Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 102, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 September 1909 — REMINGTON. [ARTICLE]

REMINGTON.

The teachers are all here ready for school Monday. Will Sullivan, of Wolcott, was in town Thursday. L. B. Elmore attended the fair at Boswell Wednesday. Miss Ora Cheek is visiting Boswell and attending the fair. Arthur Lucas is back from the west ready for his school Monday. Mrs. E. M. Parks went to Lafayette Thursday to visit friends. Bernard Hitchcock spent a few days with his mother last w r eek. Frank and Ed Peck Speflit the first of last week in Chicago on business. Sirs. C. A. Balcom is steadily improving and able to be brought up town. Ellis Jones came back front a Southern Missouri business trip Wednesday. Louis Deuck and wife came Friday for a visit with his brother, Mike, and wife. Maude Merritt went Friday for a week’s visit with Miss Myrtle Barnes at Frankfort. David Geigley was down from Chicago Thursday to look after his farm south of town. The J. A. Teter sale is reported to have brought good prices for everything offered. Sidney Burton and his sister, Rozella, left for several days’ visit at Kansas City, Mo. George Jordan came home Friday from a three months’ sojourn in the northwestern states. Mrs. Fay Benedict is visiting her sister, Mrs. Coleman Merritt, for a few days this week. Wm. Hallihan left Tuesday for his old home near Forrest, 111., to visit relatives for a few days. Ed Lucas has moved back to the country again from Fowler. He will work for his father this winter.

They are giving Wm. Townsend’s drug store a fresh coat of paint and thereby improving its appearance. Jesse Thompson is back for a few weeks’ visit after spending two years with his brother in Cherokee, lowa. M. B. Graham and family left last Wednesday for_ their home at Windfall, Ind., after a week’s visit with her folks here. George Jones is now taking his annual vacation from carrying the mail and his brother, Ellis, Is working in his stead. The Walter Rich children returned home Saturday, after spending several weeks attending Fountain Park and visiting friends. Prof. R. G. Bell came from his home at Ossian last week, and will take charge of the Gilboa Center high school. This is his second term. George Jones had a bad runaway Tuesday. His horse broke loose from where he had been tied and literally tore the wagon all to pieces. Mel Julien was called to Sheldon, 111., Thursday by the death of his wife’s grandmother. He and his wife and two children returned Saturday. Charlie Klauss had his left foot badly mashed by a separator passing over it. This has been a very unfor-, tunate family as far as threshing machines are concerned. Mr. and Mrs. S. O. Lucas went to the Dakotas prospecting, leaving Tuesday. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Lucas wijl look after their farm while they are gone. Mel. Julien, Mr. and Mrs. George Pampel, Mr. and Mrs. Guy Julian and his two sisters, Misses Nancy and Ruth, are some of Tuesday’s visitors to the state fair. Roy Kinsell returned from Michigan, having quit his work as driver for an automobile for W. J. Richards, a mine operator at Crystal Falls, Mich. Roy comes back, so he says, to teach another term of school, but many doubt that to be all that got him back. Some twelve or fourteen men left Tuesday for the Dakotas. Some of them are already owners, but many are prospective buyers. The party Included George Jones, Ed Capes, Hubert Cornwell, John Zehr, John And Ira Forrey, Robert Hackley and his father S. T. Hackley, Tom Shew, Hal Zimmerman and some others whose names we did not learn. Impure blood runs you down—makes you an easy victim for organic diseases. Burdock Blood Bitters purifies the blood—cures the cause—..builds you up. There are a lot of people hunting trouble out of season. “Doan’s Ointment cured me of eczema that had annoyed me a long time. The cure was permanent.”— Hon. S. W. Matthews, Commissioner Labor Statistics, Augusta, Me.