Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 115, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 October 1909 — Clarence Hurley and Family Given Pleasant Farewell Surprise. [ARTICLE]

Clarence Hurley and Family Given Pleasant Farewell Surprise.

Last Sunday witnessed one of the largest surprise dinners of the year at the home of Clarence Hurley, north of Rensselaer. Mr. Hurley and family will shortly move to their new home, 3 miles south of Wheatfleld. Friends and neighbors to the number of seventy met there with well filled buckets, baskets and boxes, the contents of which formed a fine dinner. After dinner the crowd were entertained by many fine records on Mr. Hurley’s phonograph. All spent a very* pleasant day. The first trip through the new tube of the Pennsylvania railroad from Jersey City to Long Island City was made Wednesday. This remarkable tube runs under the Hudson rivfcr, emerges in the new Pennsylvania terminal and plunges under East river. Seven boys from St. Joseph county were taken to the reform schools. Five went to Plainfield. Island Creek West Virginia Splint coal, |4 a ton delivered. MAINES A HAMILTON. Get a Majestic Souvenir Set of Ware at Warner Bros.’s store during demonstration week. Nov. Ist to flth. David Taft Robinson, age 94 years, a cousin of President Taft, died Friday at Richwood, O. He was a retired farmer. « Rev. Elam Henderson, a Friends clergyman, has accepted a call to the Island of Jamaica, where he will establish a Friends college. There have been settlements of Friends in Jamaica for a hundred years. '