Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 86, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 April 1916 — Maggie O’Leary Was Sure the “Candy Kid.” [ARTICLE]

Maggie O’Leary Was Sure the “Candy Kid.”

New York, April 7. —Miss Margaret O’Leary was walking past a Third avenue bakery tonight, just as a truckman was unloading a hogshead of molasses. The barrel burst and the young -woman was engulfed almost to her shoe tops. When she tried to pass on her feet stuck to the sidewalk. A youth who went to her assistance lifted her bodily out of the molasses, but he stumbled and 'both fell into the sticky stream. At this juncture the police were called upon Tor aid. A patrolman was sent to the rescue and birdged the molasses with a plank. The board dammed the stream and perched upon it the officer dragged to safety the young woman and her wouldbe rescuer.

Harry Zimmerman spent over Sunday with his mother and relatives here and returned to his home in Michigan City today. We have a good supply of poultry feeds.—‘Hamilton & Kellner. We are headquarters for seed potatoes, onion sets and garden seeds. Now is the time to put out your seed sweet potatoes for plants. JOHN EGER. Walter Belcher was over from Remington today. He drives a Fold livery car and is doing a very good business, mainly between Remington and Lafayette. We have shipped in a car of fancy northern grown Minnesota seed potatoes, Early Rose, Chios, Triumphs or Six Weeks, Bußbanks and Runals. JOHN EGER. Miss Helen Wolf, of Hammond, who was visiting her' grandparents, Mr. and Mrs. A. Leopold, was hostess to a number of girl friends Saturday evening. (Harold Littlefield visited his uncle, Chas. Littlefield, in Remnigton last week and the latter accompanied him here Sunday and will remain for a short visit. > The Woman’s Home and Foreign Missionary society of the Presbyterian church will meet at the home of Mrs. A. J. Bellows Wednesday at 2:30 o’clock. A report will ‘be given of the Presbyterial meeting held at Bourbon last week. The ladies of the society and church are invited. Louis Claussen, a young man Who was operated on at the home of Ralph Moore, of Barkley township recently for a pleural abscess, was brought to Rensselaer yesterday and placed in the White boarding house in order to be nearer his doctor. Apparently he is getting along very nicely. Mr. and Mrs. A s J. Bellows were in Remington Saturday and Sunday. They report John R. Wilson still confined to his bed and little change in his condition. The trained nurse who was caring for him has returned to Chicago and Mrs. Bertha Smith, of this city, has gone there re care for him.

Ed Burch, of Remington, who was arrested on a “mashing” charge at Lafayette last week, has returned to Remington, having paid his fine. He protests that he was not guilty and that the young lady had identified the wrong pan. Burch formerly lived here. We have as a new boarder at the Mic Colly house our old friend, Henry Conn, of Remington, who is accuse! of over-estimating his appetite with the result that he was upable to walk on a chalk line with all he consumed. He was arraigned on a charge of intoxication and it. will take him 28 days to square his error. Thjs is not his first offense and it is probable farm sentence. When you’re Hamillized you’ll wear the same kind of clothes that Marshall Fieild sells to the best Chicago trade, only you’ll pay less! T