Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 December 1908 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Bruce E. Baker, of Barkley township, left this morning for Pontiac, 111., where he will spend a few days wih his brother, Jas. R. Baker, going from there to Chicago to attend the stock show. John’ Jessen went to Chicago this morning, where, it is understood, he will work with the Chicago Journal, presumably in the circulation department The Journal is now a rampant democratic paper. Bert Brenner returned this morning from Rossville, where he spent Sunday with Mrs. Brenner’s aged uncle, William Porter. He is now almost 80 years of age and still holds the Monon agency at Rossville, but his son is the active agent The following young ladles returned to DePauw University this morning after spending the Thanksgiving vacation at home: Misses Grace Norris, Georgia Harris, Belle Laßue and. Harriett Shedd. Miss Nell Moody returned to Oxford, Ohio. Miss Edith Adams, who is attending college at Hillsdale, Mich.; Miss Lois Thompson, who is at Bradford, Mass., and Miss Cecelia Hollingsworth, who Is at Wellesley college, N. Y., were not home for the Thanksgiving short vacation. V -