Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 97, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 August 1909 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 5 [ADVERTISEMENT]

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LEE ITEMS. S. M. Jacks’ colt la bad sick this week. . rr • vrj •»„ .. A E. Gilmore went to Rensselaer Frlduy morning:. F. J. Stterif brent to Rensselaer Friday morning. S. M. Jac|s sold one of his horses tq L. Anderson. J. H. Culp Is repairing the school houses abound here.- »”- r/ Born, to Mr. and Mrs. Cadwallader, on Saturday, August 14th, a boy. Myria Peregrine and son, Raymond, went to Rensselaer Friday morning. We are having plenty of rain this week. It stopped haying for a few days. Mrs. A. B. Lewis is visiting with her daughters, as her husband Is away.

Mrs. Cora Stiers and daughter, Agnes, went Friday night to Monon, returning Saturday morning. Susie Fisher came Monday night to visit her father and mother, Mr. and Mrs. L. E. Noland. Grandma Mellender is on the sick Jist. Mrs. J. H. Culp and daughter, Lora, went to take care of her. t

Master Raymond Sigford, who has been visiting his uncle, Will Rishling, returned to his home in Monon Friday night.

Mosquito Musketry. • Slap! Slifp!. Slap! It sounds like artillery’s sinister snap! Over the front porch, back on the stoop. Out ‘neath the trees where the sufferers troop. You hear it, while fervently it floats through the air Quite distinct from a prayer. The echoes come back from all points of the map— Slap! Slap! Slap! Slap! Slap! Slap! Each insect so wily evaded the trap! Forth In the straight, scudding away, He’s back in a trice to bring greatest dismay. The wound he inflicted himself to amuse, You have turned to a bruise Still the villian pursues. An.d his song rises shrill o’er the din of the scrap— Slap! Slap! . Slap! Slap! Slap! Slap! In slumbers of midnight or afternoon nap, In the hall bedroom, pr out on the lawn, ' With eager stiletto relentlessly drawn. Outstinging e’en gossip, he brings greater dread Than the things w« are led To think somebody said, All attention is flxed .on a . eommon mishap— .-*•■»-<*snwx*xri Slap! Slapt -Slapl