Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 77, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 June 1909 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

MONDAY LOCALS. You can get a can of good peaches at the Home Grocery for 15c. Mrs; W. H. Beam went to Milwaukee today for a visit with her sister. , > The Home Grocery is now receiving the Bates home grown berries. Ara Griswold and Ethel English went to Valparaiso today to enter the normal school. Mrs. Jennie Wishard returned today from Chicago, where she had been visiting her son, Melville. Dr. Myer went to Frankfort Saturday to spend Sunday with his wife, who is visiting her parents there. Mike Jungles delivered the Home Grocery another load of his fine old potatoes, Friday, which they are selling at 25c a peck. Mr. and Mrs. J. F. Warren have gone to Lafayette for a short visit, after which they will return to their home in Oklahoma. A marriage license was issued this afternoon to George Clark, the picture show man, and Miss Dora Mae Thornton, of Rensselaer. Herbert Zea was home over Sunday. He is working for a sign painting firm. Last week he was working in Monon and Monticello. Mrs. James Burns, of near Rosebud, left for Soldier Grove, Wis., this morning, to visit her son, T. H. Burns, and other relatives for two weeks. Sheriff Shirer and Trustee Fred Karch, of Walker township, took August Woolbrant, of Walker township, to Long Cliff asylum today. Your opportunity. 33 1-3 per cent off on ladies’ spring suits. 20 per cent off on all spring jackets. FENDIG’S FAIR. The county commissioners are advertising for bids for the examination of the county records for six years back. The contract will be let July sth. Miss Fannie McCarthy, the nurse, returned from Washington, D. C., Saturday, to spend the summer with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. George McCarthy. Ed Duvall has • purchased a new Buick automobile and he and Charlie Chamberlain will go to Chicago tomorrow to bring the machine home. It is a $1,250 machine. Wm. Washburn received a new Cadillac automobile yesterday. It is one of the handsomest machines that ever struck Rensselaer. It is almost noiseless. The cost is $1,400. Eight hundred bars of Swift’s Pride Soap or Lautz’s Gloss Soap. Regular 6 for 25e seller. This week, 8 bars for 25 cents. JOHN EGER.

L. A. Bostwick left for Oklahoma today, and expects to remain there If he can find work at his profession, that of civil engineer. Mrs. Bostwick accompanied him as far as Chicago. Secure your tickets early for a good .view of the auto races. Stand one mile north of Lowell along the fast road. Tickets $2 for one day or $3 for two days, at Fendig’s City Drug Store. WALTER WHITE. County Treasurer Allman was at Indianapolis Saturday settling with the state treasurer. He was accompanied by his wife. The amount of the settlement was $23,255.36. Of this amount about $7,000 will be returned to the local school fund. Our special sale, for this week only, of Evaporated Fruits: Six hundred pounds Fancy Four Crown Balslns, 4 pounds for 25 cents. Three hundred pounds Fancy Evaporated Apricots, 8 pounds for 25 cents. JOHN EGER. Only thirty tickets were sold at this place for the cheap excursion to Chicago Sunday, and judging from the appearance of the coaches the excursion was not well patronized at other points. The regular two cent rate now prevailing seems to have made these cheap excursions unpopular and where formerly from 100 to 200 tickets were sold here for excursions twenty-five is now a good average. j. + .