Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 199, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 August 1919 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

General Pershing will. return to the United States about September first. The drawings for the tennis tournaments which are to decide the city championships in the various classes will he made this evening, and the tournaments will open tomorrow. Elsie and Mabel Nelson returned to their home at* Shelby Saturday after a visit here with Jeanette Crooks. Miss Florence Winters returned to Chicago Saturday after a visit here with Mrs. Nettie Hoover and other friends. The Rev. E. W. Strecker disposed of his Dodge touring car at public auction Saturday evening. County Auditor Hammond purchased the car for $660. August is slipping rapidly by, bringing with it thoughts of the end of summer ice bills, but the awful spectre of filling emipty coal bins lurks in the offing. i v - - Mr. and Mrs. B. F. Fendig left Sunday for Boston, Mass., where they will attend a four days’ convention of Rexall dealers. Following jthe convention they will go to New I York City, where they will remain i for another week before returning | home. i Frank Leek, one of Rensselaer’s mail clerks who makes the Cincinnati mail, reports that that city has , forgotten everything else and has turned its entire attention to baseball. Cincinnati is baseball mad, according to Mr. Leek, the result of , its having a championship practically ' clinched, the first time in history. The annual Jasper county teachers’ institute will be held the week of September 1-6 and an interesting program has been arranged. The institute will be held in this city, i Superintendent Sterrett reports that there is an unusually fine lot of school teaching timber this year. Practically the entire teaching personnel of the county will be made up of Jasper county iboys and girls.