Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 120, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1915 — Two Jasper County Men Made 32nd Degree Masons. [ARTICLE]

Two Jasper County Men Made 32nd Degree Masons.

Emmet Louis Hollingsworth, of Rensselaer, and Henry Ward Marble, of Wheatfield, were in a large class of citizens of Indiana who were initiated into the Scottish Rite or 32nd degree of Masonry at the golden jubilee held in Indianapolis the past few days. The initiation took place Thursday and there were also 500 received it. Dr. H. J. Kannal, Dr. Paul C. Cumick, A. H. Hopkins and Ernest Lamson, of Rensselaer, attended the meeting and partook of the big banquet.

A feature of the Rebekah meeting in Indianapolis was the action of the Ford automobile manager, who sent 100 cars to the convention hall and took all the ladies who cared to go to the Ford assembling and salesrooms. It proved a very enjoyable side trip for them. The Busy Workers will sell the following: Cakes, pies> cookies, fresh eggs, chickens, bread, home made candy. Mrs. Marcellus Woltz, of Monticello, is a guest of Miss Gertrude Hopkins and is attending the luncheons and other social affairs planned for the various other guests whose names were mentioned in a previous issue of The Republican. The Busy Workers of the Methodist church will hold a market Saturday, May 22, at Warner’s hardware store.

A trip about town show’s that there are a lot of neglected places where the grass has grown past the lawnmower stage and some places w’eeds are thriving and should be cut. It seems that some energetic handy man would be able to make a good living for himself by contracting to keep these places mowed throughout the year. In many cases it does not show an unwillnignesiS on the part show an unwillingness on the part time. Often owners of vacant lots would be glad to keep them mowed if they could arrange to have it done regularly. Take the small parking between The Republican office and Schroer’s garage and the similar Mackey’s marble shop, the parking between the Central garage and Mackey’s marble shop, ehe parking at the comer of Cullen and Harrison street and a hundred other places. These are pointed out simply because they are near the center of town. Probably if some one engaged in the business and contracted with the owners they would find it would pay to purchase a horse lawnmower to do the work. The tall and uneven grass is unsightly and Rensselaer is apt to slip back if immediate steps are not taken to correct some of the carelessness that seems so evident. Another thing that needs to be looked after is the garbage collection. It wall soon be the harvest season for the flies and garbage poured over the ground is a great factor in their activities. There should be 200 families in Rensselaer willing .to buy enclosed garbage cans and they should be willing to pay 50 cents a month to have them emptied once or twice a week. That would mean SIOO for the collector. Possibly it could be done cheaper, but cheap or expensive it is better than neglect and the consequent spreading of disease gaoas,