Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 207, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 September 1917 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Charles Bussell reports the sale of his farm in Hanging Grove township. He thinks his corn crop was damaged considerably by frost last week. Mrs. Wm. Hoile, of North Manchester, Ind., underwent a major operation at the hospital today. Mrs. Hoile is a daughter of Mrs. Lorinda McGlinn, of this city. Dr. Dunnington, a prominent osteopath, of Philadelphia, Pa., Dr. Wernike, of Cincinnati, Ohio, and Dr. Humnnul, of Chicago, were the guests of Dr. Turfler Saturday and Sunday. The weatherman has given out the gratifying news that we are to have a spell of warm weather. He thinks that it will be warm for a week or ten days. Two or three weeks of good dry warm weather would mature a great amount of excellent corn in this county. James Walter, the hustling manager of the J. J. Lawler ranches, is preparing to begin the hugh task of filling eleven silos which have an average capacity of five hundred tons each. Some of the crops on the Lawler farms has been damaged by the frost. Mr. Walter reports that they have a very large acreage of most excellent corn that has not been damaged.

Alva Spangle, of Remington, was the guest of David Leatherman Sunday. Mr. Spangle was raised in the Leatherman family from the time he was two weeks old, his mother having died at that time. Since Mr. Leatherman’s home has been broken up, young Spangle, who is now about fifteen years of age, has been making his home with a family near Remington. Clyde Fisher, son of Mr. and Mrs. William Fisher, of near Wolcott, was a guest of his parents over Sunday. Clyde is with one of the navy bands at the Great Lakes. ■ The band of which he is a member, consisting of 180-pieces, is expecting to make a tour of the western states starting this week. They will participate in patriotic demonstrations to make a great number of the large western states. The Russian government, which within the past nine months has placed orders with locomotive builders in this country for 998 engines at an approximate cost of some $50,000,000, is understood to again be making inquiries through Washington for between one thousand and two thousand additional locomotives, and it is expected that contracts will be placed as soon as deliveries can be arranged. ■■ - - — : — William. Teska, of Union township, was in Rensselaer today. Mr. Teska had the misfortune to shoot off the end of his index finger on his right hand last Wednesday. He was going through the fence into the corn field to shoot some crows when the accident occurred. The wound is giving him considerable pain today. Mr. Teska was one of Jasper county’s 'quota drafted and has passed the examination in good shape.