Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 December 1907 — Some Monday Locals. [ARTICLE]

Some Monday Locals.

Mrs. Leslie closed the meetings at the First Baptist cbnrch last evening. There was a splendid attendance at both meetings and seven persons united with the church.

Mr. and Mrs. Addison Parkinson departed Monday morning for their' winter home at Burnett, Calif. They will stop off at Bucklin, Kane, and Globe, Arizona, to visit with Joe Parkinson and Mel Kenton. Al Cowgill for some years located at Rive rton, 111., in the undertaking business, is just recovering from a six weeks siege of typhoid* pneumonia, at his home in that town. He is a member of the I. O. O. F. lodge here and they have been kept posted about his conditio. The program fbr the—Farmers Intitute, is published again today. It is certainly... a well arranged program, and should enlist the interest ot every farmer who can arrange to attend. The meetings will be held in the Public Library to Rensselaer Wednesday and Tuesday of this week.

Aunt Phoebe Nowels, wife of David Nowels, is very near death’s door, and it is only a question of a day or two until life becomes extinct. This is the twenty-third day since she has taken any nourishment, and only a few teaspoons ot water pass her lips each day. She has been unconscious tor several days. She is 90 years of age and her condition is due almost entirely to the debilities of age. 4 ‘Dick’’ Hartman, who returned from Colorado about a month ago, and who has been working fur the Jasper County Telephone Co., here and at Wolcott, was in Rensselaer Bunday. He has just been made manager of the Wolcott exchange and toll lines out of that town and took charge of the plant there thia morning. He succeeds Powell Lindeman, who is going to remove to lowa. Dick is a competent telephone man, having had long experience in Rensselaer, and the plant at Wolcottshould fare well in his hands. Democrats met at Indianapolis last week and practically closed up arrangements to start a state democratic newspaper with a capital stock of $150,000 which they ex* pect to raise from Democrats all over the state. In view of the experience the Journal and Sentinel had it would seem that any partisan newspaper would have rough sailing in Indianapolis. The Star and the News, both Independent, maintain a middle-of-the road policy and in true free lance style slash both parties and keep the pnblic cheered up by getting out rattling good newspapers. Some one wanting to lose his money can probably be accommodated by taking stock ; n the proposed Indianapolis democratic paper.