Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1909 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

MONDAY LOCALS. New asparagus tips just received at the Home Grocery. 25c a can. Mrs. J. P. Hughes, of Tipton, spent Sunday with her son at St. Joseph college: —■ —" ~~ ' , — f Mrs. Vernon Nowels and Miss, Julia* Leopold went to Chicago this morning for a short visit. The barrel of home made sauer kraut at the Home Grocery is fine. 7c a quart or 25c a gallon. Homer Pugh, who is a chef at Bluffton, is here today, making one of his periodical visits to his old town. Frank Kresler got 15 ducks at the Kankakee last week. Landy McGee g0t,13 Saturday, not far from town. Ten barrels of fancy jumbo cranberries for 8 cents a quart. JOHN EGER. J. N. Leatherman was in Chicago yesterday ' and reports that Mrs. Leatherman is getting along very nicely. Attorney E. P. Honan went to Indianapolis this morning to consult other attorneys about a case pending in the superior court. -There are plenty of cheaper grades of corn and peas, but if you want a really good one, buy ‘.‘Red Robin”, 10c straight, at the Home Grocery. Get your winter apples from our car. No. 1 fruit, one dollar a bushel. No. 2 50c a bushel. JOHN EGER. Norman Warner is quite a little better this morning and his family and the physicians think his chances of recovery are very much improved. We carry in stock a very large variety of feeds for cows, horses and hogs. MAINES & HAMILTON. W. H. Snedeker left this morning for Coshocton, Ohio, where he will join his wife who preceded him about a week. He will be absent about a week. 400 knee pants and suits, and overcoats, from 3 to 14 years, will be sold this week at almost your own price at I. Leopold’s great sacrifice sale of clothing, i' ’ Get a sack of Acme at $1.50 or White Star at $1.38. They are the best flours made. We can save you money on your grocery bill. ROWLES & PARKER. Mrs. Chas. Osborne returned this morning from Kniman, where she spent Sunday with his two brothers, John and Earl Osborne, and their families. D. S. Makeever went to Monon today to brand 90 head of cattle that he bought there and will have brought to his farm in Newton township for feeding purposes. Mrs. Zable died at her home one mile north of Lee Sunday morning at one o’clock at the age of 90 years. The funeral will be held Wednesday forenoon at 10 o’clock at the residence. Mrs. S. J. Sigler has been the guest for several days of her sister, Mrs. I. J. Porter. She now makes her home in Chicago, and has been visiting at Mt. Ayr, to w r hich place she will go tomorrow for a short stay before returning to Chicago. The Monon railroad has made a rate of $2.25 for the round trip to Chicago to the U. S. land and irrigation exposition which occurs from Nov. 20th to 24th, and to the International Live Stock exposition from Noy. 28th to Dec. 6th inclusive. William V. Vannatta, soii-in-law of Wm. Gaffleld, who purchased 100 acres of the latter’s farm recently, has been living on it for the past month. He had been a resident of Chicago for the past twenty-five years and went there this morning on business. It looks very favorable now for Wisconsin to get the automobile race next year, and if so it will be their turn to build the grand stands and sell parking placSs, and bury the leftover buns and red hots—and swear after it’s all over that they don’t want any more.—Crown Point Star. J. F. Payne, of Barkley township, dropped his annual contribution of a dollar and a half into the Republican cash register today. He says that he never saw com down any worse and the ground is quits soft too for hauling a wagon through, but hufcklng is proceeding most of the time and a few good days would about let him out. The Nesius ditch case, which gets a hearing at about every terns of court is on trial today. Joe Nesius, John Wagner and A 1 May are the principals and the English language is spoaen in German most of the time at the trial, Wagner objects to the ditch because there is no fall, “py Gott,’ r and the spectators are doing so much laughing that the court is having hiß hands full maintaining order.