Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 24, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 December 1908 — Many Passengers Tuesday Morning. [ARTICLE]

Many Passengers Tuesday Morning.

Agent W. H. Beam, of the Monon, had an unusual amount of business in the passenger ticket sale line this Tuesday morning. The passengers were bound for a great many different places, and when the short and long distance passengers got on board the 9:55 train they occupied a considerable part of a coach. Mrs. Hazel Carr and two children

and her sister, Miss Marie Stringer, started to Walla\ Walla, Wash., where for the next month or more they •will visit their sister, Mrs. Tufts. Hazel accompanied them as far as Chicago. Mr. and Mrs. Milliard English left sor e their home in Corning, lowa, after a visit with his sisters, Mrs. M L. Hemphill, Mrs. Wm. Bull and Mrs. A. 0. Moore, In and near Rensselaer, and with the family of John English, in this city, and Joe English, at Brook. Mr. and Mrs. Englllb have lived in lowa for the past 23 years. S. E. Huber, Gridley Comer, Jes. Blankenship and Chas. Cline went to Chicago, en route to the Pan Handle district of Texas, on a prospecting trip. M. O. Sayler left for Mitchell, S. Dak., to visit his brother, Jesse, and take a look at the country where so many former Jasperites are making it win.

Mrs. G. H. Gelb, of took the train here for Columbus, Mont, where her husband has .established their future home. Mr. and Mrs. W. F. Smith, Miss Leatha Wright, Delos Thompson and others went to Chicago. The 10:55 train also had a good business, though not carrying so

many long distance passengers, but persons headed for Ohio and Illinois and various Indiana points took pas-

sage on it „ . On the 2:01 train J. W. Shedd started to Jacksonville, Fla., where he expects to spend the winter. He was accompanied on the southern trip by his brother, W. W. Shedd, of Fairbury, 111., who joined him at Gilman.