Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 January 1909 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

-■■ l . ■ ■ i ) The pew factory that Montlcello is striving to secure is an electric truck factory. They are apt to get it Mrs. Ellison Langford and two children, .hf hear. Montlcello, came this morning to visit. her .daughter, Mrs. Freeman Wood* a : , Miss Alice Shedd, who is teaching school at Otterbein ip Benton county, arrived here this morning for a short visit With her father, S. S. Shedd. ‘ ' t „ f - . 1 Dr. F. A. Turfler went to Chicago this morning to attend a meeting and banquet of- the Chlcag9 Osteopathic Association. Among the guests will be a noted osteopath from Los Angeles, Cal. Senator A. Halleck came home from Indianapolis last night to remain with his family over Sunday. He received appointment on several committees and is taking an active eafjy affairs, .of upper house of the general assembly. 5 6lss Edith Shedd went to Chicago this morning to spend the. day and Sunday with. her. pother, who, is recovering from her recent operation Xsry satisfactorily, but at the best, it will he three or four weeks before she Will be able to leave; the hospital. • r ■ ' j * Forfy-ffva head of horses were Joffi at the. Montlcello ( eple „jlast Tuesday. Many buyers were there and the town was alive with hustle Mid rivalry. 18 of the horses were taken to Flora, 16 to Frankfort, 7 to Logansport and 4 to Lafayette. Horses sold as high as $270 a head. Rev. A. W. Jackman, the-Monticello Christian rifThister, who t has resigned, will. probably locate at Attica. He is a radical prohibitionist, and this has probably led him into some entanglements with members of the Montjcello church, and It is said the refusal to accept his resignation was by no means unanimous. Mrs. Joseph Nagle, who was operated on for gall stones at St. Elizabeth’s hospital at Lafayette about ten weeks ago, was brought home by her husband Thursday afternoon. The operation was for gall stones and seems to have been entirely successful. Mrs. Nagle has been able to walk about for the past two weeks and continuefe to gain strength.

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Elizur Sage intends to <Juit farming and will rent his land 3 1-2 miles west of town. His sale will take place Thursday, Jan. 21st, and all of his horses and mules, 22 head, will be sold. Some of the mares are bred to bis big Belgian horse and others to a fine imported Clyde horse belonging to Will H. Ade, of Kentland. Several head of sheep and a few head of hogs will also he sold. Frank King, the blacksmith, did not waste any time in getting back into business. It Is a blacksmith’s duty to strike while the iron iB hot and before the iron in his burned blacksmith shop was cold, Frank was moving across the street into the old blacksmith shop* where years ago Tommy Grant had a shop. Frank rigged things up and was ready for business tie day after the fire.

The Kentland checker players failed to put in an appearance last night, much to tire disappointment of the local players, who were keyed up to a high pitch for the contest. W. N. Jordan, the Barkley township player, arrived home from Et business trip in Illinois, just in time to be on hand for tbe game. As the expected players from Newton county did not come; the locals had a set-to among themselves. Rev. G. H. Clarke, of the Christian church, and €. W. Coen-, & member of that congregation, went to Chicago yesterday and conferred with Rev. Herbert Yeuell, the evangleist, about the meetings to be .begun here tomorrow. Rev. Yeuell is one of the noted evangelists of the Christian church and he has had the greatest success since entering the evangelistic field- At Frankfort, Ind.. there were 800 accessions to tbe church during his meetings. , ■*, ~ ; - 1 " ■■■?■— V *■■ ■— Reno lehei wood, who baa been chatlog the Hearst political rainbow, has evidently worked Willie of the yellow , newspapers for all he can get. for he la now to re-entrf Undemocratic fold, it Is stated, end wUI buy the Lafayette Democrat, a weekly paper started last year by John Metzger of the Rrookston Reporter. Isherwood has been in the newspaper business at Delphi on varoua occasions and ‘is a bully goqd fellow but he has always had a difficult time to make the newspaper business pay. Probably be did hot make the Independence party pay very well either fPK Hearst The Independence party needed Mg brains and men in whom the peoste had great confidence. lahqr. wood was short In one or both of these particulars.

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