Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 41, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 January 1903 — Items Here and There. [ARTICLE]

Items Here and There.

A bill for an appropriation of from SIOO,OOO to $150,060 for a suitable exhibit for Indiana at the St. Louis world,s fair will probably be introduced in tbe Legislature next week and passed without opposition. It will be prepared by the joint legislative committee and the Governor, who visited St. Lonis Saturday. Mrs. John lams, the aged aunt of W. J. Imee, of our city, died recently at her home at Washington, lowa, at the age of 92 years. Her husband survives her, at the age of 94 years. He has retained the original form of spelling his name, while most of the family spell it Imes. Tbe oouple, bad they both lived nutil the 12th of next September would have passed that most rare matrimonial anniversary, their 75th or diamond wedding. They have lived in lowa since 1838, and were the oldest married couple in that state. They leave a large family of children, the oldest of whom is past 70, and 86 grand-obildren and 65 great-grand-children. The Indianapolis News is offering a prize of $lO to the hired girl or hired housekeeper in Indiana who makes good tbe claim to have held down the same job for the longest period of time. Lest some of our Rensselaer hired girls, who have bossed tbe same kitchen and swung on the same front gate for fully 90 days, or possibly six months, be tempted to rush in after this prize, and eo suffer disappointment, we fcaiten to say that they would not be in it. The News has already discovered one ■‘girl” who has worked for the same family continuously sinoe 1864. Which is very much farther back than any Rensselaer girl will admit that she was born.