Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 41, Number 132, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 December 1909 — NEWLAND. [ARTICLE]

NEWLAND.

Mrs. £d Oliver was a Rensselaer visitor Friday. Ace Elliott was in Newland Saturday. Wm. Rees worked for T. M. Callahan last week. Quite a large crowd attended literary at Gifford Friday night. Wm. Rees made a business trip to Kersey Monday to return Tuesday. Mrs. T. made a business trip to Rensselaer Tuesday. Wm. Rees and daughter, Mary, were Pleasant Grove callers Saturday. _ _ • Ed Oliver made a business trip to Chicago last Friday, returning Monday. I’m afraid old Sapja will have to travel in his auto, for there isn’t much snow. Everett Walker and Ernest and Samuel Rees worked for Ed Oliver the latter part of last week. Wm. Kennedy and family spent Saturday night with Edward Kennedy and family.

Ed Kennedy has rented the south “Red Oak” farm, where Wm. Rees now resides, for the coming year. KW. Hammerton is representing a catalogue house in Chicago in this vicinity this week. Charles Walker, of near Gifford, the good old Republican, was elected road supervisor Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Newt Kaupkee spent a day or two last week with the latter’s parents, Mr. and Mrs. John Bowen, of Newland. Newt Bowman and family, Wm. Kennedy and family, Letha and Mary Rees, George and Sam Bowen and Charley Martin called on E. Kennedy Saturday evening. The battle ship Utah, the largest warship of its class ever built in the United States, will be launched from the yard of the New York shipbuilding company at Camden, N. J., next Thursday. The sponsor will be Miss Mary Alice Spry, of Salt Lake City, daughter of the governor of Utah. Dr. T. D. Scales, chairman of the democratic committee of the First IndianU district, has received a letter from Representative Boehne, in which the congressman says that under no circumstances will he be a candidate for re-nomination and erection. 11l health is given as the reason for declining to make the race again.