Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 January 1909 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

The musical comedy at the Ell's theatre last n(ght proved very entertaining and the same will be repeated tonight. Rensselaer people are partial to comic operas and the play “The Happy Youngsters” resembles “Toyland” which proved such a hit here last year. Frank P. Meyer, of Danville, 111., came here Sunday for a short visit with his mother and sister. He is a member of the firm of Cavanaugh & Meyer, shoe dealers at Danville, and they are enjoying a very prosperous business. He will go from here to Chicago on business and from there to his home. Mr. and Mrs. Franklin Ott and little son will return to Chicago Heights this afternoon. Their daughter, Etta, and her two cousins, Ethel and Nellie McColly returned there this morning. Mr. and Mrs. Ben McColly will remain for several days. All were here to be preseht at the burial of Rev. A. C. Abbott.

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Capt J. M. Wasson and wife were this morning notified of the birth of a daughter to Mr. and Mrs. Jesse E. Wilson, at Washington, D. C. This is the third child born to them since Mr. Wilson was made assistant secretary of the interior. He is said to be making good in the office and seems to be having his share of domestic prosperity. The fifteen presidential electors from the state of Indiana met in the chamber of the house of representatives at Washington, D. C., Monday morning and after organizing by electing Winfield T. Durbin president and Caleb S. Denny secretary, they proceeded to cast their votes for William Howard Taft for president of the United States. Daniel Fraser, of Fowler, was the elector from this district. W. W. Francis, father-in-law of Dr.: F. A. Turfler, made a trip about a month ago down into Arkansas, just on a little vacation trip to see the country. He stopped at Stuttgart, the center of the rice growing country and was much surprised at the great amount of rice growing there. The farmers raised from 70 to 125 bushels of rice to the acre and received $1 a bushel for it at the elevator. Japanese and Honduras rice Is raised there and the farmers engaged in its growth are very prosperous. It looks very much like rye as It grows and is thrashed out much the same as our farmers thresh their oats and wheat. Mr. Francis believes that it would be an ideal place for Investment, as land there sells for from sls to SSO per acre. It costs quite a little to prepare the land for rice growing, as it is watered artificially, and the pumping is done by steam engines but after a farm is ready there is a fortune In rice growing, according to all the evidence he could gather. Mr. Francis brought back several fine samples of the rice, both hi reshed and unthreshed and on the stem as it grows. The Republican has learned more of the particulars of the deuth of Mrs. William George, briefly mentioned Monday. She was formerly Jilss Minnie Hendricks, and her parents reside at Chicago Heights, where she was married last June to William George. His parents formerly lived in this county end hlnne'f and wife came here soon after their marriage and they kept house for Adam Fleisher, who resides on the Eastburn farm In Barkley township. She was taken sick some ten weeks ego and Went to her parents’ home at Chicago Heights, and her health con-