Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 August 1915 — SPECIAL TO LAFAYETTE FAIR. [ARTICLE]

SPECIAL TO LAFAYETTE FAIR.

The Monon will pin a special to Lafayette on Aug. 26th, on account of the Tippecanoe county fair. The following schedule has been arranged: Leave Rensselaer 7:45 am Leave Pleasant Ridge ...... 7:56 am Leave McCoysburg 8:04 am Leave Lee ..8:11 am Leave Monon 8:25 am Arrive Lafayette ..9:29 am Returning, the special will leave Lafayette at 9:15 p. m., stopping at all stations, egular rates will prevail. While returning from Roselawn Sunday evening • Rev. C. W. Postill collided with a car driven by Vern Sanders. The eollission occurred near Parr. No one was injured but each car had a wheel about jerked off. Walter Gehr, the express agent, today received a very large grasshopper from his sister in New Mexico. Walter hqd told his sister about the size of the mosquitoes in- this part of the country and so she sent him a sample of some of the unusually large pests which inhabit the southwest and are a great menace. The grasshopper received is about four times the size of the ordinary grasshopper seen around here but they are very common in New Mexico. • Mr. and Mrs. J. W. Childers returned this morning from Whitesville, Ind., where they had been called to attend the funeral of his cousin, I. N. Childtrs. Deceased was 52 years of age and has visited in this county. He was working last Saturday shingling a barn and died while on the roof of the bam. His foot was braced against the 2x4 piece and„,he did not fall. He was discovered dead on the roof at just aibout the time he passed away.