Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 177, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 July 1915 — DEMOTTE. [ARTICLE]

DEMOTTE.

Wheatfield Review. Kniman ball team crossed bats here with the home team and the game was interesting from start to finish. The visitors were the victors by the score of 6 to 4. Three pairs of shoes are reported taken from a car on the tracks here the past week and the railroad detectives have been working on the case. There is a probability of a cheese factory being started here in the near future. An experienced cheese maker has the matter under consideration. Mr. and Mrs. George Marr and Carrie and Wm. Wells and family autoed Saturday to Wheatfield and seen the colored boys play ball with the Regulars. Two cases of smallpox are being treated by Dr. Hewitt at Kersey. The patients are the two sons of Mr. Fisher, superintendent of the big dredge now being build north of here. The work of building the new dredge for the digging of the Kankakee river which is being built on the banks where the C. & W. V. Ry. crosses the river is being rushed through. The boat is about completed and the machinery is on the ground. After the Parr bloodhounds had a trial here Tuesday two bloodhounds from Paxton, 111., arrived and were put to work but did not locate anything other than making several trips from the place of the robbery to the depot.

W. F. Smith came down frotn Laporte today to see about the Carpenter township stone road which he » to build during the next few weeks and about the grading of which Ves Richards is now looking. Mr. Smith will probably have a switch built a* some point on the Pan Handle between Remington and Goodland most convenient for hauling rock from. Mr. Smith still talks some of returning to Rensselaer to live but is waiting until he secures some new road contracts in order to be best located to reach them. A* -