Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 June 1911 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Dr. I. M. WasW)urn was in Chicago on business yesterday. Miss Edna Fendig went) to Lafayette yesterday for a short visit with relatives and friends. Lightning killed three pigs weighing about 75 pounds each, and broke the back of an expensive thoroughbred sow during a slight electrical storm at the M. H. Shields farm southeast of town Wednesday night. The pig whose back was broken is not expected to live. Mrs. Mary Lowe and niece, Miss Mary jacks, left Thursday for a few weeks'tour of the west, going first to Omaha then to Garden City, Kan., Denver, Los Angeles, Cal., Portland, Ote. Seattle. Wash., and other points of interest along the route, visiting with relatives and friends. Cards are out announcing the marriage of Mr. Ernest L. Clark, linotype operator at the Republican office, and Miss Kathryn Cecelia Rafferty of Delphi,, which occurred June 1. Mr. and Mrs, Clark are spending their honeymoon with relatives of the groom in Michigan, and will be at home in Cedar street, Rensselaer, after June 15. 'Conrad Kellner’s hogs which were infected with cholera, continue to die at the rate of two or three per day. Mr. Kellner lost three Wednesday and two Thursday, making a total of 83 hogs that have died so far. Only nine hogs of the original drove are left, and it is probably only a question of time until these will succumb to the disease.

COLLEGEVILLE ITEMS. Next Sunday Gerald Malony and Ralph Sproston will receive their first Holy Communion in lhe College Chapel. They have been prepared by Rev. F. Wachendorfer, C. PP. S. who will conduct the services. Last Monday the work at the erection of the water tank was begun, and the concrete foundations are now awaiting the steel structure. On Thursday afternoon tWb graduates began their final examinations. There are eleven in the collegiate department, three in the normal, fourteen in the commercial, and one civil engineer. Decoration Day was quietly passed as a holiday. An all-star ball team had been selected, and a game had been scheduled with St. Lawrence at Lafayette, but to the disappointment of the locals the game was called off owing to wet grounds.

CYCLONE INSURANCE. There have been numerous heavy windstorms in the past week, causing enormous damage to property in other localities. Your locality may be the next. Protect your property with a windstorm policy, the kind R. D. Thompson writes, and be safe.

BOX SOCIAL. A box supper and ice cream social will be given at the Lawnsdale school house next Saturday night, June 3. Ladies please bring boxes. Benefit Sunday school and church. NOTICE TO C. O. F. All Foresters are requested to be present at the meeting Sunday morning, June 4 at 8:15, as matters of importance will be taken up.—'Lon Sec.

DOMESTIC science club. There will be a meeting of the Domestic Science Club in the east court room at 2:30 p. m., Saturday, June 3. Subjects: “Remedies in Emergencies,” Mrs. E. N. Loy; “Good Ventilation,” Mrs. Henry Wood; “Fruit in Diet,” Mrs. B. D. Comer.—Mrs. L. E. Day, Sec. Treas. ;