Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 63, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1907 — THURSDAY. [ARTICLE]

THURSDAY.

L > t, night was another cold uum her th the temperature down to • 25 d grees. A Leopold and daughter Gertie hav • ;oue to Hammond aud Chicago or a short visit. Jiu ge T. F. Palmer, ofMouticel 10, \\ -s looking after some legal busi' • ss here today. To 'ay seems like the backbone of th> April winter was broken and that --'me more good weather might now eon baud. St< überg & Sous are contemplating purchasing another huge dredf of the same size as the oce now » orking iu the Iroquois ditch, to pii to work on their big contract on tie Monou ditch, mostly in While county. 11 . usual sen ices of the Presbyterian church Sabbath morning and • vening. Morning subject * ; Cb ich officers, their character aud Work,” Evening subject. “Eui I usiasrn’’ Music by the choi «*' at each service. Tb-'-npeon & Smith have not got theit -tone crusher in actioo yet, as they v ish to move it to a new locat i«x and are unable to do so until tin ground settles. They iitend ton* c it up the river to the Bui)!* v land, southeast of the Kell ner ice house. Th body of Jacob G. Burris, whose leath occurred iu Hanging ownship Tuesday night, will be se. to Sheridan, Ind., Friday, for bu> ial, that region haring form erly b n his home. He had been living in this county only about two y* -irs, aud was a brother of R.

W. Burris, who was for quite a number of years, one of the loremeo ou the Gifford farms. He leaves a widow and several children.

Dr. John Merritte Driver, the noted lecturer and preacher, has been assigned by the Slayton Lyceum Bureau to lecture here next Tuesday night, in the Library Lecturejcourse series, to take the place of Dußlois, whose date of some time ago was cancelled. The lecture course tickets will be good for this lecture, and for those not holding tickets, general admission is 50 cents, and for school children, 25 cents. It will be held at the Christian church. Theßoadesvs Geier injunction ease fiorn Remington, is on (rial today, before Judge Hanley, aud with a great crowd of Remington men present as witnesses. This is the case in which the Judge grant ed a temporary injunction some weeks ago. Roades and Geier were partners in the blacksmithiug business and Roades bought Geier ' ont and ran the shop alone, but before long Geier opened another shop and Roades brought this suit claiming that it was part of their oral coutract that Geier was not to engage in the blacksmithiug business at Remington. * Miss Bessie Willard, of Chicago, is visiting her relatives the Austin Hopkins family, for a short time. She was in Europe a long time last year, going over with a teachers’ excursion, and hid a long spell of sickness at Berlin. She was at first under the care of a German doctor, but not getting along very well she was advised to go to the American hospital there, presided uvet by an eminent American phy sieian named Honan, a~d under his skilled treatment she was soon restored to health. She never knew until this present visit that this physician was Dr. James H. Honan a former resident of Rensselaer, and brother of E. P. Honan, the attorney, ol this place. Parker does framing.