Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 96, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 August 1909 — BURNS TOWN. [ARTICLE]

BURNS TOWN.

Mrs. Samuel Holmes and Ethel were in Rensselaer Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Charley Reed were Rensselaer goers Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Holmes and family visited with Mr. and Mrs. Will Whittaker Sunday. Mrs. A. Eib left Thursday for Connorsville to attend a meeting that is in progress at that place. Michael Burns, father and sister came over from Illinois Tuesday to spend a few days with him. Elmer and Walter Brown and Dan Hopkins called on Charles Greenlee and Stella Brown Sunday evening. Miss Bertha Holmes returned home Thursday, after spending a few days with her grandmother, Mrs. J. Scott. Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Richards called at S. H. Holmes’ Friday to see about painting Mr. Frazee’s building. Spencer Holmes visited with his uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs. Will Whittaker, Saturday night and Sunday. Miss Mary Schriner and Misses Lucy and Katie Morgenegg visited with Mr. and Mrs. George Davisson and family Sunday

Cap Hellengreen and Carl Gorbet went fishing Thursday evening, and they said they caught two fine fish, but left them at Alex Hurley’s. Misses Mollie Ore and Laura Bearegard returned to their home in Chicago Saturday, after visiting a couple of weeks with Misses Agnes and Maggie Hurley.^ John Scott was in this locality Monday looking after a threshing machine. John says he don’t care so much for the oats but he would like to have the straw piled up. The ball game between Possom Run and Pleasant Ridge resulted in a score of 10 to 4 in favor of Pleasant Ridge. The Possom hoys say they won’t call on Oxford for a game for three or four weeks yet.

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Holmes, Mr. and Mrs. Wesley Price, Mr. and Mrs. Grant Davisson and daughter Francis, Mr. and Mrs. John Scott, T. G. Brown and son Walter and John Newcomb attended the old soldiers’ reunion at the Soldiers’ Home at Lafayette Thursday..

John Scott is in receipt of a letter from Mrs. J. F. Scott, of Ringgold, Texas., who recently subscribed for

the good old Rensselaer Republican. She states that it is very amusing to see her good Democratic husband’s actions when the time begins to draw near when the paper shall reach that city. May the gospel of the good old Republican be placed in many more such homes.