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

H. R. W. Smith went to Hammond this morning and after more days there he will return to his home in Longmont, Colo. His visit here was altogether too short to suit his many friends, but he promises to return" again in the warmer season of the year and make a longer stay. Mrs.. Ralph Fendig has gone to Jacksonville, Fla., at which place she will -visit her son, Louis Fendig. The winter will be spent in the south, visiting also with her daughter, Mrs. Tillie Borchardt, at Tampa, Fla., and her son Albert at Brunswick, Ga. Sam Fendig, who has been keeping house with his mother, is now boarding at tiie Makeever House.

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Offer to sell land to the Commercial Club for the proposed lot subdivision should be submitted to the committee ,n°t later than Friday, Dec. 11th. An unimproved property owner adjacent to town will be given consideration if the owner will submit a price to the committee The option committee hopes to be able to decide on a purchase by that date or a day or two thereafter.

When John Paxton was here from Longmont recently his brother, Will, of Hammond, accompanied him home and is spending some little time back there and at Torrington, Wyo., where the Paxton boys and their brother-in-law, H. R. W. Smith, are interested in considerable land, and where Bert and Ralph Paxton re- , side, Mrs. Isabel Paxton, their mother, widow of Wm. F. Paxton, makes her home with her son, Charles, at Longmont, and is in quite poor te It’ 1 , being 83 years of age.

A deal was closed last Monday whereby L. T. Hammond bought the interest of R. F. Zehr in the real estate firm known as Hammond & Zehr, real estate dealers. Mr. Zehr came here last spring and entered into the business with Mr. Hammond and in all his deals was a straight and honest gentleman. Mr. Zehr with his family has moved to Hoopston, 111., where he will engage in a similar business. Mr. Hammond will still continue to conduct the business of the old firm with office in the Burk building on south Range street.—Wolcott Enterprise!

Augustus Phillips has written to his brother, Fred, here that he lost all of his theatrical wardrobe of 12 years accumulation Id the recent burning of , the Park theatre in Brooklyn, N. Y. For many years Qus was with the Spooner stock company, and when he contracted with the Schubert management he left all of his valuable wardrobe stored at the Park theatre, which Mrs. Spooner continued to manage, and all of his property was either destroyed by fire or ruined by water. “The Wolt” has been showing to a fine business since the election, and the New York Mirror, in a recent issue, praised the work of Gus very highly.

Milo Zolmer, of Rochester, Ind., was arrested at South Bend Wednesday on suspicion of being implicated in the recent robbery of the South Bend postoffice. When taken into custody he was trying to dispose of a quantity of postage stamps. When questioned about where he got them, he said that he recently helped rob a store in Rensselaer and when he was leaving the store he found the stamps on the floor. As there has been no store robbery in Rensselaer for several years, it is probable that Zolmer manufactured the story. It is also possible that he might be one of the parties who assaulted and robbed Frank J. Lewis, the manager of the C. & W. V. railroad at Ker<say.

J. D. Babcock is here from near Bluffton, having come down from Chicago, where he had been attending the stock show, for a short visit at his old home. Jim was the most ardent republican in his section of the county the last fall, and in fact republicans of any sort were rather scarce right in his neighborhood and one night a number of democrats planted a tall pole with a Bryan banner floating from the mast, right in front of his farm house. Jim put up a Taft picture on the pole and also a banner saying that the fellows that erected the pole were as crooked as the pole itself. And another saying “Vote for Taft and prosperity or for Bryan and 12 cent com.** But Jim's son was afraid of making all the democrats in that section mad, so he cut the pole down.

Senator Halleck can serve this district quite acceptable by voting agalntt any and all appropriations for exposition purposes. Indiana has no million to turn over to Indianapolis and a firm refusal by the legislature to donate any sum will discourage the exposition ambitions of the capital city. The United States and the various states have been building expositions for years, and the game is getting old. If Indianapolis wants to hold a blow-out In 191 L let her