Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 June 1908 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

to 2. The stFbng Catholic team took a liking to his slants and lammed themj all over the park. Dobbie was taken out after the third inning. The best of them get an occasional drubbing, and Dobbie has been quite successful in all previous games played.

The People’s United States bank at St. Louis will be opened again as a result of the acquittal of E. C. Lewis in the Federal court, as noted in last week’s papers. This was a postal savings bank, and was closed by a fraud order of the- post-office department two years ago. Mr. Lewis, the head of that institution and the Lewis Publishing Company, has had a hard fight' in this matter and has won out as he should.

The Ladies’ Literary Society held a most enjoyable musicale Friday afternoon at the beautiful new home of Mrs. A. F. Long. The members of the society followed the custom of previous years in closing the year’s meeting for the heated summer term with a musical and literary program and inviting several friends of the members as guests. This year’s program was very Interesting and was enjoyed by the large assemblage of guests.

Uncle Dan Overmyer, the Pulaski county land owner who five years ago advertised for a wife and got neatly four hundred letters from willing women, was in town today conferring with his attorney as to the best means of getting free from the one he got, says the Rochester Sentinel. She wants divorce and SIO,OOO alimony, and Uncle Dan says “actually she wasn’t worth a durn fer anything but to read novels, eat onions and dress up and look purty.” Fire Warden Montgomery has just placed twenty garbage cans on the business streets, into which the public is expected to deposit old paper, banana peels, peanut shells and trash of all kinds. The boxes will be emptied at stated periods and the refuse burned in the furnaces at the city water plant. A strict compliance with this order will be insisted upon as the statute gives the fire, warden the power to prevent the depositing of trash upon the streets.

On the recommendation of Mr. Elam H. Neil, the revenue collector of the tenth district, C. L. Laßue of Hammond was appointed to the position of deputy revenue collotor of the district in the place of J. H. Wilson, of Valparaiso, who recently resigned from the office. The position pays a salary of $2,000 a year and is considered one of the plums of the district. Mr. Laßue lives on the north side in Hammond and has been storekeeper and gauger at the Hammond distillery.

In a frantic effort to brave the wave of temperance now sweeping the country, breweries and “booze” dealers are advocating the manufacture and sale of beer which contains less than one-half of one per cent, of alcohol and which, it is claimed is non-in-toxicating. The formula is a secret and is the property of a German brewer who has experimented extensively with it in Germany, France and England, where it is highly praised by the temperance people. It looks like beer, tastes like beer and resembles very much the celebrated Munich beer which is considered the finest in the world. In fact it is beer with the headache and crooked walk taken out

MONDAY GeorgejA. Lundy spent Sunday in Monticello. ~ ' Mrs. Isabelle Parker, of Frankfort, came this morning to visit relatives. Mrs. John O’Connor returned this morning from a short visit at Wheatfield. «. Major Omar Day arrived home from Purdue this morning for the summer vacation. Homer Guy returned to New Mexico last Saturday after a short visit in Rensselaer Attorney W. H. Parklson and Ed Kirk made a business trip to Hoopeston, 111., today. Mrs. W. H. Parkinson and children returned this morning from a visit with her parents at Attica. Purdue University is now out and about all the Jasper county contingent have returned home. W. P. Gaffield, accompanied by F. A. Bicknel, the lightning rod man, went to Chicago on a business trip this morning.

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Mrs. Frank Sutton left this morning for Hammonton, N. J. F where her husband is how located and where they will stay for the summer. Mrs. S. R. Shreeves returned this morning from Virgie, where she has been assisting in the care of her brother, George Cover's wife, who is in very poor health. Four automobiles from Crown Point loaded with a Jolly crowd were tn