Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 September 1914 — MRS. KATE COLVERT PASSED AWAY TUESDAY [ARTICLE]

MRS. KATE COLVERT PASSED AWAY TUESDAY

Widow of the Late George Oolvert Died at Home On Forest Street After Long illness. Mrs. Kate Colvert, widow of the late George B. Colvert, died Tuesday afternoon <t 4:30 o’clock at her home on Forest street. Her huSlfond died in November, 1910. Mrs. Oolvert had been flkfor many months and gradually sank away day after day. She and her son, Clinton O. Colvert, have continued to live together since the death of her husband. With her when she died were Clinton O. and Leo Colvert, her two sons, and Mrs. T. F. Clarke, of Battle Ground, and Mrs. Anna Heath, of Oxford, sisters. Her brother, Lewis Fletcher, of Chicago, came today and another sister, Mrs. Emma Townsley, of Horse Butte, N. Dak., will not be able to attend the funeral, which will take place Thursday afternoon at 2 o’clock, at the Methodist church, being conducted by Dr. Paul C. Curnick. The Colvert family came to Rensselaer almost twenty years ago and Mr. Oolvert was for many years employed by Jay W. Williams, later by W. J. Wright, in the furniture business. Mrs. Colvert had many warm friends in Rensselaer and their sympathy is extended to the sons and other relatives of the deceased.

The meeting of the Round Table Club, which was to have been held at the home of Mrs. L. H. Hamilton Thursday afternoon, has been cancelled on account of the death of Mrs. Kate Colvert, and the first fall meeting of the club will be held Thursday afternoon of next week with Mrs. H. J. Kannal.

The Kenyon amendment to the Clayton anti-trust bill making officers and directors of common carriers criminally liable for the embezzlement or misappropriation of funds was beaten in the senate Friday by a tie vote.

Two 12-year-oid Indiana- Harbor boys, John Mandis and Jbe Biel, the former an Austrian, the latter a Servian, quarreled over the war Thursday night Young Mandis shot Biel twice in the neck with a rifle and eseaped.

Just received, a fresh supply of typewriter ribbons, at The Republican office.