Evening Republican, Volume 18, Number 299, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 December 1914 — Interesting Items From The Monticello Herald. [ARTICLE]

Interesting Items From The Monticello Herald.

• Sheriff Thomas Downey purchased fifty Buff Orpington pullets 'last Saturday of Mrs. John E. Reames, of Cass township, with which to stock Up his farm in poultry pending his return thereto. Miss Mary Winger, of Wolcott, and Christ Metz, of Remington, were quietly married Thursday noon at the clerk’s office. Justice B. F. Ross performed the ceremony in the presence of a few friends. Idaville’s new school building will be dedicated next Saturday afternoon. The building wiM be open to visitors from 9 a. m. and the dedication program will begin at 1:30 p. m. Capt Wm. Guthrie will be the principal speaker. A broken rail was discovered on the Monon bridge over the Wabash Tuesday just after train 32 had passed north about 9:30. The break was {Sound by the section men, and it is not known whether > it occurred $ before the train passed or not. Chalmers people are showing fa broadness in charitable work Which is commendable. Last week they raised about S7O for the stricken Belgians, and mow they have- organized a system ,pf relief tor their' own needy poof. The communities that are, most mihdful of worldwide suffering# are generally the most ready to provide for the poor at home. ' Rensselaer's 'boulevard lamps are single lights on top of a post, and the papers there are claiming that they are much handsomer than the cluster lights. A fox who had his tail cut off in a steel trap once tried to induce all other foxes to adopt the fashion of going without tails, but he never made much headway.