Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 248, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 October 1914 — Items From Last Week’s Francesville Tribune. [ARTICLE]

Items From Last Week’s Francesville Tribune.

Rev. S. C. Rogers, wife and daughter left Tuesday afternoon for their new home and pastoral appointment at Whiting. Thursday evening a public reception was given at the church in their honor. The event was largely attended;-* James R. Guild, republican candidate for the state legislature, passed through here from Medaryville enroute to Anderson Monday morning.

County Agent Walter Y. Kell has been retained for another year by the county board of education, The state pays one-half the salary and the county the balance.

George Logan and Abe Kimmel went to Lafayette Saturday morning to witness the “birdman” pull off his sensational aerial stunts. George Tudor, of Rensselaer, was a Francesville visitor Sunday. He lived here several years ago and likes to come back occasionally and renew old acquaintances. R. A. Lawrie, of Montieello, informed the Tribune that work -on the Clayton ditch had to be shut down on the account of lack of water. The rains Friday and Saturday were probably not enough to get digging started again. Residents in the west part of town report that prowlers have been seen about theif premises during very late hours of the night. Perverts of this type are never dangerous, nevertheless when they persist in “peeping” into windows when members of the family are retiring they make themselves decidedly obnoxious. They should he convicted and sent to the hospital for the criminally insane at Michigan City for treatment. Clinton L. Bader, manager of the Winamac Construction Company, is here supervising the installing of the new bridge over the Monon east of Francesville. Thef steel, lumber, blocks, cement, gravel and other material are all on the ground and .the workmen are getting everything into shape to push the work as rapidly as possible. Mr Bader figures that the bridge will he ready for traffic in sixty days and not six months or a year, as had been currently reported. Th£ bridge over the Monon at a point known as J. A. Engle’s Hickory Grove farm, was expected to he ready for travel the last of this week. The Jacob Myers elevator company, of this place, which has been dealing in grain for the past eighteen years, has dissolved partnership. Jacob Myers, the oldest member and president of the firm, on account of ill health is retiring from business, and Wm. C. Myers, vice-president, and R. F. Myers, are also retiring from the business. H. A. Myers and Roy Myers will he the new members of the firip who will conduct the business in the future under the firm name of Myers Bros. Grain Company.

Mrs. Mary A. Beck, formerly of this place, fell while alighting from a street car at (Menominee, Mich., one day last week ahd her hip was fractured. She was taken to a hospital, where she is getting along very well considering the nature of the injury. Mrs. Beck is the daughter of the late Thomas Fitzpatrick and an aunt of the local publisher.