Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1909 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

SATURDAY. X ■ . j ' V - . ■ : j George F. MeyenTwent to Wabash today pn a b||in<iSß^trip. Mss "True to DeMottef this mornllgi^^ljslf 1 relatives. • Mrs. James RftSeell to DeMotte this’ m’orhifi’g to visit relatives. For good cf@am separator oil call at the Willis Garage, east of the court house. Mr. and Mrs. Joe Adams are spending today at the "Monticeilo old settlers’ meeting. Miss Minnie Cox returned to Fair Oaks yesterday, after a visit of a few days with her grandmother, Mrs. L. McGlinn. Mrs. Jesse Nichols and her mother, Mrs. I. D. Walker, left today for a visit with Mr. and Mrs. Alva Nichols, at Patterson, Mo. W. R. Shesler and daughter, Miss Ina, went to Remington today to attend Fountain Park Assembly and have a short visiLjwith friends. Mrs. F. B. Meyer left yesterday for Gary,to which place they have shipped their household goods and where they wilt make their future residehce. Miss Hazel Lamson will teach school again this winter at East Chicago. She went yesterday to Ann Arbor for a visit of a week before entering upon her school duties. Vern Crisler returned this morning from a short visit with his grandmother, Mrs. Michael Blankenbaker, who makes her home with her son, William Blankenbaker, at Parr. She is 84 years old and is in quite feeble health. Miss Ruby Daniels, who has been visiting relatives here for the past two weeks, returned to her home at Hammond today. She was accompanied by her cousin, Miss Pearl Daniels, who will visit at Hammond and Chicago for the next two weeks. - -I John Teter, the Duroc Jersey hog breeder and one of the best known Carpenter township farmers, is taking the initiative in the fall public sale business. He will hold a sale next 'Thursday, Sept. 2nd, and states that he will quit farming. He may decide to remove to Rensselaer. His sale is advertised in the Republican. The government has issued orders to the effect that hereafter you can mark your letter simply “R. D.” where they are destined for rural routes, dropping the “F.” heretofore used. It will now be simply Rural Delivery in place of Rural Free Delivery. The service has become so general that there Is no longer need of using the term, “Free.” Everybody now knows it is free.

Misses Margaret Shafer, of south of Monticello, Mabel Waldsmith, of Dayton, Ohio, and Addie Neff, of Delphi, left Wednesday morning for Low Gap, Washington, near which place they expect to teach school the coming winter. They went by way of Chicago and St. Paul and thence over the Canadian Pacific for Vancouver. They will visit the Seattle exposition before going to Low Gap. While teaching they will expect to make their home with Mrs. D. M. Ferguson, formerly Miss Olive Grant.—Monticello Democrat. B. J. Gifford is here today. He is busy extending his railroad northward and says that within a few days will reach the watershed south of the Pennsylvania tracks. He has practically arranged for all of the right-.of-way for the remaining two miles. Asked what he would do when he reached the Pennsylvania tracks, Mr. Gifford said: “I never cross either rivers or railroads until I come to them.” Mr. Gifford says that the Jewish settlers in the neighborhood of the town of Gifford have made first-class citizens and that the other people there have no criticism whatever to offer. Miss Bessie Davis, of Rensselaer, and Miss Margaret Kreigh, of Greencastle, had an amusing experience. They left Rensselaer Tuesday for Fountain Park assembly and expected to take the Pennsylvania train west at Reynolds. They were 60 busy visiting when they reached Reynolds that they did not see the town and were carried through. They got off at Chalmers and waited until the 5:07 p. m. train when they again took up their pilgrimage. We did not learn whether they forgot and went back to Rensselaer. They wanted the Joke kept as a secret, but It leaked out. Rensselaer papers, of course, are not expected to copy.—Chalmers Dispatch.