Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 78, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 June 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

I thick and clear, pure ice. He will sell it for the present at the same price he sole the local packed fee. Jerry Beaty, now of Marysville, Mo., and prior to 1873 a resident of Jasper county, dropped off here today for a short visit with his old acquaintances. He went from here to Hiawatha, Kans., and fourteen years ago moved from there to Nodaway county, Mo., and after farming there for some time, retired and moved to Marysville. Mrs. Beaty died some 26 years ago.———— — :

Rev. M. R. Paradis surprised his former friends and parishloneers in Rensselaer by a visit here this morning. His permanent home isinWaverto the 640 acres of land he bought a year or so ago and which he recently traded to J. T. Randle for the latter’s home on Cullen street. Although the farm Mr. Collins bought had presumably been properly abstracted before he closed a deal for it, he has found that there were several people had claims against it, and he has considerable trouble in getting the deed approved. He considers the claim largely bolstered up by lawyers out there, and he determined to make a trip there to find out. , ;

Will Brown was down from Hebron yesterday making • final settlement with the commissioners for the construction of the Hebron and DeMotte grade. This work has now been all accepted and is said to be a very satisfactory piece of work. Mr. Brown now has a job of dyke building on the Porter and Lake county side of the river and connecting on the west with the old Brown dyke. The job Mr. Brown has is for 4 miles long and it is to be about double the strength of the lower construction, which gave way in one or two places ly, Minn., where his wife and daughter now are, and to which place he is going. During the winter he has been preaching at New Orleans, La. He was the pastor of the Presbyterian church in Rensselaer for three years prior to 1897, and it was during his pastorate that the present brick church was erected. Mose Hodshire, who some months ago joined the regular army, writes back from Monterey, Cal., that he is more than pleased with his army life. He is in Company E, of the 22d Infantry, and his regiment is shortly to be sent to Alaska. Mose says he is enjoying fine health and asks to be remembered to all his old friends in Rensselaer, and asks them to write to him. He wijl be at his present location until July, and a letter addressed to him at the Presidio, Monterey, Cal., Co. E, 22d Tnfty., will reach him. , • Alfred Collins started for Lakin, Kans., on the 9:65 train today, where he will try to straighten up the title this last spring. The lower dyke has, however, been repaired temporarily and is now to be gone all over, made almost twice as heavy and somewhat mgher. The dykes are a great success and several thousand acres have been redeemed by the Brown dyke, and land previously of no value except to hunt over is now, raising corn that makes 75 bushels to the acre. O -A. S T O K. X -A- • Bwi the Kind You Ai ”avs Bought One thing that real thoughtless people frequently do is -to g<F"tothe Hower beds of others. And, helfi-tham-. This is a very bad pracI tice to say the least and some people are raising a huge objection to its ! continuance. It requires a large amount of work to raise flowers successfully and to have the plants or bushes nicely trimmed and it is a great delight for the owners to see the lawn beautified with the blooming flowers and it is a vexatious thing to get up some morning and find that some one has picked the flowers. While we believe that persons guilty of the practice are more thoughtless than thieving, we also know that it is sometimes downright meanness. An indignant citizen cal’ed at the Republican office this morning’ and states that his wrath has arrived at the point where he Is quite apt to use his shot gun if he finds any. one molesting his flower beds again. i WEDNESDAY Dr. I. M. Washburn was in Chicago yesterday attending the meeting of the American Medical Association. Mrs. Leslie * Clark is in Indianapolis today. atteAding the annual commencement of the Institution for the