Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1907 — LOCAL HAPPENINGS [ARTICLE]

LOCAL HAPPENINGS

SATURDAY A. E Bolser is in Crawfordville to visit with and help Leu Lefler for a short time. Save your piano coupons and

-either vote them yourselves or give them to some friend. ' * The report generally circulated around town that a yonng boy had been drowned has no foundation. Grandmother Brown continues to improve and is now ahle to sit up and even walk around the housa some. The Rensselaer Masons will entertain the Chapter front Monti cello %rith a Banquet it the armory Saturday night. Thoe. Thornton returned to the 'State Soldiers home at Lafayette today, after a. months furlongh spent in Rensselaer. Mts.E. ML Parcel 1 is in Indianapolis taking treatment from a

Specialist and her condition issome- * what improved, 1 ahe is living with her daughter, Mrs. J. H. O'NeaL. '■i Mr. and Mrs. James Baylor, oi Portland, Oregon, arrived here yes-

rerday to visit hip sister, Mrs, Philip Blue and family, it is their first visit here for about 15 years. Fred Griffin is now the sole proprietor el the Remington Press, his former partner for teu years, Mark A. McNicfiol, having severed his connection with the paper And returned to his former home in Pennsylvania.

Mrs. David S. Gigley, of Rem ingcou, whose death was reported iu this paper a week ago, did not die until Wednesday of this week. Death took place in Chicago and the funeral aud burial took place at Peoria, 111.

Oscar Peterson, who foimerly resided at Parr, has just completed a three year's enlistment iu the' heavy coast artillery branch of the army, being attached to the 112th artillery. His mother has moved from Parr to Louisville, and he is visiting his brother-in-law, George Salim,'in Walker tp.

Mrs. Ladle will preach again to night at the Baptist church. Sonday morning the pnlpit of that church will. be.filled by Rev. E. W. Sanders, of Colombia City. In the afternoon Bln. Leslie will address the women’s meeting at the Methodist church and Sunday evening she will deliver her sermen, her subject being “The Big Harbor.”

R. H. Barns, of DeMotte, and T. M. Barns are here today. / Tom has just about completed the building of seven new brick store rooms

at Reynolds, replacing those destroyed by fire last August. A man named Marsden, of Hebron, was Tom’s partner in the work, and the seven buildings averaged about 12,800 or $3,000 in cost. The reconstruction work in Reynolds was certainly rushed along. The kraut factory at Newland completed its long run yesterday. Tom Callahan was in town and stated that work for the year,would be suspended about noon that day. The fine lall furnished unusually excellent conditions and altho much of the cabbage stood in cars on the track during some of the coldest weather we had, not a head was frozen. The kraut is being shipped out in barrels. The Tuesday Semi-Weekly Republican will contain eight pages home print The extra demand lor holiday advertising has caused the larger paper. There are plenty of buyers and the advertiser is the one that will got the profit The large circulation of the Republican in the best families of Jasper county affords an opportunity for acquiring trade that no merchant can afford to let pan. The Republican Is pre-eminently the advertisers paper for it reaches the buyer.

MONDAY John Jones has gone to Gipson IIL, on business. Henry Jones has returned to his

home in Chicago after a short visit with relatives. Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Rochold of Chicago, have been visiting Mr. and Mrs. Louis Ramp. Mr. and Mrs. A. L. Logan, of Lebanon, Ind., are visiting with Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Bolser. Born, Strawy, Dec. Bth, to Westly Hammerton and wife, of Union township, a daughter. Mose Logan of near Salem, Ind., has been visiting for a short time with his sister, Mrs. Dr. Miller.

Mr. and Mrs. Elisha Warden, of Monticello, visited over Sunday with Cloyd Reprogle and family. Mesdames G. L. Pumphrey, John Hagins and W. H. Powers are attending a convention of the W. R. C. in Lafayette. I George Platt returned Sunday from Duluth, Minn., where he has been working. He expects to go back there in about a month. J. J. BrennCr who had charge of the Makeever hotel for a number of years is down from Evanston, 111., visiting with friends and relatives."^

Mrs. Albert Bouk, of Norwich, North Dakota, arrived here Saturday evening to remain until after Christinas with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. N. 8. Bates. i Scott Chesuut. sou of Thas. A. Chesuut, north of the railroad, is very sick with pneumonia, and has not yet passed the most dangerous

stage of the disease'. He is about 23 years of age. Miss Nellie McCarthy and Mr. Walter Auld of Baltimore, Md., have gone to Danville, <IIL Miss McCarthy is a trained nqrse aud will enter a hospital at place. Frank Hanley and two some were down from Chicago yesterday and in company with his the Judge, visited their father. Wifliam Hanley, at Eniman. The father continues in very poor health. George aud John Putts, who live just southwest of town, were dumped out of a buggy Saturday night near the Catholic cemetery, their horse having become scared at a piece of paper iu the road. The top of the buggy was broken off, but neither of the boys were hurt The horse did not run away but stopped at once. Post cards and postal cards under covei*of sealed envelopes (transparent or otherwise) are chargeable with postal at first class rate. Two cents an ounce or fraction thereof. If inclosed in unsealed envelope they are subject to postage according to the character 0* the message, at the first class rate if wholly 01 partly in writing, or third class rate if entirely in print The post ■ age should be affixed to the envelopes oovering the same.