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

—- Thoe. J. Merrifield, who was the first mayor of Valparaiso, died on Noy. 21st, at the home of his son in Detroit, Mich. Mrs. J. N. Leatherman and little daughter will return tomorrow fromJoliet, IIL, where she has been visiting her sister, Mrs. Carrie Lagin, for a few days. The Remington Poultry show will be held during the week of Dec. 28 to Jan. 2. A fine exhibit is promised and the Press says the program and premium list will be out about Dec. 10th. Dr. I. M~ Washburn and* B. F. Fendig will leave for Longmont, Colo., this evening cm the 6:32 train, on a business trip that will permit them to return home Friday of next week. , : - • A new four-seated five-passenger Cadaillac curing car, the property of William Washburn arrived here, today. It is a very fine car, and we understand focal agents are to push the sale of it next year.

_________> Mrs. Grace Pumphrey and children are spending the Thanksgiving period with her father at Brook. They will return home Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. George Pumphrey are looking after the boarding house during her absence ' _______ W. M. Hammond and family arrived here this afternoon from Lisbon, N. Dak., for a visit of four weeks with friends and relatives in this county and in the gas belt “Bud” has prospered in the west and thinks it is the great place sos a hustler to locate. Misinformation caused us to yesterday Include Miss Myra Watson among the names of the college students at Oxford. Mies Watson was home as also was Miss Thena Meyer. Both are teaching school this year at Ambia, in Benton county, and they are spending their Thanksgiving vacation at home and. in Chicago. W. J. Huff & Son will succeed Mrs. J, L. Peetz as owners of the Monon News. Mrs. Peetz, is is understood, will be the deputy to her husband, who was recently elected state statistician. Mrs. Peetz has made a good newspaper out of the News and her successors are both' newspaper men of long experience, and should maintain the present high standard of the News.

Last week the firm of Sawyers & Ulery sold their furniture store at Brook to Mr. Lloyd Hershman, a native of Brook. Mr. Mose Sawyer will move to Kentland and take up his duties as sheriff of the county and Mort Ulrey will, conduct the furniture business until the first of the year until Mr. Hershman can move to town and take charge of the business himself —Goodland Herald. There are a ‘few scattering cases of scarlet fever in Kentland, and as a result the public and parochial schools have been adjourned for the weak, and children are being denied admission to public entertainments. The cases thus far developed are of a mild type, but precautionary measures are being taken by the health officers in hopes of stamping out the disease as quickly as possible.— Kentland Enterprise. Men are like flies. They, congregate around those things which interest them. ' When you see a swarm of flies around a sugar barrel you know why. They want the sugar. When you see a crowd of men around a fine hprse you know why. They are admiring the animal. And when you see another crowd of men standing around with a look of innocence so fixed on their countenances * that, it wont come off, and now and then | two or three take a sneak in the | back way you know why. Keep your eyes open.—Oxford Tribune.

MONDAY.

Miss Ethel Davis went to Hobart this morning for a ferw days* visit Mr. and Mrs. B. Forsythe went to Chicago this morning to buy holiday. goods. E. F, Mills, of Chicago, was here Saturday and Sunday, visiting his mother, Mrs. C. E. Mills and family. | G eorge Gilbert, Walter and George Simons, of Monticello, visited friends in Rensselaer, a short time Saturday. ! Both basket ball and indoor base ball are being considered by the militia boys and the basket ball practice has been begun. Attorney and Mrs. C. M. Sands returned this morning from Monon, I where they have been for a short «4sftr> -r-T-Wmilftii-L. . , . J F. C. Plckner, of Knlman, is going to farm the George Fate land J and was in town Saturday getting furniture and equipment for housekeeping. His sister will keep house J for. him.