Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1909 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 1 [ADVERTISEMENT]

FRIDAY. Miss Letha Wright is spending today in Chicago. - —r. 1 Dan Waymire went to Lafayette today to attend the fair. Mr. and Mrs. J. N. Leatherman are spending today in Chicago. 7 Mrs. Vernon Nowels and son Harold '■went to Chicago this morning for a short stay. U W. B. Nichols and wife,, of Monticello, came this morning for a short visit with Frank Floyd. Mrs. Louis Muster and daughter, Leota and Miss Angela Kolhoff went to Valparaiso this morning for a short visit. \ Dr. Fred Mutchler, one of the instructors at the county institute, left this morning for his home in Bowling ■Green, Ky. n Russell Nowels, son of Mr. and Mrs. Arthur Nowels, of Columbia City, is visiting his grandparents, Capt. and Mrs. J. M. Wasson. A. ■■■ ■— l »' 1 ,■ ""»■ Mr. and Mrs. John Kresler returned last evening from Burnettsville, where they had attended the meeting of the Baptist Association. D. M. Worland returned this morning from Monon, where he attended the home coming Thursday and witnessed the' burning of the balloon. Mr. and Mrs. Leroy Lewis went to Lafayette this morning to attend the fair. From there they will go to Rossville for a short visit with relatives. - Mrs. Thos. Randle, of Hope, Kans., who has been visiting ,the family of her husband, J. T. Randle, in Rensselaer, left this morning for her home. Miss Georgia Patterson, of Ambia, returned home this morning, after spending a few days here. She will teach the Cozy Palace school in Barkley township this year. Lester Brown returned this morning from Frankfort, where he has been working on a farm for his brother. He will move there with the expectation of making it his future residence. George-Tillitson, who formerly lived in this county, and who has been visiting his sister, Mrs. Phoebe Doan, here for the past-few days, returned to his home near Royal, 111., this morning. Prof. Ernest Tillman will enter Indiana University to complete his science course, instead of going to the Bloomington city schools as an instructor as previously incorrectly stated! Purdue -University will open next Wednesday and Saturday, and Monday will be busy registration days. Paul Glazebrook, son of Lee Glazebrook, who will enter the second year, was the first of the Rensselaer students to leave, he having gone down today. President Warren RoblnsOn of the Commercial Club is In receipt of a letter from an Indianapolis concern that would entertain a proposition to locate here. The company would employ 60 people from the start, says the letter, and would grow with time. The matter will be investigated. Miss Lora Bruce returned the first of the week from an extended visit with her uncle, Chas. Bruce, at Long Beach, Cal. Chas. formerly lived in this county and hiß many old friends will be pleased to know that he is succeeding splendidly in the west. He owns a fruit farm of 20 acres for which it is understood he was recently offered 3,000 an acre.

Miss Mildred Biggs, daughter of Mr. and Mrh. A. J. Biggs, southwest of town, is sick with typhoid fever, her fever being very high and evidently she is in for a siege of that disease. Jasper county has been quite free of typhoid for some time and most cases have been traceable to other places, and that fa the fact in this case. Miss Biggs had been visiting at Want Lebanon, where there has been Some typhoid, and she returned from there only a few days before taking down with the disease herself. Miss Biggs graduated from the Rensselaer high school in 1908 and taught school last .year.