Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 137, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 June 1917 — Lightning Kills Two Horaes. [ARTICLE]

Lightning Kills Two Horaes.

Emmett L. Fidler, on the George Meyers farm in Jordan township, had two good horses .killed by lightning Monday afternoon. This farm is just across the road from the Welsh Bros, farm, on which Clarence Maxwell had four good milk cows killed Isat week. It is not far from the farm owned by Charles Guttrich, on which the barn and large corncribs were burned when struck by lightning a few weeks ago. The Fidler horses were insured in the Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Co.

J. fester Haberkom returned to his home at Chatsworth, 111., today after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. L. A. Harmon. Mr. Haberkom will leave for New'York in three weeks, where he will join a concert company for the coming season. Mrs. Leonard Elder has returned to her home in Mason City, lowa, after a visit here with her husband’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. David Elder and other relatives. Mrs. Laura B. Fate returned to her home here Monday evening from Altoona, Pa., where she had been called on account of the death of her brother-in-law, J. E. Harrod. Clifford Harrod, the son of Mr. and Mrs. Harrod, has been given a splendid position with the Pennsylvania railroad in Pittsburg and he with his mother and sister, Laura, will make that city their home. B. S. Fendig and daughter, Miriam, of Chicago, are visiting Rensselaer relatives and friends. Mr. Fendig spent the winter and spring in New Orleans, returning to Chicago about June Ist. He was engaged iff buying cabbage and other vegetables for the northern market while there, buying in carload lots front the southern growers. Since his return to Chicago his mother-in-law, Mrs. A. Oppenheimer, who made her home much of the time with Mr. Fendig and family, died at the home of her daughter, Mrs. Martha Moss,- in New Orleans. She had an attack of paralysis about a year ago, but had about recovered from that. She was sitting on the porcn when she had an attack of her heart. She was taken into the house and, died a few* minutes later. Mrs. Oppenheimer was 68 years of age. She leaves three sons and two daughters.