Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 25, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 December 1908 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

FRIDAY

B. K. Zimmerman made a business trip to Monon today. Mrs. Ed Duvall went to Chicago this morning for a week’s visit. Mrs. Mary E. Kannal went to Lafayette today to visit the families of George Dexter, John Purcuplle and others. . J; Mrs. F. B. Meyer left this morning for Highland Park., 111., where she will remain for some time and possibly all winter with her son, Lawson, and wife. James Clark, who wag recently married, has rented Ike Hemphill’s tenant house in the east part of town and will shortly begin housekeeping therein. Brookston writes that they have organized an independent basketball team and are*looking for games. It is not improbable that the militia team may take them on.

CA.STORIA. Bean the z?^ 0 initYou Haw Always Bought Signature /fl , j// Fif f' jf~ of c ' im ✓z,

Mrs. Julia A. Healey is here for a few days, visiting the family of her son, George H. Healey, having sitopped off here'on her way back to Delphi from Chicago. She will remain here over Sunday.

Mrs. Katharine Schmitt, of Chicago, came this morning to visit her daughter, Mrs. Matt Nesius, over toward Remington. She will probably remain all winter. Matt has recently been having a great tussle with the rheumatism.

The Jasper county corn and bread contest will be held in connection with the Farmers’ Institute, December 7th and Bth. Pupils who enter exhibits may be excused from school on Tuesday if they wish to attend the institute.

O jSL 8 T O XL X -A. . *** Thß Kin d YBM HaW Alwayß ® oU£tlt Signature ot

Theodore E. Burton, congressman from the Cleveland, Ohio, district, has been tendered the secretary of the treasury portfolio in the Taft cabinet. So it looks like we would have a Theodore in the cabinet, anyway.

Two teams from the Freshmen boys of the .high school mixed in a game of basketball at the armory last night and had a spirited and quite evenly contested game. The Peter Thompson team won out finally by a score of 17 to 11.

Philip Blue, administrator of the estate of the late Dr. W. W. Hartsell, is today expecting Samuel H. Hartzell, nephew of the dead physician. He has been In Colorado lately and is expected to come here from that state. -- - ... The weather forecast as flashed over the Western Union to the Monon agents today was for a cold wave. This signal is sent to agents to caution them against overloading trains, and probably is a suggestion to lock the coal bins.

Simon U. Dobbins is over from Francesville today, having been called as a witness in the Arrlck-Davls case. He says that Homer is getting along nicely at Wabash and that he is about recovered from the knee Injury which he sustained early in the football season.

James E. Watson is said to be considering a law partnership with James E. Piety, a leading lawyer of Terre Haute. Mr. Watson is said to have decided to locate in a larger city than Rushville, believing that he can better, succeed with the increased opportunities of a big city.

Mrs. Jens Jensen has been quite sick for the past week at her home on south Cullen street, and today her husband’s mother, Mrs. E. Jensen, came down from Wheatfield to help care for her. Her husband Is employed at Fred Hemphill’s blacksmith shop.

Mrs. Gaylord Nowels and two childdren left this morning for their future home at Longmont, Cola, where her husband preceded her a few weeks ago. He Is working with his brother Charley In a planing mill there and is more than pleased with the country and the effect it has had on his health. You are cordially invited to visit our kitchen and if it and the cook are not clean, we want you to go out and tell every one, if It is clean do the same thing. Remember we are making a hobby of our clean kitchen, and we want you to see it, and wo want to In the near fuure give each one a Christmas present that has visited our kitchen and proclaimed it B. plurlbus unum. McKay is on the watch for you, and will give you a fine meal or a good room. *