Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 40, Number 85, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 June 1908 — From the Mt. Ayr Pilot. [ARTICLE]

From the Mt. Ayr Pilot.

Uncle Joe Yeoman of Rensselaer visited the first of the week with John Rush and family. Mrs. Ray Adams and Miss Grace Adams of Rensselaer took dinner one day last week with W. A. Crisler and family.

Austin Hopkins and wife of Rensselaer, and their daughter, Mrs. Wm. Thflimpsofi,- of Stuiiipnr iffd. visited last week with relatives at this place. According to the expressed intentions of a number of residents of this town and vicinity, nearly the whole population will celebrate the Fourth at Morocco.

We wonder why neither of the Rensselaer papers mentioned the fact that Rensselaer played -base bail here & week ago last Sunday. It couldn’t be because Rensselaer met with defeat.

About 5 o’clock Saturday evening a Polock who was working on the Lawler ranch a few miles north of Morocco started to town on foot down the railroad track. He was last seen that evening about 15 minutes past 5, and Sunday evening he was found lying upon the side of the track dead. An Inquest was held Monday ■evening and it was concluded that death came as the result of paralysis or sunstroke, there being no signs of murder, as was at first susplcioned. Four of bis comrades seem to have found him early Sunday and turned him over and left the body where they found it without reporting to the authorities. These comrades were present at the Inquest Monday but were of little

value as they could neither Bpeak nor understand English. It is quite likely that the unfortunate man will be burled in the paupers graveyard and that cause of his death will always remain a mystery.

The Rensselaer cook book published by the ladles of the Presbyterian church, are now on sale at A. F. Long’s drug store, where the ladies selling them can also be suplied. The reason a man can’t fiftd what he is looking for is because he don't look where It would have bitten him If it had been a snake!