Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 34, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 January 1909 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

It is John Q. Alter and not John E. Alter who raises black Minorca chickens, and who took the best premiums in that class at the Remington show last week. He also won the egg prize at that show, his eggs being the largest and weighing the most of any exhibited there. This week he has a trio at Delphi, which his son Frank took over this morning to enter in the Carroll county show. Ten converts to the Church of God at St. Joseph, Mich., were immersed in Lake Michigan Sunday. The converts were all foreigners, and according to the telegrams sent to city papers, the minister and those to be baptized walked on the ice to 100 feet from the shore where a hole was cut in the ice and the minister descended into the water on a ladder and in turn baptized his followers. The last one baptized was a Russian woman 70 years of age. The prayer service of the churches observing the week of prayer will be held in the Methodist church at the usual hour, this evening. ? JTbe subject is “Missions: Home and Foreign.’’ C. E. Miller, pastor of the Baptist church will be the leader. A large attendance is desired. Come with something to say about missions and the great commission given by our Lord. “Go ye into all the world and make disciples of all nations. Lo, I am with you always, even unto the end of the age.’ ’

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Samuel and Bert Sparling have prac tlceffly completed plans for the erection of a fine dairy barn on their farm west of the college, and only a mile southwest of town. The main barn is to be 36x120 feet in dimensions, and it -is to be constructed according to the most approved dairy ideas, and will have wash room, pan and separator room and be supplied with the King ventilating system. The mow will be large enough to hold 100 tons of hay. Two large silos will be built close to the barn. Anson Cox has the contract for the erection cf the barn.

L. A. Bostwick is today delivering some of the new maps he made of the city of Rensselaer. It is certainly a fine map, showing all the streets, the city ward divisions, the precinct voting divisions, every lot in the original city and in every platted suburb; also every fire plug and its number. The names of the streets and the different divisions are set out In plain letters, and the map coloring Is of the best contrast to properly set out distinctly every feature that it is aimed to have prominence. The old river channel and the new ditch channel are both shown in the map.

Prof. Vincent Tripodl, of Monticel'o, the music teacher and a pleasant little Italian gentleman, was much distressed following the terrible disaster in Italy, for the town in which he was raised and where his mother and two sisters lived at the time of the earthquake was one of the towns that suffered great damage, and a newspaper article stated that 1,400 of the 6,000 inhabitants of the place were killed. After the telegraphing and falling to get any response from them he made plans to go there, and when here last Saturday ba expected to start for Italy Tuesday. On Sunday, however, the word came that his mother and sisters were safe, and he decided not to go. The last time he was at his old home was when his father''died six years ago, and the suspense he was in until he heard from his mother land sisters was intense.