Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 October 1911 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

George Kepner, who is employed at Keokuk, la., spent a few days, visiting relatives here this week and the latter part'd! last, returning to Keokuk Monday evening. Airs. Sarah A.' Pruett returned from Greencastle Saturday after a visit of several weeks with relatives and. old friends. While there she met a lady she had not seen for 61 years, with whom she had gone to school many years before. Airs. Abel Grant, who has been spending several months in the w«st, visiting at Denver, Colorado Springs. Salt Lake, San Francisco and several other places of interest, returned home Saturday \froni Spokane, where she has been visiting relatives for a few weeks. Ray Thompson has sold his Maxwell runabout to a resident of Newland. The deal is reported to have been made with the assistance of Ed Oliver, who is an enthusiastic motorist of that town. The consideration was about S3OO. Ray is as yet undecided about buying another car.

Airs. John Chamberlain and daughter, Aliss May, who have benn visiting with her brother-in-law at Chalmers for the past few days, returned here Alonday evening, and left yesterday for their home in Benton Harbor, Alich. Next week they will leave for Tombstone, Ariz., where Alay is employed as assistant court reporter to John Walker, who was formerly employed in that capacity in this city. Rev. Lewis S. Smith of Greencastle, assistant endowment secretary of DePau w University, came Alonday and will remain here a few days in order to interest some of our people in the $500,000 endowment fund for DePauw, over $400,000 of which has already been subscribed. January 1 is the limit for raising the balance. Or, in other words, they must raise $400,000 by that time in order to secure SIOO,OOO from the Rockefeller fund. The doors for the Monon’s* new station, the arrival of which have so delayed the work of finishing the depot, are udw here and are bei ng~lt is expected the new depot will be the stopping place for trains not later than next Sunday or Alonday. All of the inside woodwork has been stained, and only a litle finishing, now remains to be done. The final touches and acceptance by the railroad company after which the station headquarters will be moved with all haste. The furniture, except some of the sears for the waiting room, has already arrived and is being installed. Morocco Young Couple Elope. Charlotte Sayers, fifteen year old daughter of Air. and Airs. Wm. Sayers, and Jesse Hickman, a young man said to be of age or nearly so, left Sunday for Michigan wherte they were marriel. The groom’s brother went with them to testify to their ages. They returned Tuesday to the Duffy ranch where" the groom’s brother lives, and later to the groom’s parents’ home north of town. The bride’s parents, it is stated, were -much displeased and threatened to arrest the young man for kidnapping. —Alorocco Courier.

BROUGHT HERE TO BURY. ' ' -'ll Son of Mrs. Nellie Manahan o? Wellington, 111., Dies of Appendicitis. Ross Manahan, the 17-year-old son of Mrs. Nellie Manahan; of Wellington, 111., died at 5 a. I m., Monday in a Lafayette hospital, where he was taken just a week ago before to be treated for appendicitis. Mrs. Manahan is a teacher in the Welington school and Ross was the school house janitor. He was taken sick Sunday, Oct. 8, and was taken to Lafayete the next day. He was operated on last Friday 1 night, but died Monday. The remains were brought i here and the funeral will be helu! this morning at 9:30 a. m., from the Presbyterian church, con-I ducted by Rev. Arthur H. Smith of W ellington. Hl.,- assisted by i Rev. C. L. Harper of Trinity M. E. church, and interment made in Weston cemetery. Mrs.. Manahan is a siste- of Wesley', George, Lem and Temple Hamerten. and Mrs. Cripps an-.! M : ss Eva Ha npireton ofRensselaer.