Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1909 — Page 5 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Mrs. Everel Smith and children left this morning for their home at Burk, ■ S. Dak., after an extended visit here with her father, H. M. Shipman, and family, and her husband’s father J, 1 J. Smith, and family. J. W. McConahay, of Pullman, 1)1., has joined his' wife here, she having preceded him by several days for a visit with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Randle. They returned thlfe morning to Pullma’n. C. L. Parks, of Surrey, went to Homer, 111., today to attend the funeral of his brother-in-law, Eli Peters, who died Wednesday. He was injured by being crushed by a colt some two f 1weeks ago, the injury resulting in his 'death. ~ A. P. Gosma and wife, son Cassius and daughter Flora, of Brookston, came in their new Rambler No. 41 auto yesterday to the home of Marion Adams, south of town, and this morning Cassius went to Chicago to reenter music college. He is a singer of much talent and has been devoting several years to voice culture. Mrs. George Dunn and son, Clifford, left this morning for their home in Wichita, Kans., after having visited her parents, Mr. and Mrs. Granville Moody, for the past month. Miss Jane Moody, who would have been a member of the 1910 senior class, accompanied her sister to Wichita and will enter the senior class of the high school of that city. Mr. and Mrs. Moody accompanied them to Chicago. Percy Longfellow, the Princess singer, was called to Chicago last night by telegram announcing the* serious sickness of his 18-months-old son. Mrs. Longfellow went to Chicago last Thursday on account of her mother’s .sickness and the baby became ill and was taken to a hospital, where it was found necessary to operate on it for an abscess op the chest. The child’s condition is understood to be very serious. The 251 survivors of the 1,600 men who enlisted in the Forty-eighth Indiana regiment in . the civil war will hold their twenty-seventh annual reunion at Winona Lake on Sept. 15 and 16. The survivors live in twentytwo states. Falling from a second-story window fourteen feet to the ground, the 18-months-old child of Mr. and Mrs. Fred Mendenhall, of Newcastle, miraculously escaped injury. It was not hurt beyond a few' scratches and was laughing and playing when found. The largesrSihe ever given by a jury in the Fort Wayne police court for wife beating was imposed in the case of the state against Henry H. Brown, proprietor of the Commercial hotel at that place. After several hours’ consideration the jury assessed a fine of S2OO. Freight traffic is becoming so heavy with several of the railroads that some of them are planning to put on a night force at depots to have the freight moved promptly. As yet there seems to be plenty of cars, but the tonnage of freight with each day is showing a considerable increase and fresh evidence is shown that there is to be a heavy fall traffic. George B. Asbury, for six yedrs superintendent of the school of letters at the Indiana reformatory, has just gone to Carroll county, where he will make his future home on a farm. Mr.' Asbury resigned his position at the prison six months ago. His successor has not been chosen as yet. j , Budding genius is seldom found behind a blossoming nose.