Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 3 August 1909 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

U. M. Baughman' and family went to Pulaski county Saturday for a visit. They will return TidHk the latter part of the week to speh'd Sunday. * Mrs. W. E. Zard and Mrs. H. W. Walter went to Francesville today for a visit with Charles Walter and family. : .. Mr. and Mrs. George Hershffian and baby returned' to Crown Point this morning, after a visit with relatives here. Mrs. J. C. Borntrager and children and her sister, Miss Edith Zink, are visiting their parents in Wapakoneta, Ohio. The Christian church win give a fried chicken dinner Thursday, Aug. sth, beginning at 5 p. m. Price 25 cents. Dr. E. N. Loy returned Sunday night from Piqua, Ohio, where he had been the past week at the bedside of his father. The doctor reports his father convalescent. It is economy to buy home roasted coffee. ' It is fresh roasted, stronger and will go further than any other coffee. Our prices are as low as any. C. C. STARR & CO. President Taft will be present in Indianapolis next November, when, the National Conservation congress will be held, and will open the congress with an address.

Lake county is to have a new daily newspaper called the Lake County Democrat. It is to be published by the Lake County Democratic Publishing Co., an incorporated company with a capital stock of SIO,OOO. Six hundred meh employed at the mines at Terre Haute returned to work Wednesday after being on strike two weeks. Both sides submitted their differences to National President Lewis of the United Mine Workers. Al Robiqson is putting up a large quantity of hay in the north part of the county. Wm. Greenfield and wife went to the camp this morning to asssit in the work. Mrs. Greenfield will do the cooking. James Willis and G. T. Thornton took a White Steamer car to Flora Saturday afternoon and from there they took a four cylinder Glyde car to Chicago, returning home by rail last evening. Liquor selling at Cedar Lake was stopped yesterday for the first Sunday in many years. The attitude of Gov. Marshall caused the saloon keepers to be good. Officers were sent to the lake to see that the law was obeyed. The 48th birthday of Mrs. David S. Alter was celebrated Sunday in the shadow of the pines at the old Alter homestead. A table 100 feet long groaned under the weight of viands and delicacies, which satiated the appetites and quenched the thirst of 100 guests.

J, B. Workman, the well known accountant and tax ferret of Indianapolis, who did the tax ferret work here a few years ago, W. E. Heal and John W. Kuhns, accountants, also of Indianapolis, were here today bidding for the contract for the examination of the county records. Frank Foltz was down from Rensselaer last Sunday. He don’t come often enough to know how things are run down this way. He wanted to leave Lafayette at 6 a. m. on the Peoria excursion, and when be reached the depot he saw Big Four passenger cars in the train and thought it was not the one he ought board. When he learned of his mistake the train was out of sight.—Oxford Tribune. Mr. and Mrs. Wm. Cornell, daughter Vera and son Ray, Mr. and Mrs. William Cornell, daughter Edna and sons Earl and Harrold, and John Duvall, of Grand Rapids, Mich., and Mrs. Mattie Griswold, of Valparaiso, are visiting relatives here. The two Mrs. Cornells and Mrs. Griswold are the sisters of C. W. Duvall, Mrs. Wm. Eger, Ed and Miss Ora Duvall, and their visit here is a sort of family reunion of the Duvall family. Lieutenant True Woodworth and Sergeant John Gangloff returned Sunday night from Fort Benjamin Harrison, where they had been participating In the state shoot, which decides who is to attend the National shoot at Camp Perry, Ohio, some time next month. Neither Woodworth nor Gangloff were able to make the State team to the National shoot, but their battallion succeeded in winning both the company and battallion contest. Try the classified column.