Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 68, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 March 1916 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Lester Rich was over from Wolcott Sunday. Peace, preparedness and silence is the slogan of Newton D. Baker, new secretary of war. — 4 Miss Verna Hubble, of Valparaiso, and Miss Cora Bruner, of Hebron, were Sunday guests of Miss Maurine Tuteur. John Demoss returned to Wing, 111., today after spending a week his daughter, Mrs. John Newcome and family. Mrs. J. P. Karr and son returned to Ft. Wayne today after an over-Suiv day visit with her father, Albert Witham and family. John Hurley was home from Rossville over Sunday and returned there again today to be at the bedside of his father, Jacob Hurley, who is very poorly at the age of 83 years.

Misses Beatrice and Cophine Branch, of Stockton, Cal., expect to come to Rensselaer early in April and to visit their grandparents,. Mr. and Mrs. Jacob Wilcox, until next September. Two ladies for the price of one. That’s what the “ladies free” offer for Help Wanted means. Call at the box office, write, or Phone 98 and ask to have your seats reserved before noon Thursday. Jake Spitzer, of Fair Oaks, who had- come to Rensselaer in an automobile Saturday, became intoxicated and was given a free night’s lodging at the jail. He was released Sunday without being prosecuted, Mayor Spitted deciding that it might be better since this was his first offense to let him go with an injunction to “go and sin no more.”

Elmer J. Gamester, who purchased the former Harvey Grant place at the north side of town, arrived here this morning and his family will come about the midle of April, He will have some repairs made to the house before their coming. Mr. Gamester is now employed by the telephone company in Chicago and will ontinue to work there, coming home only for the week end. His wife’s father, Squire Whittin, of Roselawn, will come here to five with them and they expect to convert the entire four acres of the place he bought into an astor farm. Mr. Whittin has been successfully engaged in this business for ome time and She opportunities led them to believe that there will be money in raising astors on a large scaler They can be grown so as to blossom continuously from the last, of June to the last of October.