Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1908 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Prot. Samuel E. Sparling left this morning for Mt Vernon, lowa, where oratorial contest between students at Cornell college. It is the twelfth time that Prot Sparling has made the Journey to Cornell in the capacity of a judge in oratorical’ contests. C. L. Parks, at Surrey, has recovered through an advertisement in the classified columns of the Republican, a pony and colt that got out of his pasture On about Nov. 12th. They were found over near .Brook. He wrote Jthe Republican after the recovery: “The ad did the work.” Omar Day brought two college friends with him from Purdue, viz. H. N. Weist, whose home is at Manistee, Mich., and H. T. Shrum, of Omaha, „.Neb. Both are e’ectrical students and in connection with Omar will today make a test of the machinery at the Rensselaer electric light plapt J" Ray Hopkins and Homer Dobb’ns went to Nebraska with Wabash to play football, but Dobbins did not get in the game at all, and Hopkins for only a few minutes, playing center after two others had been used up. Wabash proved easy for the cornhuskers, winning by the score of 27 to 5.

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' A. J. Bellows and wife entertained the following people for Thanksgiving guests: Their son, Ed Bellows, and wife, from near Remington, and their son-in-law and wife, Mr. and Mrs. C. L. Murphy and baby, of Chicago. Alsp Dexter Jones and family and Howard Jones and family, of near Remington. Jesse L. Morris writes to have his Republican changed from Chicago to Memphis, Tenn. He says “Bert Overton and myself have sold out our business in Chicago at a good profit and are looking for another location here. Bert is at present employed at his trade of carpenter and I |am working on a passenger train on I the Frisco railroad.” The Solt-White law suit is proving quite a long drawn out affair and it is now probable that the evidence will not all be in by Saturday night As court will close on the night of the sth of December it is not probable that all the cases on the docket will be tried. The Brosnan-Halligan suit will probably take up most of the time next week , The college students were largely home from their various schools for the Thanksgiving holidays. Prof. Ray Yeoman, of Purdue, Vaughn Woodworth, Omar Day, Paul Glazebrook, all from Purdue; George Long, from Wabash; Wood Spitler, Rex Warner and Thompson Ross, from Wisconsin; Avaline Kindig and Grst<e Norris, of Northwestern; Frank Hardman accompanied by a friend from Illinois, and Nell Moody and Myra Watson, from Oxford. Word comes from Mitchell, S. Dak., that Mrs. Maggie Kenton Meads is now living with her father, Jasper Kenton, having separated from her husband, the former Rev v Will Meads, who for some time was pastor of the First Baptist church in Rensselaer. It was reported here that Meads had been married and had a wife and three children from whom he was separated when he came here. They have been living in lowa for some time. They have one son, a boy 5 or 6 years of age, who is with his mother.

SATURDAY

C. F. Schwenk, of LaPorte, is the guest today of Jas. Donnelly and wife. Eya Clark Is down from Hammond to spend Sunday with relatives and friends. An elevator and mill owned by Smith & Inana, at Sheridan, was destroyed by fire last night I ■ ■■ iitahM.H A. L. Clark.Jhas sold out the Monon Telephone exchange to Austin Hanawalt. Mr.'Clark expects to buy a fruit farm in northern Michigan. Asa Thompson left this morning; for Adams county, N. Dak., where he has a claim and where he will remain for some time. The Solt-White case that has occupied the attention of the court for several days went to the jury at 2:10 this afternoon. The school house at Foresman caught fire last Friday, and was saved only after some very hard work by the people of that village. The damage was'not very extensive, and did not cause the closing of the school. -—Brook Reporter.