Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 89, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 July 1907 — THURSDAY’S LOCALS. [ARTICLE]

THURSDAY’S LOCALS.

S Lake connty has aloat 1,000 miles of railroad, with an assessed valuation of $12,0C0,000. Monticello wants a laundry, say s the Journal. We think Monticello needs it and hope4£gets it. ___ Mr. and Mrs. George Dunn and bab/, of Wichata, Kans., are here to visit her parents, Granville Moody and wife, and his father, Hon, L D. Dunn, of Dunnville. Mrs. N. J. Langley, of Bingham Like, Minr., started home this morning after a visit of a few days with her brother H. W. Jacsson, northeast of towu. She has also been visiting other relatives in llliuois.

Mrs. Frank Sutton, formerly Mss Belle Ramey, who has been visiting her mother, Mrs. J. A. Ramey, for the past, two weeks left this morning for Hamilton N. J M where she will join her hnsband who is employed there. P. L. Mattes, wife and baby, of St. Joe, Mo., were here for a short visit over night with her parents, Harvey Grant and wife, and he is now to be transferred by the Morris people to Chicago, where he formerly lived and where they mach prefer to be. Pending their removal they will leave the baby here with* its grandparents.

Frank Btusnahan, son of Thos. Brnsnahan, of near Parr, is another Jasper connty college graduate this year. He completed the Valparaiso University law coarse and is now spending a short time at home before starting out to seek a location. He has Idaho and possibly Boise City'iu view and will go out there one day next week to look the field over.

Uncle David Hilton was seen marching thru onr streets this morning in rather war-like guise for so peaceably idisposed a citizen he is known to be. His arma meut consisted of the old Springheld rifle he carried all thru the civil war, including Sherman’s march to the sea. He intends to have the interesting old relic cleaned and burnished and will then present it to the army post here, to place among their many other valued relics of those days. Mr. and Mrs. A. M. Munden, formerly of Fair Oaks, but for the past three months located at Charlottsville, near Greenfield, have jnst been back in Jasper county! for a visit with relatives and friends. Their removal from Fair Oaks was occasioned by the death of Mr. Munden’s father. He died at his home in Charlottsville on March 12th at the age of 81 years, and Mr. Mnnden was called there to settle np the estate. Tney are not yet decide whether they will make their permanent home at Charlottsville or” not, but it is not improbable that they will sometime return to Jasper and select Rensselaer for a home.

W. L. Keene, the Fair Oaks railroad agent lor some time past, has been transferred to Westfield, and George W. King, of St. Johns, succeeds him at Fair Oaks. Mr. King was formerly the agent at Chamlers where he was later prosperously engaged in the lnmber business. He invented a quite interesting game called parlor billiards which held ont such alluring prospectß that he decided to engage in its manufacture. Ac oordingly he disposed of his lumber business and started out to push his invention. It did not tarn ont mi Mr. King had expected and be is said to have lost considerable money in the experiment. How ever, he is a rattling good railroad agent and had no difficulty getting back into harness with the road that had so long employed him be fore.