Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 127, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 November 1904 — PERTINENT Personals [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PERTINENT Personals

Surgeon General Rixey, U. S, N., will urge Congress to enlarge the general naval hospital at Portsmouth, Va. John Bruce McPherson of Gettysburg, Pa., has been made secretary of the National Association of Wool Manufacturers. Rabbi Glazier of Des Moines, whose synagogue is the oldest* west of Chicago, is compiling a history of the Jews in lowa. W. T. Brinson of Way cross, Ga., weighs 570 pounds. His wife weighs 115 pounds. He is the father of eight children. Dr. Matthew Harkins celebrated tha seventeenth anniversary of his consecration as bishop of Providence, It. 1., recently. The charitable institution in which William Waldorf Astor takes most interest is the London Cabmen’s Benevolent Society. Harry Van der Weyden, a young Boston artist, has painted sixty-five pictures in two years. They are on exhibition in Paris. C. W. Post of New York possesses a curious volume, a copy of Shakspeare’s “King Henry V 1.,” firlt part, edited by Alfred Tennyson. Mrs. Rachael Albright, granddaughter of Betsy Ross, who made the first Anierlive® at Fort Atkinson, lowa. B^^Miiaker.