Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 18 June 1896 — CORRESPONDENCE. [ARTICLE]

CORRESPONDENCE.

Very interesting programs were rendered at Numbers 1 and 2 school houses, and also at the Presbyterian church, here. R. R. Petitt and wife returned Friday from a two weeks sojourn at Cameron Springs for the benefit of their health. •’»' Misses Myra and Nett-v Price returne i from the South last w°ek. Miss. “May Peck went to Indianapolis Thursday to visit Mrs. Jennie Mclntire Conard. 1 Mrs. Thrasher and children of Brookston visited h r neice Mrs-J. D. Carson last wetk. Mrs. Opdyke returned Friday from a two month’s visit with her father and son in Streator 111. Dr. Bond, who accompanied the Goodland cyclone excursionists to St Louis reports an indescribible scene of devastation. Mis. Grilling of Wolcott spent Sunday with her daughter-in-law. Mrs, lea Morris. Little Wellington Morris went home with her for a weeks visit. Miss. Grace Thompson has returned from a visit to her relatives in Vai poraiso. ; • Mrs. Rufus Lock wood of Lafayette has been in attendace at the beside of her sister-in-law Mrsi Ellen Lockwood whose condition remains much Qie same as last week. Mrs. John Meighan has bought tenant house of J. F. Ellis on Sonth Railroad St. and will move her family into it as soon as possession c- n be gained. Miss. Alice Patton returned from Bloomington Saturday. Miss Fannie Jones, second daughter of D. R. Jones graduates from the State University this week. Last Saturday night two men in an advanced stage of inebriation passed north on the gravel road enlivening the way with unearthly screeches and screams. At the corner of Superior St. they overtook Bert Schuester who was also going “hbmekTrivmg"a spirited span of horses. The men’s noise so frightened the team that they became unmanageable and threw Mr. Schnester out. # The wagon passed over his limbs, seriously injuring one of them. The team was captured by Charles Beal, no damage resulting to them. Bert Patton, son of Rev. Patton one of lhe earliest pastors of the Presbyterian church here spent Sunday with his aunt Mrs. D. H. Patton. Mr. Patton is on his way to accept the position of leader of the orchestra at that famous summer resort Lake Minnetonka in Minnesota.