Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 128, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 10 December 1909 — Page 2 Advertisements Column 3 [ADVERTISEMENT]

Don’t miss the lecture by Dr. Brown .Friday night at the Methodist church. •It will be worth the cost of admission Had should bring out a crowded house. Mrs. Fred Behrens, who has been living with her daughter, Mrs. Fred Popp, of Gillam township, went to Englewood today to live during the winter with another daughter. Miss Mary Geiger started for her home in Zanesville, Ohio, today, after a visit of five weeks with the Clager, Price and Schroer families in this county. W. C. Baker came down from Chicago Saturday night and visited over Sunday with his sister, Mrs. George Kimberlin, who is visiting her father, J. N. Baker, of Barkley township. Frank A. Crosscup, of Co. I, 10th U. S. Infantry, stationed at Fort Benjamin Harrison, is home on a 10 days’ furlough. It is his first visit home since he enlisted about 15 months ago. The dredging on the Ganglott stone ledge was completed yesterday. The dredge will be torn down, hauled to the depot and stored ready for shipment when the Sternbergs get a job on which to use it. Ernie Zea, the blind son of Lyman Zea, had a sick spell in the night last night that for a time caused his parents to believe that he could not live. This morning, however, he is greatly improved. The high prices now offered for hogs is causing a number to ship from this county. S. R. "Nichols shipped a car of hogs today and Ed Randle, of Pleasant Grove, will have a mixed car of hogs and sheep on the market tomorrow. The greatest danger from influenza 1b of itß resulting in penumonia. This can be obiviated by ÜBing Chamberlain’s Cough Remedy, as it not only cures influenza, but counteracts any tendency of the disease towards pneumonia. Sold by all dealers. c Borjir Monday, Nov. 29th, to Mr. and Mrs. Hale Grant, at Spokane, Wash., another son, making the fourth child to them. Mr. Grant’s mother, Mrs. Abel Grant, was there when the youngster arrived. Hale tB only 24, years of age and this is the fourth child. This snow and accompanying cold weather makeß corn gathering very difficult and there is considerable corn yet in the field in various parts of Jasper couuty and in soma sections it is badly down. A number the larger corn growers report from onefourth to one-balf of their corn still in the fields.