Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 6 October 1908 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Miss Ruey Burnham went to Goshen this morning to visit her cousin, Mrs. B. F Learning and family. She will probably be back here before leaving for her home in Boston. Mrs.' Ira Payne and daughter, of Kingman, Kans., left this morning for Science Hill, Ky., to visit relatives. They have been visiting Capt G. W. Payne and other relatives. C. A Gundy and family have moved here from Fair Ottos,’ In order to be near their son Roy and daughter Mildred, who are attending the Rensselaer high school. Freeman Wood has gone to Fairbury, Hl., again to accompany his sister to a hospital at Pontiac, where she will be operated on for appendicitis. Mr. and Mrs. J. Q. Puffer and Miss Stella Haskell, of Chattsworth, ill., are guests of Mr. and Mrs. George Ketchum. They came over in Mr. Puffer’s fine automobile. D. C. Mead and wife, of Hammond, were toe guests of Ezra Clark and family and Julius Huff and family Sunday. They were accompanied here by Miss Eva Clark, who spent the day with her parents. Miss Dena Miller returned home Saturday from a two months’ visit with her grandparents and other relatives in Burlington, Wis. She was accompanied home by her uncle, Lou’s 1 Kornhoff, who will visit a few days.

. James Cummings, son of Ed Cummings, of Remington, died Saturday morning at his home in Remington. Tuberculosis was the cause of death. He was about 24 years of age and leaves a wife and one child. The funeral was held Sunday afternoon, and was attended by County Treasure! J. p. Allman, of this place. Deputy Fish ' Commissioner Galion ' of Logansport has been opening toe 1 eyes of some of the fish law violators 1 and also their pocket books. Levi * Cohee and Chhs. Mabb were arraigned 1 before Justice Marshall, toe former for keeping a seine and the latter fob spearing 7 fish. ThCfr fines and costs were $36.35 and $40.90 respectively. Leo Minor was also caught In the officer’s net for some violation and paid .toe same penalty, as Cohee. — Monticello Herald. Vaughn Woodworth was up from Purdue over Sunday, and H. R. Hook, a student at the university, stopp’d over Friday night with him, en route to Chicago to witness the PurdueChicago football game. The Maroons had but little trouble in disposing of the Purdue boys, defeating them by a score of 39 to 0. The only. consolation that the defeated team can get out of the game is that it was not so bad as last year, when the scoe was 56 to 0. No sooner had we come out with the prophesy that the Pirates would win the national pennant than the Cubs took a double fall out of them and put them down and out, and Cleveland also fell' from its exalted place. The Cubs are now on foe pinnacle in the national and if New York catches them they will have to take three straight. from Boston. The Sox rammed it to the Detroit Tigers Sunday add* took a'new lease on'TifeJ and tbe Chicagti teains may yet 'garner both pendants. Chas. Robinson .-came up. from Battle Ground this morning to spend a part of today with his mother and other relatives here and this afternoon he went to Chicago and from there will go to Dalias, S. Dak., on a prospecting trip. Charley is looking for more and cheaper land and if he finds anything that looks good to him he will probably arrange to move there. He had the banner wheat in his country this year, not in quantity per acre but in quality. His threshed out 25 bushels per acre and he got SI.OO pel 4 bushel for it

Few companies in the last five seasons have had so great a measure of success as the J. Warren Davis Stock Co., which will be seen at the Ellis theatre for five nights, beginning Tuesday, Oct. 6th. The company possesses many lasting qualities which gnarante ■ its life for many years. It has made an instant hit in every city it has visited, society turning out in force and setting-its seal of approval on each and all of the high class plays produced by them. Oh Tuesday one lady.will be admitted free with each 30 cent ticket. Wash Lowman, who has had a case of typhoid fever for the past month and who was thought to be on the road to recovery after the fever was broken a week ago, did not improve as rapidly as had been hoped, and last Saturday two Francesville physicians were called into consultation with the local family physician. He suffered a great amount of pain in his side and it is thought be has gall stones and that he will probably have to undergo a surgical operation at some future time. Yesterday he was somewhat improved and it is believed that he win aow rhcover without another backset.