Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 130, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 June 1915 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Will Lowman was down from his home near Hebron yesterday. Attorneys Parkinson and Dunlap made a trip to Lafayette today. Frank Medland, the contractor for the college gymnasium, made a trip to Chicago today. • Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Ponsler, of Mt. Ayr, attended the commencement play here last evening. Little Ed Duvall arrived today from South Dakota to spend a few days visiting his old home. Born, Monday, May 31st, to Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Daugherty, of Barkley township, a daughter. We had another heavy rain last night and today is cloudy and indication sand forecast are for more.

The Girls* Sew Club meeting has been postponed until next week, owing to the commencement events. Miss Clara Raise returned to Perry, lowa, today, after a visit of ten days Mrs. H. F, Parker. Mrs. M. IKGwin went to Chalmers today, having received word that her cousin, Miss Lillie Taylor, was dead. Dr. F. H. Hemphill, county health officer, is attending the state meeting of health officers in Indianapolis. Phineas Bennett died last Sunday at his home in Monticello. He was known to a number of Rensselaer people. Mrs. Charles Smith returned to Chicago this morning after a visit of few days with her father, Jacob Wagner and family. About the only factories in this country that are running are the ones that are manufacturing supplies for the allied armies. Mrs. R. P. Benjamin went to Lafayette today to see her father, who is now receiving treatment at the Wabash Valley sanitarium. Mrs. G. W. Andrus, of Hammond, is visiting Mrs. Clara Andrus and others, including Mrs. William Washburn and Mrs. Virginia Halstead.

Paul Miller arrived home last evening from Indianapolis, where he has been attending dental college. He will spend the summer here. Mrs. Da»id Joyce, of New Palestine, Ind., came this morning to visit her daughter, Mrs. Guy E. Crayden, on the Lamson farm near Foresman. The Junior reception to the graduates is being held at the armory this evening. The hall has been nicely decorated and the young people and their guests are expecting a nice time. Dancing will form a considerable part of the evening’s entertainment. The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the Methodist church will not have a meeting this week on Recount of the alumni banquet. The next meeting will be held Friday afternoon, June Jlth, at the Monnett School. President Wilson has issued a final warning to Mexico. It requires the leaders to establish peace, restore order and make it possible for business to be restored. The intervention of this country is the penalty for failure to comply with the demand.

President Wilson and his cabinet will probably prepare the reply to Germany’s note today. It is understood that it will insist that Germany comply with the international laws of war. Failure to comply With demands will probably mean the severance of diplomatic relations. Father Florian Hahn, who was superintendent of the Indian School here a number of years ago, was here yesterday and today for a short visit, having just returned from California, where he has been for several years. His health has failed considerably and he left here today for Rome City to take treatment.' Today is the last day for weighing the mails on the passenger trains. The weighing was done for a period of 105 days and is done every four years to arrive at the basis for paying the railroads far carrying the mails. A postal clerk on the Monon stated that the mail on train No. 32 today was the largest it had been any day since the weighing began.

Mrs. J: J. Montgomery, who was called to Rockford, DI., last week by the illness of her parents, writes back to her husband that they are encouragingly better. Her mother, whom it was feared had suffered an appopleptic stroke, proved to have had only a severe attack of ptomaine poisoning from which she is almost entirely recovered. Her father has been an invalid for several months and to make matters still worse her brother-in-law in the same house had suffered a fractured arm. Mrs. E. P. Honan went to Chicago today and Mr. Honan will join her in Hammond tomorrow, when both will be guests of the Indiana Democratic Editorial Association. They will, while in Hammond, be at the beautiful home of Mr. and Mrs. William Paxton. Thursday they will attend the banquet given by the Hammond Chamber of Commerce at the Country Club. They will also be guests of Roger Sullivan, the Illinois democartic politician, at the College Inn in Hammond. Try <mr CUralilfg Onhgn,