Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 May 1916 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Born, Sunday, May 21, to Mr. and Mrs. Walter Smith, three miles southeast of Rensselaer, a son. Mrs. Lewis Eisenberg, of Chicago, is visiting her mother, Mrs. Nathan Fendig, for a few weeks. Industrial accidents in Indiana in the month of April caused injury to 2,974 employes. Twenty-one of the ■accidents resulted fatally. IMiss Marie Hamilton returned today from attending a house party at the' Kappa Alpho Theta sorority house at Butler college in Indianapolis, and a few days’ visit w r ith friends in Frankfort. While at the ball park Saturday afternoon, Lloyd Parks had the misfortune to run a rusty nail in his foot. The injury is a painful one and he is forced to walk with the aid of criitches. -Frank J. Babcock has returned from Indianapolis where fbr the past eight weeks he has been taking treatment at a sanitarium, the same one he was in some two years ago. He received considerable benefit and returned home quite a little improved. Governor Samuel Ralston had an important part in the first pageant ever given in the state on the Indiana university campus at Bloomington Wednesday, celebrating the Indiana centennial. One thousand took part in the production. Charlie Chaplin, famous movie comedian, figured in the Pennsylvania ’ primaries, it has been discovered. Some republican voter ignored Brumbaugh, Ford and T. R., and wrote Chaplin’s name as his choice for the next president of the United States. Earle Reynolds came Saturday from Louisville and will remain for a week. Mrs. Reynolds was called to New’ York Friday by the sickness of her father, James E. Donegan. They had to cancel .their engagements in Minneapolis and Grand Rapids this week. The bid dredge reached the C. & E. I. railroad bridge at Brook Saturday every of last week and enough of the bridge was torn up to allow the big boat to pass. The bridge was replaced in time to allow trains to pass Monday evening. The dredge expects to reach the wagon bridge by the first of next week. County Auditor Hammond has been made happy by the receipt of a check from the Union Central Life Insurance Company, for $959.03. He took out a 20-payment policy twenty-five years ago for SI,OOO, as did a number of others in Rensselaer at that time. The poliry only larked $40.97 of paying oht in full. He had insurance on his life for 25 years and received $950.03 for the $581.80 paid to the company. Leslie Clark has a similar policy due January 31st of next year for $1,500. Former Rensselaer Woman In Charge of Hammond Hotel. Hammond Times. Miss Bertha Payne, for fourteen months in charge of the American restaurant for C. R. Meyers, well known as a waitress at various eating places in downtown Hammond and recently operating a rooming house at 95 State street, has taken over the Semloh hotel in the old Masonic Temple on State street west of Hohman. Miss Payne became proprietress yesterday, buying from Judge W. H. Jordan. Completely remodeling and redecorating the establishment, Miss Payne plans to run it in con junction, rwith the rooms at 95 state street. All told, the Two places provide thirty modern and ’wdl equipped rooms. The policy will be the best. William Waymire andt Miss Elizabeth Kirk to Be Married William Waymire, son of Mr. and Mrs. Henry Waymire, of Wolcott, and Miss Elizabeth Kirk, daughter of Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Kirk, will be married at the home Of her parents, southeast of town, Wednesday afternoon at 3:30 o’clock. Rev. Curnick will perform the ceremony. Mr. Waymire is one of the proprietors of the Comer Case. He has been here for a number of years, during which time he has made many friends. The bride-to-be graduated from the Rensselaer high school last year and was one of the popular members of her class. The young couple will reside in Rensselaer. Senior Class Play to Be Given at Ellis Tonight. The annual class play will be given by the high school seniors at the Ellis theatre tonight. The play will be repeated again- on Tuesday night. It is entitled “All a Mistake,” and there is plenty of comedy all the way through. The cast has been rehearsing diligently for the past several weeks and expect to have one of the most successful performances ever given by a senior class. The curtain goes up at 8 o’clock. NOTICE. t ... ii- - *>u • ’ The Ladies’ Aid of the Barkley M. E. church will meet Wednesday, May 24, with Mrs. Ed Ames on the Edd J. Randle farm, instead of May 31, as previously incorrectly stated in The Republican.