Evening Republican, Volume 21, Number 196, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1918 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Isaac Wiltshire went to jFowler today. Opal Liston returned to her home at Lowell Tuesday. Mrs. Alda Parkison and Miss Mary Yates went to Chicago today. Frank Hoover and Charles Pefley went to Chicago on the early morning train. u ; Donald Merica came today from Chicago for a visit with his grandparents. Mrs. Louis Haas and son, Louis, Jr., came today from Hammond for a visit with Mt. and Mrs. A. Leopold. W. M. Ward, of Stockwell, is visiting his son, John Ward, th©' blacksmith. Mrs. Jerry Healy and her trimmer, Hattie Grant, went to Chicago this morning to buy a stock of fall millinery.

Miss Emma House returned to the Monnett Home today after spending the summer vacation at Parkersburg, Va. * Mr. and Mrs. William Moore returned to their home at Stockwell today after a visit with Mr. and Mrs. John Moore. Mrs. W. S. Richards, who has been visiting her mother here, went to Lafayette today to visit her son Lee. She will go to her home at Akron, Ohio, from Lafayette.

Friends here have received word from Prof. L. E. Wass, formerly a member of the Rensselaer high school faculty, but now located at Davenport, lowa. Prof. Wass is in charge ?• the industrial work »n the : ii<h school at that place. He likes his work there very much and last year received $1,400 and this year he is given a S2OO increase.

Henry Paulus called at this office Tuesday evening. He was at his farm in Whitley county last week. Fie reports that over in that part of rhe state the corn in many places is badly damaged by the drought. Throughout that part of the state wheat averaged from twenty to thirty jushels to the acre. Oats were the best crcp ever known in the history nf tnat part of the state and some farmers had a yield as large as 101 bushels to the acre. e