Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 39, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 August 1907 — Monday's Locals. [ARTICLE]

Monday's Locals.

Emerson Coen went to Chicago today for a short visit. W. H. Eger and wife are visiting relatives at, Grand-Rapids,Mich. Miss Nettie Brower, of Peru, is visiting her cousin, Mrs. Hale Warner. Henry Hildebrandt and father are down from Chicago today for a short visit, with relatives and friends. Frank P. Meyer and Miss Frances Brady, of Danville, 111., are here for a visit of several days with relatives. Mrs. W. C. Babcock and children returned Saturday from a visit of several weeks with relatives at Estes Park, Colo. Fred Smith and wife, of Geneva, 111., returned home today, after a visit with Thomas Driver! and family, iu Barkley tp. s -r Dr. Joseph Sparling, of the Wis consin University faculty at Madison, is home for a visit with his father and other relatives and friends.

Miss Selma Leopold returned home Friday from a visit with friends at Kentland, bringing Miss Esther Reed home with her for a visit of several days. Everet Kinney, of Rowles & Parker’B store, started on his summer vacation today. He went to Lafayette this v morning and will go up to Lake Geneva, Wis., before returning here. Clay Downing and wife and baby, of Mt. Ayr, who visited Sunday at the home of Robt. Michael, were unable to go home Sunday evening on account of the serious sickness of the baby from summer complaint. Paul, a. 3 or 4 yeais old son of Ed Kays, had his left arm broken above the elbow Sunday evening. He had crawled down beneath a buggy at the home of its parents and the buggy was backed over the little fellow’s arm. The fracture was reduced after an X-r*y examination by a loeal physician. Mrs. A. E. Coen and son Albon, Berwyn, IIL, and Mis. A. S. bowels and son Russell and daughter Helen of Columbia City, are visiting their parents, Capt and Mrs. J. M. Wasson. Mr. Coen came down with his family but returned yesterday and Mr. Nowels found business too pressing to get away at this time. John L. Gunsa, brother-in-law of J. H. Cox, of this place, came Saturday from his home at Plainfield to interrogate the self-confessed horse thief now incarcerated in the county jail here. Mr. Gunn had a fine horse and buggy stolen on July 22nd and has been unable to get any trace of it* This horse thief claims to know nothing of the missing outfit, but says he will make a clean breast of all his thefts when he goes to trial. Paul Troy and family and Alfonso Burk and wife, of Chicago, came Saturday for a short visit with the family of John Kohler. Paul is now in the Chicago postoffice, holding a responsible clerical position and Fonse is in the bakery business. They were both Rensselaer boys years ago. Many Rensselaer people will remember Katie Lizzie Burk, sisters of Fonse and Katie has been dead for several years and Lizzie is married and resides at Decatur, 111. She now weighs 487. Will McCord has been suffering for several months past with a sore on the bottom of his left foot, and came over from Mt. Ayr yesterday to have it operated on by his local physician. After the lancing process had been completed and the sore was being washed out a piece of steel about a half inch loDg was passed out, and this had, no doubt, been the canse of all the trouble. As it was about an inch deep in the flesh, it is thought probable it has been imbedded there since be was a boy.