Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 188, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 August 1913 — Locals and Logic From The Lake County Star. [ARTICLE]

Locals and Logic From The Lake County Star.

Fremont .Templeton, who has spent much time in Old Mexico lately, has given up that country until the fighting ceases.' He was here, last week and was then preparing to transfer his real estate business to Florida which he believes is a good opening to p'lace market gardeners and fruit growers. Ben Hayes went to Dyer, Sunday, which took about a half hour, and on the way met 106 automobiles, all headed for Crown Point and going like a cyclone. Orrin Thomas drove his automobile in here last Monday after taking quite a drive through Starke, Laporte and' Porter counties. He considers Lake is showing much better crops than Porter or Laporte counties, and was surprised to see the good showing Starke cotinty js making /in the fanning line. It was cold enough Monday night for one to take a hot water bag to bed with them, and Tuesday was hot enough again to cook eggs on the paving. The summer of 1913 bas consisted from first to last with extremes in weather, and if one extreme follows another, as an old adage says, the coming winter will he a “humdinger.” Several Crown Point, ladies are now using electric washing machines and Wringers and all they have to do is to sit down and watch the operation, and then they are ironed by an electric iron. One lady now is waiting anxiously for another attachment to be made that wall hang 4hem on the line and bring them in, and that is possible later on.

Otis Cleveland recently found an umbrella mender’s kit in a hedge fence, the entire outfit but the man, and & thorough search failed to find the owner. It as a good opening for some one to enter into business on a cheap scale, as he left the stock with no price attached. Our hotels, restaurants, and soda fountains are reaping great harvests from the joy riders every Sunday, and in fact every day, when the large army ds moving, and now and then the beer venders sell a bottle or two. Ed Bryant, who was born and raised on the border of the Kankakee marsh, says there are some black birds left to play havoc with the corn, but not one where there were hundreds in times gone by. In speaking of the Bryant, family, he says there is but one left now of the old regime, and that is Jacob who resides in Kansas and is about 85 years old. They were among the first pioneers who settled in the south part of thfs county. Clerk Shortridge, accompanied by others from the nofth end of the county, returned from a Canadian fishing trip last Friday and reports a fine time and a motor hike of about a thousand miles, never making over a hundred miles in 24 hours. They were associates of the Indians up in that country and made a specialty of eating fish and blue berries, both being plentiful. The return trip was made partly by steamer, on which they drove their cars, and unloaded when they came to good roads.