Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 May 1916 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Notice to the Public. I wish to notify the public that I have quit papering.—Jay Zimmerman. Dr. and Mrs. C. A. Myers came yesterday from Michigan City for a few days’ visit with Mr. and Mrs. Frank Foltz, Mrs. Myers being a cousin to Mr. Foltz. Mrs. Sylvester Gray and Miss Florence Gorham, of Rensselaer, and Miss Fairy Gunyon, of Parr, went to Indianapolis today to attend the state convention of the Rebekahs. They will return Wednesday. Barney D. Comer continues in a very critical condition, although his case is regarded slightly more hopeful today. He has had the hiccoughs for three days and this has greatly weakened him. Frank Medland, who has the contract for building the hospital, is here today and will start the building very soon. The excavating will begin as soon as the bam in the rear of the jail is moved to the rear of the hospital lot. Mrs. E. P. Honan, who visited in Lafayette last week, went jto Greencastle Saturday to spend Sunday with her son, Edward, a student at DePauw, and will return home today, coming by auto to Remington, where Mr. Honan will meet her. Fred Chilcote and daughter, Miss Jane, returned to their home in South Bend yesterday after attending the funeral of Mrs. Kinney. Mrs. Chilcote and daughter, Miss . Elizabeth, will go tomorrow to Mt. Ayr for a few days’ visit with Dr. Merry and J. R. Sigler and families before returning home.

Eli Wagler and B. E. Keeney, who own the Springer ranch and have oeen locating people on it this year, were here today to see it, but the water covered so much of it that only spots here and there were visible. Fortunately very little of the land had been planted, however, and it is hoped that the water moves off in time to permit the planting of the pickle crop, which is to be the main product this year. The successful trucking of that fertile land, however, depends upon drainage and will never be dependable until a good outlet through some ditch yet to be dug is furnished. The Newlaftd fields also depend upon drainage and it is hoped that another year will not pass before a complete and thorough ditch is started.

The senior and junior text boeks were taken from the desks some time last Friday night and stacked on the platform. The note books were not moved and there was no damage. The books .were discovered Saturday morning when the institute was held. Superintendent Dean and Principal Kratli have been conducting a quiet investigation today in an effort to locate the culprits but the teachers have no information to give out. It is quite probable that participation in an affair of that kind would result in severe measures and it is hoped that our young men will decide to be more manly than to commit a depredation of this sort again. For several years there has been an occasional breaking out of barbarism in the schools and the education of several boys has been curtailed beacuse they had indulged in the practice of book stacking or something of this sort. More rigid punishment than has been administered hitherto doubtless awaits any convicted in the future. Miss Nettie Price had another very severe spell Sunday and her condition -*- • - ’ Maurice Gorman, an aged citizen of Jordan townsihp, suffered a stroke of paralysis about a week ago and was taken to the home of his daughter, Mrs. Lyman Raymond. An effort to learn how his condition was today proved unavailing.