Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 75, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 June 1909 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

' V-i- Dax untraT* i Miss Eunice Adamson went to Culver today to visit relatives. Mrs. Dallak Nichols and children are Spending today at Parr. " aii This is a bright and beautiful day, but the air indicates that it will not be long until it rains again. Chas. Antcliffe, of Jordan township, has been suffering lately with a bad. case of erysipelas.

Mort Murray went to Joliet, 111., today, to visit his sister, Mrs. Robert Lefler.

Miss Adelaide Smith, of Chicago, is visiting at the hotne of Mr. and Mrs. Anson Cox, and will probably remain all summer.

Robert L. Anderson, son of T. W. Anderson, who has been a member of the local militia company for the past two years, has enlisted in the navy and is now at Norfolk, Va.

Mrs. L. L. Lefler came here from Lee this morning, and expects to go from here to Joliet, 111., to visit Mrs. Robert Lefler before returning home. Her sister, Ethel Jacks, visited relatives with her at Lee.

J. C. Thompson, the Parr postmaster, was in the city this morning, and his little daughter, Eliza, who has been visiting her aunt, Mrs. Keller, accompanied him home this afternoon.

Milt Roth came home Thursday from the springs where he has been taking treatment and a rest from his ardous labors. He will try not to work so hard or at least not to confine himself for so many hours to the shop in the future, and believes that he will regain his failed health.

R. A. Mannan, of Wheatfield, came to Rensselaer overland this morning. He says that the north end of the county has us skinned in every agricultural respect this year, having better oats, better corn, better wheat and everything looking better. This makes us a bit jealous and if we can get the weather to stand in with us for a while we will try hard to catch up.

The Republican was in error yesterday in stating the names of Mrs. C. W. Coen’s co-hostesses, in the afternoon reception given for Mrs. Delos Coen and Mrs. Jesse Coen, of Chicago. Mrs. R. B. Harris was not one of the hostesses, but Mrs. Coen was assisted by Mrs. Rebecca Porter and Mrs. Judson Maines. A great many ladies shared the joint hospitality of the three hostesses and spent a most enjoyable afternoon.

The editor that expressed his views as follows upon the 1908 styles In ladies' millinery is no doubt a bachelor, and for that matter deserves the scorn of all womankind. He says: “The idea that stuffed fowls, artificial vegetables, dried apples, paper posies and imitation hay, fancifully jabbed in and chaotically distributed over an inverted coal hod surmounting a bale of “rats,” is "pleasing to the masculine eye, is a sadly mistaken one.” ’ John Hack was down from Lowell yesterday. He has the contract for the construction of the Otis ditch and gets in occasionally to draw a little money. He thinks is digging about the best ditch and digging it the fastest of any ever constructed in Jasper county and he holds thh opinion, he says, with all due respect to the claim of Buzz Marble, on the Tyler ditch. Two and one-half miles were dug on the Otis ditch in 26 days. The ditch is 5% miles long and it will require less than three months to complete it if all goes well.

W. L. Wood, of Parr, went to Chicago Thursday and after canvassing about among the automobile bouses finally bought a second-hand Cadillac four-passenger car. His daughter, Miss Osle, accompanied him, and together they started hack from Chicago, the car being driven by a chauffeur from the selling house. When near Hammond the car refused to move and Logan sayrf he never saw a balky horse perform worse. The chauffeur coaxed and cajoled and cussed a little on the side, but the machine would not move. Finally Logan helped the driver push the car beneath a shed and Logan hastened to the nearest telephone station to Inform the company that they could come and get their blinked machine as he would have nothing more to do with it. Logan arrived here on the 11:05 last night and went to Parr this morning. Hfo don’t know now whether he wants an automobile or not, hut he knows tfckt he don't want a balky one.