Rensselaer Journal, Volume 11, Number 11, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 August 1901 — Uncle Josh Spruceby. [ARTICLE]

Uncle Josh Spruceby.

The celebrated comedy-drama “Uncle Josh Spruceby” will be presented at the Ellis Opera House for one night, Saturday, August 24. The press of the different cities where the attraction has been, speak in the highest praise of it and say it is a worthy successor to “The Old Homestead.” A lot of special scenery is given, which is pronounced the most realistic piece of stagecraft ever presented. Other features are many new and novel specialties and a solo operatic of 12 people. A. W. Cole, mail agent on the Monon, will shortly be given a partially new run. One week he will take the milk run between Lafayette and Chicago as at present. The next week he will run between Bloomington and Louisville and every third week he will have a lay-off. The change will probably give him an increase in salary of SIOO per year. J. F. Ashley, of Caynga, a railway mail agent on the Monon and Big Four, was here Tuesday looking for a dwelling house to rent. He desires to move here in preference to Monon and will do so if he can secure a house. Desirable residence property for rent is very scarce in Rensselaer and some of the spare capital here might be invested to advantage by building a few houses to rent.

Cecil Banes, son of Monroe Banes, was playing with other boys at the Milroy street bridge last Friday. In walking over the bridge he got dizzy and fell from the center of the bridge to the river bed below, a distance of twenty four feet. In falling he struck the bridge in two places, breaking his fall to some extent before striking the rock bed of the river The only injury apparent to the eye is a cut on the forehead. Cedar Lake is said to be two feet lower than the ordinary stage of the water. It is thought that the filling up of the Monon sink hole may have something to do with the low stage of the water. Apparently the Jake has no outlet or inlet, but it is thought it is fed by some underground stream, and it is probable that the hole which the Monon is seeking to fill up is the bed of the st ream. The dirt and rock which has been thrown in the hole would naturally dam up the river bed and partially stop the flow of the waler to the lake, which would naturally lower the water in the lake. For fine job work call at the JOURNAL office.