Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 January 1917 — LEE. [ARTICLE]

LEE.

' Uncle David Culp is very low with pneumonia. ■ -■ ■ ~ ; Will Culp and wife spent the day Friday with her brother, JameS’Culp. Mrs. Chas. Lefler is on the sick list. Miss Vernice Grey is teaching again after missing a week on account of sickness. The scholars are all glad to have her back. Mrs. Ida Lewis is staying with her daugther, Mrs. Ethel Stiers. Mrs. Fulk is reported very low with pneumonia and the doctor gives very slight hopes,, as one lung is filled entirely up. Mrs. Kate Holman took dinner Sunday with her son, Orval and family. Little Katherine Holman was sick Sunday with a bad cold. J. F. Eldridge and family spent Sunday with Korah Eldridge and family. Mr .and Mrs. Clarence Cochran, of MidCoysburg, and Mr. and Mrs. Ezra Wolfe, of Barkley, were also there. Jas. Culp and wife and sons took dinner Sunday with Mr. and Mrs. Elmer Gilmore. Ray Holman and J. F. Eldridge were Mbnon goers Monday.

Attorney Ray D. Thompson is spending the day at Parr as the guest of Mrs. Logan Wood. Alexander Hurley went to Decatur, 111., today to visit his daughter, Mrs. Jennie Davis. We have in stock a very large supply of chestnut and stove anthracite. Better let us fill your bin now, before the thaw. Call us at phone No. 7. Harrington Brothers Company. The school building at Medaryville has been condemned, and the state board of health has sent out a notice to the effect, which has been posted on the building. The residents of the town have been considering the proposition of erecting a new building there for some time and the order issued now makes it a necessity. A site has already been agreed upon and the work of providing for funds for the erection will be started.

Some days ago Governor Goodrich, through the public service commission, issued an order to coal bearing roads in Indiana, intended to relieve the coal shortage that was working such a hardship in iriidana. The governor did not wait until an “investigation” could be held; he moyed-with characteristic vigor and his move already is bearing beneficial returns to the-people of the state. “Oapv for the House Journal will be ready for the printer within 24 hours after the session ends,” remarked Speaker Eschbach the other day. In years gone by, it often took several months to complete the House Journal after the legislature adjourned and the state of Indiana - paid handsomely for this work. It is different now, however. Under republican direction, the work will be properly done and promptly, and there will be no digs into the state treasury to finish this work as has always been the case in the past.