Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 November 1909 — Page 1 Advertisements Column 4 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Hurley Beam was up from Indianapolis Sunday. Ex-sheriff O’Connor is down from Kniman today. Fred Markin made,-* -business trip to Monomtoday. v Verne Kresler made a business trip Ho Chicago today. George Finch, of near Pleasant Grove, went to Chicago this morning. W. J. Holmes went to Indianapolis today to remain for a week or two. All grades of coal promptly delivered. MAINES & HAMILTON. Mrs. Harvey Lowman and little daughter are spending today in Monon. Mr. and Mrs. Frank Erwin, of Monticello, spent Sunday here yith Mr. and Mrs. Frank Floyd. *■ . Bring us your eggs. We are paying 28c for frfesh eggs. ROWLES & PARKER. H. M. Grant returned this morning from Chicago, where he spent Sunday with his daughter, Mrs. P. L. Mattes. We are now cutting some fancy make of October cheese. New, rich and mild. Try it. . JOHN EGER. Mrs. R. D. Swain, of Morocco, came Saturday with her brother, Ira Burnham, and wife, of Boston, for a short visit with Capt. J. A. Burnham and Mfs. Spitler. Some corn huskers are now receiving 3% cents a bushel, and occasionally some farmer is paying 4 cents. There is a scarcity of hands even at this figure. J. W. Hammerton, who worked for Chas. Burkland, near Brook, this summer, has moved to town and occupies the house . belonging to his brother, E. L. Hammerton, north of the railroad. Continued rains make the corn gathering difficult. Today is very bright and slightly cooler than Saturday, but it rained almost all day Sunday. The precipitation this month has been very excessive. Mr. and Mrs. John Phillips, of McCoysburg, went to Monticello today to see his step-mother, the widow of Harvey Phillips. It is probable that she will continue to live on the place he owned and where he came to his death. Stewart Hopping, of Loveland, 0., who worked here with the extra telephone gang last year, went to Chicago this morning after a visit of a week with friends. He liked Rensselaer so well that he seems inclined to want Moore of it. Mrs. W. H. Galbraith, of Chicago, returned home this morning, after a short visit here with her father, James Lewis, who has just moved from Barkley township to the WrYzr’W'ood property on Elm street, recently vacated by N. Littlefield. Leon Lewis, of Chicago, was down over Sunday to visit his father, County Assessor John Q. Lewis. He is a cripple, but has had good employment as a stenographer in Chicago until recent illness has forced him to relinquish his work. $2.25 round trip, Rensselaer to Chicago, Nov. 20th and 24th, United States Land and Irrigation Exposition. Also Nov. 28, 29, 30, Dec. 1, 5 and 6, International Live Stock Exposition W. H. BEAM, AgentGeo. W. Gilman was over from the west end of Carpenter township Saturday evening. Prosperity is holding sway over in that country and farmers are gathering great crops of golden grain and not kicking a bit about the recent tariff legislation. Vaughn Woodworth arrived home from Purdue Saturday evening, having quit school in order to accept a position with his Ralph Sprague, at Gibbon, Neb., in the milling business, for which place he expects to start within a few days. Terrance Thompson is working for a telephone company at Gibso’n. Will Grayson is working with a gang of bridge carpenters at Hammond. Roy Gundy, of Fair Oaks, a member of last year’s graduating class, has a job working with the Gary telephone company. Editor DeCoudres, of the North Liberty News, thus explains aVay a popular custom that has prevailed since the days of the elder Adam. “Why is it that everyone who attends church likes to sit in the end of the seat and hold onto it like grim death, and every persott who gets a berth in that pew must stumble over them?” Well, we confess we do that sort of thing. It is to get out quickly in case of fire—we sinners are quite strongly reminded of fire, flames and brimstone that is pursuing us, and we can’t tell just exactly when it is going to come. We want to be in a position to make a quick get-away.