Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 104, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 May 1915 — Elden Hopkins Gets Fine Present On Birthday. [ARTICLE]

Elden Hopkins Gets Fine Present On Birthday.

A telegram received today by Elden Hopkins from his ¥ son-in-law, Thomas Goodman, Jr., of Redlands, Cal., informed him of the birth Sunday, May 2nd, of a baby girl at the Goodman home. As May 2nd was Elden’s own birthday, the arrival of his first grandchild on that date is very gratifying to him. The baby’s mother was formerly Miss Helen Hopkins and her many friends here will be pleased to learn that she is getting along fine. The baby has already been named Esther Ellen. Mrs. Hopkins, the grandmother, who has been in California for several weeks, was at the Goodman home when the newcomer arrived.

Francis W. Powers, of Lafayette, who with his family have been spending the winter in Florida, is in Rensselaer today on business connected with his large land holdings in Kankakee township, this county.

Mr. and Mrs. Geo. H. Duse, of Chicago, visited over Sunday with A. Halleck and family. Mr. Luse is one of the owners of the Luse ranch between Wheatfield and Tefft, and autoed to the farm Sunday afternoon and also to Dunn’s Kankakee pleasure resort to, see the large dredge in operation in the Kankakee river in course of constructing the MarblePowers ditch. Mr. Luse is a photographer and took several views of his ranch and also of the dredging outfit and the large bridge through which it had just passed at the resbrt.