Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 94, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 July 1903 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Short New* Notes. - The Mirsouri State reunion of the Confederate veterans will be held at Columbus Sept. 24, 25 and 20. Gen. Odon Guitar, a Union veteran, will deliver the address of welcome and Senator George G.Veat will respond. Cfazed by intense pain resulting from a cancer on his face, Captain E. Townsend, a former •toams>oat pilot, 70 years •Id, hanged himself in St. Louis. Captain Townsend was a friend of Gen. Grant and during the Civil War served on a river transport.