Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 98, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 27 August 1909 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

THURSDAY’S LOCALS. See our ad elsewhere in this paper. G. B. PORTER. Feel languid, weak, run-down? Headache? Stomach “off”? —Just a plain case of lazy liver. Burdock Blood Bitters tones liver and stomach, promotes digestion, purifies the blood. At least five of last year’s male members of the graduating class will enter college this fall. Floyd Meyers will spend a year in preparatory work at Franklin, and Walter English, Omar Osborne, Walter Seegrist and Janies Jordan will enter Purdue. Mrs. Louie Ramp, who has been in the Wesley hospital in Chicago for the past ten days, was operated on this morning. Her husband and family physician went there on the morning train and the latter returned on the 2 o’clock train this afternoon. Mr. and Mrs. N. A. Hendricks left this morning for a visit of three weeks near Mitchell, S. Dak. They w r ill visit the families of A. F. Shesler, Bruce Porter and others, and Newt will prospect some with the possible result of making an investment there. Ray Yeoman came down from Chicago yesterday for a short visit with his parents before returning to his employment as a teacher at Purdue University. During the summer he has been working as a civil engineer in the Pennsylvania track elevation work at Chicago. Halley’s comet will become visible to the naked eye in October. This will be its first visit since 1835. It will increase in brilliancy during the remainder of the year and remain visible well into 1910. This comet is supposed by some to have been the Star of Bethlehem.

R. N. Ball, of Thayer, who owns a large farm near there that was a part of the Nelson Morris ranch, was a Rensselaer visitor yesterday. Mr. Ball is a cement product manufacturer at Kansas City and Webb City, Mo., having factories at both places. Mr. Ball figured some op living in Rensselaer if he could have found a suitable house to rent, but being unable to do this he located at Thayer. O. S. Baker is doing a good job of weed cutting today along the main streets of the city. The agitation of the Republican is bearing fruit. With all of our improved streets, the natural beauty of the city has been buried behind and beneath tall grass, rag weeds and cockle burs. They should all be cut and hauled away, as they are dangerous breeders of disease if left to decay.

A water power trust is said to be threatening to gain control of all the ■water power streams of this state and, according to certain federal officials, of all the water power of the country. Whether there is any way for the Btate to protect its interests against such a combination is a question that has been presented to State Geologist Blatchley and may come before the next legislature.

Superintendent Lamson has arranged to have an exhibit of the busy and industrial work done by the school children 'over the county, at the Presbyterian church next week, during the time that the Institute is in session. Patrons will be welcomed at the church and should find much pleasure in looking over the work done by the youngsters of the county under the direction of the various teachers. On opening a quart of blackberry Jelly I found it a thick syrup, having been too s#eet to jell. I cooked a quart of cranberries In the blackberry syrup, strained it, and the result was a delicious, tart Jelly.