Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 14, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 25 October 1907 — THURSDAY’SLOCALS. [ARTICLE]

THURSDAY’SLOCALS.

James Randle and son Ed, of north of town, are in Chicago today. The D. A. R. will meet Saturday afternoon of this week with Mrs. H. J. Kannal. Miss Mildred Harris entertained a dozen young ladies at 5 o’clock tea yesterday evening. Elizur Sage has moved into the very fine new house he has had erected on his farm west of town. Geo. E. Marshall has sold his ten acre tract of land jnst east of town to City School Superintendent I. N. Warren. Mrs. W. M. Parkison and little daughter, Ardis Jane, are spending a few days with her parents, Isaac Parker and wife, northeast of Pleasant Ridge. Chas. J. Dean returned home yesterday from the Rensselaer of South Dakota, namely Mitchell, where be had planted a few more enterprising Jasperiter. Miss Pearl Swank, of Danville, I. , who was a member of the same class of the Danville school of trained nurses as was Mrs. A. R. Kresler, is attending the latter and her baby daughter, born Monday of this week. ' Claremont Brenner, better known here by the name of Pete, is homefrom Indianapolis. He is in very poor health and is in hopes that a rest will restore his former condition. His brother, A. J. Brenner, of Evanston, is here to see him. Lewis S. Alter, from the west end of Carpenter tp., was called to Clinton county, near Frankfort yesterday to attend the funeral of his oldest brother, David Alte**, who was 80 years of age. He was the first of the many Alters to come to Jasper county, bnt after removed from here.

Joseph R. Sigler, son of the late George Sigler, of Mt. Ayr, and cashier of the Mt. Ayr bank, will probably be made the administrator of the estate of his father, and the appointment will be made by the court today, at Kentland. Union revival meetings are proposed and, if arranged for, will probably take place in the K. of P. building, ground floor, and continue for several weeks with an es pecially able evangelist in charge and all the local ministers assisting. Mrs. Alf Hoover living south of town had her right hand quite badly cut by being caught in the pumping apparatus of the windmill yesterday. The fore-finger was especially badly lacerated and four stitches were necessary to close up the wound. . County Surveyor M. B. Price and Ditch Commissioner Waymire met Chas. Peregrine at the source of the proposed Jasperson ditch in Kankakee tp., Monday and reviewed the same. The ditch will have a fall of about 25 feet and the viewers will report favorable to its construction. Mrs. Addison Parkinson has just received the announcement of the marriage of her brother, Melvin Curtis Kenton, of Globe, Ariz., to Miss Emma Eliza Coleman, at Long Beach, Cal., on October 15th. After the wedding they took an ocean trip to Ban Francisco, and will arrive at their home in Globe about October 25tb. Mr. Kenton is 'the manager of the company store for the Old Dominion Co., be ing also treasurer of the company. Mr. and Mrs. Parkinson expect to start for their winter’s sojourn in California about Dec. Ist, end will probably stop off at Globe to visit her brother and his bride. It is about decided also that they will be accompanied by Mr? and Mrs. George P. Ketchum.