Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 November 1908 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

of the streets and roads has been paid to labor and the money has been spent right here in Rensselaer. As the river work will also soon suspend there will be a large nnmter of men out of employmnet during the winter months, unless they go away to find it Uncle Simon Phillips was not feeling well enought to accompany the theatre party to Lafayette Tuesday evening, having caught a cold a few days before. He would have been one of the jolliest of the crowd could he have gone. But he is nw in his 86th year and has to take the very best of care of himself. His two daughters, Mrs. Frank Vanatta and Mrs. S. S. Barnes, and their husbands, pt Fowler, were on hand for the performance, and Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Roberts and Mr. and Mrs. Fred Philips from here, thus making eight from the Phillips household.

THURSDAY.

70 cents a bushel for potatoes off the car. See Rhoades, the grocer. John Jessen, it is understood, has severed his connection with the Jasper County Democrat. John Brown, of Brookston, came this mornig for a short visit with his son, J. W. Brown. Mrs. W. L. Myer and baby returned this morning from a visit with relatives in Frankfort Best assortment of ladies' and gents’ wash silk mufflers in the city at Mrs. G. W. Goff’s. Frank Kenton left this morning for a business trip to Bucklin, Kans. He expects to be gone about a month. The depot barber shop has again been opened up, this time by Ralph McEnterfer, who came here from Whiting. • Out of the depths,the„hampored soul will struggle to reach its affinity. See "The Devil” at the Ell's Theatre, Tuesday, Nov. 17. Mrs. Joseph Nagle is at St Elizabeth’s Hospital at Lafayette, whe e tomorrow she will undergo an operation for gall stones.

I. R. Colburn, of Charlotte, Mich., and Geo. O. Bales, of Goodland, are here today, visiting Frank Donnel--1 ly, proprietor of the Rensselaer Lumber Co. The morning subject of the Presbyterian church will be “Perfect Love.’’ In the evening the Ladies’ Missionary Society have arranged for a program of praise. Everyone invited to both of these services. The Rc-nssrl er city fo'tfril te m is slated for a game with tie Owl Club from Lafayette for next Saturday, Nov. 15tb, at 2:£o o’lick. It will probab y te played at the college grounds. I Rev. George W. Swltrer, p esiding elder of the Lafayette cor.f«.ren e if the M. E. church, and Rev. W. H. 1 Broomfield, of Westville, we e tere this morning looking after a farm that the former thought some of buying. We were temporarily out of Aristos flour last week, but now we have received a car and can again fill all orders. Remember that we guarantee Aristos’ to be the best flour made or money refunded, only $1.40 a sack, at John Eker*s. Trouble continues to follow Ray Hopkins, of Renss laer, who is tie 1 star man in the Wabash college football team’s line. According'to last evening’s Indianaptlis News te has a case of malarial fever. A picture of the team in that paper I again shows Dobbins at right end, where he hopes to be able to play tomorrow against Notre Dame. Some time ago several friends of Mrs. Lucy A. Sample, of Pi eblo, Col'\ sent her a large box of canted fruit, something like 35 quarts. It was ce - tainly a splendid rem' mbrance f om her old friends and she h?s asked I the Republican to acknowledge ter appreciation of the gift, and to say that all who shared in sending it have her heartfelt thanks.

Henry Watterson, younger son of CoL Henry Watterson, tie we 1 known editor of the Louisville Courier-Journal, met death yesterday in New York. He was a lawyer there* and had offices on the 19th floor of the Trust Co. of America building. It is thought that he was trying to close a window that overlooked a ten story building at the side of the building his offices were in and that his hands slipped and he fell to tie roof of the adjoining building, n'ne stories below. Death was in ten aneous, almost every bone in his body being broken. His father was prostrated when the sad news was related to him. V"