Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 247, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 October 1914 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mr. and Mrs. W. S. Ware, of Gifford, 111, are .visiting'her sister, Mrs. Willis A. Lutz and husband and today Mr. Ware accompanied Mr. a business trip to South Bend. Ray G. Burns has gone to Baker, Mont, to look after his farming interests. He rented his 320 acres there after proving it up and expects to rent it again and to come back here to work.. Going to the rescue of Nicholas Ball, caught in a sewer cave-in at South Bend, Joseph (Maib.es and John Lellien themselves were caught and all were carried down to death. The Bartholomew county grand jury reported the county jail, at Columbus insanitary and recommended hot water be provided that the prisoners may take baths in cold weather. 9 _____________ Bandits early Thursday robbed the postoffice at Romney, south of Lafayette, of SSOO in stamps and money. Nitroglycerin was used in blowing the safe, and the robbers left the town in an automobile. Mrs. Isaac Kepner, who' suffered a stroke of paralysis several months ago, has improved some, but is unable to walk, but gets about in a wheel chair. Her speech is not affected and "she is able to read the papers, thus being able to pass the time quite pleasantly.. Isaiah K. Hankey, 66, a detective employed by the Chicago & Eastern Illinois railroad, was instantly killed by a work train at Terre Haute. Hankey was watching a freight train pass on another track and did not see the work train.

Mr. and iMrs. Newt Pumphrey and children are here for a week’s visit with her mother, Mrs: T. W. Haas. Newt enjoyed a very good year on the farm, although the drouth caused a short corn crop, but was probably not as bad there as here. William Van Arsdej returned to Monon today after a visit with his brother, E. VanAirsdel. He fell from a Tailroad bridge at Delphi and suffered severe injuries nine weeks ago and is unable to work any yet, although improving slowly. L. P. Shirer and T. D. Woodworth have gone to the Kankakee river for a week’s camping trip. John Kresler and son,, Frank, are speeding the day there. Salmon, pickerel, bullheads and goggle-eyes are still biting.

Fred Markin, the Pleasant Grove merchant, accompanied by his doctor, went to Chicago this morning to consult a specialist about Fred’s health, which has been very poor, for several weeks. It is probable he will have to undergo an operation. Joe Reeve has resigned his job with the Eger grocery and joined forces with Ross Ramey in handling the Indian oil business for the Fowler Oil Co. They now make Brook, Mr. Ayr and other nearby* towns and also make deliveries v in the country. Monon defeated Francesville at ball Sunday, the third the inter-city series, which now stands two for Monon and one for Francesville. The score Sunday was 6 to 3. Clark pitched, Mason caught and Elmer Wilcox played first base for the winning team. Ed Robinson, who has been taking preliminary work in a correspondence school, went to Chicago yesterday to enter the Success Business College to complete his course. This is the school from which Charles R. McFarland, the last c/urt reporter, and Mr. Wagner, the present reporter, graduated.

Mr. and Mrs, C. W. Spencer returned this morning from Streator, 111., where they went last Thursday to attend the funeral of her brother, Frank Farmer, whose death was caused by paralysis, the first stroke having occurred two years ago. He was 48 years of age and is survived by his wife. Mrs. P. C. Curnick left today for Evansville to attend the state federation of clubs convention as the ctfclagate from the Ladies Literary Society of this city. Mr?. Curnick’s sister, who lives at Evansville, is a member of the Tourists Club, of that city, one of the affiliated'clubs and is a member of “the committee on arrangements for the state convention. Dr. EMoses Karnes, a professor of political economy in the Tokio university in Japan, who is in the United States m a diplomatic errand, surprised American people in New York Saturday by predicting that Germany would win the European war on account of its superior training and preparation Nqtwithstanding the fact that Japan is against the Germans, Prof Karnes stated «4ie expected the Kaiser’s country to be successful.