Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 58, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 April 1909 — EXCURSION TO MICHIGAN. [ARTICLE]

EXCURSION TO MICHIGAN.

The Pere Marquette railroad company will run home seekers* excursions to various Michigan points on the following dates; Tuesday, May 4 and 18. The rate from Chicago to Ludington, Manistee and various other points is only $6.00 for the round trip, good for 15 days. I am acquainted with the country, own land in Lake county and will be pleased to accompany parties there on this occasion, making preparations for the trip, providing all accommodations. Parties who care to investigate this great country which is especially adapted to the growing of potatoes, fruit, alfalfa, clover, timothy and blue grass, also a fine stock country with fine water and extremely healthful, can procure literature of me and arrange for the trip. Let me hear from you at once by mail. D. L. HALSTEAD, R. D. No. 3, Box 40. Rensselaer, Ind.

There was a tragedy the other day in W. S. Clay’s dove house and, had the actors been human beings, would have meant a case for the grand jury and aroused universal pity and indignation. A mother dove had been the target of the small boy with a 22 rifle. The bullet had passed through her breast, leaving her only strength enough to flutter homeward and reach the nest where a half-grown fledgling awaited her coming. Dying, she had snuggled up against her little one, her life blood pulsing out over her own white breast and against her babe. And there, with eyes staring wide, she breathed her last and' the fledgling starved, then froze, and they were found with their heads pressed together as in a last loving embrace. Mr. Clay brought them down town just as they rested in. the nest, and the sight and suffering it spoke was enough to melt the hardest heart. And the boy with the 22-rifle may cause a like tragedy again and many times.— Exchange. Running a newspaper is just like running a hotel, only different When a man goes into a hotel and finds something on the table which does not suit him, he does not raise hades with the landlord and tell him to stop his old hotel. Well, hardly. He sets that aside and wades into the dishes that suit him. It is different with some newspaper readers. They find an article occasionally that does not suit them exactly and, without stopping to think it may please hundreds of other readers, makes a grand stand play and tells the editor how a paper should be run and what should be put into it, but such people are becoming fewer every year, a The ladles of the M. E. chjirch will hold a market j in* eennection with a rug and apron sale on Saturday before Easter. The sale will be held in the room recently vacated by Fred Phillips' music store. Everything good to eat will be there—chickens, doughnuts, pies, salads, baked beans, cakes and everything suitable for a first-class Easter dinner. Don’t fall to call on us and we will surely satisfy your appetites.