Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 2, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 September 1908 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Marion L- Spitler and wife, of Oklahoma City, wh<> were here to attend the hdme coming and visit relatives, went to Chicago this morning. Mr. Spitler will return home Sunday but Mrs. Spitler will.visit.in Chicago until the latter part of October. Mr. and Mrs. Robert Michals today X !?r 40., relatives in honor of their son Gail and his bride ’ fonnerly Miss Mae Pettet, ,who*e marriage took place Wednesday. The brjSe and gropm will make their home on his father’s tom south of own. The Modertf Wobdinieh of Am&feh with over 1,000,000 members is an brganlzation that is opposed to Sunand Sunday excursions permit the same to be promoted under the auspices of. any camp of the society or by any forester team. , i.w'ki . —— The dredge resumed operations this mornfog after a two days’ shutdown. The lower bridge has been removed and the dredge is within 100 feet of the bridge. Unless -more blasting Is required the dredge will be through and the bridge replaced within a few days.

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yi’ L. Wood, of was one of the contestants for the prize offered by the Republican National Committee for the best article on “Why the Republican Party Should Be Successful in the Next Election.’’ While the article was one of the many unsuccessful ones in the contest, it has considerable merit and will appear in an early issue of the Republican. The Howard county board of commissioners have just refused to grant retailers’ liquor licenses to four applicants who proposed to do business in Kokomo. The ground upon which the board rested its action was that Kokomo already has enough saloons and that to license additional places will again overcrowd the business in that city and place it in the same condition that it was prior to the remonstrance campaign there a year or two ago. \

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Discouraging words come from tha. farms on the high lands as well as the' marsh farms on the Kankakee, where the entire crops were killed by the frost. The grub worms are now taking the corn and pasture along the shore line, and they will no doubt keep at their work until it rains or the ground freezes. The south end farms are the best in the county by odds, and they have come the nearest a failure this year ever known since the first settlers broke up the maiden soil. —Crown Point Star.

Caplin J F. HnhbMrd, of C, 3d regiment Ohio National Guard, of- Piqua, Ohio, joined his wife here yesterday and they will remain for a few days’ visit with E. N. Loy and family. Captain Hubbard has been a member of the Ohio National Guard sirtce 1891, and his company served through the Spanish-American war. Captain Hubbard has been In camp with his regiment at Fort Benjamin Harrison for. the past eight days, and he reports that they had a most enjoyable cemp there this year. The weather was hot and dusty and the work quite hard, but a regular army officer was detailed with each battalion as an instructor and the different manuevers of the army were explained as they were executed, and it resulted in great benefit. "

SATURDAY Mr* DeMoss, of DeMotte, Is. visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. E. Britton. John W. Walker expects to muke a trip to San Francisco before ending bls two months’ vacation. Leon Eigelsbach, son of Mr.. and Mrs. J. J. Eigelsbach, Is confined to his hoide with a case of malarial fever. Mist Fame Haas went tp Winamac this morning where she will visit relatives for a short time before leaving for a more extended visit with her sister, Mrs. IL P. Smith, in Charleroi,