Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 178, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 July 1914 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Great preparations are being made by the Tippecanoe County Medical soeitay for the entertainment of the state meeting of the Indiana State Medical association, Which will be held at Lafayette September 23,’24 and 25. . The United States department of agriculture has just issued a report on the soil survey of Tipton and Hamilton counties, Indiana, made by the bureau of soils in cooperation with the state of Indiana department of geology. -■ Moses Leopold and Art Tutcur are spending today fishing at the Kankakee, thereby losing an opportunity to demonstrate their ability as ihorsedhbe players at the Sunday School picnic. They intended to fish part of the day. At Ft. Wayne Tuesday, Judge Wood, referee in bankruptcy, ap pointed Allen Wheat and Glen R. Sawyer to be receivers of the Elkhart Paper company. The receivers were ordered to continue the business. Natives on Attu Island, westermost of the Aleutian chain, are dying rapidly of various diseases. Within a few years the island will be depopulated, say officers of the revenue cutter Unalga, which returned from a cruise to Seattle Tuesday. Col. H. A. Greene, commander of the central department of the army, with headquarters in the federal building, Chicago, Tuesday received an order of transfer to the army service schools ar Leavenworth, Kans. He will take charge August 15th. The Rev. R. E. Moss, of Eminence, Ky., has been asked to accept the pastorate of the Christian church at Crawfordsville, to succeed Rev. J. M. Alexander, pastor for the last four years, who has accepted a call to the Christian church of South Bend. Mrs. E. L. Hammerton and little daughter and Miss Nellie Manahan went to East Lynn, 111., today to attend the funeral of Mrs. Minnie Strom. Mr. Hammerton will also attend • the funeral, going to East Lynn after completing hte mail clerk run today. Some boys put coal oil on a cat and set fire to it Wednesday, near the public library. Aside from the. dreadful agony caused the poor eat property was endangered wherever the distracted animal ran. The names of the boys who perpetrated the outrage have not been learned but they should be prosecuted. Vilas-Price went to Longcliffe today to -bring his father, Samuel N. Price, who has been in the asylum tor several months, back home This was the third time he had been committed to the asylum and word from there is to the effect that he is entirely rational again. He is 56 years of age. The 19-month-old girl baby of Mr. and Mrs. J. J. Mißer, on South Weston street, got hold of ’a wad of cotton from a “Daisy Fly Killer,” ahd ate it. The baby became very sick and Dr. Loy was called. Arsenic is used in the cotton to kill the flies. The -little one had a very close call, but today seems out of danger. Rev. Paul C. Cumick and family returned Wednesday evening from their ten days* trip, which included six hundred miles in their auto and several hundred miles on the Jfkes. Dr. Cumick spent Sunday in Detroit, Mich., and preached Sunday morning at the Simpson Methodist church, of which he was a former pastor. Since there will be a great shortage of potatoes it will be a good idea for every person who has or can procure a piece of ground to plant turnips. They will mature if planted any time within the next two weeks. The ground is difficult to prepare now, but if a rain comes they can be planted in a hurry, the weeds and grass having been removed from the ground while it Is dry. Haye the seed ready and your patch of turnips -wiM be worth several dollars to you. Ben Oglesby is about recovered from exhaustion suffered last Saturday while he was fighting a fire northwest of town. He had been running the county’s new steam roller and sjearifler and a spark from tfhe engine set fire to the grass. It spread rapidly to a field on the Makeever farm where George Spangle lives and was threatening two large ricks of hay and also the farm house. Ben worked as hard as he could, fighting the flames with a shovel. The task was a difficult one and he was about to lose out when the agent for, the steam roller came along and gave valuable aid in putting out the fire, but it burned over several acres of stubble. Ben was completely exhausted and for several days was in a state of almost complete collapse.