Evening Republican, Volume 20, Number 183, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 August 1916 — ITEMS non MT. AYR TRIBUNE. [ARTICLE]

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Oats are reported better than was first thought. Several threshers start in the next few days. ! Mrs. John Schules returned to her home at Delta, Miss., Monday. ! Wm. Hough, near Foresmmn, visited Hiram Ashby and family Sunday. Edwin Harris and family were Rensselaer visitors Wednesday evening, j David Book and family were Rcns- J selaer visitors Wednesday evening, j Earl Huntington went to Kcntland Saturday evening, returning Sunday. L. E. Ponsler was a business visitor in Kankakee and Chicago last week. J. B. Ashby and daughter, Mrs. Lama Miller, were in Monon Thursday. Harry Brunton and wife called on David Miller near North Star Tuesday. Bert Dillman and wife, of Wheatfield, visited in the family C. C. Shue Sunday. Earl Bruner and family are visiting his father, j. F. Bruner, at Hebron this week. John Brooks and family, of man, visited friends and relatives at Mt. Ayr Sunday. Leslie Clark, of The Rensselaer Republican, was seen in our midst Thursday of last week. Ernest Proud y and wife, of near Rensselaer, visited friends and relatives hare Sunday. J. B. Fagan and family, of Bedford, Ind,, visited Dr. Merry and family Thursday and Friday. Harold Greenlee, of Plymouth, Ind., is visiting friends and relatives in. this vicinity for a few days. Dr. Dale Warner, wife and baby, of Weleecta, Okla., are visiting friends and relatives at Mt. Ayr this week. Some nifty new arrivals in the dry goods department of the big general store sauce Mr. Lee was in Chicago last week. Since disposing of the Trbune, Harry Jinkerson has takea\ up employment in the „ general store of W. R. Lee. Mrs. Joseph Jmkerson and daughter, Miss Hazel, left Sunday for a month’s visit with friends and relatives in Nebraska and Kansas. Pete G&rman, who formerly made his home wd'n the Bums, but who now lives in.Kentland, ? s visiting home folks this week. Geo. Lynch, our genial general merchant, has, placed a very neat ice cream sign over the door of his restaurant department. Benj. Geesa, Sr., and family spent Sunday with Jim Hoon and family. Big dinner and ice cream were features ( of the day. Miss Pearl Hough, of Morocco, oassed through town Monday enroute to Rensselaer. Miss Hough is on the Courier staff. (Mr. and Mrs. Calrence Zahner, of Plymouth, are visiting friends and relatives in this vicinity this week. Mrs. Zahner was formerly Miss Bertha Greenlee, of this place. Miss Maley, of Winamac, Ind., who has been visaing several weeks in the family of Biddy Bums, will return to her home this week.

Geo. Hanley, of near North Star, and Fldyd Sampson, .north of town, both lost very valuable horses last week from the extreme heat. Mrs. H. M. Kelp and two children, of near Chalmers, came Monday for several days’ visit with her sister, Mrs. Al Campbell, at the sawmill. / C. H. Stucker filled the school house coal bin last week. He had help at first but before the jbb was finished they deserted him. Too hot, we gues3. King Chamberlin and family went by auto to North Manchester, • Ind., Saturday to visit Mrs. Chamberlin’s sister, returning home Monday of this week. Mrs. C. M. Rimer, who was here for the Pearl Rimer funeral, remained for a visit with her uncle and aunt, Harry Wortley, south of town. Her home is in Wabash. Golniel Sayler was in from the west end Tuesday and says he is expecting the return of his son James this fall* from Minnesota, where he removed in the spring of 1915. Miss Alta Light, of Brook, visited Miss Vera Witcher Wednesday and Thursday of last week. Miss*Witcher accompanied Miss Light harfle Thursday, returning Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. Confer, of Raub, Mr. and Mrs. Heistand, of Kentland, Mrs. James Whitaker, of Kentland, and friends from Ohio were guests at the home of Ohas. Armold, south of town, Sunday. Mr. and Mm. A. D. Bickford, and' daughter, of Colorado Springs, Mr. and Mrs. W. O. Lutz*of Adrian, Minn., and W. A. Lutz, of Rensselaer, visited in the home of W. R. Lee Sunday. Jas. Leatherman, cashier of the First National Bank of Rensselaer, his wife and daughter and Miss Marguerite Norris, while motoring Frijday evening, called on W. R. Lee apd wife. j A musical was held at the Halstead homestead last Sunday evening. Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Stucker, of Jus place, were in attendance. Music and refreshments were features of the day. About eighty attended. Mrs. Frank Shoop left Thursday for Springfield, Mass., to join her husband. Their household furniture followed Friday. It is not known at this writing who will move in the house formerly occupied by Mr. Shoop. The ample supply of ice put up by dur genial and accommodating butcher, Hamlin Smith, has proven a boon to the heat sufferers of the past month. No small town and few larger ones are blest with so aood a ntarket and ice. Interest is well maintained in our Sabbath school, notwithstanding the excessive heat. There were 21 present in the adult class Sunday morning. At the evening service Rev. Hoover preached a masterful sermon with one accession. Howard Lee, the little son of W. R. Lee, was taken to Wesley hospital in Chicago last Tuesday, where he underwent an operation for hernia Wednesday morning. The operation was gotten through with very nicely and his father returned home Wednesday.