Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 180, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1914 — Contract Let For Remodeling The Gifford Schoolhouse. [ARTICLE]

Contract Let For Remodeling The Gifford Schoolhouse.

Trustee Folger, of Barkley township, let the contract Friday for the remodeling of the Gifford schoolihousq. Thorsten Otterberg and John Halladay took the contract for $1,525. The contract for erecting a buggy and horse shed was let to Manley Stowers and William George for $263.75. I — ‘ * Mrs. Anna Schafer, of Chicago, came today to visit her sister, Mrs. Lewis Elsner, of Newland. Mr. and Mrs. H. F. Stokes, of Hammond, came this morning to spend Sunday . with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. John O’Connor. L I. Mr. and Mrs. Palmer Wells and Mias Opal Robinson, of Morocco, are here to remain, over Sunday with his father, C. B. Wells and family, of Barkley township. Mr. and Mrs. R. E. Halleck and three children, .of DeMotte, returned yesterday to their home after a few days’ visit here with the former’s brother, A. Halleck add famfly. ______ Mr. and Mrs. James Watt were at the depot today and had bought tickets to go to Monon, when the 10:46 train from the south brought Mr. and Mrs. William Whited, of Logansport, to visit them and they canceled their own visit F. M. Lawrence, of Greentown, who has been staying at the soldiers’ home, came to Rensselaer this rooming and went out In Union township to visit until Tuesday with William and Wesley Faylor and families. The Methodist parsonage was recently neatly painted, the work having been paid for by D. S. Makeever and George Hosmer. Mr. Makeever paid $65 and Mr. Hosmer paid $lO. New concrete steps were also built. « Constipation Causes Sickness, f Don’t penriit yourself to become constipated, as your system immediately begins to absorb poison from the backed-up waste matter. Use Dr. King’s New Life Pills and keep well. There is no better Safeguard against illness. Just take one dose tonight. 25c at your druggist. The Michigan Christian Advocate, the Methodist paper published at Detroit, Mdch., had the following personal last week: “Rev. Paul C. Cumick, D. D„ now pastor at Rensselaer, Ind., on a motoring vacation trip with his family, spent last Sunday to Detroit. Appearing Wholly unexpected at Simpson church, their field of labor eleven years ago, Dr. and Mrs. Ournlck and children were warmly greeted, and the Doctor was drafted into service, preaching a sermon which delighted alibis old friends.”