Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 October 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

J. J. Mulder and R. Mulder, of* ! Ropelawn were in Rensselaer today. , The former is engaged in business with his father and the latter is a farmer. They visited the Republican office.in company with John Bowie, the editor of the Kankakee Valley Review. I The Jasper County Democrat quotes frequently from the Indianapolis News these days, and calls the News a republican paper. It may possibly deceive some of its subscribers by so doing, but all readers know, that the News never was a republican, paper and that this year it has been democratic throughout, evidently having sold out to the brewers, for Billy Blodgett was suddenly called off from writing about the benefieient effects of temperance over the state and the News has stood for everything that the brewers desire and has been as democratic almost as the old Sentinel used to be. CASTOR IA For Infants and Children. The Kind You Haw Always Bought Merle Hopkins, son of Homer Hopkins, of Monticello, is another youth to have the aeronaut fever and he Is ' here today trying to work up a plan for a balloon ascension for a week | from Saturday. Merle and George 1 Simons, of Monticello; now have the beggering balloon and one of*'the other will make an ascension at Mon- I ticello Saturday of this week. It is probable that a large crowd could be brought to town if an ascension was advertised, and there will be no doubt i that the ascensoin would be a fine | one. The balloon is the best we have ever seen, and the proposition the boys make is to not take a cent until the ascension is made. In other words, they guarantee the ascension, ’and don’t get a copper. until they have made it according to promise. Terrance Thompson, the Rensselaer boy, who made an ascension in the same balloon these boys have, at Francesville, may possibly make the ascension here if the plans can be made. ■ • It seems like the gloom that has I hung over the city since the first rain last Friday may rise today, but ; the sun has had a hard time to work ; pts way through the clouds. The rain I came following" a drouth days and there have not been many complaints because the days were dark and gloomy. It was the kind of a rain that sticks to the “ribs” or perhaps better, soaks into the ground and that is what was needed. It has not been very cold, but the forecast for tonight is frost, and for tomorrow it is promised by the weather man that ( the day will be clear. During the 1 four or five days that it has rained the total precipitation been only .90 of an inch, which is less by 23 hundredths than we had in one rain on the 27th of September, but it has done vastly more good than that one, which was so dashing that it all ran off. It is probable that cold weather will follow so closely on the heels of this rain that pasture will not be benefited much, but fall sown grain should be aided a great Heal. And what is another great benefit Is that it stops the danger of the prairie fires that had done so much damage and were so threatening to all the farming country: "THURSDAY J. W. Childers went to Delphi Tuesday morning and Mrs. Childers will stop there on her way home from Ind ianapolis. Last year 15 and 25 cents a pound; this year 10 eents. Fancy California evaporated apricots, peaches and pears 10 cents a pound at John Eger’s. Mrs. Stella Duvall, district* pre 1dent of the W. R. C.; Mrs. Louella Childers, district secretary of the W. R. C., went to Frankfort Tuesday morning to attend the district convention held there that day. The ladies of the Christian church will hold a rummage sale In the Eger building on Friday and Saturday of this week. Those having articles for the sale are requested to telephone 131. ts The Home Grocery received several lots of very fine well ripened