Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 88, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 July 1907 — MONDAY. [ARTICLE]

MONDAY.

•L J Montgomery wept to Chicago today on business. Richard Far mer went to Logansport today on a business trip. Howard Mills left Saturday for LaPlafa, Mo., for a two weeks’ visit with relatives. Merl Benjamin left this morning for San Diego, Oal., where be ex peets to remain for several months Dr. W. P. Crowell and wife, of Monticllo, spent Sunday here with their with aud son, Dick Crowell and wife. Mrs. Mary Fawcett returned to her home in De'phi today, after a tea days visit here with pier sister Mrs. , T nlia A. HeaTev. MissC. A Peters went to Indianapolis today, where she will attend the State examination for opticians. She will be gone until Wednesday noon.

Carl Duvall, son of C. W. Duvall and member of this year’s graduating class from the Rensselaer high school, went to Cincinnati yesterday, where he has a good position as clerk in a clothing store. Rev. Rial Benjamin of the Puget Sound M. E. Conference speht Saturday and Sunday with hia .elativesjatthis place. Mr. Benjamin is not actively engaged- in the ministerial work at present but holds a supernumerary relation to h:‘s conference. He is actively tngaged iu the mining business and has greatly prospered financially in the last year. His company owns and operates a gold mine in Alaska and a copper mine in British Columbia. Rev. Benjamin is a nephew of R. P. Benjamin.

The Chicago Sunday Tribune and Indianapolis Star have pictures without number, in all sorts of poses, of Miss Marguerite Frey, of Denver, Colo., who after extensive competition, has been decided to be the most beautifnl "woman in American. She is a recent high school graduate and a sure enough beauty, aDd by all accounts as well as appearances, a sensible, modest, and industrious girl. Miss Avaline H. Kindig, of our city, daughter of Rev. H. L. Kindig and a this year’s graduate Rensselaer high school, has j ust re eeived notice of her success in competition fra scholarship at North western University at Evanston, 111. The scholarship is awarded on her record for scholarship, deportment etc in the high school, and is not only qnite an honor, but also of considerable- value from a financial point of view. It covers her tuition and other dues in the university thru the freshman year and as she had arranged to enter that university this fall anyhow, it will save her about SBO in money.