Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 172, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 July 1915 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

William Anheir and Or* Haradll came over from Monticello this morning. - ’

Ross Porter lost a good horse by lightning during the storm last Sunday. It was insured.

Mrs. Joseph Luers, of Parr, returned this morning from a visit since Sunday in Indianapolis.

Mrs. Frank Geitzenauer left this morning for a visit with relatives at Lexington and Bloomington, 111.

George A. Chappell was over from Remington yesterday afternoon enroute to Chicago and Gary on business.

Mrs. Alvin Rees returned to Sheridan today after a visit of three weeks with Rev. Petty and family at Barkley parsonage.

Miss Lucy Boyd returned to Mt Vernon, lowa, today, after a brief visit heer with Mrs. Stella Ketchum and Mrs. A. G. Work.

Mrs. Elmer Buffington returned to Crawfordsville today after a short visit with her sister, Mre. Gus Stephens at McCoysburg.

Mr. and Mrs. John Horton have rented apartments over Warner’s hardware store and will begin housekeeping there shortly. Thayer and Schneider are to play ball next Sunday at ThayeT and it is undertsood that a SIOO side bed has been made. Elmer Wilcox will catch for Thayer.

Misses Raffia and Alice Potts, daughters of Mrs. Alice Potts, went to Lafayette today for a visit of two weeks with their aunt, Mrs. James Robinson.

Jack Hoyes, northeast of town, and Jack Ulyat, who had some stock in the Bomtrager pasture west of town, each lost a heifer by lightning during the storm last Sunday.

Ross Q. Hufford came from RoSeville today to substitute for Elmer Wilcox ,who is helping his father shock corn and doing other hard work to get in trim for the Thayer-Shelby ball game next Sunday.

Dr. Dale Warner came down from Chicago last evening. He has not yet decided on a location for the practice of dentistry, waiting until after the Illinois license examinations are helc this month.

Mr. and Mrs. Lynn Scipio and baby, of Chalmers, who have been in Turkey for the past three years, have arrived home. Mr. Scipio has been professor of mechanical engineering in Roberts college in Constantinople. Since the war they could hear the continual roar of the great guns of the artillery and have been placed to much inconvenience and are glad to get home.

B. D. Comer and Clyde Gunyon, of the Rensselaer Dredging Co., were in Danville, 111., the first of the week and made a bid for a small job of dredge ditching. Their bid was 10 cents a yard, which amounted to about $7,000. It was the low bid except that one bidder who had offered to construct the ditch for 11% cents per yard had put a P. iS. on his bid, offering to do it for % cent less than the lomest responsible bidder. It looked to Messrs. Comer and Gunyon as though the Illinois bidder was to get the job whether there were lower bidders or not.