Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 56, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 March 1909 — Notice of Election of Trustees. [ARTICLE]

Notice of Election of Trustees.

Notice is hereby given that an election of one trustee will be held at the Quarterly Meeting of the White County Baptist Association, which will convene at Parr on Sunday, April 11th. A full attendance of members M desired. ARTHUR BROWN, Clerk. The swellest line of Men's Shirts Is shown by G. B. Porter. 1

Leonard Turner, who runs the linotype machine at the Republican office, spent Sunday with his parents at Monticello. He states that the smallpox scare there is not so bad as reported on the outside. There are about ten or twelve mild cases of the disease, however, and some twonty other people who are thought to have been exposed are quarantined. The disease is confined to the northern part of the town. Sunday was a clear day but not very warm. This morning there was a light skift of snow which did not last long after day light. It is still cold and cloudy and March seems inclined to keep up a bad record all the way through, although none of the weather has been particularly bad. It has been cold enough to hold back the fruit tree budding, which should give us a fine crop of fruit this year.

Dr. M. D. Gwin was taken quite sick at the home of his father, J. C. Gwin, Sunday at about the noon hour. He suffered a chill first, but felt con£M»« erably better later and returned to his home. Here he again became worse and a brother physician was called to administer to him. His fever ran up to 103% degrees and his hands and limbs became numb and this was accompanied by nausea. He improved at 9 o’clock and rested some during the latter part of the night and toda> is somewhat better. Rensselaer young men seem to find it a tolerably easy matter to buy liquor up the road some place on Sunday, for there are frequently times when they get off of the evening milk train with their hides full and a few bottles for their thirsty friends here. Sunday there is said to have been a very bedlam of cursing and rowdyism about the depot following the arrival of the milk train and some even earlier In the day. If the town marshal and night watch would put a few of these chaps in jail it would go a long way toward breaking up the practice.