Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 February 1916 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

It is reported that there are a few cases of mumps in town. Order your coal, feed and wood of Hamilton & Kellner. The official temperature this morning was 6 degrees, above zero. Matt Moosmiller returned this morning from a visit in Chicago. The case of Judy vs. H. B. Brown is set for trial at Kentland Thursday. George A. Williams is Spending a week on his farm at East“, Liberty, Ohio. ■ , j / Rev. J. P. Green returned home Saturday from a visit of five weeks in the west. ' ; Earl Clouse is today moving into Day property where Joe Myers formerly lived. Talk to us about your coal; we have something to tell you about our coal.—Harrington Bros. Co. Ed P. Lane is sick with a bstd case of the grip, which has kept him In bed for several days. Ralph Donnelly has been sick for a few days with the grip, which has confined him to his home. Mrs. Clency Wood is quite ill at her home on Weston street, being confined to her bed with the grip. B. B. or Puritan Egg for the range. Ky. B. or Carbon splint for the heating stove. —Harrington Bros. Co. Mrs. Thomas Davis, of near Kniman, is sick with the grip which was so severe as to border on pneumonia. Mrs. E. C. Maxwell is gradually improving from an illness that confined her to bed for almost two weeks. Attorney A. Halleck is in Delphi today, where J he appears for clients in a suit venued to that county for trial. A very nice lot of Cyclomen plants that formerly sold at SI.OO, are now priced at 50 cents each to make room for Easter plants.—J. H. Holden. Mr. and Mrs. John Childers, of near Pleasant Ridge, went to Brookston today to visit her father, Garrett Ellston and family. Mr. and Mrs. William Smith, of near Foresman, went to New Albany this morning for . a visit of three or four weeks with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. E. D. Rhoades went to Chicago this morning for a two days’ stay and he will attend the hardware dealers’ convention. Tomorrow is groundhog day. If the groundhog don’t see his shadow he will have to carry a sunshade or the weatherman is a liar. There are a number of new cases of scarlet fever at the college, some having developed over Sunday and Monday and making the total in the infirmary forty. A. N. Cowen and wife and three little daughters, who live on the Hallagan farm northeast of town, left this morning ‘for a visit at Rochester and Chicago. The Pocahontas Lodge will hold a box supper in the Red Men’s hall, Tuesday evening, Feb. 1. Ladies bring boxes. —By Order of Pocahontas Comrade Fox’s time as mail career came to an end last evening and Tommy O’Meara is carrying the mail today but it is understood that the contract has not yet been let. Mrs. Clarence P. Fate is recovering from an attack of appendicitis that was so severe that for a time it was thought an operation would have to be performed. Marshall L. Myers.better known as “Red,” who for several months has* worked for the Jasper County Telephone Co., left today for Cannonsburg, Pa., where he has secured a good position. Emerson Coen went to Indianapolis Sunday to be present the following day at a state meeting of the agents of the Equitable Life Insurance Co., of which he recently took the agency for Jasper county. Miss Martha Ramp, Edna Robinson and Nell Drake and Virgil Denniston and Frank E. Cox attended a big dance at Kentland last evening. The ball was given by the Ladies Catholic Order of Foresters. John Ramp and several others had planned to go but gave it up on account of the very bad roads and the sudden change in' the temperature. Hiram Day and others in the. east part of town have started a petition for a. drain which will extend not only to the northern limits of the town but far enough to access the lands at the north edge of town, and on the south side of the natural drainage shed, ft is probable that the sewer will be a threcfoot size. It is to run south on , Milton street to the river. f CASTOR I A. For Infinite and Children. z Ito IWYm Hm Alwj» Of ,ugirt dean the /Tr Bignacore fyGU