Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 243, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 October 1915 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

It is reported that there are two or three more cases of smallpox, either positive or suspect, but The* Republican was unable to ge* positive information concerning: them, being unable to locate the physicians said to be in charge. . _ . . T _J Clean burning white ash block coal at $4 per car just received. —D. E. Grow. iMrs. Ida Sperry, formerly Miss Ida Cbilcote, of Allentown, 111., who has befen visiting her sister, Mrs. J. R. Sigler, in Mt. Ayr, spent yesterday and today in Rensselaer, visiting Mrs. H. E. Parkison and other old friends. Mrs. Sperry lost her husband by death last spring. She continues to make her home on her farm in Illinois. “No words can describe her power of keeping from eighteen to twenty characters distinct before an audience.”—Minneapolis Journal. At the Presbyterian church, Thursday evening, Oct. 14th. Russell Warren wrote to his parents from the state university at Bloomington that there were three cases of smallpox tnere, including George W. Healey. The young men broke out without any preliminary fever and were broken out in class. They were all sent to the detention hospital and a general vaccination order was issued. A few of the students who had been closest to those afflicted were quarantined. All were getting along very nicely and the afflicted persons were not very sick and were expected to soon be well. The verses “A Rhythm From the Past” were written by Dr. F. H. Hemphill and we are taking a little advantage of him by printing them during his absence, but since they will recall to many of the older citizens some of the things of the long ago and so many will remember those mentioned, we are taking a chance at the doctor’s professional prestige by printing it. Dr. Hemphill was raised on a farm west of Rensselaer and like many of the rest of us grew up in the Rensselaer environment and looks back with pleasure upon the happy days of boyhood. He possesses somewhat the Riley style of poetical expression and we wish he could find time to delve far back into the past and so recall some of the old places of boyhood happinesses that have been wiped out during the past few years. The old mill race, the old dam, the artesian well, the old ball ground, the old fair ground, the stockfarm swimming pool, the deep hole, 'the island, the sandbanks and the big slough have been almost altogether obliterated in the interest of commerce, agriculture, pride and public health, but they hold many dear recollections which it does one good to recall and if Dr. Hemphill will give free sway to his pen some of them may be as ajdy immortalized as Riley’s “Old Swimmin’ Hole.”

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