Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 99, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1909 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Sprinkle yonr table before laying down’ the ironing- sheet -Tfair presfeeet*lroin^spln?J><' The local waharnten who were finny bating on the Kankakee-river returned %ome Sunday evening. They were not Yery fish are nbt * " i ' - j .-- Ross Grant was here .over Sunday spending the day wish his wife and his mother. He is now traveling for a Chicago grocery Ijpuse, having the state of Ohio as his territory. Mrs. O. K. Ritchey fell yesterday and sustained a fracture of one of the hones of the shpuidei'. -It is not' a. serious injury but will keep her confined at home for some little time. The Woman’s Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E. church will meet on Wednesday afternoon instead of Thursday, at the home of Mrs. Henry Amslef. Please do not forget to bring mite boxes.

The Home Grocery will henceforth handle their ROyal flour under the mili brand “A and K’s Best.” They have Car in transit, to come this week. Unloading sale as before; Price $1.89 per sack for the sale.only. -■'s " Agent Beam reports that 98 tickets were soltf yesterday to Chicago and the Monon will run another excursion next Sunday, when the chief attraction will be a ball game between the Cubs and Pittsburg. B. F. Fendig and wife returned Sunday from their trip to Seattle and the northwest. They had a most enjoyable time. Mr. and Mrs. Hale Warner made a trip into Canada and have not yet returned home. Rev. C. W. Bundy, who for the past two years has been pastor of the Rosebud church, will move to Worthington in a couple of weeks and take charge of the Methodist Protestant church of that plhce. George Dexter and wife were up from Lafayette yesterday visiting his brother, Harvey, and family, near Virgie. Mrs. Dexter went from here to Brook to visit relatives and George will return to Lafayette this evening. ~ v Miss Carrie Jasperson, of near Tefft, a member of the 1909 graduating class, is here to attend the institute. She will teach a school not far from her home in Walker township, the ensuing year. J. W. Humes and two sisters, Mrs. W. F. Osborne and Mrs. John Lewis, went to Logansport this morning to attend the funeral of their aged aunt, Anna Humes, who died at the age of about 85 years.

Misses Mary Goetz, of Wheatfield, Katie Shields and Edith and Mary Adams, of this city, will teach school in Newton county the ensuing year, and all are attending the county intitute which is being held at Goodland this week. Ray Hopkins, who has been working during the summer at Crawfordsville, came home Saturday for a short visit with his father, Nim Hopkins, and family. He will re-enter college at Wabash this fall, and be a member of the football team. John Sharp came down Friday and remained until today with his wife and child who preceded him. He has a good position in Chicago Heights in a factory, which was temporarily shut down because of the breaking of some of the machinery. W. N. Jordan, of Barkley township, was slightly injured last Wednesday by falling from a wagon into a pit that had been dug on his farm by skunk hunters. He had a stiff neck and a few other bruises for a few days but is about all right again. Mr. and Mrs. Nathan Eldrldge went to Wabash today, where a cousin of the latter is very low from a cancer. They expect to return home tomorrow, as Mrs. Eldrldge will leave the following day for a visit In South Dakota. Night Watch E. M. Thomas went to Lafayette today and will go from there to Montmorencl, where his father and other relatives live. He will also attend the Lafayette fair, and expects to return hpme Thursday evening. Gus Grant is substituting for htm. George Hopkins, the carpenter, who stepped on a nail while working at his trade at Greensburg, Kans., last June, has been laid up ever since that time, and Is still confined at his home at the Corner of Pine and Scott streets, and is Under the constant care of a physician. Vern Hopkins and family are still in Kansas.