Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 September 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Wabash after atfwo weeks’ visit here. Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Chapman returned yesterday evening from their pleasure trip to Yellowstone Park, and at othre western points. D. C. Hall and wife, of Evdnaton, 111., returned to their home this morning, after a visit with their son, Walter J. Hall an<f family, south of Rensselaer. Carey Lowman and wife returned to their home in Michigan yesterday, after a. pleasant visit with relatives and friends here. They are prospering there and have a good crop again this year. Miss Nettie Warfel, of Golden, Colo., who has been yisiting Miss Maude Daugherty, started for her home this afternoon. Miss Daugherty accompanied her as far as Chicago, where they will spend a few days together. Mrs. Mary Griffith and Mrs. Wm. Smith, the latter beirtg the widow of William Smith, who died here a fey weeks ago, arrived here this morning from a visit In Minnesota and later at Terre Haute. They have decided to remove to the latter city, and are here to ship their househould goods there. - -S . 7 Clarence Hendricks, who came back from Bancroft, S. Dak., to visit his father, H. L. Hendricks and attend the home coming, started back to Bancroft this morning, being accompanied by his brother-in-law, John Lacy, who will look around there with a view to buying some land, and it is probable that H. L. Hendricks will also go tbe?e later on. J. H. Thornton, who left Rensselaer a few months ago and went to St James, Mo., was recently elected commander of the G. A. R. battalion which held its annual encampmeht a week or two ago. There were 245 votes cast for battalion commander and of this number Mr. Thornton received 165. As his opponent for the office was the ex-mayor of St. James, Mo., it will be seen that Squire Thornton is right at the front in his new home.

A meeting of several of the home coming committees has been called for tomorrow morning at 10 o’clock at the ladles’ waiting room in the court house. It is now thought that the home coming will about break even. The receipts so far as turned over to the treasurer, E. D. Rhoades, are $1,080.40, but there are some small amounts yet to be collected, and something coming from the merry-go-round, and about sls that the finance committee had not yet turned over to the treasurer. Bills have been filed for $1,111.06, or $30.66 more than the amount turned over to the treasurer. An itemized list of the receipts and expenditures will be published in the Republican as soon as settlement is made.

E. H. Hamilton, of Morocco, who is engaged In the dredge ditch business, was in Rensselaer this morning and called at the Republican office. He took a great deal of interest in the parts of the mastodon skull that have for some time been on exhibition at this office. About ten years ago, Mr. Hamilton was digging a dredge ditch south of Morocco and he unearthed a considerable part of a mastodon. Among othel* parts he found a lower jaw with four of the teeth still in it* This part weighed 88 pounds. He also found parts of the skull, but it was badly broken up. He found various parts of the vertebra and one full length rib, which was more than four feet long. Mr. Hamilton placed the parts he found ■in Field’s Columbian museum, in Chicago, where it is still on exhibition. From all that the geologists and naturalists have been able to learn the era of the mastodon’s existence was any place from two to six thousand years ago.

Tom Cox, a young English soldier, who came here with his wife about two months ago, after being ’ discharged from the English army after serving seven years, was Quite badly brpised yesterday in a runaway accident at Foresman. Cox is a nephew of Harry and Isaac Wiltshire, and came here to visit them, and secured employment on the William Washburn farm In Jordan township. Recently he began housekeeping In the house occupied by Dave Wheeldon, who was drowned a few weeks ago. Yesterday he took a load of grain from the Washburn farm to the Foresman elevator, and the grain had been dumped when the team he was driving became frightened at a train, and ran out of the elevator and into a barbed wins fence. At this juncture Cox was thrown from the wagon seat and Into the fence, and be sustained several scratches from the wire, his face and legs being considerably cut. His left ankle was also sprained and he was bruised all over the body. He was brought to his home in Rensselaer, where he will remain until he is able to get out again.