Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 235, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1914 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Sunday was another ideal day. Certainly more delightful days, one after another, never blessed a people this side of California' a’hd none even there. We are now well smarted into October and have had no frosts to kill the tender garden and flower plants. . v John Knox came down from Chicago Saturday evening for a short visit with his father, Thos. A. Knox and other relatives and friends. John is still employed as an advertising solicitor on the News, the greatest advertising paper in Chicago. ■■ Ray Adams left yesterday for his home near Demopolis, Ala., after a week’s visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Marion I. Adams. The south has been hard hit this year by the European war, which destroyed the cotton market and only about a half price was secured for that crop. Marion Pierson, of Foresman, made a trip to Chicago Saturday. He is engaged in the merehantile business at Foresman and has just been made the postmaster at that place. This is the only case we know of where a republican has been appointed to a postoffice during the Wilson administration. The home of Franklin Grant was the scene of a pleasant gathering Sunday, arid a picnic dinner, was held in the grove near their home. Mr. and Mrs, Fred Hicks and children and Ross Myer and Mrs. Hattie Yeoman and daughter, Belle, of Remington, and I. N, Warren and family, of near Rensselaer, along with Mr. Grant’s family, made up the ftarty. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Stephenson and son, Ed, accompanied by Miss Martha C. Woody and Mr. and Mrs. Lew Helwig, of Williamsport, au toed to Rensselaer Sunday and spent the day with Mr. and Mrs. Robert C. Dowler and daughter, Mrs. Hattie Henkle. Mrs. Helwig is a daughter of the Dowlers. Mr. Stephenson is the editor and publisher of the Review at Williamsport.

William Obenchain, of Walker township, had a horse killed by a rattlesnake bite one day last week. Mr. Obenchain had killed a dozen rattlers while plowing a field. Several farmers in that section are said to send a man or a bey ahead of a team while plowing in the fields, tb kill the snakes, thus protecting the horses frofii the bites of rattlesnakes, the bites almost always proving fatal. .Elmer Dwiggihs came down from Chicago Saturday for a brief visit with Rensselaer relatives. He has just moved to Chicago from New York City, where he had'for some years been engaged in the sale of stocks and bonds. He reports business in New York seriously affected by the European’war and that most things are at a standstill. He has rented an office in Chicago but has not decided just what line he will take up. Dr. Turfler has been using a tractor engine to pull his onions from his farm to tho Forsythe storage in town. Each wagon has iron running gears and the onion crates are stacked on hay ladders, each wagon containing about 100 bushels o onions. The tractor pulls sever or eight wagons at a time and resembles an overland freight train. The use of the tractor for marketing is certain to greatly increase from year to year and might profitably be employed now in marketing all kinds of grain. The great wagon loads have attracted the attention of many strangers and Rensselaer is quite widely famed as an onion center.