Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 61, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 April 1909 — MT. AYR. [ARTICLE]

MT. AYR.

(From The Pilot.) r- r < Miss Jessie Merry, of Chicago, spent Sunday here with her parents, Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Merry. J. S. Brenner, of Roselawn, was in town a few hours last Sunday shaking hands with old friends. Morocco has decided to celebrate the Fourth. We hope they will do better than they did last year. Mr. and Mrs. Bernard Hopkins came up from Fdresman Sunday and spent the day with home folks. J. M. Hufty and wife spent the day last Sunday at the country home of Mr. and Mrs. R. J. Yeoman. H. G. Clark spent a couple of days last week fishing at the Kankakee. He. made several fine catches. Dr. Merry was avßensselaer visitor last Sunday afternoon, he accompanying his daughter Jessie to the train at that place. Harris Martin has purchased the Garrity residence property and we understand will move into it as soon as it is vacated by Mr. Garrity. Geo. Peck has severed his connection with the Hufty meat market. It is quite likely that he wilt remain in this locality this summer and play ball with the Mt. Ayr team. J. B. Ashby, our former harness and furniture dealer, has purchased the Garrity saloon building and will join it onto his present furniture room and enlarge his business quite extensively. Miss Jessie Merry, daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J. W. Merry, has invested in some Texas land, and she is of the opinion that the investnient will prove a good one. Lt is in a fertile spot lying between Houston and Galveston. It is said to be very productive and especially adapted to the growth of oranges. It is hoped that Miss Merry's investment turns out to be as good as it is at present thought to be. Everything at present seems to indicate that Mt. Ayr will have as good, if not better, baseball team this year . than we had last. Some new material will be added, and by those who know it is said that the team ought to be a winner. - Some have expressed approv-

al of the formation of a league composed of several or all of the nearby cities. A league would be all right if all of the towns in this neighborhood could be induced to enter it. The plan of a league as promoted by the Rensselaer Republican seems to' meet with the most general approval.