Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1909 — ADDITIONAL SATURDAY’S LOCAL HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL SATURDAY’S LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

The latest shower to a about-to-be bride is a hose shower. If some twenty of her girl friends attend the shower she is assured of fancy hosiery for several years to come. • s. Medaryville defeated Westville last Sunday by a score of 10 to 2, and would like to come over here and play the Wrens again, saying they think they have a better chance than earlier in the season. Our season is about closed or we might take them on. Councilman Irwin and Contractors Thompson & Smith went to Sheldon yesterday to look at their cement curb construction, and Contractor Kellner is in Monticello today. They want to make the Washington street curb and gutter right and will not resume work until they are satisfied they are right. Granville Aldrich has just been apprised of the birth of a grandchild, making him a grandfather for the first time. The child is a girl born on Sept. 27th to his son, Dr. Harry Aidrich and wife, of Wessington, S. Dak. Its weight was 9% pounds. Harry formerlj- lived here. He is succeeding at the practice of medicine since his graduation a year or two ago. i . The large dairy barn erected this year by Sparling ,Bros., is completed except for the cement floor which will be built within the next two or three weeks. Thirty cows constitute part of the stock on the farm and they will begin coming a~ few weeks. It will be the best dairy farm in northwestern Indiana when -the plans of the progressive owners are carried into execution.

Rensselaer is going to have a" horse show, the dates being set for the 14th, 15th and IGth of this month. A bunch of hustlers has the matter in hand and are out to make it a winner. Leave plenty of room for the Brook crowd and reserve a section in the suake eaters den, we're all coming. If the weather conditions are favorable there will be a big crowd from here in attendance and to see how- they do things in Jasper.—Brook Reporter. James O’Donnell, of Hammond, whose w-ife was a daughter of Thos. Murphy, formerly of this county, and a sister of John Murphy, a farmer near Surrey, was here a short time today. His wife became insane some ten weeks ago, following the birth of a child, and is confined in Longcliffe. He went there today to spend Sunday with her. He thinks she will be ultimately cured.

Stern law frustrated Cupid when the marriage of Leonard Calhoun, 18, and Grace Wells, 14, Frankfort young people, was prevented by the apprehension of the couple at Danville, 111. The girl’s mother notified the police that her daughter had left home. The police wired to Danville and the message intercepted the ceremony by a length.