Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 87, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 July 1909 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

',-See jUie nge |d pf # oß \tT claßal^ d , Pyre count ry'Srcity"iafa, only 12% j cents a pound, At John. Eger’s. Mrs. J 0. ; A Batka aMd Mrs. May Fairchild and son John, of Marfon, are visiting their cousin, Benjamin Sayler, and family. ; C. H. Merger, of near Morocco, 25 years old, is dead from injuries received in a fight at a celebration in Lake Village, July 3rd. The affair is being investigated. The Ladies of the Industrial Society of the Presbyterian church in the first ward, will give a social at the home of A. J. Bellows Tuesday afternoon. All invited. Major Harrison will be here to meet Co. M Wednesday evening. No inspection will be made, but all members are requested to turn out to meet Major Harrison. Isaac Onstott, of Rochester, came today on account of the death of his brother-in-law, J. F. Osborne. He is unable to remain for the funeral, and will return home this evening.

There will be an ice cream social at the residence of P. V. Downs, east of Pleasant Ridge, on Saturday evening, July 24th. Proceeds to go to the Parker M. E. church. All invited. Several of the business men on Ohio street have covered the street in front of their places of business with crude oil which will keep the dust laid for the rest of the season.— Remington Press. Owing to an injury to his horse Comrade Fox will not carry the Pleasant Grove mail this week. Hi: substitute, Tom O’Meara, will take his place. The horse rolled on a broken bottle, cutting a bad gash in its side. The Monon had a bad wreck near Crawfordsville Sunday morning. Norman Burns, engineer, of Lafayette, and Lawrence Austin, fireman, of New Albany, was killed. A half score of passengers were injured. The train jumped the track while going at a high rate of speed around a curve. Miss Virenda Rainer pleasantly entertained a company at dinner last evening at her home, 716 North Sixth street. The guests were members oi the Depauw chapter of the Alpha Chi Omega Sorority. Those present were: Misses Elsie Cotton, Della Wilson, of Paxton, Ill.; Lois Nagle, of Brookston; Georgia Harris, Belle Laßue, of Rensselaer; Alta McCoy, of Lake, Ind., and Eva Sutton, of this city. It was a very charming and enjoyable affair.—Lafayette Courier.

Everything is in readiness for the annual Battle Ground camp meeting which will be opened July 29th with a sermon by Dr. Paul Carnick, of South Bend. Dr. McConnell, De Pauw’s new president, will preach two sermons on Sunday, Aug. Ist, and in the afternoon a temperance rally will be held with the Rev. E. S. Shumaker, superintendent of the Indiana Anti-Saloon League, and W. P. Ferguson, of Chicago, editor of the Voice, as principal speakers. Dr. C. B. Wilcox, of Colorado Springs, will deliver two sermons Sunday, Aug. Bth, and Dr. Elliott, of Chicago, will also speak that day. The camp meeting is a state event. Edward Shannon, an Elkhart man, who six years ago escaped jail in Goshen while under sentence to go to the Jeffersonville reformatory for larceny, but who was later arrested in Milwaukee for assaulting a Chicago policeman and sentenced to the Joliet prison, was released this week. Elkhart county authorities, armed with a commitment for Jeffersonville, went to Joliet, and immediately upon Shannon’s release he was taken to Herman Lindemann and Ella Zistern, of Chicago, who were drowned in South Bend, on July sth, were not victims of a suicide pact, according to the belief of Coroner Clark, of South Bend. He will report their deaths as accidental. Dr. Clark believes Lindemann permitted his skiff to float too close to the edge of the dam where the young people were drowned. Paul, the 13-year-old son of Mr. and Mrs. Benjamin Webster, of Peru, is dead from tetanus. On July 4th the boy wrestled- with his brother who tried to take a toy pistol from him, and in the scuffie the pistol was discharged, inflicting a wound in Paiii's hand. Blood poison set in last SunUsyr —- T t t "”