Jasper County Democrat, Volume 18, Number 70, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1915 — The WEEK'S DOINGS [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

The WEEK'S DOINGS

Robert Michal was down from Khiinan on business Saturday. iU-born babe born Sunday to .V r. and Mrs. J :>rrv Branson, of northeast of town, was buried in Weston cemetery the same day at 10 a. in. Wright's sale of carpet sweepers Saturday afternoon was a great success—l 44 were sold in 18 minutes after the sale opened, and the entire 200 were disposed of in a very short time. Twenty-five high school boys of the Rensselaer school were suspended for one day for assisting the freshmen to have a class party. Only a full believer in John Galvin could have invented such a terrible putt ishment.—Fowler Tribune. £ Letters remaining in the Rensselaer postoffiee for the week ending Dec. 29: Violet Sayler, Mrs. Lewis Watkins, 'Geo. W. Merschrod, Joe Thornton, Ed Oliver, Daniel Williams, Mrs. V. 11. Rogers. The above letters will be sent to the dead letter office* Dec. 13, if not called for. D. J. Babcock came up from Lafayette Friday afternoon for a brief visit with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. E. Babcock, returning to his duties as linotype operator on the Lafayette Journal Saturday. Charles Mavity, who has been managing editor of the Journal for some time, has been succeeded by W. H. Robertson, who at one time conducted a paper with his father, F. 11. Robertson, at Wheatfield, and is well known to many of our readers.