Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 January 1916 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

j Lester Rich is spending a few days in Chicago. f .■ ■ ■ | A. J. Landis wetk l to Carmel, Ind., today, to visit relatives. V ~L, H. Hamilton made a business trip to Lafayette today. Herbert Hammond is visiting his sister, Mrs. Leo Colvert, in Joliet. W. L. Bott returned home this morning from a trip to Star City. Benton county’s com show takes place in Fmvler Feb. 10, >ll and 12. TKfe First National Bank will hold its annual stockholders' meeting this evening. Bom, today, Jan. 11th, to Mr. and Mrs. John Nagel, east of town, a daughter. , Mrs- John Makeever is slightly improved from her illness but is still unable to 'be up. • T. B. Cunningham has been chosen, by the commissioners of Newton county as county attorney. Tfie sale of Red Cross seal-3 in Lafayette was disappointing this year, being far less than either 1914 or 1913. E P Honan was in Mishawaka last’night, where he addressed a -big gathering of the Catholic Order of Foresters. The Newton county circuit court convened Monday. Today is call day and several Rensselaer are in attendance. The mother^of J. A. Washburn, of Remington, who has-been quite sick at her home in Kentland, is reporte somewhat better now. Th Ladies’ Missionary -Society of the Baptist church will meet Friday afternoon with Mrs. Crooks, having been potsponed from Wednesday. Miss Elizabeth Spaulding, manager of the Western Union office here, will leave in about a week for the south to spend a month on the gulf. She will accompany her sister from Greencastle.

Mr. and Mrs. A. L Clark came over from Morocco this morning and left from 'here for Scottsboro, Ala., where he owns a telephone plant, which is managed by his son, Edward. They will remain there for several weeks. s The degree staff of the Rensselaer Encampment of Odd Fellows will go to Monon this evening to assist Monticello and Brookston lodges confer degree work. It is expected that twenty-five or more from here will attend. The Ladies’ Home and Foreign Missionary Society of the Presbyterian church, which was to have met Wednesday afternoon with Mrs. John Eger, wall be postponed until Thursday afternoon on account of the funeral of Mrs. Bates. It4s possible that Tinker, the new Cubs manager, will find himself overloaded with outfielders and he may dispose of Cy Williams, the Wadena player. Williams is wanted by Herzog for the Cincinnati Reds, which would not be a very desirable place to land. Mr. R. Lyle Constable, of near Goodland, a young republican, desires to secure the nomination for representative of Newton, Benton and Jasper counties in the next state legislature. This is the same office that W. L Wood, of Parr, holds and seeks renomination for. William S. Rhyan, a well-known resident of Monticello whose death occurred last week, was buried there Sunday afternoon. He was a member of the Presbyterian church and of the Odd Fellows, Red Men, Maccabees, Woodmen, Moose, Knights of Pythias, Rebekahs and Pythian Sister®. His funeral was largely attended. Peter P.- Nice, who died recently, was a member of the Kentland Camp of Modern Woodmen of America. He carried a $3,000 policy and the claim was allowed on behalf of his widow. He had been a member of the Woodmen for 19 years, 8 months and 18 days, during which time he had paid into the order $360.45. His widow ■will -get the full $3,000. The national Moose committee have selected the same date for their convention that the republicans had chosen, the week of June 7th. It wul also be held in Chicago. Geprge W. Perkins is very defiant. He has taken options on the Auditorium theatre, orchestra hall and the Florentine room in the Congress hotel* Joe Warbritton, a Fair Oaks youth who is said to have a particular abhorrence for work, was arrested by Deputy Sheriff John Robinson on a charge of assault and battery on his mother. He was haled before Mayor Spitler and fined SSO, but the fine was remitted and he was given a lecture and a chance to go free if he will behave himself. , EHel Webfe, who owns a farm between Mon on and spent a day or two with his sister, Mrs. Nathan Eldridge, of Barkley township, and left Monday for Medford, he will spend some time with another sister, Mrs. Andrew Potts, formerly of this county. M 75, Webb has been in poor health for the past tyro years and hopes that the change of climate 'will prove beneficial to him. v j