Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 79, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 June 1909 — BURNS TOWN. [ARTICLE]

BURNS TOWN.

The Watkins medicine agent was in this locality Monday. Mrs. Alex Hurley called qn Mrs. Samuel Holmes Monday. J. H. Hoover, of Rensselaer, was in our neighborhood Monday. Mr. and Mrs. John Shroer called on Mr. and Mrs. Alex Hurley Sunday. James Stanley called on S. H. Holmes and family Saturday night. L. H. Markley and family visited with F. L. Markley and wife Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. John Scott visited with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Chapman Sunday. Quite a large crowd attended the funeral of Mr. Joe Williams at Brushwood. Miss Agnes Hurley is staying with her sister this wfeek, Mrs. Hiram Davis, near Surrey. Misses Maggie and Leota Hurley called on Bertha and Ethel Holmes Sunday afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. Add Shook and children visited with Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Florence and family Sunday. Mr. and Mrs. C. A. Reed and family wei;e in Rensselaer Saturday. Charley said he was done planting corn. Pleasant Ridge didn’t show up Sunday to play ball with Possom Run. Well enough, our boys went to win this time. Ye scribe will go $5 on the game. After a hunt extending over nine years, a deserted wife fount! her errant husband in Michigan City. Alexander Kuryla deserted his wife nine years ago in Austria and after a long wait In her native, country for his return the wife came to this country three years ago and only succeeded in locating him the other day. He has been an employe of the car factory in Michigan City for six years. He was arrested on the charge of wife jdesertion and is now confined in the Michigan City jail. Call the Home Grocery for cherries for canning this week. Officials of the state prison at Michigan City say the condition of Ray Lamphere is not more serious than it was six weeks ago and that he is not near death from tuberculosis.