Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 27, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 December 1908 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

FRIDAY

Buy your rubber footwear at Murray’s. J. J. Hunt was at Shelby on business today. A daughter was born to Mr. and Mrs. Ed S. Warren Wednesday. Mrs. Kinney went to South 'Eend today to spend the winter with her daughter, Mrs. Fred L. Chilcote. - -9 . Lee Kepner has gone to Lapsing, Mich., where he will begin work for the H. E. Buoklln Co., as a distributing agent * / Van Huff, Warner Bro.’s tinner, has moved here from Goodland and has rented one of the flats in the Republican building, which he will occupy as a residence. Another car load of Gem flour due this week. The kind Miss Grace Kelley received the highest test of bread ever made in the county. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. A steropticon show and lecture under the auspices of the science class of the high school will be given at the library auditorium Friday night. The subject is “Chicago.” 94.7 per cent test, the best ever made in a bread contest in Jasper county, December Bth. Bread made from the Gem flour. CHICAGO BARGAIN STORE. i - ' A typographical error in yesterday’s paper caused us to say that the factory that the committee went to Chicago to Investigate, has a weekly pay roll of S2OO, when it should have said $2,000. - Hugh Gamble went to the Kankakee river today, where he and Dan Waymire are engaged in viewing and assessing the lands affected by the proposed Marble ditch. They have completed the work as far as DeMotte. Sheriff O’Connor will remove from the county jail residence to his home at Knlman before Christmas, thus giving his succe sor L P. Shirer plenty of time to move to the jail before the Ist of the year, when the new sheriff takes office. John Behrns, of Barkley township, .who recently held a sale, has decided to go to Big Rapids, Mich., even if he did sell his first purchase there, and he is now preparing to move there where he has purchased another farm.

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Mrs. John Donaldson, mother of Mrs. J. B. Martindale, was reported to be very sick at her home in Terre Haute the early part of the week, but she is now somewhat improved. She has been more or less of an invalid for the past five years. The Republican has been deluged the past week with orders for engraved calling cards. Nothing makes a nicer present than 100 of these cards, with which is included the copper engraved plate from which the printing is done. J. F. Osborne will go to Chicago tomorrow, where he expects to undergo an operation in a hospital. He is suffering from a cancerous like growth on the lip, which causes him considerable pain and he hopes to secure relief through an operation. C. R. Lewis is visiting his sister, Mrs. Ben Smith and family. He has been in the west for the past two years, the most of the. time at Harrison, Mont Last summer he was at Medford, Oreg., where he saw the family of George E. Marshall. He is a carpenter and has found work plentiful and wages good in the west.

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Next Thursday, Dec. 17th, will be the 60th wedding anniversary of Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Bull, Sr. Mi*. Bull was married to Miss Elvira E. Shields on Dec. 17, 1848. They spent the first part of their married life in Barkley township but for the past fourteen years they have lived In’ Rensselaer. Mr. Bull is now 83 years of age and his wife is 80. Frazier Antrim, of north of Wheatfield, was here with his 16-year-old daughter, yesterday, consulting physicians in reference to the latter’s condition, who has been ill for some time. Mr. Antrim had the misfortune to lose two of his children in the last year and is greatly concerned over the condition of his daughter. The Cary L. Carr ditch case is slowly dragging it* way along in the circuit court The court i$ .reviewing each name on the remonstrance to see if sufficient legal names are thereon to defeat the improvement The drainage proposed lathe extension of the lower Iroquois, alleged to be made necessary by the deepening of the upper Irqouol* channel.