Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 101, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 September 1909 — Page 4 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

MONDAY LOCALS. Miss Katheryn Powers, of Chicago, is visiting Miss Zelma Rayher. Oscar Leach, of Hammond, came Saturday to spend Sunday and today with his parents. Miss Versa Richmond, of Barkley township, left for Oskaloosa, lowa, Saturday, to visit her uncle for about three months. Mrs. G. L. Parks, of Milroy township, returned today from a visit with her sister in Chicago. Mr. Parks returned home from there Saturday. Miss Opal Thomas, daughter of Ike Thomas, of Remington, took the special teachers’ examination Saturday, and Mrs. Thomas spent the day with friends here. Buckwheat seems to have been practically ruined by the frost of a week ago all over the north part of the county, while through the central and southern section it was not much injured. Mrs. E. C. English and son Harry returned yesterday from their visit at Glencoe, 111. They came by train to Ifammond, where Dr. English and son Walter met them with their automobile, and the return trip was made overland.

Miss Virenda Rainier returned to Lafayette this morning after a visit of several days here with her sister, Mrs. M. D. Gwin. Miss Rainier is a delightful singer and sang while here at the opening session of the ladies’ literary society, which met last Thursday with afrs. Oren Parker. When you go to buy flour, they all tell you that their flour is the same as Aristos. If Arigtos was not a perfect flour they would not make such a claim. See that your sack has a red turkey on it and you will have the best flour made. Only $1.50 a sack at John Eger’s. John M. Dale and wife and children, of Crawfordsville, who have been spending several days visiting her parents, Mr. and Mrs. J. M. Torbett, of Barkley township, returned home today. Her brother, John Torbett, accompanied them home for a short visit. Our new fall stock is now here. We carry the largest and most complete and up-to-date stock of goods in this city. We can suit and please you and save you 20 to 30 per cent on your fall supplies. j . ROWLES & PARKER. Now the Big Corner Department Store. Miss Gladys Martindale, of Pine Village, and her cousin, Roy Martindale, of Spokane, Wash., returned to Pine Village this morning, after a short visit here with their uncle, John Martindale, and family. Mr. William Brown, of Lafayette, and Mrs. XLG. Jones, of Attica, who have also been visiting at the Martindale home, will return home this evening. We want every boy and girl in Jasper county to wear shoes from Fendig’s Xclusive Shoe Store. We have the best styles at the lowest possible prices. Bring your children in to see our shoes, and while here ask for one of our blotters. Fendig’s XclusiTe Shoe Store, Opera House Block.

James and Will Jordan, sons of W. N. Jordan, of Barkley township, have returned home from near Clark, S. D., where they worked for the past month. James graduated last year from the Rensselaer schools and will enter Purdue university this fall. Will will continue his high school studies here and Homer Jordan, another son, also enters the high school. Walter 0. Lutz Is another Rensselaer boy to enter Purdue University. He will take an agricultural course and went there this morning in company with Vaughn Woodworth and Lille Hauter, who enter the second year of the same course. Walter English and James Jordan also went to Purdue, the former to take a mechanical engineering course and the latter to take electrical engineering. W. N. Jordan was in from Barkley township this morning. He has partially recovered from the bruises recently sustained from being thrown from his wagon while working in the fields near his home. He reports that the late corn and potatoes damaged on the muck land and that practically the entire buckwheat crop was killed in his section. The Jew families on the Gifford land lost probably SSOO worth of buckwheat and their crops will be short, and they were somewhat discouraged.