Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 67, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 11 May 1909 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Lee Myres, son of W. H. Myrea, of Parr, has located near Mt. Vernon, S. Dak., which is not far from Mitchell, and near where Bruce Porter and George Wood lives. He will read the .Republican for the ensuing year through the kindness of his father. “The Billboard,” a magazine devot ed to amusements, states that Hargraves circus, which has been la<d up at thl plant of the old C. H. Hammond Co., Hammond, for so long, will start on the road May 30th. Dr. Horton is having a seven room house with bath erected on his lots at the north end of the block wher( his former residence was. It will be i t a good house and will doubtless find a ready tenant, as It will be modern In every respect. Mr. and Mrs., Arthur H. Hopkins entertained several friends of Mr. Hopkins’ brother, A. W. Hopkins, of Chicago, in bis honor at a 6:30 o’clock dinner Saturday evening, and after participating of the excellent supper the evening was pleasantly spent playing Black Maria. The Hammond members of the Mystic Shrine have won their fight with Fort Wayne for the establishment of a temple in northern Indiana, the dispensation having been granted recently by the Imperial Potentate. The institution of the new temple will take plaee in the near future and a large class will be received.

Edward Rudesal, formerly a Monon engineer, who was arrested and tried on the charge of killing Michael Doran, a brakeman, following an altercation, several years ago, and who moved to Mexico after his acquittal, was killed in a railroad accident on the Mexican Central, where he was employed, recently. Geo. Hays and M. J. Bain, of Martinsville, Purdue students, while canoeing in the Wabash river north of Lafayette were capsized and floated a mile down the river before being rescued by Henry Battering, a boatman. When brought ashore the men were exhausted and their lives were saved with great effort. Mrs. James Boyle, wife of the convicted kidnaper of Willie Whitla, has been convicted as an ally of her husband in the perpetration of the crime. Neither Boyle nor his wife have yet been sentenced. He is liable to go up for life and she for 24 years. She says she will kill herself before she will go to the penitentiary.

Cecil Kaiser was doing the “wild west” stunt on the back of a cow one day last week and the cow, In one of her bucking stunts, threw him off. He did not know that he was seriously hurt until this morning when a doctor was called, and a broken bone was found in his left arm above the elbow. It was promptly set and Cecil vill not suffer any permanent damage as a result of his bareback performance. Three doctors were operating on a man for appendicitis. After the operation was completed one of the doctors missed a small sponge. The patient was reopened, the sponge found within, and the man sewed up again. Immediately the second doctor missed a needle. Again the patient was opened and closed. Then the third doctor missed a pair of Bclssors. “Gentlemen,” said the victim as they were about to open him up again, "for heaven’s sake, if you’re going to keep this up, put buttons on me.” The men’s class of the Christian Sunday school held another enjoyable social in the church parlors la«t Thursday evening, entertaining siveral invited friends. Various games were played and refreshments *ere served. Forty-five conundrums were posted about the room and each person was given a sheet of paper on which to write the answers. It was a very amusing and Interesting part of the program. More than fifty are now enrolled in the men’s class and new members are being secured frequently. I.- - W. N. Timmons returned last Friday evening from Longmont, Colo. He is so well pleased with that city and that state that he expects to make 11 his future home, although he does not expect to move there until next November. His son. Will, is getting along nicely, has purchased a onethird interest in the garage in that city and they ore making plenty of money. Charley Nowels has just sold his property there at a substantial advance over what he paid tor It and Is planning to settle in the Son Louis ▼oiler, the new irrigated section In southern Colorado, where the Poston boys have Interests and where Dr. 1. M. Washburn recently Invested.