Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 109, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 5 October 1909 — Page 3 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Miss Lena Phelph, of Remington, is visiting Miss Aileen Allman. -- Mrs. W. H. Randle, who has been visiting at Clarks Hill, has returned home sick, but is feeling better today. D. W. Waymire and his son, Delos, went to Winona this morning, where he will be placed in the agricultural college. Mrs. George Landis, of Monticello, came this morning to visit her daughters, Mrs. Mell Abbott and Mrs. Floyd Robinson. Richard Halligan and wife returned this morning to Ottawa, 111., after a visit with his father, Patrick Halligan, and family. Mrs. Harry Kapp returned to Logansport today after a visit of nine weeks here with Mr. and Mrs. Harry Murray, of Milroy avenue.

The Winamac street fair this week was sufficient cause for the schools all over the county being closed Friday to give teachers and pupils an opportunity to attend. Babcock & Hopkins are having an automobile shed built at their elevator office, so that their E. M. F. will not suffer from the weather elements during the winter. P. L. Davis and wife, of Hammond, came down yesterday to visit her brother, W. F. Frye, and family. He will return home Sunday and Mrs. Davis will remain for about a-week. A large number of farmers are in town today and county treasurer J. D. Allman is. busy writing O.K tax receipts. There are just four more weeks in which to pay the fall installment before delinquency and manj are getting it off their hands. Jim Jordan and Omar Osborne came up from Purdue this morning. Both participated in the recent tank scrap and came off without serious injuries, but Omar has a photograph taken by Jim just after the scrap, showing himself and a classmate bedobbed with black paint and looking more like Iggerotas than college freshmen.