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

MILROY.

R. Foulks was in Monon Monday. Mr. Bivins was in Lee Wednesday. Vern Culp was at Lee to church Sunday. George Foulks went to Wolcott Tuesday. Miss Edna Lefler returned to her home Saturday. Mrs. Whitlow called on Mrs. Thos. Spencer Sunday. George Meadows and George Foulks were in Monon Wednesday. - Jas. Culp and family spent Wednesday with Wm. Culp and family. Jessie Southard took Belle to Monon to her school Monday morning. John Southard and Elmer Clark visited George Castor’s last Sunday. Mrs. Mary McCashen and Ettie, went Wednseday to visit Chas. McCashen’s. Mrs. Mary McCashen and daughter were in Monon on business Thursday. George Foulks and family attended church at Black Oak last Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Roy Williams went to Logansport for a' visit with relatives Thursday.

G. L. Parks and wife went to Mrs. RaVenscraft’s Monday to visit Mrs. Parks’ mother. Mason Barlow and Clell Clark hauled hay from Ed Herman’s last Thursday and Friday. ■ Mr. and Mrs. Ed Herman were in Monon Saturday. Mr. Herman is having dental work done.

George Meadows, of Kankakee, 111., is visiting his sister, Mrs. Louisa Foulks, and other relatives here. Grandfather Stevens returned to his home in Gillam township Wednesday after a visit with his daughter, Mrs. Wm. Culp and family.

By a unanimous vote of the Boone county council an appropriation of $50,000 for the preliminaries to the erection of a new $250,000 court house has been made. In making the appropriation the members of the council urged the county commissioners to proceed with haste in selecting a design and letting the contracts. The balance of the appropriation will be made when the contract is let.

United States revenue officers raided what they allege to be a fraudulent butter plant >in the basement of the store of the South Bend Tea company, said to be owned in Chicago, and arrested William Roof, Walter Hanaway and Fred Stetzel. The officers broke through barricaded doors and confiscated machinery and material which they allege are used to prepare oleomargarine to be marketed In large quantities as butter.

Dr. Albert Shaw, editor of the Review of Reviews, has accepted an invitation to address the convention to be held in Indianapolis for the purpose of encouraging the teaching of conservation of natural resources In the public schools. Henry Relsenberg, who has in charge the arrangements for the convention, has decided not to attempt to hold it before the first week in June. Well drilling. Phone 107., HARRY WATSON.