Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 175, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 July 1915 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. W. H. Beam made s trip to Chicago today. Dr. English made a professional trip to Chicago today. Mrs. N. J. Burr went to Reynolds and Wolcott today and at the latter place will visit Mrs. T. iM. Kinmore for about a week. Miss Minnie Bl&nke and Miss Carlston returned to Chicago yesterday after a week’s visit with Mr. and Mrs. E. J. Duvall. Sherman Thornton is completing the erection of s good 8-room house on his farm near Surrey. John W. Norman is wording on it. Miss Madaline Abbott has returned from a visit of almost three weeks, spent in Hammond and Chicago. At the latter place she visited the family of Rev. Winn. Lon Healy and Tom Callahan went up to Chicago yesterday to take a look at the ship, Eastland. No one is allowed near the ship, but a good view was obtained by riding across the river on the elevated road. Mr. and Mrs. T. J. McCoy returned to Chicago this morning after a ten days’ visit here. Mrs. McCoy is planning a visit to their daughter, Mrs. Dr. Berkley, at Portland, Oreg., and will start for there shortly. O. K. Rainier was at his White county farms last week when his wheat was thrashed. He had one field of 8 acres that averaged 45 bushels to the acre. His average for the entire acreage was 33 bushels. There was need of a rain there. The Wheatifield Regulars were defeated by the St. Louis Cubs Saturday 5 to 4. Sunday the Regulars defeated the North Judson team 3 to 0. The Sprudels, the colored team from Indianapolis, defeated Monticello Saturday 19 to 2, but were defeated by the Lafayette Red Sox Sunday 10-0. The new quarters for the Van Rensselaer club are being papered and cleaned preparatory to their occupancy and will be occupied the last of this week. It is probable that a business meeting of the club will be held some evening this week to discuss the new by-laws and to decide on the new furnishings for the club rooms. Andy Ropp, who lives 7 miles north and a mile and a half east of town, states that they had the hardest rain of the season in that neighborhood yesterday afternoon and that a receptacle in the yard indicated that there was a fall of 6Vz inches. Water stood on the ground. Frank Babcock and family spent Sunday with his son, Will and family, north of Goodland and reports five hours of downpour there and the water running across the stone road northeast of Goodland and hub deep on a buggy. They were afraid to try to ford it in his car and turned back to Goodland and came out another direction. Rice Porter and wife were at Remington and reported a hard rain over there and water standing in low places between here and there. Although there were several showers in Rensselaer the precipitation was slight and no damage is reported near town.