Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 57, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1915 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

On March 8, 1862, the Merrimac, a confederate vessel, sank the Congress and the Cumberland, union vessels. On the next day, March 9th, 53 years ago today, the Monitor defeated the Merrimac. The events are celebrated by the flying of Old Glory from the flagpole in John O’Connor’s yard. ' Our new stock of buggies has arrived. See them before you buy. HAMILTON & KELLNER. Earl Matheny was up town on crutches today, the first time he has ventured out since he broke his right leg on the 6th of January. The bone seems to have healed all right, but his foot is badly swollen and he can bear no weight on it yet. When Frank Moore went home from his work Monday evening he was surprised to find a number of his relatives assembled there to remind him of his birthday. A bounteous supper was spread. Frank received a number of nice presents. Rev. and Mrs. John Sebring returned yesterday from a short visit at Medaryville. Rev. Sebring reports Frank Dunn, who had been very sick with pneumonia, as improved and indications being favorable to his recovery. Mrs. Frank Maloy, of Lowell, will start tomorrow for St. Petersburg, Fla., where she will spend several eweks. A number of other Lowell people are spending the winter there. Miss Carrie Eger went to Lowell this morning to bid her goodbye. /

Tox Cox has been having considerable sickness in his family. His little daughter, Dorothy, now has pneumonia and his little son, Tommy, has bronchitis and another child has been ill. Tom was sick himself for some time. We have put on sale 400 dozen cans of tomatoes direct from the factory. No. 3 cans of solid, red, whole tomatoes, the kind that has been selling for 15c a can, this lot at, 3 cans for 25c. Try them. JOHN EGER. Ed Smith came down from Chicago last evening to returned today. He is a brother of John W. Smith. John continues very poorly at his home in the northeast part of town and evidently his end is nearing. Ben and family expect to leave next week for Montana, where they will locate at Zurich. Ed’s son, Roy, is there, having taken out a claim two or three years ago. Ed has decided to come to Rensselaer to live and will probably move down from Chicago some time next month. Mrs. H. L. Brown and little daughter, Mary Jane, left yesterday for Florida, where they will spend several weeks. The trip is especially made for Many Jane’s health. They went first to Palatka and will spend a week there before going to St. Petersburg. Dr. Brown will join them there next week and spend one week with them. Marshal Shesler has his eagle eye open for dogs and is getting a few of them. Better fasten your dog up at home when you come into town, for he’s apt to think he has struck a German submarine if he gets insidethe zone of Mayor Spitler’s proclamation.

The sectional basketball tournaments came to 11 close Friday night and the following fourteen teams will go to Bloomington next Friday to contest for the state championship: Bloomington, Bluffton, Fairmount, Evansville, Montmorenci, Hartford City, Thorntown, Manual, Rochester, Westpoint, East Chicago, Newcastle, Bloomingdale and Crawfordsville. There were but few surprises in the tournament, the biggest being the defeat of Shelbyville at the hands of Manual.