Jasper County Democrat, Volume 14, Number 69, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 December 1911 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

J. M. Bell was over from Monon Monday looking after the removal of the old platform and depot, and ready for beginning the extension of the switch track’s on the ground vacated by the structure. He stated that work of moving the depot would be begun yesterday morning, the platform already being torn out and taken away.

Mrs. F. G. Kresler received a letter Saturday from her brother. Leon Eiglesbach, who is now at the home of his sister, Mrs. Bert Marshall, in Medford. Oregon, stating that Joe Marshall, a son of Ralph Marshall formerly of Rensselaer, had been killed in California, where he was employed as a forest ranger, but no particulars have been learned at this writing. The Ralph Marshall family have resided in California for the past few years.

A horse driven by John Welsh to the B. S. Fendig poultry house, where he was selling some rabbits, became frightened by the noise made by an automobile backing out of the garage Friday morning and dashed east down Washington street. In attempting to make the turn at Cullen street .the horse struck - a tree, damaging, the buggy considerably, injuring the horse but little, it sliding across the walk and its head went into one of the large windows of the Western Union telegraph office, smashing out the glass.

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