Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 29, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 December 1908 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

We have the highest grade Hand Mirrors and the largest assortment ever displayed in the City. We have Automatic Toys, Blocks, Games, Polo Clubs, Foot Balls, and a lot of nice things for the Children. We have Knives and Razors, made by the famous Union Razor Co. We have Christmas Stationery from 25c to $2.00. We have a mammoth display of Christmas and New Year Post Cards.

the town for that length of time to pay $95 a light for every arc light used. The company has placed- a dam in the river at great expense and have power estimated to be 450 horse power from the water fall. This will be a great expense to the town and no matter if developments of the next few years should greatly cheapen electricity that town is contracted to pay a big round price for its lights. Rensselaer is fortunate to own its own plant. Prof. Preston, principal of the Monticello schools, is here today with the Monticello high school basket ball team, and this afternoon a game is being played with St. Joseph’s College. Mr' Preston thinks that when the high school season is well opened the Monticello team will be as strong as it was last year, notwithstanding that the star of the last year team, Karp Stockton, is now out of schooL They are having a number of early games and the team is showing up strong. They do not use the opera house for their games at Monticello now, but have a ground floor room, with a playing floor space of 25x50 feet and with raised seats at each end that will accommodate an audience of 250 or more. A marriage took place at tie court house Friday afternoon that had the appearance of a "hurry-up” affair, as the groom after getting the license, endeavored to persuade the mother of the bride that they had better postpone the marriage, but the prospective mother-in-law was obdurate and persuaded that young man that then was the proper time. So the deputy clerk called Squire Irwin and while the marriage was being performed the groom turned his back to bls wife and acted up real stubbornly. The couple left the court houso with the girl’s mother, who was the chaperone, but when the street was reached the mother and daughter wont one way and the groom the other. The groom was Leroy S. Price, who came here last spring from Arkansas, and the bride was Lx>ttie L. Goodner, whose father. Perry Goodner, deserted his family and skedaddled with another man’s wife last September. The girl is only 16 years of age, and the mother, whose troubles In providing for the family have been great, has probably not lightened her burdons any by adding a son-in-law to the household. ;