Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 22, Number 76, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 June 1901 — SATURDAY LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

SATURDAY LOCALS.

Miss Mabel Cooper, instructor in music and drawing in the Rensselaer schools, left today for Chicago, at which place and also in northern Michigan she will visit for several weeks before returning to her home in Minneapolis. Charles Yeoman, who taught school at Dana, Ind., during the past year, and has since been working in the car shops at Pullman, 111., came to Rensselaer today for a visit with relatives. He has been offered the same position he held last year in the schools a at Dana, but has not yet decided to accept it. Eli Dowell, of near Wolcott formerly of southeast of Rensselaer, topk the train at this place yesterday for Elßeno, Oklahoma, where he will remain with his son, Elmer Dowell, until after the opening of the new strip of government land on August 6. It is his intention at that time to take a soldiers’ claim, and his son will reside on the land thus procured. A Georgia exchange is responsible for the following: At a revival meeting a man arose and said that he was the most wicked man in town. “I’d go to hell if I should die tonight,” he concluded Immediately an old deacon started the hymn, “If you get there before I do, just tell them I am coming too.” And then the deacon wondered why everybody laughed, Miss Julia McKee, of Crawfordsville, daughter of S. O. McKee, formerly pastor of the Presbyterian church at Remington, was the guest from yesterday afternoon until this morning of the family of her uncle, John R, Vanatta. From here she went to Lake Forest, 111., to be present at the commencement exercises of the seminary at that place. The Ladies Literary Club held their annual picnic meeting and Club Spread, last evening, at Judge S. P. Thompson’s residence. The program was mostly musical and was pf a high order of excellence. Miss Moore, of Massachusetts, gave a recitation. It is usual to hold these annual occasions out of doors, but the weather was too cold for that, last night.