Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 26, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 December 1908 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

him. He found upon his arrival there that she was not In as poor health as he had feared and after a short visit there, it being his old home, they returned to Rensselaer, and his daughter seems to be In about her usual state of health.

Abe Hardy Is here today, having dropped off here last night on his way 3 from Chicago to Lafayette. He was with the Crouch horse exhibit at the International Stock Show.

The Ladies of the Christian church wish to thank the public for their liberal patronage at the bazaar held last week. They enjoyed a very nice business and disposed of most of the articles offered and feel very grateful to the public.

R. P. Benjamin is confined to the house with a severe kidney trouble. Persons wishing to see him on business should call at his home on Austin avenue. He may not be ab’e to be at his office for several days yet.

Fish Gilmore and wife are visiting for a few days with Chas. Gundy and family. Fish was running a saloon at LeCrosse, but was deposed by the remonstrance route and expects soon to move away from LaCrosse, but he has hot decided on a location.

The gross receipts at the Christian church bazaar held last week were about S2OO. This included the meals served. It was one of the best patronized bazaars they ever held and they had an unusually large number of fancy and useful articles foi sale.

J. A. Keister, of Jordan township, did not enjoy very good success at his sale Tuesday, in fact, he was unwilling to see the stock go for the prices bid for it and he bld most of it in, allowing but one of the horses to be sold. The farming implements went at ridiculously low prices.

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Jerome Harmon was in from Hanging Grove township yesterday and had a physician take a couple of stitches in his left nostril to close up a gap made by his being knocked down on the frozen ground by a steer. He was closing a gate when the steer went to pass him and he was knocked Violently to the ground. He was not orhtrwise injured.

A Coats, Kans., paper publishes an obituary of Mrs. Nancy Ann Walker Coons, who died in that town on Nov. 20th, at the age of more than 71 years. She was the widow of Joseph Coons and formerly lived in this county. Mrs. Ida A. Pierce of this city is a daughter and Mrs. Frank Parker is a sister and Isaac Walker a brother. The funeral was held at the Methodist church at Bucklin, and was conducted by Rev. Kennedy, a Christian minister from Minneola.

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Conrad Kellner, the ice man, has had day and night forces at work since Monday morning filling bis ice artificial pond, which he recently built on his land across the river from the ice house. The water is pumped from the river to the pond by Jim Clark’s steam engine, and Jim and Bert Campbell constitute the day pumping force and Cooney and Horatio Ropp constitute the night force. Monday night it was quite cold and the coal supply became exhausted and they were afraid to let the fire go out because the pipes would freeze and burst So from about midnight on thev had to burn wood, Cooney going tp the river and getting large willow drift wood that lay on the bank. Hoiatlo burned the wood about as fast as Cooney gathered it and Cooney had about the busiest time of his history.

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