Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 15 October 1909 — Page 6 Advertisements Column 2 [ADVERTISEMENT]

There are advertised letters in the postoffice for: M. M. McCord, M. D., Mell Wood, A. B. Noller, Marion Brown, Jess Wilcox, Laska Franscoviak (2), Mrs. Heesser Robinson, Mrs. Alfred Stephenson, Miss Goldie ‘Woods, (Caleves). John C. Martindale was visited Sunday by his three sisters, Mrs. Fannie Rinearson, of Lafayette; Mrs. Frank Ridenour, of Ambia, and Mrs. John Brown, of Boswell. The former went home yesterday mornjng and the'other two today. . ' Mrs. Henry Wood and Mrs. Cordelia Williams went to Bay City, Mich., today, to attend the branch meeting of the Womans’ Foreign Missionary Society of the M. E. church. The meeting is for four states, Indiana, Illinois, Michigan and Wisconsin. Mrs. Orlan Grant returned to Hammond this morning, after being here since Saturday evening. For the past month she has been staying with her mother, Mrs. Chas. Kasson, who has been sick with fever at her home in Hammond. She is now recovering. Rev. and Mrs. O. E. Miller and Mrs. C. B. Steward went to South Bend this morning to attend the state convention of the Free Will Baptist churches. It is probable that H, O. Harris and Judson Perkins will go later in the week. Rev. and Mrs. Miller will be absent until Saturday. Nelson Randle is an observer of the weather and does not trust to his memory to keep track of important happenings. His record of fall frosts shows that the first killing frost last year was on the night of Oct. 11th, just a year ago last night, and the first killing weather this year was the frost and freeze of last night. Two years ago the first killing frost was on the night of Oct. 9th. He has a record of important weather events since 1905. CASTOR IA F«r Infants and Children. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the .//fz?"? z/ 7 "* Signature of Irving Lewis has returned from lona, S. Dak., where he had proved up a 40 acre claim, and will spend the winter with his father, County Assessor John Q. Lewis. Irving sold his farm’for S7OO and before returning home registered in the drawing land lottery. If successful, however, he could get only 120 acres more, the 40 he secured before being deducted from a quarter section to which all citizens are originally entitled. J. T. Randle was 78 years of age last Sunday and is one our most active elderly citizens. He is now erecting a fine new house on River street, which, when completed, will be occupied by Mr. and Mrs. William Rowles. Mr. Randle recalls a trip made to Delphi 62 years ago to market 95 head of hogs which he drove from his farm in Barkley township, to that city. For the larger hogs he was paid $2.50 per hundred and for the smaller ones only $1.25. Corn at that time was selling for 10 cents a bushel.

William H. Mount, a brother of the late James A. Mount, one time governor of Indiana, died suddenly Tuesday afternoon at his home near Shannondale. Mr. Mount fell in the. barn loft where he had gone to do some work. Heart failure was the cause of his death. He was 70 years old and was a staunch republican. He was a member of the Montgomery county council. Five-cent tonsorial parlors are responsible for a lot of bad scrapes. s