burns 15, Walter Harrington 20, Leslie Alter 35, Jim Gilmore 36, Amos Alter 30 and Chas. Lakin 55. The market starts off at 70 cents per bushel, which is a good price considering the abundant crop. A (fiaMifled Adv, wm find it