Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1915 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

G. W. Gibbs,made a trip to Hebron today. ' W. H. 'Berry went to Danville, ill., today, to visit relatives for a sow days. Will the party who found an auto crank near Francesville last iJSaH phea.se call 606. Resumption of work at the Monon Shojxs in Lafayette has been postponed two w eeks or until March list Miss Emma Ri-shJing went to Indianapolis today to study spring millinery styles preparatory .to taking a position *a trimmer. Mrs. Lemma Hickman, after \ i.-it of a few days 'with, her sister, Mrs J4m Hemphill, returned to her borne in Goodland today. W. L. Botft, o-f tihe tclepihone company, has been confined at home .since Sunday with an attack of the grip. Mrs. N. Littlefieh entertained eight girl friends at a surprise dinner party for her daughter, Miss Wllda, Monday evening, it being her eighteenth birthday. Tom Crockett Is still confined at his home as a result of the sprained. ankle ihe sustained some ten days ago. He is considerably better buit it will probably be several days before he can get down town. Ira Howard manager of the Lsis moving picture show 7 at Winamac, lias leased ground and will build an air dome. The stage will be 20x40 feet, capable of holding forty people. Ellis S. Rees, newly appointed postmaster at Winamac, took charge of the office Saturday, Fib. 6, succeeding W. E. Netherton, Who had been postmaster for eigtht years. George W. Bond has shipped his household goods to the northwest and Mrs. Bond has .gone to Lafayette to visit her sister ifor a time until the arrival of their goods at their new homo in Minnesota.

A riot occurred at a earnivoal given in the Panama Canal zone Sunday. One policeman was killed and 23 Americans were wounded, two from gunshot wounds. The police, soldiers, Panamanians and Americans paiticiiptited in the riot. Mr, and Mrs. W. A. Swindler, of Mt. Ayr, were in Renlsselaer over night on their way home from Chisago, where they attended the cement show. Mr. Shindler is engaged in the lumber, coal and cement business at Mt. Ayr. John O’Connor is serving notices on land owners in Newton and Lake counties Who are taxed for the cost ruction of the Williams ditch, which is the continuation of the Marble-Powers ditch for lowering and straightening the channel of the Kankakee river. Option elections are to be held in Knox and Center townships, Starke county, to. try to free those townships of saloons. We still believe that the remonstrance plan is the we know it is the cheapest and keeps down a lot of needless excitement. Earl Matheny, who suffered the fracture of a leg on the 6th of January, has had a double affliction for several days, suffering from an of tonsilitis. He ds now able to be up and aboubthe house but so far has not put any weight on his injured limb. Mrs. Eliza Reed called at The Republican office today to have the paper renewed to her daughter, (Mrs, Susie F. Lister in Chicago. Mrs. Reed has not been very well this winter and this was her first visit down town since Thanksgiving. She was 81 years of age last month. Thursday Feb. 15th, was the seventeenth anniversary of the blowing up of the battleship-Maine, the «<4t thiat precipitated the SpanishAmeriean \var. The hero.es of the battleship were honored by memorial services in Washington, New York and other cities. There will be no full moon in February. Well there are not to be many full dinner pails; few full ■payrolls, only a few factory stacks full of smoke. In fact, about the ‘only real full thing we know of is the democratic admdnistrtition. It Is full of promise and bubbling over with hope. John Stively, wiho is nearing his 92nd birthday, reports having seen a robin this morning. He says that a good many years aifro over in Ohio be saw a great many robins early in January, but they did not remain long, for cold weather and lots of snow followed- and the robins hunfod a warmer clime, A ■Tom Davis was down from Kidman today to get a set of saftLbills printed for a general sale that will take place at his farm due north of Rensselaer oil Friday of next week, Feb. 26th. Himself and son-in-law, dint Spangler, have been farming together but Tom intends to permanently retire and the sale Js .to be a fTean-iip of all fhelr stock and fUarmipgimplements.