Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 40, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1910 — ADDITIONAL TODAY'S LOCAL HAPPENINGS. [ARTICLE]

ADDITIONAL TODAY'S LOCAL HAPPENINGS.

Mrs. Julia A. Healey is suffering an attack of the grip. Trustee Karch, of Walker township, was in Rensselaer today. John H. Lee, of Roselawn, was trading in Rensselaer today, t _ Mrs. Eg Oliver, of Newland, went to Chicago this morning to meet her husband, who is transacting’ business there and in other points in Illinois. Irving Lewis left yesterday for Gregory, S. Dak., where it is probable that he will take out a claim. He has spent altnost two years in South Dakota, mainly at Mitchell and Dixon. George Michael left this morning for Monte Vista, Colo., where he will sell some personal property he has and then return here to take up his residence with his mother on her farm southwest of town. Most of the belated corn gatherers completed their harvest during £he fair weather last week, but there are a few with considerable corn still in the field. Among these is Fletcher* Monnett, who had a large tract west of town in corn. Look out for counterfeit $lO bills of 1901 issue. Recent bills of this issue have been discovered in Wash-, ington, D. C., and the police say the counterfeit of that date has bobbed up at various parts of the country within the past five years. The meat boycott started some weeks ago did not have a very permanent effect on the price of hogs, for yesterday t-he price of live hogs was more than at arty" previous date, reaching the top notch of $9.40 per hundred. Even Lent has no effect on the price of meat. Michael Jungles, from up near Kniman, is hauling considerable hay to town these days and getting the good price of sl3 per ton for mixed hay. He had a queer coincident of weights happen a few days ago, which does not often happen. He hauled two loads that weighed exactly the same amount, 2,900 pounds of hay. J. D. Vanderberg, of Lafayette, is filling the position of assistant to Agent Beam made by the resignation of W. A. Davenport. He says he likes the looks of the people up this way but he fears the work is too hard for is a man of his age and that he will probably not move his family here and will ask for a transfer to another place.

Ira Sigler, who was the court reporter in this district for severs years and who was thoroughly qualified but' forced to give up his work beqause of a nervous breakdown, left yesterday for Leavenworth, Kans., where he has secured a position as court reporter. He was accompanied by his wife and son and they will at once take up their residence thereSig’s many friends here hope that he will entirely recover his health and find his new home and work congenial. Will Deiwert, 18 years old, son of Mr. and Mrs. David Deiwert, residing near Shelbyville, fell from a haymow Wednesday. A nail pierced an eyelid, but fortunately the eyeball was uninjured. Wm Day, a Bartholomew county farmer, is the owner of a calf which is the most pronounced nature freak ever seen in that part of the state. While otherwise fully developed and apparently healthy, the calf has neither eyes nor tail. James G. Kingsbury, editor and publisher of'the Indiana Farmer, obtained his fourth marriage license of County Clerk Quill at Indianapolis Wednesday. He will marry Mrs. Anna E. Rish, visitor for the Indianapolis Orphans’ Home. Prof. Hall, a traveling clairvoyant, who was arrested at Columbus and taken back to Bedford Wednesday night for defrauding Mrs. Lena Harper out of $lO oh a fake hoodoo charm, was tried in the mayor’s court at Bedford, lined sls and given a jail sentence of thirty days. The farm house and bam of C. M. Harbet, near Nashville, Ind., are in ashes, the latest of a series of eighteen fires which have destroyed homes and fanfi buildings in the southern part of Brown county. The entire section is aroused, as it is the general belief that the fires have been set by firebdgs, who are working in connection with timbdr thieves; —Hi ~ Butter Wrappers for sale at The Republican Office.