Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 19 February 1909 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

ant when he left there Monday morning and he was surprised to find conditions so bad here. He first noticed the sleet when almost as far north as Indianapolis. The temperature did not get very low last night and a snow that began yesterday and let up during the night started again this morning, and there is now about 4 or 5 inches of snow on top of the sleet. Sleighing is not good on account of the very rough surface of the ground, which was cut up by travel during the warm days preceding the sleet. J. Q. Alter, carrier on Route No. 3 out of Rensselaer, was the 9nly carrier that was unable to get around on his route Monday. He found telephone poles down and hanging entirely across the road and after getting abput 4 miles on his route he back tracked and returned to get a start again today. The other carriers had more or less trouble but all managed to get in before 4 o’clock.

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In the absence of telegraph orders all trains have to run vylth the greatest precaution. The north bound passenger trains have the right of way and the south bound trains have to take siding and wait for the north trains after they get on the other trains time. The 9:55 today was a half hour late and the 10:55 did not get in until 12:30. The 11 o’clock trai last night did not get In here until 4 o’clock in the morning. During the years that President Roosevelt has been in Washington he has been a regular attendant at the Dutch Reform church, not having mißsed a single communion service when he was in the city during his residence in that city. The members Of the church gave a reception to him Monday evening at the church, and the little church was filled with the good people who gathered to bid him farewell. Admiral Robley Evans, U. S. N., Fighting Bob,” the man who commanded the lowa at Santiago and who took the Atlantic fleet around the Horn last year, will pass through Lafayette tomorrow. He is going from Chicago to Bloomington, where, that evening, he will talk to the students of Indiana university. He will be a passenger on Monon train No. 6, due here at 10:65 a. m. It is quite probable that a number of Rensselaer people will gather at the depot to see the great naval hero. February and March are usually hard months on people who are subject to colds or have weak lungs. The sudden changes in temperature and the high winds make it an easy matter for the strongest persons to contract a cold If he fails to exercise common sense in trying to avohTsuch a result The important thing is to keep the body and feet warm, and when the perspiration starts to be sure to cool off carefully. These months are also hard on old people, whose vitality is reduced during the winter season, and it also stands in hand to take good care of themselves. ( “Uncle" Ebenezer Mab, the old soldier, took umbrage at the article in a recent issue of the Republican about the occupants of his two-roomed house, and in his indignation refused to longer have the Republican come to his home, thereby severing a friendship of considerable length of time. “Uncle Mab." as he is familiarly known, is a nice old man, and this paper gave him the credit of the highest motive in offering shelter to Mrs. Oreiser and the children, which he declared was his sole object in taking them in. Mr. Mab proclaims eloquently in defense of the virtue of his abode and the righteousness of his purpose, and we have no reason to doubt his sincerity, and we are frank to say that It was not “Uncle Mab" but /hig wards and tenants whose oonduct seemed to arouse suspicion. You can save 10 to 26 per cent on your shoe bill now at Rowlse * Parker’S.