Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 174, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 July 1916 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 6 [ADVERTISEMENT]

• The Battle Ground Epworth. League institute will be held July 24th. The members of Company M received their third shot of anti-typhoid serum in the arm on July 16th. The boys were expecting to be laid up again sore arms, but otherwise their health is good. M.r an I Mrs. W, O. Lutz came today from Adrian, Mich., to visit his mother, Mrs. Laura Lutz, and sister, Mrs. Fred Arnott, and his brother Willis and other relatives. Mr. Lutz is a teacher of agriculture in the public schools of Adrian. Sunday afternoon a wind and rain storm swept across Newton county, following the old well-beaten path. A bam and two silos were'blown down near Morocco. Trees were pulled up by the roots in some cases and the com was laid flat. There was also some hail and this beat the oats down badly, but most of the crop will be saved. The storm continued across Iroquois and Jackson townships and through Jasper county. Dr. Leslie Sharrer will be in my office every afternoon from 1 until 4 o’clock and can be called at any other time of day or nigLt by calling 211. Dr. C. E. Johnson.

The work on the new hospital is progressing rapidly now and tions are that it be finished by the allotted'time. We note in other papers, inhere new public buildings are being built vhis year that the cen- ' tennial committees are planning to make the comer stone laying of such buildings a part of the centennial program and it seems that the committee in charge in Rensselaer could set aside a day for the comer stone ’aying of' the hospital and make it a centennial feature. In an effort to curb the murders caused by mental defectives, Judge Thomas F. Scully, of the Cook county, Illinois, court, has called a meeting today to discuss what shall be done with the mental defectives who £re allowed to run at liberty in the streets of Chicago. It is the plan of Judge Scully to have all the defectives rounded up and placed under arrest and have them placed some where where the general public will be safe from their attacks. Judge Scully decided to take this action after the four fatalities of this week, resulting from the attack of Henry Mclntyre, a negro. Pony Express, Phone 623,. Caipt. T. E. .Hall, of the United States isecret service, brought William Mcßeynolds, 50, rff Moline, 111., to the Marion county jail from Frankfort Tuesday to await federal grand jury action on a charge of having counterfeiting tools in his possession. He was arrested in the railroad yards at Frankfort. Mcßeynolds denies he made any coins. Mrs. M. Fenton, of Kankakee, 111., and her mother, Mrs. E. Cregg, of Campus, 111., came last evening to visit* the latter’s., daughter, Mrs. Al Quinn, on River street.